15 February 2014

10 GREAT FACTS A DAY - Part 164 (13/02/2014)






1631.            In the 13th century, quality standards for paste were assigned by the Pope.

1632.            In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.

1633.            The first television broadcast of the Oscars took place in 1953, hosted by Bob
    Hope on NBC.

1634.            Most snakes have six rows of teeth.

1635.            NASDAQ stand for, "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated
    Quotations."

1636.            An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month
    of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.

1637.            The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.

1638.            The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta
    Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

1639.            French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that
    was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great,
    he would see animals on the moon.

1640.         The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.


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