This Week in the Future, February 1-5, 2010

-Chihuahuas are the longest lived breed of dog
-longest movie title ever: night of the day of the dawn of the son of the bride of the return of the revenge of the terror of the attack of the evil, mutant, alien, flesh eating, hell bound, zombified living dead part 2: in shocking 2-D (1991)
-grasses only started appearing after the dinosaurs were extinct
-the estimated diameter of the universe is 620,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles
-May 6th is national no homework day
-if a cow dies of heat stroke the gases inside it expand until the carcass explodes
-cows navigate by looking at the ground
-a study shows that cows produce 35% more milk when listening to Elvis Presley music
- A cricket can't hear its own chirping
-in New York it's illegal to do any thing illegal
-the Eiffel Tower is repainted every seven years, and the paint weighs 60 tons
-the worlds largest toy distributer in McDonald's
-the most expensive hotel room is in The Penthouse Suite in the Hotel Martinez. The cost per night is about $37,200
-The approximate speed of sound is 761 mph
-its good manners to stick your tongue out at guests in Tibet
-cars get better mileage with cold gasoline
-there is no roman numeral for zero
-fugu is the only fish that can close their eyes
-Louisiana loses about 60 acres a day due to coastal erosion
-the heaviest meteorite to fall on earth: Hoba Meteorite in Namibia (50 tons)
-1 ton of iron will weigh 3 tons when it fully rusts
-In Pocatello, Idaho it's illegal to look unhappy
-sleeping all winter is hibernation, sleeping all summer is estivation
-Thaumatin is 1,600 times sweeter than sugar
-One pond in Brazil can contain a greater variety of fish than every river in Europe
-the word grenade comes from a French word meaning pomegranate
-The University of Minnesota is older than Minnesota itself
-Adult sharks eat seals, baby sharks are eaten by seals
-Can you find all 4 cars and 11 light posts on a ten dollar bill?
-There is an actual British TV show called watching paint dry, it just shows paint drying
-air doesn’t cause super glue to dry, moisture does
-New York drinking water contains micro organisms that are actually shellfish
-A deployed airbag costs another $2,000 to a car repair
-There are more American $100 bills in Russia than in the actual US
-Did you know in the 2008 presidential debate Joe the plumber was mentioned 23 times and Iraq was mentioned 7 times
-Google’s name was backrub
-Russian astronauts are allowed to carry guns
-The FBI has a 2000-page file on Albert Einstein
-The longest place name in the US is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
-in 1900 a hen usually laid about 30 eggs a year, in 2000 it rose to laying 275 eggs per year
-in 2009 astronomers discovered a star made up of 10 billion-trillion-trillion-carat diamond
-it takes eight hours to mow the white house lawn
-Here’s a tip, Aspirin is 40 times more effective if taken with a cup of hot chocolate
-the average laboratory mouse runs five miles on its treadmill
-there is cell phone reception on top of Mount Everest
-hedgehogs are lactose-intolerant
-honeybees can recognize human faces