SOME INTERESTING FACTS

SOME INTERESTING FACTS

• Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

• In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

• Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

• Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

• The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

• There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

• Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

• Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

• One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

• The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

• The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

• When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

• A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

• A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

• The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!

• A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

• A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

• It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

• It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

• Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

• Most lipstick contains fish scales!

• Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

• It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

• No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

• Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

• A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

• Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

• Porcupines float in water!

• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

• The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

• The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
  

• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

• The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

• In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

• There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

• About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

• More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

• A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe !

• In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

• Slugs have 4 noses!

• Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

• Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

• Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

• The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

• It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

• There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

• Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

• There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!

• Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!

• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

• Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

• In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter. "!

• Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!

• A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!

• The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!

• There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!

• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!

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• An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!

• A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!

• Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!

• One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

• More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!

• In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!

• Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!

• In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!

• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

• The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!

• The average person laughs 13 times a day!

• Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!

• Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

• It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!

• Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

• Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!

• The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

• The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

• There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!

• The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

• The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

• Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!

• Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!

• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!

• Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

• A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!

• The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!

• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

• A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!

• After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!