101 Weird Facts That Make No Sense
1. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China.
2. People of ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a head ache.
3. You need 11.6 gallons of water to process one chicken.
4 .The average American eats 126 pounds of potatoes every year.
5. Lemons have more sugar than straw berries.
6. Only 55 percent of Americans know the sun is a star.
7. If you plant a Macintosh seed it will probably grow into a granny smith apple tree.
8. When you are born you are color blind.
9. During your lifetime, the average human will grow 591 miles of hair.
10. Bamboo can grow up to 130 feet tall.
11. 10 percent of electricity in the US comes from "dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones."
12. If you put a drop of alcohol on a scorpion then it will go crazy and sting itself to death.
13. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
14. A hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes, than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
15. A giraffe's tongue is 21 inches long.
16. Babies dream even before they are born.
17. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
18. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
19. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great;Hearts-Charlemagne and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
20. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
21. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
22. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
23. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
24. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
25. Statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
26. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than Left-handed people do.
27. The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
28. 7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.
29. More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
30. The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight, but takes up more than 20% of your blood flow.
31. The human brain holds between 1 and 7 terabytes (1 and 7 million megabytes) of data.
32. Deep breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
33. The rotation of the Earth will eventually slow down to match the moon.
34. President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!
35. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
36. Sound doesn't travel in space.The last name in the Toronto phone book is Zzyzzer.
37. Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
38. Assuming current population growths remain constant: by the year 3550 the total human population will have the same mass as the earth; assuming the average person is 60 kg.
39. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
40. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
41. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
42. A sneeze will travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
43. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
44. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
45. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
46. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
47. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
48. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
49. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
50. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
51. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
52. It takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. It only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack someone upside the head.
53. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
54. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
55. You will eat 4.4 tons of frozen food in your lifetime.
56. Mt. Everest grows 6.1 cm. in one year.
57. You will use 114 miles of toilet paper in your life.
58. The average person has 1.9 legs.
59. It takes about 2 hours to learn how to juggle.
60. You will laugh 1,344,290 times in your life.
61. You will own 3.5 washing machines in your life.
62. You will die on the same day as 159,635 people.
63. All of your shoes will cost on average $56,825.
64. You could build a small snowman out of all of your skin cells that you shed.
65. Your heart will beat more than 3 billion times in your life.
66. In your lifetime, you will have seven skeletons and 2,064 suits of skin.
67. You will eat about 8.3 tons of potatoes in your life.
68. You will be on vacation for 2,342 days of your life.
69. Your skin and gut contain 1 quadrillion bacteria combined.
70. On average, you will eat 2,222 chickens, one sheep, 6 ducks, 9 cows, and 63 turkeys in the span of your life.
71. About 27 species become extinct every day.
72. You will spend 3.5 years of your life with a cold.
73. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
74. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. 75. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.76. Like fingerprints, everyones toungue print is different.77. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.78. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.79. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 80. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
81. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
82. Some US airports use falconry (hunting of game with falcons) "to scare off birds that can be hazardous for airplanes."
83. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. This allows the company name to be displayed in the middle.
84. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
85. When you sneeze, your eyelids snap shut by reflex, but you can train yourself to keep your eyes open.85. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.86. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.87. "a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
88. A snail can sleep for three years.89. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
90. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
91. The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days.
92. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
93. There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
94. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
95. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
96. The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".
97. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
98. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
99. 82 percent of the United States lives in urban areas.
100. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.101. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.
2. People of ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a head ache.
3. You need 11.6 gallons of water to process one chicken.
4 .The average American eats 126 pounds of potatoes every year.
5. Lemons have more sugar than straw berries.
6. Only 55 percent of Americans know the sun is a star.
7. If you plant a Macintosh seed it will probably grow into a granny smith apple tree.
8. When you are born you are color blind.
9. During your lifetime, the average human will grow 591 miles of hair.
10. Bamboo can grow up to 130 feet tall.
11. 10 percent of electricity in the US comes from "dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones."
12. If you put a drop of alcohol on a scorpion then it will go crazy and sting itself to death.
13. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
14. A hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes, than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
15. A giraffe's tongue is 21 inches long.
16. Babies dream even before they are born.
17. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
18. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
19. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great;Hearts-Charlemagne and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
20. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
21. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
22. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
23. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
24. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
25. Statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
26. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than Left-handed people do.
27. The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
28. 7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.
29. More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
30. The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight, but takes up more than 20% of your blood flow.
31. The human brain holds between 1 and 7 terabytes (1 and 7 million megabytes) of data.
32. Deep breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
33. The rotation of the Earth will eventually slow down to match the moon.
34. President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!
35. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
36. Sound doesn't travel in space.The last name in the Toronto phone book is Zzyzzer.
37. Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
38. Assuming current population growths remain constant: by the year 3550 the total human population will have the same mass as the earth; assuming the average person is 60 kg.
39. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
40. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
41. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
42. A sneeze will travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
43. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
44. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
45. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
46. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
47. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
48. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
49. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
50. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
51. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
52. It takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. It only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack someone upside the head.
53. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
54. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
55. You will eat 4.4 tons of frozen food in your lifetime.
56. Mt. Everest grows 6.1 cm. in one year.
57. You will use 114 miles of toilet paper in your life.
58. The average person has 1.9 legs.
59. It takes about 2 hours to learn how to juggle.
60. You will laugh 1,344,290 times in your life.
61. You will own 3.5 washing machines in your life.
62. You will die on the same day as 159,635 people.
63. All of your shoes will cost on average $56,825.
64. You could build a small snowman out of all of your skin cells that you shed.
65. Your heart will beat more than 3 billion times in your life.
66. In your lifetime, you will have seven skeletons and 2,064 suits of skin.
67. You will eat about 8.3 tons of potatoes in your life.
68. You will be on vacation for 2,342 days of your life.
69. Your skin and gut contain 1 quadrillion bacteria combined.
70. On average, you will eat 2,222 chickens, one sheep, 6 ducks, 9 cows, and 63 turkeys in the span of your life.
71. About 27 species become extinct every day.
72. You will spend 3.5 years of your life with a cold.
73. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
74. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. 75. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.76. Like fingerprints, everyones toungue print is different.77. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.78. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.79. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 80. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
81. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
82. Some US airports use falconry (hunting of game with falcons) "to scare off birds that can be hazardous for airplanes."
83. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. This allows the company name to be displayed in the middle.
84. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
85. When you sneeze, your eyelids snap shut by reflex, but you can train yourself to keep your eyes open.85. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.86. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.87. "a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
88. A snail can sleep for three years.89. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
90. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
91. The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days.
92. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
93. There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
94. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
95. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
96. The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".
97. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
98. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
99. 82 percent of the United States lives in urban areas.
100. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.101. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.