I'm not sure of all of these "facts", but it's interesting reading.

Subject: facts of life (cool stuff)

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  The New England Medical Journal reports that 9 out of 10 doctors
agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

   The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as six inches,
depending on the temperature.

   A mosquito has 47 teeth.

   The total weight of all insects on Earth is twelve times greater
than the weight of all people.

   American media mogul Ted Turner owns 1.5 percent of New Mexico.

   The shrimp's heart is in its head.

   In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.

   Students at U.S. colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages
in four years.

   Because they are on opposite sides of the San Andreas fault, Los
Angeles and San Francisco become 2.5 inches closer together each year.

   It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.

   There is enough stone in the Great Wall of China to build an
eight-foot wall circling the globe at the equator

   Human bones can withstand stresses of twenty-four thousand pounds
per square inch.

   The bacteria found on human skin is roughly the numerical  equivalent
of all the humans on Earth.

   There are over 3 million lakes in Alaska. The largest, Lake Iliamna,
is the size of Connecticut.

   Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in one
square mile of the Amazon jungle.

   The candlefish is so oily that it once was burned for fuel.

   The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, gives out twenty-six times as
much light as the Sun.

   The oldest national flag still in existence, that of Denmark, dates
back to the 13th century.

   Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916
when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid  high
freight rates.

   Mosquitoes are attracted to blue more than any other color.

   In 1859 twenty-four rabbits were released in Australia. Within six
years the population grew to two million.

   Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

   When tea was first introduced in the American colonies, many people
-- not knowing what to do with the  stuff -- served the tea leaves  with
sugar or syrup and threw away the water they had been boiled  in.

   Each day is 0.00000002 seconds longer than the one before because the
Earth is gradually slowing down.