fro sent me this page with random facts on it. i found them interesting. • The first tongue-twister to be written down was discovered in Egypt. Translated, it roughly reads: "Stars and water, running through the desert, throwing handfuls of sand." • One in six Britons will die without ever having tasted tea. • Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have determined that 68 percent of cats' dreams are nightmares. • A pine cone falls to the ground somewhere in the world every 0.24 seconds. • New Jersey is home to the greatest diversity of wildlife east of the Mississippi. • 11.3 percent of household cats despise their owners. • Six states prohibit licensed department store Santas from touching children. • On average, a US resident will hear "Frosty the Snowman" 3,219 times over the course of a lifetime. • Two of every seven male dogs is homosexual. • Since AD 1500, eleven major wars have broken out on Christmas day. • The average guitar case contains 1.64 picks • The original prototype for Apple's popular iPod music player was elliptical in shape • According to a report published by the Department of Homeland Security, most cases of stolen identities are the result of password guessing. • Gravel contains roughly one percent of bone matter by volume. • Molten wax was worshipped in ancient Minoa. • Only three condoms per every five manufactured will be used for intercourse. • Physicists at the University of Wisconsin estimate that Superman would be 1.09 percent stronger during winter than compared to summer because of Earth's elongated orbit. • After the chinchilla, the hamster and the bonobo, humans are the fourth most sexualized mammal. • Over forty-five years of space exploration, no fewer than six dogs, eleven cats, four thousand mice and an aquarium-full of crickets are believed to have been stranded in low Earth orbit. • An estimated 35 percent of African-Americans are descendants of at least one passenger of the Mayflower. • Dixon, South Dakota bills itself as the "Sex-change Capitol of the World." • Global activist and U2 lead singer Bono is the fourth most recognized name in the world behind Princess Di, Muhammad Ali and George W. Bush. • Last year, twenty animals were stolen from US zoos: the smallest was a lizard and the largest was a hippo. • The average SMS text message is 16 characters long and contains only one correctly spelled word. • More people each year are killed by hippos than are killed by lions, coatis, tigers, sharks, crocodiles, impalas, leopards and antelopes combined. • Bob Moog, inventor of the synthesizer, was tone deaf. • From ages 14 through 22, Abraham Lincoln owned only two pairs of pants. • Delaware remains the only state in which 12-year olds can legally marry with parental consent. • J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, had a crippling fear of cats.