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Facts you probably didn’t know!

November 12, 2009 By Brad Leave a Comment

 

  • More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a phone call
  • Giraffes are the only animals born with horns
  • An 11-year old girl named the planet Pluto. (which now is not a planet)
  • Spit can freeze in midair in the North Pole
  • Astronauts’ footprints stay on the moon forever; there’s no wind to blow them away
  • Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different
  • You can buy potato-flavored ice cream in Idaho
  •  In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
  • 23% of copier faults worldwide are due to people sitting on them and photocopying their hind end.
  • Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
  • A group of porcupines is called a prickle
  • An oyster can take about 5 years to make a pearl
  • In the summer the amount of water pouring over Niagara fall each second could fill 13,000 bathtubs
  • There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth
  • A dairy cow produces about 100,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
  • A newborn whale can be longer than an adult elephant
  • Blonds have more hair on their heads than brunettes
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales
  • 35% of people using personal ads for dating are already married
  • About 75% of all animals are insects
  • Crocodiles can’t chew
  • Some people get Goosebumps on their face
  • No words in the dictionary rhyme with orange

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