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Eight Amazingly Mind-Bamboozling Things You Never Need to Know
A collection of some awe-inspiring facts.
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More than 300 books are published each day
Yet, I can’t seem to get a publisher for mine, where have they all gone when you need them?
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47 million laptops were shipped in 2006
You would think that this would bring down the price for laptops a bit. No such luck yet though.
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Every 5 minutes, 60 babies are born in the U.S, 244 in China, and 351 in India
There, in the time I took to paste this picture here, 351 babies have already popped out – and this is just in one country. Not good news for everyone though, I’m sure.
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Last year there were over 100 million registered users of My Space
We’ve gotten to a point in today’s technological world, that even young teenagers have to feel that they’ve only become “someone” when they have their own space out there in computer land.
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Google gets over 2 billion searches in the space of a month
Where did we go for information before
Google
? With all this information at our finger tips, does this mean we know more than the people who’ve lived before us? -
Text messages sent and received every day amounts to over 6 billion
How did we let our friends know we’re “just round the corner” before mobile phones came into existence.
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Tobacco is a one of the largest industries in the world, raking in $200 billion a year. 6 trillion cigarettes are produced each year, that is 1000 cigarettes for each person on earth
Yet another reason to light up.
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Nessie the Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals act in Scotland. She is worth $40 million annually to the Scottish tourism board
If she was alive in 1912, shouldn’t she be dead by now?
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A great collection of interesting facts. #3 seems almost impossible. That’s a lot of babies. I wonder how it compares to the amount of deaths.
I don’t know Darlene, I haven’t researched that end of it. I do suppose though, that with starvation, aids, war and genocides, we more or less even up the score.
Not to mention natural deaths, road accidents, drug and gang related deaths.
And now I am depressed…
Hey girls, don’t get depressed. A seed dies before it becomes a plant, and we die before we begin our eternal life. Not that I’m in a hurry to enter my after life. I have a lot of living to do, God willing. Because after all, it is up to Him.
Anne, this peice is very interesting. Thank you.
Nice comments to each stat!
Anne, I like the way you set this one up. I don’t think it would have been quite as interesting without your comments.
You are a pro.
Wonderful…Anne, and interesting too.
wow! these are really interesting! Great job
I am impressed with this one, so many here are fake facts.
One thing though, text messages sent AND received, so is that approx 3 billion sent, and the same 3 recieved?
Thanks for taking the time off to leave your comments everyone.
One thing, that would appear to be the case, although I would assume that it’s not that clear cut right down the middle, given the different time zones etc that exist world wide.
That said,I thought that this number is slightly underestimated, given the fact that I personally know teengers who send literally hundreds of texts daily.