"Did you know?" Random TidBits and Facts!

Cicadas, as in the insect, will lay their eggs in the ground, and it takes 7 years before they hatch and morph into the big noisy bug. They live only long enough to reproduce and lay more eggs (usually less that 8 hours) before they die.
 
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
 
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
 
If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

One thousand
 
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this...)

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
 
What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

A. All invented by women.
 
The largest blue whale caught was a 110-foot female. It is not known how the angler got this beast home or how he (we can assume it's a he, can't we?) fit it in the freezer.
 
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month which we know today as the honeymoon.
 
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