"Deliciously" Random Facts

Here are some "deliciously" random facts from The Best Book Of Useless Information Ever:

~ Penguins can jump six feet out of water.

~ Everyone is color-blind at birth.

~ Iceland consumes the most Coca-Cola per capita, not the United States.

~ There are more than 3,500 bras hanging behind the bar at Hogs and Heifers, a bar in Manhattan.  So many, in fact, that they caused a beam to collapse in the ceiling.

~ Humans fart an average of once per hour.

~ Texas is the only state that allows residents to cast absentee ballots from space.

~ The fertility rate in states that voted for George W. Bush is 12 percent higher than states that favored John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

~ During Bill Clinton's entire eight-year presidency, he only sent two e-mails.  One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.

~ In his youth, Tony Blair was in a rock band.

~ The founder of the FBI, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, was the grandnephew of Napolean.

~ Norwegian politician Trond Helleland was once caught playing games on a handheld computer during a debate in parliament.

And finally...

~ The day after President Bush was re-elected in 2004, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors.  Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

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