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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.
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March 2, 2008 on 10:26 pm | In Interesting, Funny Facts | No Comments- Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
- Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%
- Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes.
- Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
- Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
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March 2, 2008 on 12:06 am | In Interesting, Funny Facts | No Comments- The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds.
- The #1 peanut producing state is Georgia.
- Over 170,000 Indians from 210 tribes live in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
- On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day.
- Of all the countries, Brazil has the most plant species, with over 56,000.
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February 22, 2008 on 12:15 am | In Interesting, Funny Facts | No Comments- On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
- Of all the golfers in Canada, 71.4% golfers are male, 28.6% are female.
- Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
- O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- It took eleven years to built the Taj Mahal, (1632-1643).
- In total, Americans eat more than 45 billion sandwiches each year, while sales of custom-made sandwiches are rising 15 percent per year.
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