WHAT IS A FACT THAT CAN POSSIBLY SAVE YOUR LIFE? _ Part 2. Some tips that might be a lifesaver
• If someone grabs you by the arm, don’t pull away — twist your arm instead. Your arm goes (nearly) all directions but their wrists won’t.
• If the ocean is retreating there is a tsunami coming, evacuate the beach immediately.
• If a tornado looks like it isn’t moving, it’s heading right towards you.
• All firearms are loaded. Even if they are not, they are.
• If you need to call 911 and you’re too busy helping the victim (CPR) specifically point at someone and say, “You! Call 911!” instead of “somebody call 911!” It snaps a person out of bystanders effect and they act.
SHOCKING-BUT-TRUE HISTORICAL FACTS
• It took about four times longer to get from copper swords to steel swords than it took from steel swords to atomic bombs.
• Woodrow Wilson was mentally and emotionally incapacitated by a massive stroke in October 1919, and his wife and doctors essentially ran the country until Warren G. Harding took office in 1921. Some historians refer to Edith Wilson as “the first female president.”
• We are closer to the time of the T-Rex than the T-Rex is to the time of the Stegosaurus.
• Sharks are older than the rings on Saturn.
• As far as we know, John Adams is the only “Founding Father” of the United States that never enslaved anyone.
• On February 20, 1939, 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden.
WE HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF
• There are 300,000 items in the average American home.
• The average size of the American home has nearly tripled in size over the past 60 years
• One out of every ten American households rents offsite storage.
• 25 percent of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park cars inside them and 32 percent have room for only one vehicle.
• Research found that the average 10-year-old owns 238 toys but plays with only 10 daily.
• 3.1 percent of the world’s children live in America, but they own 40 percent of the toys consumed globally.
• The average American throws away 69 pounds of clothing per year.
• Americans spend more on shoes, jewelry, and watches than on higher education.
