Archive for March, 2010
The odds are 1 out of 582 (.0017%) that you will be injured in a traffic accident due to "driver distraction". If you're an American, the odds are 1 out of 40 (2.46%) that you're currently in the U.S. criminal justice system (incarcerated, on parole, or on probation). The odds are 1 out of 33 (3%) that you have been a target of sexual advances by a priest, minister, rabbi or other religious leader (if you're a woman). The odds are 1 out of 71 (1.4%) that your bag arrived at your destination at a
March 17, 2010
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A plastic milk jug takes 1 million years to decompose.A plastic cup can take 50 - 80 years to decompose.Recycled plastic can be used to make things like trash cans, park benches, playground equipment, decks, and kayaks.Special fleece-like fabrics used in clothes and blankets can be made out of recycled plastic bottles.Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every HOUR.Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1 million sea creatures every year.Recycling plast
March 15, 2010
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# The capitol in Austin opened May 16, 1888. The dome of the building stands seven feet higher than that of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C. # Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies. # The armadillo is the official state mammal. # Texas has the first domed stadium in the country. The structure was built in Houston and opened in April 1965. # The Houston Comets are the only team in the country to win four back-to-back WNBA championships. 1997-2000 Cynthia
March 13, 2010
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Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site. The lightning whelk is the official state shell. Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the Un
March 12, 2010
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Each year, the United States used 85.5 million tons of paper, of which we recycle 22% or 19 million tons. Of the remaining paper, we could recycle up to 70% or 46 million tons. And those 46 million tons could save 782 million trees.Every day, Americans buy about 62 million newspapers and throw out around 44 million of them. If we recycled just half our newsprint every year, we would need 3,200 fewer garage trucks to collect our trash.An average American uses 465 trees to create a lifetime of pap
March 9, 2010
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