On a trivial pursuit

So to end a rather long, drawn out week here at two black cats, I'm offering up a little bit of trivia to get this weekend off on the right foot.
(These are all from my handy-dandy desk calendar, so I take no credit in coming up with any of these.)

There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice. Rice is grown on more than 10% of the earth's farmable surface and is the main food for half of the people of the world.
Wow and I thought it was all either basmati or jasmine! Oh wait, but then there's sticky rice, sushi rice, long grain, wild rice...

Halifax, Nova Scotia, has the largest number of bars per capita of anyplace in the world.
Now if this isn't a great excuse to go visit my cousin in Halifax, I don't know what is!

Pineapples do not continue to ripen after they have been picked.
So what I thought was an overripe pineapple on my counter at home is really just a rotting pineapple. Eww!

The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English word.
I want to meet the individual who drew that 35 mile long line!

The main library at Indiana University sinks more than an inch every year, because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books.
And these people call themselves engineers?! Hey I wonder if they graduated from the same school as the engineers who decideded to build my former high school on a swamp.

To keep cool, ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat.
Oh that's just nasty!

Experienced waitresses say that married men tip better than unmarried men.
Well of course they do - their wives make sure of it!

The average woman uses six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
Holy moly, that's a lotta lipstick!

The oldest word in the English language is town.
For some reason I'm surprised by this, but ok.

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times per second.
Seriously, how do they measure this stuff??

There are more barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
Are they including Ken dolls in this number as well? And do they all have the barbie corvette too?

And the last one is for all you soda drinkers...
Pepsi is commonly used by wooden boat owners to clean mold from decks. They leave it on for about thirty seconds, then it must be rinsed off so as not to cause erosion.
Good news for people who hate mold, but bad news for the teeth of those who drink this stuff on a daily basis. I have to admit though, I have an issue with that second sentence.
Erosion is the mechanical process of wearing something down so unless they are pouring Pepsi on these decks all day, every day, I doubt it would cause 'erosion'.
What they described is more of a chemical process so I'm thinking they probably meant to say corrosion. Like how Coke can corrode the rust right off a nail.
Yeah - good stuff!