Interesting Facts!

1. The name “Lego” came from the Danish word Leg Godt, which means “play well.”
2. The opposite sides of a dice cube add up to seven.
3. The playing card nine of hearts is considered the symbol of love.
4. The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
5. Three teaspoons make up one tablespoon.
6. WD-40 can be found in four out of five American homes.
7. The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $100 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
8. The most popular contact lens colour is blue.
9. The colours black, green and blue are used to print a U.S. dollar bill.
10. The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
11. Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
12. Mosquito repellants do not repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they do not know you are there.
13. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command go hang yourself.
14. 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
15. A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.
16. A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WT
17. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
18. A good quality Persian rug which contains one million knots in every three square inches can last as long as 500 years.
19. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
20. A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.
21.A quarter has 119 rigdes on its edge.
22. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
23. A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can’t be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
24. According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.
25. According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.
26. Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.
27. At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.