• A person takes an average of 16 breaths per minute.
• The first ever income tax was levied in Great Britain to fund the wars against Napoleon.
• The National Park Service manages more than 16 million acres of wetlands.
• The boots eaten by Charlie Chaplin in “”The Gold Rush”” (1925) were made of licorice.
• Flamingos build their nests with mouthfuls of mud.
• Bless you! In Italian, “”ah-choo”” is spelled “”ecci ecci.””
• Actor Gene Hackman lied about his age to get into the Marines at age 16 in 1946.
• The average bra is designed to last for only 180 days of use.
• If a chain letter was never broken, within 15 cycles the entire world would have read it.
• Twenty hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
