Fun Facts

Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).

The Hawaiian alphabet consists of only 13 letters.

The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.

40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of blood pumped per heartbeat.

More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.

The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!

Wal-Mart Stores bought $18 billion of goods from China in 2004 making it China's eighth-largest trading partner (ahead of Australia, Canada and Russia).

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.

Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

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

The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula".

Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.

The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.

There is a law on the books of Detroit, Michigan that states that "Alligators may not be tied to fire hydrants."

The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

The United States spends more money on its military than the next 13 countries on the list combined!

Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'

Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States: Long Beach, WA.

Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.

The egg came first.

A pipe organ was the loudest sound that could be made in the year 1600.

Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion.

In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.

If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.

The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.

The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.

The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.

Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Swallowed gum is not digested by the gastrointestinal system, it usually passes through within 24 hours.

52% of Americans drink coffee.