http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/Grifter/7705 Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second! A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile! A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface! Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill! Most lipstick contains fish scales! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"! A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!   Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! Rice paper does not have any rice in it! It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second! A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile! A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface! Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill! Most lipstick contains fish scales! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"! A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!   Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head! Rice paper does not have any rice in it! It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! en-us Did anyone read the FYI about Timex designing a watch that tells you when you are going to die?  The article said the watch goes backwards!!  I read this bit of info on the cover of the classifieds on the weekend of June 7th to June 9th.  CREEPY!!! Any comments? garnetrose http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/Grifter/7705/#c_53485 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/Grifter/7705/#c_53485 Did anyone read the FYI about Timex designing a watch that tells you when you are going to die?  The article said the watch goes backwards!!  I read this bit of info on the cover of the classifieds on the weekend of June 7th to June 9th.  CREEPY!!! Any comments? garnetrose