Interesting facts

Elizabeth Arthur, Staff reporter|December 10, 2013

  1. Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman and child in the world.
  2. The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
  3. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
  4. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
  5. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
  6. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
  7. Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
  8. Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.
  9. One-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year.  Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
  10.  It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.
  11. If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
  12. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.