Fun Facts

On this page we will tell you about weird and interesting facts that we didn't even know about.  We will add more every once in a while so you guys can learn new things.

Week of 7/28/10

 - Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside-down.  

-Life Savers™ candy was produced by a chocolate maker, to make up for the low chocolate sales in the summer.

- One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton

- A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.

- More people are alive today, than have ever died.  

-Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.

- The word ‘and’ appears 46,277 times in the bible.

- Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.

- There are at least two golf balls on the moon.

- A cockroach can live 9 days without its head.... eww

- An average persons hair grows a combined 55,000 inches a month.

- Only about one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

- An average person has a total of 6 lbs of skin. EW!

- You were born with 300 bones, but at adulthood you only have 206! what? how

- Bamboo can grow 3 feet in just 24 hours.

- Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

- Weight for weight, bone is five times stronger than steel. 

-The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus Wept." John 11:35. 

-The oldest vegetable is a pea.

- Chickens can't swallow while they're upside-down 

-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Copper is a brown-red color, correct? This is ---scientific evidence to back up blonde jokes!  

-A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.Week of 6/21/10

 -Womens' hearts beat faster than mens

-The average lifespan of a major league baseball: seven years.  

-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"uses every letter in
the alphabet.

- A ducks quack doesn't echo and nobody knows why. (hehe)

- Hershey Kisses are called kisses because the machine that makes them looks like
it is kissing the conveyer belt.

- The longest flight of a chicken is 13 seconds... (they probably just put the chicken on top of a huge fan blowing up)

 -The first toilet that was ever seen on TV was on "Leave It To Beaver."

- In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. (Hmm...)

- No word in the english language ryhmes with purple, silver month, or orange.

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

- When you sneeze, all your body functions stop, even your heart.

- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- Coca-Cola was originally green.

- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

- Its impossible to lick your elbow!

- (50-70% of the people who read the last one tried to lick their elbow)

- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches
2 to 6 years of age.

- Most lipstick contains fish scales! EWW!!

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

- Porcupines float in water!

- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

- A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

- A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.

- Laughter is a proven way to loose weight. (YESS!)

   Week of 5/14/10

-The average life span of a hermit crab is 75 years

-At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military

-The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV because one if its stars was a pig

-An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years

-A shrimp's heart is in its head

-Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints

-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky

-Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants

-A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle

-Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago

-The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South

-the average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school

-The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man

-The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1

-Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace

-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants

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

-Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda

-Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges

-Your skin is actually an organ

-So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball

-The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world

-In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer

Week of 5/07/10

-Babies start dreaming even before they're born---

-Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die

-The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly

-A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star

-In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world

-Goats do not have upper front teeth

-A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner

-The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born

-Justin Timberlake's half-eaten French toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay

-You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world

-More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world

-Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer

-Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day

-Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year

-Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards

-90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation

-There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds

-The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000

-In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people

-Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar

-Giraffes are unable to cough

-Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood

-There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous

-It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk

-You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark

Week of 4/30/10

 -Koalas are excellent swimmers

-The average NFL player's career lasts only 3 1/2 years

-Antarctica is a desert.

-There are more female than male millionaires in the United States

-No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man

-Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree

-A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted

-The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water

-If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom

-In high school, Robin Williams was voted 'Least Likely to Succeed

-There are only 14 blimps in the world

-One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold

-It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces

-If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one

-A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth

-The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language

-Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet

-An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds

-The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle

-Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies

-In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured

-9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive

-Europe is the only continent without a desert

-Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time

-Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows

-Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down

Week of 4/23/10

 -There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower

-It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body

-Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game

-Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself"

-The average person laughs 13 times a day

-German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog

-Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

-If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause

-Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'

-In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

-It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979

-6% of men propose over the telephone

-Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

-Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.

-There are 23 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon

-A bird 'chews' with its stomach.

-The typical shower is 101 degrees F.

Week of 4/16/10 

-The tip of a shoelace is called an aglet

-Most elephant weigh less than a tongue of a blue whale

-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do

-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue

-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

-Starfish don't have brains

-You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television

-It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs

-Turtles can breathe through their butts

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

-All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

-Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump

-A snail can sleep for three years

-No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH

-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

-'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match

-Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.lol

-Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

-Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

-Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left

-When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red

-It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it