My friend David emailed me this fact list and ask me to post it up. Well, he knows that BlogIsEverything.com is a factoids dump

OK, here they are…

1. Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.
2. Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.
3. John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
4. In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
5. Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos (”Layla”), killed his mother with a claw hammer.
6. One of Hewlett Packard’s first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
7. Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song “Layla”. That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
8. As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
9. There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
10. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
11. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
12. Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
13. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
14. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
15. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
16. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
17. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
18. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
19. Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
20. There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
21. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
22. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
23. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
24. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
25. The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
26. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
27. North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
28. Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
29. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
30. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
31. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
32. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
33. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
34. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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I’ve been using Stickies for years now and trust me, I won’t use it this long if it is sucky! Well, I’ve been a great fan of Stickies since I first use it and it has been my best “reminder” tool when ever I’m near to my laptop. It helps me a lot in my daily life as a student and as a part time blogger.

I’ve so many things to remember – tasks, dates, assignments, to-dos, etc and it’s not easy to remember each one of those. But with the help of this super tool, I worried no more.

I proudly say this is the best sticky notes tool is because it is TOTALLY FREE and the features you get are comparable or even better than those similar shareware tools. I will list out one by one the features of Stickies because you can read it from its homepage.

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I’m currently rolling with Grand Theft Auto IV on my Xbox 360. I’m not a hardcore gamer but I got hooked on to it in weekends, yeah. GTA IV is a great, great game I should say but sometimes when you get stuck, you won’t feel all that great. Yeah, I’m talking about the hardest mission in GTA IV.

I got stuck on this mission (really a rock hard mission), the Three Leaf Clover (Rob the bank) mission where you get $250,000 bucks and get to unlock all islands. It was damn tough and for some reason, I had deadlock over and over again. Well, not just me but there are a number of people out there that have the same conclusion [here], [here].

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Many of you had noticed that Del.icio.us has drop its trademark dots from its URL to a more common Delicious.com part of its make over.

I’ve compiled 10 reasons on why Del.icio.us becomes Delicious.com without the dots + .com. OK, roll the numbers!

1. To avoid typo and misspellings.
2. To avoid confusion.
3. To have a commercial domain with .com instead of .us
4. Easier to remember.
5. Easier and faster to type.
6. Easier to pronounce.
7. Want to make use of delicious.com and vice versa.
8. Makes people easier to find and share with their friends.
9. Delicious.com is not/less confusing compared to Del.icio.us to newbies.
10. Easier to market when Delicious is integrated into Yahoo Network.

Well, anyway Del.icio.us still works fine but will be redirected to Delicious.com

Caffeine gives you energy and power but too much is not good either. Well, you can test your level of caffeine intake by taking this online caffeine test, it will only take you 30 seconds.

This highly scientific (serious?) test will tell you how caffeinated you are! So are you ready?

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Yup, you hear it right! Not 7 not 50 but 750 fantastic and cool wallpapers to style up your iPhone and iPod Touch.

All wallpapers are in 320×480 resolution and nicely categorized in a number of categories like Nature, Abstract, Animal, Games, Computers, Sports, Zodiac and many more.

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