Food For The Thought 5

[mysteriouza]

* Dry cereals fro breakfast was invented John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century.

* Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.

* Diet coke was only invented in 1982.

* Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.

* The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a motor only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by efficiency of the motor approaches per cent.

* Henry Ford produced the model T mostly in black because the black paint at the time was fastest to dry. Model T was available in other colors. The British factory for model T started producing them in green as mentioned by the British Show Q1.

* At 40 degrees centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

* One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

* In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

* There are only four words in English language which ends in ' dous ' : tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.

* If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them.

* The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

* More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

* It is estimated that at any time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

* The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph.

* Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

* The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the populating growth.

* The collecting of beer mats is called Tegestology.

* Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word gadzooks.

* 'Naked' means to be unprotected. Nude means uncloth.

* Upper and lower case letters are named upper and lower , because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case stored smaller ' lower case ' letters.