Interesting (But Useless) Statistics
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only 15 centimetres for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3350 hours removing 8.4 metres of stubble.
From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral 0 has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, McKinley 2 etc.). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this curse. If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the curse was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
No president of the United States was an only child.
In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
More monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 161 km an hour.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there has only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
There are one million ants for every person in the world.
Odds of being killed by falling out by bed - 1 in 2 million.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
The Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
13 people are killed each year by vending machines falling on them.
The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
Annual growth of www traffic is 314 000%.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
The average iceberg weighs 20 millions tons.
A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds.
Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but 10 ounces is water.
