Worlds Collide

• The world’s largest library is the private collection of Fidel Castro. It contains 13 percent more volumes than the Library of Congress.
• According to the Las Vegas Board of Tourism, 4,300 new decks of cards are used every day in the city’s casinos.
• Numerous studies have shown that motivational posters have a negative impact on morale.

• One out of three people in the US carries a wallet worth more than the money inside of it.
• Within two years of its inception, the internet contained more words than every book ever written combined.
• The color yellow is in actuality a retinal processing error of colors that our rod receptors cannot distinguish.

• The limiting factor in the shelf life of SPAM is how long the steel can it is stored in will last before rusting away.
• Army ants can kill a panther if they catch it sleeping.
• Because of slow mutations in the human genome, some experts believe that the six-fingered humans will outnumber their five-fingered brothers by the year 2412.

• Kites were invented as a siege weapon, but were relatively ineffective. It was another 30 years before they were first made as toys.
• Only one in 20 debit card users change their PIN, but of those that do, 12 percent choose 1234, and 7 percent chose one digit repeated four times.
• There are more varieties of cheddar cheese than are residents of Cheddar, UK

Here’s one from our very own Poe! Thanks!

• Left handed men were not allowed to become knights. They were believed to be descended from the devil.