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