13 Interesting Numbers from the Bathroom Reader
Almost every word that follows was shamelessly swiped from Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader. Because I'm just classy that way.
1. Times, on average, a person swallows during a meal: 295
2. Pounds of fish a pelican can hold in his beak: 25
3. Pumpkins grown in Floydada, Texas, every year: 1,000,000 (My brother was born there. Weird.) (The irony, not my brother.) (OK, my brother too.)
4. People in airplanes at any given time: 366,144
5. People booked for "offensive gestures" in Germany in 2003: 164,848
6. Pieces of paper the IRS sends to taxpayers every year: 8,000,000,000
7. Pounds that 8 billion pieces of paper weigh: 32,000,000
8. Calories consumed during one hour of typing: 110 (Ha! See, I am working.)
9. Islands in the Indonesian archipelago: 17,508
10. Steps to the top of the Empire State Building: 1,860
11. Pages the average bathroom reader reads at a "sitting": 2.7
12. Banana slugs that were eaten in a California slug-eating contest in 2002: 50
13. Chromosomes the average human has: 46 (the average cabbage has 18)
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12 comments:
Great Thursday Post! Come on over and take a sip off my blog before its all gone!
Oooh, I love trivia 13s. Those are some really interesting ones. Who knew there was any place on earth where they grow a million hotdogs?
I like your list.
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Great list. My son LOVES those Bathroom Readers. I think he has at least six or seven of them.
Happy TT!
Slugs? People ate slugs in a contest?? The prize must have been truly fantastic!
Err...that would be a million pumpkins, not hotdogs Damozel. Hot dogs are notoriously hard to grow in the hard West Texas soil.
Love the list. Number thirteen grabbed my attention, who knew there was such a thing as "cabbage chromosomes"?
I want to know how they figured out #2. And why. :)
Congrats on the new computer!
Extremely interesting TT!!
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Slugs? As in pour-salt-on-them-and-they-melt slugs? If so, that's a contest I'm glad not to have seen.
Number 12 grossed me out!!! Ew! LOL!
My Thursday Thirteen is up too! :)
I always love your TT posts!
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