Posted by FACTS on 2/17/2007, 9:00 pm • Six out of ten people considered "middle class" or lower spend 98 percent or more of their paycheck before the next payday. • When dying, the common house fly emits a loud, high-pitched screech at a frequency higher than human humans can hear but detectable by dogs. • An average person spends six minutes a day in hesitant speech, using words such as "um" or "er". • While most time zones are offset from Greenwich Mean Time by whole hours, there are 14 areas that are offset by 1/2 hours, three that are offset by quarter hours and one, the Principality of Sealand, that is offset by 52 minutes.
• Baseball was voted the world's least popular major sport in 1998 at the International Sports Convention held in Helsinki, Finland by a ratio of three to one.
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