Fun Facts

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!

The oldest known vegetable is the pea.

During the American Civil War, 185,000 troops died in combat or of battle-related wounds, 373,000 died of disease.

As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.

Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.

The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'

In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

The U.S. ranks 29th in overall life expectancy, which is 78 years.

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

More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

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

The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Your odds of being killed in a tornado are 1 in 2 million.

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

Rats are incapable of puking.

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

The cost of prescription drugs in the US has increased on average by 8.3% annually since 1994. The average rate of inflation during this time period was only about 2.5%.

In 2006, the U.S. was the largest Internet market in the world with 182 million users. China was second with 134 million users.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

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

"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).

If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, holds the records for highest executive compensation in one year -- $706 million in 2001.

Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.

In Bhutan, government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.

"Tom Sawyer" was the first novel written on a typewriter.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally entitled Headcheese, but was changed at the last minute.

In 2005, the US government spent on average over $20,000 for each household.

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!

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

Men get hiccups more often than women.

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!

When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.

In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour. The order came after her husband killing.

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.