Some interesting facts - part 3

Sanket (!..Live to Give..!) (16427 Points)

11 October 2011  

# Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

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The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.