Ever wonder about weird stuff? You know, the kind of facts that few people think of.

A Wood Called Cedar

Do you have a patio deck? Did you know Cedar is naturally a long lasting, almost carefree type of wood? There are several types of a Cedar wood like Deodar Cedar, Atlas cedar, Turkish Cedar, Lebanese Cedar and Cyprus Cedar. You can buy Cedar at the majority of home improvement outlets or lumber yards. Nature has provided this durable wood that has lasted three thousand years, which speaks volumes.

Coffee Facts

Tim Horton’s, Country Style, Duncan’s, and Coffee Time the list goes on. Millions of people are sipping on a cup as I write this article. Go to any local grocery store and pick up your own fine grind. It is prepared from the roasted seeds, more commonly referred to as coffee beans. Out of all of the tap water dispensed in the world, coffee accounts for roughly 1/3. Coffee is in the top 2 products that are most frequently exported. Most coffee buffs believe that the coffee drinking idea was first thought of in the moorland of Ethiopia then through Europe and Egypt. Coffee means wine or other influencing liquors and originated from the Arabic word Qah’wa, which is a Turkish word.

Cats Facts

When a feline has his tail up in the air it is a signal of happiness, the opposite generally applies if the tail points down. When cats get really happy they can sit on your lap and inject their claws in your legs as a sign of affection, ouch. Pigs, sheep, and horses are where catgut comes from. Cats are main meat eaters they can not live on vegetables. Cat’s whiskers are used to move around, to detect when things that move and to judge sizes of obstacles. They are also a signifier of your cat’s mood, when they are back cats are angry and when they are straight out they are in a good mood for now.

Crazy Facts

  • More than 5 million people died in car accidents by 1950 within the USA.
  • Duck’s quacks don’t echo and no one understands why.
  • Human hearts can beat roughly of two billion beats within a life.
  • One in every 10 oysters make pearls, the one’s of any worth are observed in just 1 over 50.
  • Jewelry consumers account for roughly 85% of the gold mined.
  • Horseshoe crabs have one thousand lenses together with one thousand daylight receptors in their eyes.
  • Humans have got roughly 150 million light receptors in each eyeball.
  • The majority of U.S. automobile horns beep to the key of F, so does the telephone dialing tone.
  • On the law of averages, right-handed individuals enjoy life 9 years longer than lefties.
  • Because of erosion Niagara Falls moves back two and a half feet each year.
  • In 1996, one hundred thousand public schools in the U. S. spent a total of 4.2 billion on computers.
  • One of the largest seabirds is a Frigate. It can achieve flight around ninety-eight M.P.H.
  • Peas are the most commonly consumed vegetable, next to potatoes in the US.
  • Folks fear spiders more than death itself, commonly.
  • Just about $450 is expended to advertise for each automobile sold within the USA.
  • An average of one in 10,000 eggs has the Salmonella bacteria.
  • An ant can carry 50 times their body weight.
  • 350 Miles per hour are the planet Mar’s highest known winds.
  • Human beings produce roughly 100,000 hairs on their head.
  • Each month college people devour sixty million slices of pizza within the U. S.
  • The current main reason for hospitality fires is oil and/or grease.
  • In the year 1997 Americans spent 28 billion on their lawns.
  • In Iceland people consume More Coke (the drink) per person as opposed to any other country.
  • A teenage mother supplies birth to one in 8 kids given birth to in the United States of America.
  • North America will rise one thousand meters on the condition that all of the ice throughout Antarctica thawed out.
  • Leaches are able to last for 6 months after eating.
  • When’s the last time you saw shining frog? That is due to the fact that they can devour a plethora of fireflies and actually light-up themselves.

BTW, if you have any more facts that fall within the description of silly, stupid or rarely heard facts please feel free to post them.

All the best

J