fun facts of the day

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•  Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
• Jim Morrison, of the 60′s rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
• In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
• Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.
• The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
• Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
• There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.
• Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
• It can take as long as 4 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.
• The volume of the earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.