::: New Cereological Study :::

::: New Cereological Study :::

2.7 BILLION
-----------
Boxes of cereal sold annually, enough to stretch end-to-end from the
Earth to the moon and back.

160
---
Number of bowls of cereal consumed by the average American each year.

816 MILLION
-----------
Pounds of sugar used each year by the U.S. breakfast cereal industry,
enough to coat each American with three pounds of the sweet stuff.

53
--
Percentage of Kellog's Sugar Smacks(tm) that consists of sugar, the
highest of any commercially sold breakfast cereal.

[Source: _Cerealizing America_ by Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford, 1995]


::: Ye Are the Salt of the Earth :::

If all of the salts of the many elements in the ocean were extracted
-- an estimated 50 quadrillion tons -- and spread over the Earth's
land surface, it would form a continuous layer more than 500 feet
thick, the height of a 40-story skyscraper.

The Australian sea wasp or box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) contains
enough poison to kill 60 humans in as little as four minutes.

The Arctic produces 10,000 to 50,000 icebergs annually.  Each lasts,
on average, four years before melting completely.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

-Brother Blue, B:.B:.,33�,8=3
 Dr. Blue Resonant Human, Ph.D.
 Interdimensional Intelligence Analyst
 Sacerdotal Knights of National Security
 USENET Meme Acquisition and Propagation Directorate
 "An Equal Opportunity Mystickal Fraternity and Stuff"
 http://web.archive.org/web/19980424200237/http://www.brotherblue.org/
 - - - - -           -=:::oOo:::=-           - - - - -