Fast Facts

[Hemidakota]

Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.

A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.

The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year.

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

[staytrue2faith]

The type of name that cats respond most readily to are those that end in an "ee" sound.

My cat's name is Ellie.

[Hemidakota]

Didn't know that....

[Wingnut]

Originally Posted by Hemidakota

"Fingernails grow about 3 times faster than toenails."

I didn't know that but it explains why I have to cut my baby's fingernails every two weeks, but her toenails only every couple of months.

Originally Posted by Hemidakota

The numbers "172" can be found on the back of a US $5 bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln memorial.

Where's some cash when I need it? I'm not the only one who went looking for a $5 bill, am I?

[Hemidakota]

Below the steps and you will need a magnify glass.

A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.

[applepansy]

Originally Posted by Wingnut

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Where's some cash when I need it? I'm not the only one who went looking for a $5 bill, am I?

No, I went looking too.

applepansy

[Puppenstein]

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

[Hemidakota]

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax.

[Lolgirl]

Hmmm beard tax...it's gotta nice ring to it.....

# A woman has the last word in any argument.
# Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

[Hemidakota]

Man...that is so true.

"In 1516, Friar Tomas sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas in the rich, fertile soil of the tropics, thus beginning the banana's future in American life."