Just so everyone learns something for the day..... -Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! -You blink over 10,000,000 times a year! -Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day! -In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word! -Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The average person laughs 13 times a day! -Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women! -It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! -Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! -A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! -Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States! -The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! -The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used! -There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year! -The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! -Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?! -The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! -Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! -Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow! -Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings! -Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! -A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though! -The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! -A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court! -After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! ------------------ "If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." --Anon[/size=1]