- 27,000 trees are cut each day to make toilet paper. 95% of data is stored on paper, and most of it is never looked at again. Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour, and each one takes 500 years to decompose.
- Thousands of marine creatures die by mistakenly swallowing plastic bags thinking that they are jellyfish. In 2015 all New Yorkers must recycle all old electronics like old PC's and TV's or must face a $100 fine.
- Recycling one ton of papers save 17 trees. Today, almost 22% of the glass produced in the United States is recycled. One drip per second from a faucet wastes 540 gallons of water a year.
- Americans recycle only 5% of all the plastics produced in this country. Americans use 100 million steel cans and 200 million aluminum beverage cans every day.
- More than 30 million trees are cut down to produce a year’s supply of newspapers.
- The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors. People with blue eyes have a higher chance of alcohol tolerance. If the human eye was a camera it would have 576 megapixels. Goldfish can't close their eyes since they have no eyelids.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Albert Einstein's eyes are preserved in a safe box in NYC. Bee's have 5 eyes. Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Cats have 3 eyelids.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Carrots don't make your eyesight better, that was a lie from the British to cover up technology from the Nazi in WWII. Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days.
- It's estimated that only 2% of all humans have green eyes. Green color eyes are the rarest eye color. Your eyes can get sunburned. You blink about 12 times a minute. About half the brain has to get involved to see. Reading in dimmed light does not damage your eyes, your eyes become tired.
- When being on a computer you should follow the 20 - 20 - 20 rule. Look at something that is 20 feet away for every 20 minutes for 20 seconds.
