10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 238 (28/04/2014)

2371.            Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush
    in 1991. And, rightfully so.

2372.            In an average lifetime, a person will spend 4 years travelling in an automobile and
    six months waiting at a red light.

2373.            A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is
    enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle.

2374.            Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I

2375.            The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy
    straight days.

2376.            The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C

2377.            Over 1,600 people in North America have been victims of trunk entrapment (being
    locked inside of a car trunk).

2378.            A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

2379.            In 1992, when EuroDisney first opened in France, the public beat some of the park
    characters because at the time most people had been against the park being built.

2380.            A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be
    there in a jiffy.