50 facts

On the chance that some of these are wrong don't go complaining to me about it, because I didn't write these.



* By age ten, the average American kid has worn down over 750 crayons!


* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendants.


* There are 4.3 births and 1.7 deaths per second in the world.


* A starfish is the only fish/animal life form that has it's stomach on the outside.


* The drink Coca-Cola originally contained the drug cocaine in it.


* 1/4 of La is taken up of automobiles.


* Pheumononoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest english word. There are 47 letters.


* The ashes of the average cremated person weighs nine pounds.


* Ancient Eygptians shaved their eyebrows off to mourn the deaths of their cats


* Coca-Cola was originaly green


* Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time!


* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."


* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Ficton" are stuck on 4:20.


* There are 253 ways to make change for a dollar.


* Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly it's State flag the same height as the US flag.


* The odds of finding a pearl I an oyster are 1 in 12,000


* You will use about 68,250 gallons of water brushing your teeth during your lifetime.


* At-90 degrees F, your breath freezes and falls to the floor.


* Some bacteria can produce 16,000,000 offspring in 8 hours.


* It would take about 3,085,209,600,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Sahara desert.

* 2 out of 5 people live in China or India.


* Right now, about 61,000 people are flying over the USA


* You will laugh about 5,479 times this year.


* An ounce of platinum can be stretched up to 10,000 feet.


* The worst hiccups lasted 25,355 days.


* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.


* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.


* The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.


* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.


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


* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.


* There are more chickens than people in the world.


* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.


* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."


* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.


* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.


* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.


* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."


* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.


* Almonds are a member of the peach family.


* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.


* Kermit the Frog is left-handed.


* The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.


* Non-dairy creamer is flammable.


* The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".


 

* If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating


* to the top and sinking to the bottom.


* Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.


* Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his strange characters.


* Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.


* It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'.


* The word "thousand" is the first number word with an "A" in it. All the words for 1 through 999 don't have any "A's" in them.


* There are 116 ridges on a quarter. There are 115 ridges on a dime.

* A golf ball usually has how 336 dimples.


* The space shuttle, discovery, travels at speeds up to 17,00 MPH, over 300 times the speed limit.


* 500,000,000 years ago, antarcitca was on the equator.


* 224,000 copies of Moby Dick weigh as much as the largest animal on earth, the blue whale.


* A snail's pace is 0.00625 miles per hour.


* The average smell weighs 750 nanograms.


* The world's longest mustache was 284.48 centimeters long.


* Impluses can travel through your nervous system at 1,177,440 feet per hour.


* Your lungs have a surface area of up to 144,000 square inches.


* The odds that the world will be destroyed by a metorite in the next 50 years is 1 in 1,200,000.


* The average person weighs as much as 1,440,000 postage stamps.


* An average of three people a year die from vending machines falling on them.


* Tweety bird was originally colored pink. He was changed to yellow because Warner Bros. didn't want to have people thinking he was a "naked" bird.


* 20 vegetarians can be fed on the land needed to feed 1 person eating a meat based diet.


* A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.


* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.


* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.


* There are more chickens than people in the world.


* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.


* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


* It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

* Wild turkeys can run at speeds of at least 12 miles an hour, and fly at speeds up to 55 miles per hour.


* Baseball player Jackie Mitchell was the first female to pitch in organized baseball. She played for the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931. During an exhibition game she pitched to and struck outboth Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.


* The most commonly used password on computer systems is "password".


* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.


* The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

 

* On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.


* On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.


* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.


* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.


* Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles in 1894.


* When a piece of glass cracks, the crack travels at over 3000 miles per hour.


* Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.


* Rubber Bands were invented in 1845.


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


* Queen Victoria's first act after her coronation was to remove her bed from her mother's room.


* Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world--an average of 10 ounces per person per day.


* Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.


* There are more than 200 different types of Barbies.


* The first product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.


* The United States Department of Agriculture reports that the average American eats eight and a half pounds of pickles a years. Dill pickles are twice as popular as sweet.


* The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty-five pounds, is two feet long, and has walls up to three inches thick.


* Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone. Whispering and shouting stretch the vocal cords.


* The name Oz, in The Wizard of Oz, was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."


* Why is a wedding ring always worn on the third finger? It was once believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart. The vein was called "vena amoris", or the vein of love, and early writings on matrimonial procedure suggested that it would be appropriate for one's wedding finger to be worn on that special finger.