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12-23-2010, 09:25 AM
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CLM
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Cool Fun Facts
So as the title says, in this thread I will be telling you a bunch of cool, random, weird, etc. facts! Enjoy and post a fun fact if you want me to add it. (If a mod has a fun fact just edit this and add it yourself's :carling
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1. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
2. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
3. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
4. It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
5. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can
6. In Venezuela, fuel costs around $0.02.
7. 43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot.
8. St. Augistine is the oldest city in the US.
9. The poison arrow frog has enough venom to kill about 2,200 people.
10. New Jersey was originally called Albania.
11. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
12. The average North American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.
13. Antarctica is visited by over a 10,000 tourists a year.
14. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
15. People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left)
16. Right handed people live, on average, nine year longer than left-handed people do.
17. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
18. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
19. 3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
20. Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise.
21. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.
22. A sperm whale produces 60 liters of sperm and has a 12 ft penis.
23. In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
24. If your dog lives to age 11, you'll have spent more than $13,000 on him/her.
25. The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
26. One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
27. During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.
28. A sysygy occurs when all the planets of our Solar System line up.
29. "Bimbo" is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola, Inc.
30. Your skin is actually an organ. It is also the largest organ on your body.
31. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
32. Families who turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier.
33. The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning.
34. When you sneeze all of your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
35. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
36. It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.
37. In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
38. A housefly lives only two weeks.
39. The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
40. Having sex can reduce a fever because of the sweat produced.
41. A day is longer than a year on Venus.
42. Homosexuality was listed as a mental illness with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) until 1973.
43. An elephant can die from a broken heart.
44. Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
45. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
46. The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
47. Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
48. More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
49. A pack a day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years.
50. The average person grows up to 6 feet of nose hair.
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51. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
52. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
53. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
54. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
55. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
56. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
57. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
58. Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
59. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
60. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.
61. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
62. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
63. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
64. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
65. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
66. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.
67. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
68. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog.
69. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
70. Babies are born without knee caps.
71. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
72. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
73. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
74. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dinamite.
75. No word in the english language rhymes with the words "Month, Orange, Silver, or Purple".
76. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
77. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
78. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
79. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
80. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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