[Charean]

• Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite.

If your senses are working normally you can:

- Feel on you fingertips or face a pressure that depresses you skin .00004 inch.
- See a small candle flame from 39 miles away on a clear, dark night.
- Smell one drop of perfume diffused through a three room apartment.
- Taste .04 ounce of table salt dissolved in 530 quarts of water.
- Feel the weight of a bee’s wing falling on your cheek from less that .5 inch away.
- Distinguish among more than 300,000 different color variations.
- Gauge the direction of a sound’s origin based on a .00003 second difference in its arrival from ear to ear.

• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagra falls froze completely solid.
• It’s impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
• Approximately 97.35618% of all statistics are made up.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world.■ In 1993, there were 48,000.■ At this rate, by the year 2010, 1 out of every 3 people will be an impersonator.
• It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries do.
• The words “assassination” and “bump” were invented by Shakespeare.
• Luke Skywalkers name was changed at the last minute from Starkiller in order to make it less violent.
• There is ¼ pound of salt in every gallon of sea water.
• The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents per acre.
• In the summer, walnuts get suntanned.
• The sale of vodka makes up 10% of the Russian government’s income.
• The movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl.■ The movie’s title was different because during the seventies, “Charlie” was considered a racial slur.
• Twice as many men as women fall out of hospital beds.
• Did you know that during summer time on the west coast of Norway, you can have all four seasons in one day?
• Jaw muscles are the strongest muscles in the body.■ Fifteen kilos per square centimeter.
• Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.
• Over 1500 left handed people die per year using products for right handed people.
• You can go to Paradise and Hell in Michigan—both are towns in that state
• Since female locusts eat their male partners after mating, it kind of makes you wonder if their any gay locusts.
• Hawaii has the largest consumption of Spam in the US.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up.
• If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
• The term ‘hay fever’ originated in England, where some people suffered allergic symptoms during hay pitching time.■ When the symptoms became sever, workers often felt feverish.
• Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.