Did you know?
- In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
- The average person laughs 13 times a day.
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words. And none of them with the letter E!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.
- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
- Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
- There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S.
- Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
- Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
- Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
- A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.
- The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
- There are approximately 50 Bibles sold each minute across the world
- Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
- Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
- No word in the English language rhymes with Orange.
- You share your birthday with about 9 million other people in the world.
- Prince William and Kate Middleton got married on the same day as Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.
- Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the worlds oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
- When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months.
- Elephants are the only mammals that cant jump.
- American car horns beep in the tone of F.
- The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- In Los Angeles, its illegal to bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
- A giraffes tongue is 18 to 20 inches in length.
- Children grow faster in the springtime.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called ‘aglets’.
- In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- In Eureka, Nevada, it is illegal for men who have mustaches to kiss women.
- Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Flussing daily will reduce your risk of getting a heart disease.
- Its illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis means lung disease.
- The first public television pictures were transmitted in 1926
- The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting for traffic lights.
- 111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321
- It is considered bad luck to bring bananas on a fishing boat. It supposedly scares away the fish.
- A canary bird that cant sing will never find a mate.
