Green facts
March 11, 2010 on 2:30 pm | In Other Facts | No Comments1. Creating a new aluminum can from scratch takes 95% more energy than making a can from recycled aluminum.
2. Paper or plastic? Neither! Take a cloth bag with you to the grocery store.
3. Trees help reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide.
4. Americans buy 28 billion single-serving plastic water bottles every year, and 80% of those end up in landfills.
5. You can offset the carbon footprint of your old car, home and air travel by funding renewable energy projects.
6. Every gallon of gas burned emits 20 pounts of carbon dioxide.
7. For every 38,000 bills paid online, 5,058 pounds of greenhouse gases are avoided and two tons of trees are preserved.
8. In 2001 the Green facts foundation, an international non-profit organization was founded in Brussels, Belgium.
9. We throw away enough paper each year to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.
10. Over 80% of a households annual waste can be recycled.
Dollar Finance Facts
January 4, 2009 on 4:25 am | In Politic Facts | No Comments- Three billions people on the world can live using less than two dollars a day, 1,3 billion people days payment is lower than 1 dollar per day.
- Seventy percent people who spent less than one dollar per day are women.
- OPEC made economic test which showed that if all American people would walk and wont drive, the national oil price would go down and would cost 10-12,45 dollar for barrel.
- Nowadays Urugvai’s money are using oldest design.
- Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion dollars.
- On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
- On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
- Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars.
- Clarence Crane the inventor of “Crane’s Peppermint Life Savers” sold his rights to the popular candy for less than three thousand dollars.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without beingable tomake change for a dollar.
More Facts
July 16, 2008 on 5:47 am | In Other Facts | No Comments- 57 percent of American men on their life wished to become fireman and only 4 percent of women
- Same states delegating USA senators its forbidden to travel on the same car or plane.
- Bill Gates likes apples most, but the Warren Buffet gives priority for kiwi’s.
- Atlanta is North American city on which people have biggest risk being robbed.
- Every day on world air line companies drops 311 tons of baggage, from which only 114 tons never been found.
- Wulcano Vezu is still active. Its being noticed by detecting small spreading of poisoned gas.This 1277 metres high wulcano is near Neapol has 400 to 600 metres strech crater and his mamas core is 4-5 kilometers deep. 79 years A.J. birth was biggest which destroyed Pompea and Herkalanum cities.
Funny facts
March 7, 2008 on 11:12 pm | In Interesting, Funny Facts | No Comments- Worlds Most “Prolific” Cat was a tabby named “Dusty” gave birth to 420 documented kittens in her lifetime. Funny
- The oldest age that a house cat has attained and has been reliably documented is the case of a female tabby named “Ma.” She lived to the ripe old age of 34!
- The worlds smallest cat is a male blue point Himalayan-Persian named “Tinker Toy.” He is just 2.75 inches tall and 7.5 inches long! Funny
- The worlds fattest cat was a neutered male tabby named “Himmey” When Himmey died of respiratory failure he weighed a whopping 46 lbs 15.5 ounces! He had a 15 inch neck, was 38 inches long, and had a 33 inch waist.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. Interesting and Funny
- Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
- The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in First Class.
- During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
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