Door Industry Journal - Winter 2015

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk take a break 123 THE door industry journal winter 2015 PLEASE SHARE YOUR FUNNY PICTURES/STORIES If you have a funny story or picture you would like to share please send it to mail@dijonline.co.uk Only clean ones will be published (but it doesn’t mean we couldn’t do with a laugh, producing this magazine is stressful stuff!). DON’T PUT IT ON FACEBOOK! TRIVIA A curveball can curve up to 18 inches. Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil. The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on Earth. According to US law, a beer commercial can never actually show a person drinking beer. The world’s most endangered cetacean is the Yangtze River Dolphin. The two highest IQ’s ever recorded on a standard test belong to women. A professional dancer will go through 20 or more ‘pointe’ shoes in the course of one season of a ballet. Benjamin Franklin invented crop insurance. It costs about 3 US cents to make a dollar bill. Many hospitals make money by selling umbilical cords taken after patients give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery. A typical American eats 28 pigs in his or her lifetime. In Hawaii, the wind blows from east to west. In Knoxville, Tennessee, it’s against the law to lasso a fish. The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant. Adolph Hitler was Time’s “Man of the Year” for 1938. MY BUCKET AND SPADE ARE FEELING A LITTLE INADEQUATE RIGHT NOW! You just tried didn’t you!!! In a survey, 66% of lawyers reported that Facebook was the ‘primary source’ of evidence in divorce proceedings. 32% of workers posted that they had called in sick when they weren’t and 30% reported that they had come to work sick in order to save sick days for when they were feeling better and more able to enjoy them.