Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Fact. II

1.) The real reason cat’s rub up against their owners leg is to cover their scent over you. This is because they are claiming you as their property.

2.) Ford’s best selling car/vehicle of all time was the Ford F-Series pick-up truck.

3.) Concorde was often not-allowed to become supersonic above inhabited land.

4.) In an average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the Earths equator.

5.) In the USA, every 5 miles of highway, 1 mile must be straight. This straight sections are to be used as run-ways in times of emergency.

6.) Every year, approximately 98% of the atoms in the human body are replaced.

7.) The youngest queen in the world was Mary Stuart, who became queen of Scotland at only 6 days old.

8.) If flying on Concorde from London to New York, due to time-zones it is possible to arrive 2 hours before you leave.

9.) Automatic cars usually get 2 mpg less that manual ones.

10.) The average person spends about 2 years of their life on the phone, and 22 years sleeping.

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