Interesting Astonishing, Funky and Weird Facts
1. "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
2. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
3. 13,092 knives, forks and spoons are present in the White House.
4. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
5. 180 million nos. of Valentine's Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
6. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
7. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
8. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
9. 3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine's Day.
10. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
11. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
12. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
13. 4% people drink cold drink daily.
14. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
15. 40 percent of Mc Donald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
16. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
17. 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian and in whole India 36%.
18. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
19. 8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
20. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
21. 90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking.
22. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
23. A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
24. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
25. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
26. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
27. A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane).
28. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
29. A camel's hump is not used for water storage, but camels can go for long periods of time without water. They drink large amounts of water up to 20 gallons at a time. This water is stored in the animal's bloodstream.
30. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
31. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
32. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
33. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
34. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
35. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
36. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
37. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
38. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
39. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
40. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
41. A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.
42. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
43. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
44. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
45. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
46. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
47. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
48. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
49. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
50. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
51. A human eats 60,000 pounds of food during life which is equal to weight of 6 elephants.
52. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
53. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
54. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
55. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
56. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
57. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.
58. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
59. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
60. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
61. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years. Wow.
62. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
64. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
65. A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.
66. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
67. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
68. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
69. A sneeze travels out from human mouth at over 100 minute per hours
70. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
71. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians expired by the time they were 30.
72. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
73. About 40% proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for.
74. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
75. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.
76. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
77. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
78. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
79. African Greys enter into a lifelong monogamous bond when sexually mature. Like macaws, they pick their mates carefully.
80. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
81. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
82. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
83. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf
84. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
85. Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current and Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).
86. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
87. Alfred Southwick inventing the first electric chair and Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS).
88. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
89. Alginates, derived from the cell walls of brown algae, are used in beer, frozen desserts, pickles, adhesives, boiler compounds, ceramics, explosives, paper and toys.
90. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
91. All domestic canaries available today originated from the Island Canary, Serinus canaria.
92. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
93. All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
94. A whale's penis is called a dork.
95. Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.
96. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
97. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
98. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
99. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
100. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
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