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- The average North American spends 6 months watching TV commercials, unless he watches PBS. -EH
- After a California vacation, couples spend spend 73% more time together. -ED
- It takes an average of three seconds to pick up a penny, which works out to $12 an hour. -MB
- The average Major League baseball lasts 7 pitches. -AN
- The longest recorded chicken flight is 13 seconds. -AN
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. -JH
- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. -JH
- The mantis spends one third of its life perfectly still. -TR
- We spend 6 mos. of our life waiting at red lights. -CS
- We spend one third of our life waiting for something. -BB
- We spend about 30 minutes per day of our time awake with our eyes closed. -TR
- The longest movie is 48 hours long. -BB
- On average, every seven minutes, a conversation will end somewhere in the world. -CR
- Snails can sleep for three years straight. -AN
- All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. -CS
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. -CS
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. -CS
- January 1st has no astrological significance whatsoever. It was just arbitratily chosen to begin the new year. -KS
- A day on Jupiter lasts 9 hours and 50 minutes. -AN
* * * This information was obtained from sources considered to be reliable,
but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed. * * *
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Last modified: 22 Aug 1998