Strange and unusual facts | ||||
What follows is a collection of strange and unusual facts. All are true, as far as I can verify. So, sit back and enjoy. The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. The shortest war in the history of the world was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood doners. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in airplane crashes. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. Women blink twice as often as men do. Right handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left handed people. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. The word 'facetious' uses all of the vowels in alphabetical order. A snail can sleep for three years. American Airlines saved $340,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. China has more English speakers than the United States. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Did you know that you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. Ore eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. In every single episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. If Barbie were life size her measurments would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. The glue on Israeli postage is kosher. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. If a statue of a person sitting on a horse has the horse with both front legs in the air, that person died in battle; if the horse has one leg in the air, that person died of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four feet one the ground, then that person died a normal death. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for every gallon of diesel it burns. The word 'Samba' means 'to rub navals together.' There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would have produced enough vocal energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for six years and nine months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. Banging your head agains the wall uses 150 calories an hour. The strongest muscle for its size in the body is the tongue. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. A crocodile cannot stick it's tongue out. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. Polar bears are left handed. The catfish has 27,000 taste buds. That makes the catfish #1 for an animal with the most tasts buds. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animal that can't jump. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Starfish don't have brains. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. |