Random Fun Facts

I read some random fun facts here and I copied some of them. Enjoy!

• 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep
• One out of 20 people have an extra rib
• Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents
• Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining
• The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning “to build.”
• Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
• In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today
• The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles
• Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison
• The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years
• The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia
• Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries
• A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs
• Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do
• There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake (can you just imagine how it tastes? I think it's.... Yuck!)
• Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas
• 2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States
• The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
• Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie
• Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
• Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
• There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400
• In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year
• Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels
• For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America
• Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales
• The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long
• The word “toy” comes from an old English word that means “tool”
• Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers
• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone
• The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing “melanin” which gives the hair colour
• Most lipstick contains fish scales
• The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the english language
• The expression cooked “al dente” means “to the tooth.” What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender
• Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
• Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen
• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine
• Throughout the South, peanuts were known as “Monkey Nuts,” and “Goober peas,” before the civil war
• Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell