Random Facts
·The average person swallows three spiders every year
·Carrots in their ancient form were purple
·In Washington D.C. there is one lawyer for every nineteen residents
·The blue whale’s tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant
·Doctors say people with pet fish fall asleep easier
·Squirrels forget where they hide more than half their nuts
·7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee every day
·A cow has four stomachs
·The average amount of money stolen from a bank when robbed is $3000
·Every year more people are killed by bee stings than by sharks
·Rhode Island could fit into Texas 268 times
· Second Street is the most common street name in the U.S.; First Street is sixth
· A cow spends 75% of a day chewing
· The correct order of intelligence is Moron, Imbecile, Idiot
· A study shows that pigs can become alcoholics.
· So far every President with a beard has been a Republican
· The odds an average golfer will make a hole in one is 33,676 to 1
· Los Angeles has more judges than the entire country of France
· The Pentagon spends $8,612 a second; that’s $271.6 billion a year
· A typical bed has 6 million dust mites living in it
· Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland
· Baby Beavers are called kittens
· The Earth is .02 degrees Fahrenheit hotter during a full moon
· Ants don’t sleep
· Almost 10% of American households say they dress up their pets for Halloween
· The average number of Santas hired by a shopping mall in the U.S. is 3.73
· 90% of the U.S. population rode in shopping carts when they were kids
· Grand Rapids, Michigan eats more Spaghetti-Os than any other city in the U.S.
· It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber
· A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of it’s body
· Insects outnumber humans 1 million to 1
· James Madison was both the shortest and lightest President ever- 5’4” 100 lbs.
· A koala bear sleeps 22 hours a day
· It is said that no word rhymes with month
· Drivers kill more deer than hunters
· Crayola makes about 2 billion crayons a year
· Cats’ urine glows in a black light
· Walter Matthau’s real name is Walter Matuschanskaysasky
· Bluebirds cannot see the color blue
· Antarctica’s Area Code is 672
· Dolphins nap with one eye open
· In 1778 Oliver Pollock invented the dollar sign $
· When pitched, the average major league baseball rotates 15 times before it reaches the batter
· It takes almost a week to make a jelly bean
· Jousting is Maryland’s state sport
· The most push-ups done in one day is 46,001
· Only male fireflies can fly
· Poll Result- 30% of people asked to participate in a pole refuse.
· 15 million gallons of wine was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
· Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson
· It takes a drop of water over 1,000 years to circulate around the world
· To take an oath ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles… that’s why it’s called a testimony
· Attics were invented in Attica
· Fattest President was William Taft… He weighed 332 lbs.
· China borders 16 other countries
· Canada is the country with the largest coast line
· Mexico City has over 60,000 taxis, the most in any city in the world
· The average American moves 11 times in his life
· The poorest country in the world is Mozambique
· There are 461 Subway Stations throughout the New York City Subway System
· Bob Zzzzzz, Otto Zzzzzz, and Z. Zzzzonzo all appear in the San Francisco phone book
· The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Breed’s Hill. Bunker’s Hill was nearby, though
· The fear of phobias is “phobophobia”
· If a Mackerel stops swimming it dies (If it dies it stops swimming)
· Lake Ontario’s largest source of pollution: Lake Eerie
· Housecats can sprint as fast as 30 mph
· A day from now you will have forgotten four fifths of everything you learned today
· Every year 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats
· In 19th century England “pants” was considered an obscene word
· At most elephants sleep 3 hours a night
· Snakes don’t blink
· Iceland doesn’t have an army
· Ducks have three eyelids in each eye
· Kiwis were originally called Chinese Gooseberries
· The rat can go longer without water than the camel can
· One of Ringo Starr’s hobby’s is designing furniture
· Little Red Riding Hood’s first name was Blanchette
· Twice as many people live in Shanghai, China as in New York City
· Marilyn Monroe’s dog was named Maf. It was a gift from Frank Sinatra
· President Clinton is allergic to his cat, Socks
· The longest Main Street is in Island Park, Idaho; it is 33 miles long
· A U.S. law states that Yankee Bean Soup must be served in The Congressional Dinning Room at all times.
· The signal before SOS was CQD. It meant “Come quick danger”
· 1 ton of iron can turn into 3 tons of rust
· Shirley Temple made $300,000 in 1938 but her allowance was only $4.25 a week
· One speck of dust contains 4 quadrillion atoms
· Before he was an actor, Sean Connery had a job polishing coffins
· Nissan has created an artificial butt to test car seats
· When an airbag goes off it expands at a rate of 150 mph
· A female flea can drink 15 times her body weight in blood
· There are about 3,000,000,000 seconds in a century
· Longest Monopoly game ever took 1,680 hours (roughly 70 days)
· The word “cat” is never said in the Bible. The word “girl” only once
· A cherophobe is a person who is afraid of having fun
· When an apple falls towards the Earth, the Earth, very slightly, moves towards the apple as well
· The city of Winchester, Virginia was captured 84 times during the Civil War
· Burt Reynolds has an Alligator named Fred
· Lethologica is the inability to remember a word
· Jellyfish are 99% water
· The average smell weighs 760 nanograms
· A study shows that 2 out of 3 times it’s the woman who starts flirtation
· Over 6 billion copies of the Bible have been sold
· The fingernails on the Statue of Liberty each weigh about 100 lbs.
· The sun weighs about 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs
· The actual length of a moment is 90 seconds
· You take about 23,000 breaths today
· The typical raindrop falls at about 7 mph
· The standard drinking straw in the U.S. is 7 ¾ inches long
· The word “tragedy” comes from “tragos” and “ode”, Greek words for “goat” and “song”
· Every day McDonald’s feeds about 43 million people
· The Man-O-War jellyfish can have tentacles up to 60 ft. long
· In an emergency Coca-Cola can replace oil in cars
· New York City’s Broadway used to be called Bloomingdale Road
· 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules are in a cubic centimeter of air
· In the early days Picasso burned his paintings to keep warm
· January 4th is Trivia Day
· Thomas Edison preferred reading in Braille
· In Europe the motor vehicle with the best safety record is the Moped
· According to Weekly World News, Heaven’s fax number is 011-972-2-612222
· The chances of you bowling a 300 the next time you bowl are about 1 in 45,000
· 11% of Americans say that they have thrown out a dish just because they didn’t want to clean it
· Space Dust increases the Earth’s weight by 6 tons each day
· Quartzy is the highest scoring Scrabble word
· Clouds don’t float, they are actually falling very slowly
· Lonely parrots go insane
· Canada consumes more Kraft macaroni and cheese than any other country
· It takes two and a half minutes to fall from the top of Mount Everest
· John Wayne was related to Johnny Appleseed
· Alfred Hitchcock never won an Academy Award
· So far, there is no official name for the @
· William Shakespeare made about $40 a year from his writing
· The two cities Buda and Pest combined to create the capital of Hungary. The name of the city is Budapest
· Goldfish were originally green
· A jiffy is 1/100 of a second
· 13 boxes of jello are sold every second
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