I was searching through a bunch of links last night being bored to death so I decided to look up random facts on the internet about different things to see the different things that I could find. These are some of the ones that I found that most of the people on this earth wouldn't know about.. { but then again most people wouldn't be so bored as to go on the internet and look facts up lol }
1. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
2. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
3. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
4. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. [way to ruin the week for everyone else eh?]
5. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
6. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
7. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
8. It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
9. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. {that must have been some pretty tasty meat}
10.Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
11. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
12. The pancreas produces Insulin.
13. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
14. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
15. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
16. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
17. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
18. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
19. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
20. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
21. There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
22.The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
23. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
24. If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
25. Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
26. The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
27. The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
28. The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
29. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
30. A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
31. Cats can hear ultrasound.
32. Children grow faster in the springtime.
33. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
36. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
37. Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
38. The science of kissing is called philematology.
39. The insulting slang “kiss my ass” dates back at least to 1705.
40. In the average adult, the skin covers 12-20 square feet and accounts for 12% of body weight.
41. Humans produce about 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
42. The heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime.
43. Worldwide, it is estimated that about 162 million adults use marijuana at least once per year, and 22.5 million use the drug daily.
44. Sugar and cocoa are often added to cigarettes, a fact many diabetic smokers are unaware of.
45. Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth. It is also edible.
46. The month of March is named after Mars.
47. Throughout the United States, approximately 4% of the population self-identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
48. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
49. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
50. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
52. Coca-Cola was originally green.
53. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
54. In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
55. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
56. No president of the United States was an only child.
57. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
58. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
59. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
60. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
61. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
62. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
63. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
64. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
65. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
66. A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year.
67. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
68. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
69. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
70. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
71. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in The air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in The air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the Horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
72. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
73. 40% of all people at a party will snoop through your medicine cabinet
74. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
75. If you tell a crowd that you can't lick youur own elbow, 75% of them will try it.
76. The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep. 77. Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
78. Average lifespan of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
79. Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete. He makes around $80 million per year (or $219,000 per day).
80. Your forearm is the same length as your foot.
81. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
82. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
83. In 1994, there were four murders and eight attempted murders of abortion providers in the United States. In 2004, there were zero.
84. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
85. There are only four words in the common English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
86. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
87. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
88. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
89. A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue.
90. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
91. Men get hiccups more often than women.
92. The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.
93. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
94. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
95. Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
96. A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
97. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
98. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
99. The word "democracy" is banned in online chat rooms in China. 100. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. {Who knew?}
Enjoy! =)
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