- “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
- By recycling 1 ton of paper you save: 17 trees; 6,953 gallons of water; 463 gallons of oil; 587 pounds of air pollution; 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space; and 4,077 Kilowatt hours of energy.
- A man died after being killed by his own gas. His diet had consisted mostly of beans and cabbage and he was sleeping in a room with no ventilation. It appeared that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was lurking over his bed. An autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system.
- Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.
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