Are You Aware?

This blog will hopefully get you to think, with some fascinating nuggets of information. Everything here has been researched for accuracy and truth, thanks to John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin.

It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

90% of the world's teenage mothers aged 16 to 19 are married.

Pigs suffer from anorexia.

Male elephants use their penises to swat flies.

60% of NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.

Hewlett-Packard printer ink is 20 times more expensive than 2003 vintage Dom Perignon champagne.

In the USA, one-third of the domestic waste sent to landfills is grass clippings.

"Son-of-a-bitch Stew" was a cowboy dish made from the internal organs of a whole cow and an onion.

Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.

Feta is the oldest known cheese: it is mentioned in The Odyssey.