Fun Facts

[Grady]

Women’s Voice Pitch Changes Depending on Their Attraction To a Man.
In a paper just published in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Paul J. Fraccaro and his colleagues investigated changes in women's voice pitch as a function of whether they are leaving a voice message to a man that they find attractive or not. The authors cite several studies wherein it was found that men prefer women who possess higher-pitched voices (albeit of course there are exceptions to this rule...think the sultry and deep voice of Sade). In light of this preference, the researchers theorized that women would modulate the pitch of their voices such that it would be higher pitched when addressing a man of their liking.

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[Grady]

[The Mirror]

There are twice as many prisoners in the U.S. as in China, even though China's population is 5x that of the U.S.

[The Mirror]

In a survey of the most evil governments in the world 94% of people voted for either the United States, Israel, Britian or Saudi Arabia.

[The Mirror]

The U.S. sells Saudi Arabia $22 billion worth of weapons each year, arming a brutal dictatorship to the teeth.

[Grady]

Americans donate over $300 billion to world wide charities every year.

[Grady]

The United States is the top desired destination country for the 700 million adults who would like to relocate permanently to another country.

[Photo-fish]

There are twice as many prisoners in the U.S. as in China, even though China's population is 5x that of the U.S.

Although I would not believe any statsistics coming out of China, the Chinese govt. kills people rather than imprison them.

[Grady]

French toast was not invented in France.

[Grady]

The General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on Earth.

Note: the Sequoia cones need a forest fire to open, and start the seedling process.

Julia "Butterfly" Hill lived in a Redwood tree for 738 days to protest logging. Union workers of the Pacific Lumber company were not amused.