taste news....

*There are over 58
million dogs in the U.S!

*Dogs and cats consume
over $11 billion worth of
pet food a year!

*Fingernails grow
nearly 4 times faster than
toenails!

*Humans blink over
10,000,000 times a year!

*In the year 2000, Pope
John Paul II was named an
"Honorary Harlem
Globetrotter."!

*Every second,
Americans collectively eat
one hundred pounds of
chocolate
A fetus develops
fingerprints at eighteen
weeks!

*The fear of vegetables
is called Lachanophobia!..

*More fears...
There are
approximately fifty Bibles
sold each minute across
the world!

*Every year, kids in
North America spend close
to half a billion dollars on
chewing gum!

*An earthquake on Dec.
16, 1811 caused parts of
the Mississippi River to
flow backwards!

*A person uses
approximately fifty-seven
sheets of toilet paper each
day!

*Honolulu is the only
place in the United States
that has a royal palace!

*One gallon of used
motor oil can ruin
approximately one million
gallons of fresh water!

*More money is spent
on gardening than on any
other hobby!

*In 32 years. there are
about 1 billion seconds!

*Rice paper does not
have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14
feet of earthworms
every day!

*In England, in the
1880's, "Pants" was
considered a dirty word!

*Most dust particles in
your house are made from
dead skin!

*The blesbok, a South
African antelope, is almost
the same color as
grapejuice!

*The average person
laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds
that you cant!

*Men are 6 times more
likely to be struck by
lightning than women!

*It is estimated that
millions of trees in the
world are accidentally
planted by squirrels who
bury nuts and then forget
where they hid them!

*Ernest Vincent Wright
wrote a novel, "Gadsby",
which contains over
50,000 words -- none of
them with the letter E!

*Of all the words in the
English language, the
word set has the most
definitions!

*A toothpick is the
object most often choked
on by Americans!

*Every 45 seconds, a
house catches on fire in
the United States!

*The sun is 330,330
times larger than the
earth!