New US research shows vegetarians live an average ten years longer than non vegetarians, that's according to my wife over a vegetarian lunch today. "Didn't work for Hitler did it?" I thought.
The German Government paid 200 Billion DMs to the former GDR in the form of subsidies last year.
41% of European workers are women, only 1% are on the board
US debt burden reaches infinity . . . well no not literally, but it's getting mighty surreal. Don't forget once you arrive to hit reload and watch another few hundred thousand dollars added to the bill. Selling coconuts all day at the roadside at 6 rupees a pop in Sri Lanka seems pretty honorable by comparison. The National Debt clock
What is Netizen Soup? We may soon find out as the Internet is growing at 1000% per annum: At a conservative estimate more than 50,000 new websites allegedly coming on-line every month. OR if you like this one, 17,000 new domains being registered daily. Now how can all these facts be true simultaneously? Would a mathematician out there please create a "facts bend" theory and submit it. For further investigation of this numeric irregularity you might want to visit The Irresponsible Internet Statistics Generator.
Speaking of irresponsible internet statistics: Internet commerce. How big will this be in the year 2000? Goldman Sachs says $73 billion. Forrester Research says $45 billion. IDC says $189 billion and they all got paid for saying it.
Of the 129,560 students in grades 6 through 12 surveyed during the 1995-96 school year by an Atlanta-based anti-drug group, only 8.4 percent said they drink beer in an automobile.
"What this means is that marijuana's role in traffic accidents could be much higher than we know," Doug Hall, executive director of PRIDE, said Wednesday.
In the last quarter of 1995 Apple Computers sold more desktop computers in the UK than anyone else, despite being in the middle of more crises than are worth mentioning. As many as one third of all of all Web site design firms are somehow managing to create web-sites NOT using the Mac.
It would seem that there are considerably more land mines scattered around Angola than there are people to tread on them
Real Mac Facts Page
A mess of stuff about the MAC your average PC user will never believe.
Silly Facts
Only 15% of all business people who use email actually know the name of the application they are using to read it. This is a statistical fact. I asked five people and only one of them knew the answer. A second person did but since Quake is not in fact an email application, turned out they'd been misinformed
"According to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, no two countries with McDonald's restaurants have ever gone to war against each other"
Bill Gates philanthropically gives away more money in a week than Germany gave to Live Aid period. If he laid his personal wealth end to end in dollar bills it would stretch 170,454 miles, but why would he want to do that when he could lay it end to end in hundred dollar bills and only have to travel three timesacross America to achieve the same result? You can send the great man an email at billg@microsoft.com but he doesn't seem to reply unless you are interviewing him for a globally syndicated four page special .
Image c/o AlexWarp
"#baarf" will produce puke yellow, as will "#aaargh", whereas "#xfiles" as a background color will neutralise all your links because it's a dazzling blue. Here's one for the scatological : Try BODY BGCOLOR = "#6BUMS" and watch your web page go brown.
To click a mouse will burn 0.0000024kcals of energy so if you eat a chocolate bar you'll need to click your mouse 765,551,000 times to burn it off.
If every Barbie and Ken dool were placed end to end it would stretch several times around the globe before getting snarled up in the Bill Gates money trail mentioned earlier.
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