More Useless Facts

First I'd like to apologize to anyone who cares that I haven't been able to post lately. I have been to busy going to this leadership course and working to even read other peoples blogs. It sucks, but next week I'll be back to normal. Monday night our Color Guard team is supposed to present the colors for the National Anthem for the Wizards playoff game aginst the Bulls. I am hopefully going to be a part of it! Here's my random useless knowledge that has been building up since the last one:

In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.

You have probably heard someone say "He's not the man he used to be." This is literally true!! Except for the minerals in the enamel of teeth, every molecule in the human body is, on the average, replaced once every 7 years.

Toilet seats are usually one of the cleanest surfaces around the home or office, probably because they are frequently cleaned. Phones, computer keyboards, desktops, sink faucets and doorknobs are commonly inhabited by 10,000 to up to 100,000 bacteria per square inch.

The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.

The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.

In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.

A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!