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Gates, Bill
  • Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer
  • Bill Gate had a SAT score of 1590. The top score for the test is 1600
  • Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that’s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year
  • By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200

James Bond 007
  • James Bond Casino Royale is actually based on Ian Flemming’s first Bond novel
  • There have been seven American Bond Girls, four English , three French, two Swedish and one each from Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland , Italy, and Poland
  • Bond was born in Germany
  • Roger Moore was the oldest Bond actor at 58
  • The Bond franchise has raked in almost $4 billion dollars
  • Sean Connery’s wife doubled for actress Mie Hama in a water-dive scene for You Only Live Twice

war
  • The longest civil war is fought in Myanmar which has been in strife since 1948 - present
  • The longest ongoing war (not civil) is between Isreal and Palastine which started in 1947
  • The longest war in history goes to the incorrectly named 100-year-war between Britain and Frace which went on for 116 years
  • The shortest war took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes
  • Chevy Chase was a battle that took place on the english-Scottish border in 1388
  • Global spending on defence total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion

prisons
  • The United States has more than double the prison population of any other country. (Over 2.9 million people)
  • The Faroe Islands has a prison population of 9 inmates. This is because they ship most of them to Denmark, which is much like how England shipped inmates to Australia
  • In Abu Ghraib, only 3-5% of detainees were caught by the USA. The other 95% were handed in by foreigners for monetary rewards

wealth
  • The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations

advertisement
  • Some 30 sec adverts shown during the American NFL Superbowl cost more than full length feature films
  • Some advertisements have funny translations in Chinese:
  • A&W’s “That frosty mug sensation” became “Feel like your face is frozen”
  • American Express’ “Don’t leave home without it” became “Stay home with it”
  • Budweiser’s “When you say Budweiser, you’ve said it all” became “After Budweiser, you will not be able to speak”
  • Camel’s “I’d walk a mile for a Camel” translated as “A camel asked me to walk two kilometers”
  • KFC’s “Finger Licking Good” became “Tastes like human fingers”
  • Nike’s “Just do it” translates as “Have Sex!”
  • and finally, Wheaties’ “Breakfast of Champions” is “Breakfast of Mao”

money
  • Scientists in Dublin have found traces of cocaine on 100% of the Irish banknotes they tested
  • If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar
  • The numbers ‘172′ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial
  • On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.Thanx Doug B. and Dwain

debt
  • Total UK personal debt has exceeded £1 ¼ trillion and at the end of November 2006 it stood at £1,278bn

tuna
  • Did you know a tuna called the ‘Blue Fin’ tuna can be sold for over $20,000 around the world?

Monroe, Marilyn
  • Marilyn Monroe’s real name is Norma Jean. (after all this time…)
  • A movie reel containing a footage of Marilyn Monroe doing explicits was sold at an auction for $1.5 million, unlike her contemporary counterpart Paris.
  • She NEVER had 6 toes on either foot. The misconception was because of a photograph at the beach


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