Random Facts

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Cotton Candy was originally called "Fairy Floss"

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.

The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet (2 m) 2 inches (5 cm) tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.

Elizabeth 1st suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.

Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.

Elvis' hair color was originally blonde. He dyed it black because he was a big fan of Roy Orbison.

Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

The housefly hums, middle octave, key of F.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Starfish don't have brains. PATRICK! Lol!

Slugs have 4 noses.

Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.

Flies jump backwards when they take off.

A male rabbit is called a "buck" and a female rabbit is called a "doe."

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

The cockroach's favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.

Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music.

Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive

Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

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

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule. That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds.

The largest insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with wingspans of over 3 feet (1 m).

The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.

The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.

ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command."

Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

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

A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.

The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

No president of the United States was an only child.

The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.

$26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.

You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.

Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.

Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.

Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.

Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.

Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.

Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.

Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.

Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.

13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.

The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.