Random Facts

[Tinkerbell94]

I was bored sooooo I thought I'd name some funny and or interseting facts...U can totally ignore this if you want but I thought it was cool

~5% of Americans never get married
~If a girl owns one Barbie, she most likely owns seven
~35% of people watching tv, yell at it
~The Average American uses 730 crayons by the age of 10
~3% of all photos takin in the U.S are taken at Disney Land or Disney World
~The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it
~Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
~The worlds oldest peice of gum is 9,000 years old.
~Charlie Brown's father was a barber
~The youngest pope was 11 years old
~40& of women have thrown footwear at men
~If you want to sell your home faster and for more money, paint it yellow
~Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
~When Hippos are upset, their sweat turns red
~A dime has 118 ridges
~The average person laughs 15 times a day
~Porcupines float in water


Just thought they were interesting. If you have any u want to share go ahead!

 

[saratogadreamin09]

I was bored sooooo I thought I'd name some funny and or interseting facts...U can totally ignore this if you want but I thought it was cool

~5% of Americans never get married
~If a girl owns one Barbie, she most likely owns seven
~35% of people watching tv, yell at it
~The Average American uses 730 crayons by the age of 10
~3% of all photos takin in the U.S are taken at Disney Land or Disney World
~The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it
~Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
~The worlds oldest peice of gum is 9,000 years old.
~Charlie Brown's father was a barber
~The youngest pope was 11 years old
~40& of women have thrown footwear at men
~If you want to sell your home faster and for more money, paint it yellow
~Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
~When Hippos are upset, their sweat turns red
~A dime has 118 ridges
~The average person laughs 15 times a day
~Porcupines float in water


Just thought they were interesting. If you have any u want to share go ahead!

Cool, I;ve heard the insect legs in chocolate bars before.

Dont know if it counts but

89% of americans marry someone they meet in college

 

[Tinkerbell94]

haha my parents did

I like the Disney pictures one

 

[saratogadreamin09]

I actually love random facts, I remeber at times when I was rly bored I used to google fun facts about nothing. Theres some really intresting things I found, wish I could remember them

 

[Savi]

Hey that's pretty cool =]

 

[marypops!]

The highest mountain (from sea level to tip) is Mount Everest.

The tallest mountain (from base to tip) is Mauna Kea.

Legally, King Henry 8th only had 2 wives, since he annuled 4 of his marriages.

The driest place in the world is Antartica, in a part known as the Dry Valleys. It is free of snow, ice and has had no rain for more then 2 million years.

There are 613 commandments in the Bible.

 

[PAdisney1995]

1. Most dreams last only 5-20 minutes
2. Cats sleep 16-18 hours per day
3. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

 

[bananda]

• the poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• from the age of 30, humans gadually begin to shrink.
• more than 50% of people in the world have never made or recieved a telephone call.
• human thigh bones are as strong as concrete.
• the first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the ancient egyptians in 2000 BC.
• only female ducks can quack.
• babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 bones in our bodies.
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a charlie chaplin look a like contest.

 

[imagineer4life]

if they took an inch of water off the top of living seas aqarium it would be enough water to fill the average home swimming pool.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

the tounge is the strongest muscle in the body. lol

 

[DramaGirl]

The word "democracy" is banned in Chinese chatrooms.

 

[JarethDrakul]

-At the age of 18 an average American child has witnessed over 16,000 acts of simulated murders on TV.
-When certain cats mark their territory the odor can resemble movie theatre buttered popcorn....nice >.> haha
-The USPS send letters addressed to Santa Clause to Santa Clause, Indiana.
-Alfred Hitchcock's belly button was surgically removed - random haha
(this one is my fav):
-The most popular book after the bible is the IKEA catalog and its quickly increasing faster than the bible is....so the IKEA catalog could very well be the most popular book ever one day haha
-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
-That poem about Doctor Foster who went to Gloucester (no idea of the name) is based on a king who came to Gloucester and fell off his horse and refused to ever come here again haha
-The Building which inspired the Tailor of Gloucester by Beautrix Potter is now a musuem and shop, it was shut down for about a year but from donations it was able to open again.
-Warner Music Group will charge up to US$10,000 for the use of the song "Happy Birthday", suppoably they'd make people pay if someone isn't a friend or family sings it at a party as they own the rights to the song.

 

[Axel]

You have two bones in your body that aren't connected to any other bone.

These are the hyoid (that's the lump in your throat, boys: your Adam's apple) and your patella (your kneecap).

The tongue is the only muscle in your body not connected at both ends.

Nitrogen makes up roughly 78% of the air we breathe.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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.

The average CEO's salary in the US is 475 times greater than the average worker's salary. In Japan, it is 11 times greater; in France, 15 times; in Canada, 20; in South Africa, 21, and in Britain, 22.

In 1958, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for only 5 computers.

The United States consumes more oil than any other country in the World. In 2001, the US consumed as much as the entire European Union and Japan.

Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion.

The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

The world's longest Coca-Cola truck is in Sweden. It is 79 feet long with a four-axle trailer

In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

 

[marypops!]

Actually, paper can be folded more then that, although the piece of paper would have to be huge. On Mythbusters, they managed to fold paper 11 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

Actually, paper can be folded more then that, although the piece of paper would have to be huge. On Mythbusters, they managed to fold paper 11 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE

haha i saw that

 

[Axel]

Actually, paper can be folded more then that, although the piece of paper would have to be huge. On Mythbusters, they managed to fold paper 11 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE

Yeah...really gigantic. I think they're talking about an average piece of paper by hand with the 7 thing.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

chicken pox suck. fact.

 

[pixiestick]

if you yelled for 8 years,7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it.Only 706 survived.

Every year more people are killed by donkeys than in aircraft crashes.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpint pens every year.

Donald Duck comics were bannded from Finland becuse he doesn't wear pants.lol

 

[reminisce]

About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged

Buttermilk does not contain any butter

By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year

In 1998, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes

On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton

Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays

Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet

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.

-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit

10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.

2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month

20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts

35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married

4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day

68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air

7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.

'80% of 10 year old girls in the U.S. go on a diet.

85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women

90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

99% of people cannot lick their elbow

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine