Random Facts no one needs to know

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I'm tired.

At least cats don't sleep around behind your back.

I'm doing laundry.

Roosters do NOT crow at the sun. Hens are scratching
For bugs at sunrise and the rooster is letting them and
All the others know they are his chickens, in his territory.

The Ford Quadricycle was Henry Ford's prototype car, that he used to obtain funding.

It's impossible for my junior year schedule to work.

Another 3000 puppies have died today.

Many American runners come from Kansas, including Glenn Cunningham, Wes Santee (a contemporary of Roger Bannister and John Landy), Billy Mills and Jim Ryun.

General Santa Anna, commanding the Mexican forces in the Texas Revolution, was a Spaniard.

The space shuttle's engines have so much thrust that they are able to fly the shuttle faster than the orbiter's aerodynamic limits.

Hail destroys hundreds of millions dollars' worth of crops and property each year, a greater toll than that taken by tornadoes.

If the Earth wasn't spinning on its axis people on the equator would weigh .007 lbs more.

A normal resting heart rate is 60-100 beats per minute. Anything under that or over that is abnormal.

Well-trained athletes have abnormally low resting heatrates. Roger Bannister's was 50 beats per minute, Paavo Nurmi's was 40 and Haile Gebrselassie's (Ethiopia) is 42.

When Russian men engage in conversation, the distance between the two is typically about ten inches. This is considered a comfortable proximity; American men, on the other hand, consider something closer to two feet as preferable.