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Is it part of positive thinking?

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 mukul chaudhri wrote :

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> > Strange & Useless Facts

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> > 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

> >

> > A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.

> >

> > A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.

> >

> > A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

> >

> > A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.

> >

> > A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink

> > (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by

> > using an electric razor.

> >

> > A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

> >

> > A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans

> >

> > A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust

> > mites.

> >

> > A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets

> > in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by

> > creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

> >

> > According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers

> > receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.

> >

> > According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.

> >

> > All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the

> > back of the $5 bill.

> >

> > All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.

> >

> > Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.

> >

> > An average of 200 million credit cards are used every day in the United

> > States.

> >

> > Approximately 30 billion cakes of Ivory Soap had been manufactured by

> > 1990.

> >

> > As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually

> > in the United States.

> >

> > At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar

> > was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.

> >

> > Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.

> >

> > Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking

> > countries. Colgate translates into the command " go hang yourself. "

> >

> > Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

> > Spades - King ; Clubs - the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne;

> > and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

> >

> > Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of

> > the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades

> > represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds

> > represented the merchant class.

> >

> > Each of us generate 5 pounds of rubbish a day; most of it is paper.

> >

> > Every year, over 8,800 people injure themselves with a toothpick.

> >

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Is it part of positive thinking?

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 mukul chaudhri wrote :

>

> > Strange & Useless Facts

> >

> > 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

> >

> > A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.

> >

> > A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.

> >

> > A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

> >

> > A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.

> >

> > A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink

> > (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by

> > using an electric razor.

> >

> > A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

> >

> > A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans

> >

> > A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust

> > mites.

> >

> > A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets

> > in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by

> > creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

> >

> > According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers

> > receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.

> >

> > According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.

> >

> > All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the

> > back of the $5 bill.

> >

> > All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.

> >

> > Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.

> >

> > An average of 200 million credit cards are used every day in the United

> > States.

> >

> > Approximately 30 billion cakes of Ivory Soap had been manufactured by

> > 1990.

> >

> > As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually

> > in the United States.

> >

> > At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar

> > was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.

> >

> > Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.

> >

> > Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking

> > countries. Colgate translates into the command " go hang yourself. "

> >

> > Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

> > Spades - King ; Clubs - the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne;

> > and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

> >

> > Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of

> > the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades

> > represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds

> > represented the merchant class.

> >

> > Each of us generate 5 pounds of rubbish a day; most of it is paper.

> >

> > Every year, over 8,800 people injure themselves with a toothpick.

> >

> >

> > ==================================

> >

>

>

>

>

>

>

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