Amazing Facts P9

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• In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The under-wire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest.

Facts

• Basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891.

• Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage.

• The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head.

• 85% of weddings are held in a synagogue or church.

• The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii.

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

• Before soccer referees started using whistles in 1878, they used to rely on waving a handkerchief.

• Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined.

• The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

• Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.

• Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.

• There are some species of snails that are venomous. Their venom can be fatal to humans.

• The first box of Crayola that was ever sold had the same eight colors that are sold in the box today consisting of red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown. The box was sold for a nickel in 1903.

• A turtle can breathe through its butt.

Facts

• The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound.

• The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.

• The song with the longest title is “I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin? Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues” written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He later claimed the song title ended with? Yank? and the rest was a joke.

• People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.

• In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned.

• The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet.

• Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened.

• Catfish have taste buds located on their whiskers.

• The laundry detergent Tide, has a market share of about forty percent market.

• A Canadian, Troy Hurtubise, spent $100,000 and almost went bankrupt building a RoboCop style suit so that he could withstand a bear attack.

• The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

• The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

• In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001.

• The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

• Ian Fleming named his character “James Bond” after real-life ornithologist and author.

• Most dinosaurs walked on their toes.

Facts

• On December 17 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80, the largest margin of victory in an NBA game.

• There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few meters.

• The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.

• The trunk of an elephant can hold up to two gallons of water.

• Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.

• During the holiday season, approximately $220 million worth of Poinsettias are sold.

• A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately 0.03 ounces and is small enough to fit in a teaspoon.

• When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

• The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually color-blind.

• The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

• Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system.

• “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

• There are more than 250,000 rivers in the United States, which amounts to 3.5 million miles of rivers.

• Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.

• Pretzel that have no salt on them are called “baldies.”

• The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold.

• Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world.

• There was a book written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic happened titled “Futility” by Morgan Robertson. This book was remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened to the Titanic in 1912.

• One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it.

• A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel.

Facts

• Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels.

• Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.

• Two out of five people end up marrying their first love.

• The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

• The name “Muppet” was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word “marionette” and “puppet.”

• In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.

• The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.

• Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.

• In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale.

• Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.

• When blue whales are first born, they gain as much as 200 pounds a day while they are calves.

• Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education.

• About 25 percent of all the energy consumed in the US is from natural gas.

Facts

• American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript.

• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

• Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic games while hosting the event.

• The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore.

• In America, approximately 20% of children between the ages of 2 - 7 have televisions in their rooms.

• Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.

• In 1996, toy company Mattel released a “Harley Davidson” Barbie. This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face that changes position with every new release of the doll.

• The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.

• There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia.

• On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

• Roughly 42% of people in the United Kingdom snore.

• No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

• Beluga whales which are also called “white whales” are not born white. They are born grey in color, and by the age of six become completely white.

• Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named “Sportsman of the Year” by magazine Sports Illustrated two times.

• The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.

• Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.

• There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow.

Facts

• Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.

• 570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House.

• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day..

• Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.

• The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year.

• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

• Pluto was discovered on February 10, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.

Facts

• Termites have been around for over 250 million years.

• The average person changes their career every 13 years.

• The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles.

• Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose.

• Over 4.5 billion sticks have Trident gum have been chewed. If the stick of gum were laid out end to end they could circle the globe approximately 1.8 times.

• Oak trees can live 200 or more years.

• The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.

• About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry.

• A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

• If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.

• Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers.

• During World War II, Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks. They trained the dogs to associate the tanks with food and ended up destroying about 25 German tanks using this method.

• Butterflies taste with their feet.

• St. Louis, Missouri was the first U.S. city to host the summer Olympics in 1904.

• The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

• Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale.

• A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

• It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni and about a gallon to clean the pot.

• The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.

• In the U.S. peanuts account for 66% of all snack nuts.

• There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.

• Sharks can sense a drop of blood from a mile away.

• As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp. Basically it plays dead.

• The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.

• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

• A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.

• The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years.

• Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.

• In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

• The phrase “Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride,” actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924.

• Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.

• The largest cultivated crop in the United States is corn.

• Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four.

• On average, Americans eat one hundred acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about three hundred fifty slices per second.

• As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.

• The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles.

• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

• Most toilets flush in E flat.

• Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green color.

• At one time the group “Grateful Dead” were called “The Warlocks.”

• Bats can detect food up to 18 feet away and what type of insect the food may be using their sense of echolocation.

• At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour.

• People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.

• In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.

• On average, an American home has 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials.

• On average, 35 meters of hair fiber is produced on the adult scalp.

• Dalmatian puppies do not have any spots on them when they are born. They actually develop them as they get older

• Male goats will pee on each other in order to attract mates.

• A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957.

• In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years.

• The study of twins is known as gemellology.

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

• During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents..

• When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly.

• Every 40,000 children are killed by fires.

• The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.

• In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.

• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

• The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse.

• When the are in danger, kangaroos will beat the ground loudly with their hind feet.

• To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed.

• In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom.

• Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.

• Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate.

• An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in their car in a lifetime.

• In gangster slang, a boxing match that is fixed is called a “barney.”

• A RABBIT loves licorice - but it is very bad for them because they cannot digest sugars.

• DALMATIONS are the only breed of dog that gets gout (because they are the only mammals, other than humans, which produce uric acid).

• SLUGS have four noses - well actually a pair of gills for breathing and a pair of rhinopores (chemosensory organs) used for smelling.

• HONEYBEES have hairs on their eyes to help them collect pollen.

• The left leg of a CHICKEN is tendered than the right one, which it uses most, therefore increasing muscle development.

• The sperm of a MOUSE is longer than the sperm of an elephant.

• MICE are highly promiscuous and need particularly large testes to keep up with demand.

• More human deaths have been attributed to FLEAS than all the wars ever fought.

• As carriers of the bubonic plague, fleas were responsible for killing one third of the population of Europe in the 14th century.

• A CAT uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

• GOLDFISH lose their color if kept in dim light. Much like humans getting a tan, they need sunlight to keep their pigment.

• ALBATROSSES have a wing span of up to 14ft and need to land only once every couple of years to breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of miles each flight.

• Certain Chinese and American ALLIGATORS can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.

• DOLPHINS sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.

• When two DOGS approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly - showing anger - is in charge.

• Some LIONS can mate more than 50 times a day.

• If you lift a KANGAROO’S tail off the ground it can’t hop - they use their tails for balance.

• For every person there are roughly 200 million INSECTS.

• A CROCODILE cannot stick its tongue out, because it is attached to the bottom of its mouth. This is why they appear to gulp their food down.

• ELEPHANTS are the only mammals that can’t jump.

• CAMELS have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

• Many HAMSTERS blink only one eye at a time.

• A FLAMINGO can eat only when its head is upside down. Its tongue pumps water through the sieve-like ridges that line its beak in order to trap microscopic algae.

• A DOLPHIN’S hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from 15 miles away.

• BUTTERFLIES taste with their hind feet.

• A SNAIL can sleep for three years if conditions are adverse (such as during a drought).

• BEES have five eyes - three small ones on top of their head and two larger ones in front.

• POLAR BEARS are the only mammal with hair on the soles of their feet. It helps them to get a good grip on icy surfaces, and also acts as a heat insulator.

• Most ELEPHANTS weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

• The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their head are the RABBIT and the PARROT.

• PENGUINS can jump as high as 6ft in the air.

• The last animal in the dictionary is the ZYZZYVA, a tropical weevil.

• ELEPHANTS have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

• The leg bones of a BAT are so thin that they cannot walk.

• GREAT WHITE SHARKS can go as long as three months without eating.

• GOAT’S eyes have rectangular pupils, which enable them to watch over their broad, flat grazing area for predators.

• KIWI BIRDS are blind and hunt by smell.

• GIRAFFES have no vocal cords and communicate by vibrating the air around their necks.

• A female OYSTER may produce 100 million young over her lifetime.

• MOSQUITOES are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

• No two ZEBRAS have the same markings.

• The longest recorded flight of a CHICKEN is 13 seconds.

• A BEE must visit 4,000 flowers to make one tablespoon of honey.

• By swallowing water, the PUFFER FISH becomes too big for other fish to swallow.

• A full-grown BEAR can run as fast as a horse.

• Female FLEAS drink 15 times their weight in blood every day.

• When a GIRAFFE’S baby is born, it falls from a height of 6ft, usually without being hurt.

• A DRAGONFLY can spot an insect moving 33ft away.

• CAMEL milk does not curdle, because it has adapted to the desert heat.

• POLAR BEARS can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.

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