True, weird & very random

If you haven't already figured out by now I am a complete and total sucker for random facts and completely useless information. Hey if I cannot figure out quantum physics or biochemistry I might as well become knowledgeable in other things.

Here's my list of random facts & useless information. Enjoy!

• Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.
• One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.
• If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.  (Amazing that God placed them in the sky and knows every one by name!)
• Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
• Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
• One in twelve Americans alphabetize their spice rack.
• 95% of the creatures on earth are smaller than a chicken egg.
• 63% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
• There are twice as many billionares in the U.S. today as there were 10 years ago.
• 25% of the fish you eat are raised on fish farms.
• 1 in 4 people admit to searching in their host’s medicine cabinets. (Guilty)
• The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 in its lifetime.
• 58% of school kids say pizza is their favorite cafeteria food. (Sad)
• 32% of singles polled think they will meet their future mate online. ( I did!)
• In 1948, 2.3% of American households had televisions. Today 99% do.
• In 1998, 58% of American adults were married and living with their spouses, an all time low.
• The top three products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and deodorant.
• One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
• 46% of violence on T.V. occurs in cartoons.
• Only about 5% of people dream in color.