Did you know...

Bunch of random facts, maybe you guys can add on too =)

1. Erik is the owner of chess.com (i didn't know!! well until recently anyway)
2. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
3. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
4. The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
5. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
6. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
7. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
8. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
9. It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
10. The pancreas produces Insulin.
11. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
12. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away(!).
13. Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
14. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. (probably statistically i should add)
15. American car horns beep in the tone of F.
16. The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
17. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
18. Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
19. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
20. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

Nice Facts!

Sorry, gonna have to bump this =D just revisting my contents and i saw this, not many people seen it, so bumpin =P