Adventures with Some Seldom Used Facts

I was cleaning out my information attic recently and decided to put this out on the curb. Anyone is welcome to take anything from the list below. It's all free. Enjoy.

1. American newspapers printed before about 1880 don't turn yellow with age because they are printed on rice paper. (If you’ve seen an old yellow paper from, say, the Civil War era, it’s either a fake, a replication or a copy of the original.)
2. All ears of corn have an even number of rows. The average ear of corn has 16 rows with about 50 kernels per row.
3. Jerry Springer was once a speech writer for President Nixon.
4. Honey is the only food that will never spoil. It’s also a world-class antioxidant. (I love honey!)
   
   
5. When they're away from big city lights, humans cannot discern colors during bright moonlight.
6. Your eyeballs don’t grow; they are the same size forever. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
7. On average, a bank teller loses about $250 a year. (Mine! All mine!)
8. Raindrops fall about 21 feet per second.
9. Ohio's state flag is a pennant. All other state flags are rectangles.
   
   
10. My three children were baptized in Tuttle Creek near Manhattan, Kansas. (I would like to re-live that evening.)
11. The Congo River crosses the Equator twice.
12. J. C. Penney’s middle name is Cash. (I was introduced to him when I was 12 years old.)
13. The pecan tree is the only native nut tree in North America. (But not necessarily the only "native nut." See #3 above.)
14. Around the world, about 50 Bibles are sold every minute of every day. (Praise the Lord.)
15. The annual Wimbledon Tennis Tournament uses about 42,000 tennis balls during 650 or so matches.
16. The world’s largest collection of sunflower paraphernalia is in Lenexa, Kansas (not far from Pancake Flats).
    
    
17. If you're an American, you're going to eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime. (I would have had more, but they made me start sharing with my grandkids.)