* Strange Facts *
 

  • 60% of the potatoes in the United States come from Idaho.
     
  • 40% of McDonald’s products come from selling happy meals.
     
  • 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions are written each year.
     
  • 3000 people under the age of 18 start smoking every day.
     
  • 17% of all teenagers smoke.
     
  • Every day 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents in the hospital.
     
  • An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
     
  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
     
  • If you screamed continuously for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would produce enough energy to heat coffee.
     
  • Earth has about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left.
     
  • It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
     
  • Sliced bread was pattened in 1954.
     
  • The tongue is the strongest part of the body.
     
  • 100% of lottery winners gain weight.
     
  • If you bang your head against a wall for an hour you burn 150 calories.
     
  • China has more English speakers than England.
     
  • Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.
     
  • ’Stewardesses’ is the longest word that can be made using only your left hand when typed.
     
  • 20% of women look at a man’s butt before his face.
     
  • If you are in total darkness for 3 days you become permanently blind.
     
  • Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
     
  • In the English language ‘four’ is the only number spelled with the same number of characters as its value.
     
  • In your lifetime you eat at least 8 spiders while sleeping.
     
  • Pizza is the most served dinner in America.
     
  • Snickers is the top selling candy sold in vending machines.
     
  • There are more chickens in the world than people.
     
  • A person has 696 muscles while a caterpillar has over 4000.
     
  • 7up was created in 1929.
     
  • No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
     
  • 25% of the people in the USA have appeared on tv at least once.
     
  • You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching tv.
     
  • The first product to have a barcode on it was a pack of Wrigley’s gum.
     
  • The king of hearts is the only one with a moustache.
     
  • Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
     
  • The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
     
  • 90% of dust particles in your home are from dead skin.
     
  • The original owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
     
  • Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
     
  • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all of the Nike workers in Malaysia combined.
     
  • Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on her left foot.
     
  • Mosquito repellents don’t repel- they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
     
  • Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
     
  • The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
     
  • American car horns beep in the tone of F.
     
  • Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
     
  • Chimpanzee DNA and human DNA is about 98.4% identical.
     
  • On the average a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
     
  • Many animals fart too. Cats, dogs, and cows. Elephants fart the most.
     
  • People fart the most in their sleep.
     
  • Farts that contain a large amount of methane and hydrogen can be flammable.
     
  • According to the Guinness Book, the fastest restraunt in the world serves the client’s food within 13 seconds after the order is made (in tables of 4.) The name of the restraunt is Karne Garibaldi and it is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.
     
  • The oldest known goldfish was 41 years old.
     
  • Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.
     
  • Loch Ness is twice as deep as the North Sea and can hold 3 times the world’s population.
     
  • A salamander froze in ice while hibernating and remained in deep freeze for ninety years. It was warmed up and restored by Russian scientists.
     
  • The deepest spot in the ocean is the Mariana Trench at 11.7 km.
     
  • Deep sea clams can live to be more than 100 years old.
     
  • The trick to curing hiccips is to get the nerves that regulate breathing synchronized. 1)Hold your breath as long as you can then exhale very gradually. 2)Deep slow breathing. 3)Nonstop slow sipping of a glass of warm water. 4)Taking a teaspoon of granulated sugar.
     
  • The longest movie was not “24 Hours” by Andy Warhol, but was around 78 hours- a film called “Insomnia.” The film consisted of the writer’s poetry read by him with splices of a rock and roll band throughout.
     
  • An alternative was to whiten your teeth is to try eating raw lemon with salt (just brush with toothpaste afterwards.)
     
  • Queen Elizabeth the first had wooden teeth.
     
  • Pocahontas is the first Disney film to be based on the life of a real person.
     
  • Mickie Mouse has nephews named Mortie and Ferdie. (People usually just think of Donald Duck’s nephews- Huey, Dewey, and Louie.)
     
  • Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
     
  • In the 1890s a book was written about a ship named ‘Gigantic’ that conviently told the disaster of the Titanic almost to the specific passengers. (Remember, the Titanic sank in 1912.)
     
  • President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president on a Catholic Mass book, not a bible like all other presidents.
     
  • George Clooney is best known as Dr. Doug Ross on the tv show ‘ER’. In 1984 he played a medical intern named Ace on another medical program that also was set at a Chicago hospital. The shows name was ‘E/R’.
     
  • The first toilet to ever be shown on tv was on ‘Leave it to Beaver.’
     
  • There are more people alive today than have ever died.
     
  • Titanic was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool and gym.
     
  • If you have blonde hair that goes greenish from swimming pool chlorine you can put ketchup on it because it balances the pigments out.
     
  • Tuna swim at a steady rate of nine miles per hours for an indefinite amount of time and they never stop moving. Estimates indicate that a 15 year old tuna must have traveled one million miles in its lifetime.
     
  • A fierce gust of wind blew 45 year old Vittorio Luise’s car into a river near Naples, Italy in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore-- where a tree blew over and killed him.
     
  • American airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
     
  • The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
     
  • All US presidents have worm glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen in public with them.
     
  • When you cough it comes out of your mouth at 60 mph.
     
  • There are more fake flamingos in the Americas than real ones.
     
  • In some volcanic areas such as Iceland the temperature rises beneath the surface of the earth as high as 680ºF (360ºC) that engineers can tap the geothermal energy by puping hot water from underground to warm nearby homes, offices, and factories. An outdoor swimming pool in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, is heated so effectively by this method that it remains open and in use all year round.