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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Slow news day...so some useless facts

Today Minnesota has 20 million more large trees (more than 19" in diameter) than it did 50 years ago.

The Green Bay Packers have sold out every home game since 1960 and they have a waiting list of 88,000 names for tickets.

New York City requires a “medallion” in order to operate a taxi. The number of medallions is tightly controlled and currently they sell for $678,000.00 each.

The human brain is shrinking. In the last 20,000 years the size of an adult human brain has lost an amount equal to about the size of a tennis ball. This is a world-wide phenomenon.

Early studies point to schizophrenia as actually being a brain disease caused by a viral infection early in life. Babies born in winter and early spring have a higher chance of contracting the disease.

The human body contains ten times as many bacteria cells as human cells. Bacteria cells are much smaller than human cells but they still make up three to five pounds of body weight on an average person.

The reason scratching an itch feel so good is the scratching produces enough pain stimulus to cancel out the itch.

Last year Walmart had a net profit of $7,804 per employee. That is net income, not sales!

Ken Dillenburg