Mind Soup

Population Forecast up to 2050 1- The world currently has 6.9 billion people. It is projected to hit 10 billion people in the year 2050! (right) 2- Parents in Denmark must choose from a list of 7,000 pre-approved names for their babies! 3- The FDA allows an average of 30 insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter. 4- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy  and that comics of him were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers. 5- In Moscow, weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting. 6- You can cure a stomach ache if you lie on your left side for 5 minutes. The stomach is on the left side, the oesophagus enters it on the right and therefore gas bubbles can rise and allow you to burp. 7- A sharon fruit  (Kharma in Arabic) is a persimmon that has been artificially ripened. No, I had no idea what a persimmon was either.

1- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. 2- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older. 3- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class. 4- Venus (right) is the only planet that rotates clockwise . 5- Six of the 10 fastest elevators in the world are located in Asia. 6- The longest speech at the United Nations lasted almost eight hours. 7- Alfred Thayer Mahan - a US navy officer and geostrategist - invented the term " Middle-East " in 1902

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets . (right) The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo." There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, gum . The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

I will be starting this trend of stating 7 things I did not know the week before each week. I think it might be a good idea and people will get to know small things that they might not have known before, so here goes: 1. Fasting for 16 hours before your breakfast in a new time zone can override the body's sleep clock . This can also work with other irregular sleep patterns. 2. You can go to Gmail in Firefox by typing the letter g in the address bar and hitting Enter. 3. Twitter only lets its users retrieve the last 3,200 updates they’ve entered into the system. 4. The word 'avocado' comes from the Aztec 'ahuacatl' meaning tescicle . 5. Anatidaephobia is the fear of being watched by a duck. 6. You must be registered blind to work as a massage therapist in South Korea . 7. Peanuts are often used as an ingredient the production of explosives.