Tuesday, January 31, 2006

didja know that...

a cord of wood will also produce one of the following:

30 Boston rockers
460,000 personal checks
61,370 No. 10 envelopes
1200 copies of National Geographic
12 dining room tables that each seat eight people

89,870 sheets of letterhead bond paper
942 one-pound books
1500 pounds of paper
7,500,000 toothpicks
4,384,000 commemorative-size postage stamps
the heat equivalent of burning a ton of coal or 200 gallons of fuel oil.

geez.

2 comments:

Laura said...

oh! I LOVE knowing that kind of stuff!

Spencer said...

she's ALIVE! i've been keepin' up w/ ya, just not commenting. guess that's gonna change...right now!