Amazing Facts P10

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• The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.

• It’s against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.

• There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

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• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

• A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

• In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

• The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

• America once issued a 5-cent bill.

• You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.

• Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.

• Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

• The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

• In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

• There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.

• Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.

• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

• The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary. When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law.

• In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.

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

• In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan.

• 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”.

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• If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.

• The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.

• The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald’s restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.

• Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including both Canadian and U.S. customs.

• The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.

• Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with “Midnight Cowboy.” Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

• One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed.

• Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

• In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

• The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

• When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying “R2D2″. George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

• The youngest pope was 11 years old.

• Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.

• Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

• Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

• They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

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• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

• Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

• Armadillos can be housebroken.

• The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.

• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

• A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

• Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

• The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

• Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

• One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

• The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

• Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

• The State of Florida is bigger than England.

• Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

• 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 can’t find any food.

• The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

• In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.

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

• More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

• 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 TV for 3 hours.

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

• Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.

• There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.

• Actor Bruce Willis has filed a lawsuit against the movie studio that produced his film “Tears of the Sun”, alleging he was struck in the forehead by a fake bullet. Since 2002 (when the movie was in production), the lawsuit claims he has endured “extreme mental, physical, and emotional pain and suffering”.

• A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!

• About 20% of gift cards never are redeemed at the full value of the card.

• Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones.

• The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery.

• George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week.

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• In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.

• A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.

• The Chicago Cubs are suing former Hartford Courant newspaper carrier Mark Guthrie to get back $301,000 in pay that was intended to go to a Cubs pitcher with the same name. The Tribune Company owns both the Hartford Courant and the Chicago Cubs.

• Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.

• Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie “The Passion of the Christ”.

• Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.

• The world’s largest book, “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey” is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.

• If the recent U.S. election was held in Canada, John Kerry would have beaten George Bush in a landslide - 64% to 19%.

• Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.

• 55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.

• The company that manufactures the greatest number of women’s dresses each year is Mattel. Barbie’s got to wear something.

• All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) “rotten imperialist reactionary culture”.

• La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.

• George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.

• Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

• If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

• There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

• There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.

• Actor Bruce Willis has filed a lawsuit against the movie studio that produced his film “Tears of the Sun”, alleging he was struck in the forehead by a fake bullet. Since 2002 (when the movie was in production), the lawsuit claims he has endured “extreme mental, physical, and emotional pain and suffering”.

• A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!

• About 20% of gift cards never are redeemed at the full value of the card.

• Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones.

• The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery.

• George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week.

• In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.

• A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.

• The Chicago Cubs are suing former Hartford Courant newspaper carrier Mark Guthrie to get back $301,000 in pay that was intended to go to a Cubs pitcher with the same name. The Tribune Company owns both the Hartford Courant and the Chicago Cubs.

• Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.

• Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie “The Passion of the Christ”.

• Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.

• The world’s largest book, “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey” is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.

• If the recent U.S. election was held in Canada, John Kerry would have beaten George Bush in a landslide - 64% to 19%.

• Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.

• 55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.

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• The company that manufactures the greatest number of women’s dresses each year is Mattel. Barbie’s got to wear something.

• All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) “rotten imperialist reactionary culture”.

• La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.

• George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.

• Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

• If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

• The lead singer of The Knack, famous for “My Sharona,” and Jack Kevorkian’s lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug and Jeffrey Feiger.

• Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.

• One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.

• If you know a (male) millionaire who happens to be married, The most likely profession of his wife is a teacher.

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

• 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.

• The “you are here” arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.

• 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.

• 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.

• A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

• Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley’s Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley’s Comet was in view again.

• The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.

• In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.” On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.

• The longest words in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter “screeched” and “strengths”.

• Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”.

• All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” read 4:20.

• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

• Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

• A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

• A snail can also sleep for three years.

• A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

• A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.

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

• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it.

• According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.

• Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.

• The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.

• Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.

• Only 14% of Americans say they’ve skinny dipped with the opposite sex.

• “60 Minutes” on CBS is the only TV show to not have a theme song or music.

• Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

• Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession.

• 100% of all lottery winners gain weight.

• An average American will spend an average of 6 months during his lifetime waiting at red lights.

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• The Olympic flag’s colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.

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