Tidbits II

"Tidbits II"

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on
each other's shoulders.

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.

The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day.

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those
found at the sun's surface.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone
solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the
United States.

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never
wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United
States and Canada.
Received on Thu Jul 3 04:09:50 2008