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Butch Furse
When someone asks you what you’ve been doing the past 24-hours and you say, “nothing,’ you may want to think again. Here’s a list of things that happen in this world every 24 hours:
* Americans get through 4,000 tons of chips, 300,000 tins of Spam and over 15 million burgers.
* Over 17 million celebrate their birthday.
* Lightning strikes 8.5 million times.
* 380,000 babies are born.
* A flea jumps 14,400 times.
* The world’s beards grow 485 miles.
* The average person loses and replaces 100 hairs.
* All the bodies in the world produce enough sweat to fill 16 supertankers.
* Each human produces 1.8 pints of saliva.
* 27,000 people get married.
* 30,000 breaths are taken by each person.
* 173 million blood cells are created and destroyed.
* Your eyes produce a teaspoonful of tears.
* Sheep yield 5,000 tons of wool.
* Hens lay nearly 2 billion eggs.
* Each person blinks 9,365 times.
* Each oak tree drinks 20 gallons of water.
* Over four million tons of rubbish are thrown out.
* 52,000 tons of cotton is harvested.
* 160,000 oranges are harvested.
* 134,000 apples are harvested.
* 900,000 golf balls are sold.
* The amount of urine produced would take 20 minutes to flow over Niagara Falls.
* Anteaters eat 30,000 ants.
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Judging by the number of arrests for marijuana in possession appearing in the Aurora News-Register Public Record, it’s hard to believe more revenue could be collected if the State of Nebraska legalized the drug.
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It is been reported that the God whom little boys say their prayers has a face very much like their mother’s.
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RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
