Interesting Facts

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

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

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

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, purple, or orange.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements 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.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

China has more English speakers than the United States

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

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

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

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

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

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

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in planecrashes

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

The average human eats 8 mosquitoes in their lifetime at night

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied
against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their
bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.