Further Exploration of the Factorium

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Classmate Facts # 74 - 200,000 Glasses of Milk?

1. The vocabulary of an average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

2. A chimpanzee can learn to recognise itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

3. Unprosperousness, 16 letters long, is the longest word in which each letter occurs atleast twice.

4. The average person walks equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

5. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

6. One of the world's rarest and most sought after collector coins, the 1933 Double Eagle, was sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York on 30th July 2002 for the record sum of $ 7.59 million.

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