5 Random Facts – El Paso, iPhone Users + Much More

All of these are, as far as I can tell, accurate. There are links you can follow to find out more about each factlet.

1. The average iPhone user has 119 apps.

I have 47. All but 5 of them were downloaded by my daughter.

2. A total of around $3 billion worth of stuff is shoplifted from the 4,555 Walmarts in America every year.

That must be why they pay their employees subsistence wages. I’m sure if all shoplifting stopped tomorrow all they’d spread that 3 billion around to their “valued associates”.

3. School busses are yellow because you pick up that color in your peripheral vision at least 1.24 times faster than any other color.

Oh, THAT must be why they don’t have seatbelts for the kids…people see the bus a fraction of a second faster so there aren’t any accidents. The question is, can I still rent games for my Game Cube there?

4. One out of every seven of the 50 or so Blockbuster locations left in the U.S. are in El Paso, Texas.

The question is, can I still rent games for my Game Cube there?

5.    In 1987, the IRS started making people list their kids' Social Security numbers on their tax forms when they counted them as dependents, to cut down on fraud.  And suddenly, seven million children who were claimed the year before disappeared.