Random Facts… For Your Amusement

As I was browsing through some fun, interesting and completely useless facts, it dawned on me that maybe I should share some of them with you fine people.  So, I did.  Here are fifty random useless but interesting facts from around the globe.  Enjoy.

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.

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.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S’s highways.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.

166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is “A meaningless existential hell.”

315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.

5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.

85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.

99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there.

A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

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.

A whale’s penis is called a dork.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

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.]

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

If you’ve enjoyed these, maybe – just maybe – I will post more from the plethora of useless knowledge banks that I scour on a regular basis.

Maybe.

- E

(fun facts provided today by tealdragon.net, image courtesy of funnyanimalpicturescat.com)