August 8, 2010

Fun and completely useless facts I found...

Seriously interesting and funny facts I've come across browsing the net - Enjoy!
  • More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes
  • A 'Jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100Th of a second
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
  • The phrase "Rule Of Thumb" is derived from and old english law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
  • About the time of the birth of Christ the Greek engineeer, Hero, invented a primitive steam engine which we now use as a rotating lawn sprinkler
  • A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found on the Sun's surface

1 comments:

I especially like the "jiffy" one :D
 

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