Amazing Facts - 3

•  The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
•  The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
• Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers
• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone
• The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour
• In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to 205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there
• It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.
• The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour.
• Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour
• The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade
• The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916
• Most lipstick contains fish scales
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language
• 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep
• The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender.