100 Facts You Didn’t Know

1. More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

2. Hippo milk is pink.
3. Women have a better sense of smell than men.
4. Ice Cream is chinese food!
5. The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
6. President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!
7. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
8. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances
of winning.
9. The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
10. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
11. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
12. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you
are looking at someone you hate.
13. In Quitman, Georgia, US, it is illegal for a chicken to cross the road.
14. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to
death.
15. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the
energy of an atomic bomb.
16. You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
17. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
18. Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
19. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound
energy to heat one cup of coffee.
20. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
21. Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
22. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
23. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by
women.
24. The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
25. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
26. Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
27. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
28. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
29. Farts are flammable.
30. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
31. Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men.
32. Women mature much faster than men.
33. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
34. If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger
the flower, the more desperate!)
35. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and
photocopying their butts.
36. To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
37. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
38. The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in
which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
39. According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.
40. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
41. Blueberry juice boosts memory.
42. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
43. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
44. Elvis had a twin.
45. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
46. When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
47. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
48. In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute".
49. Sex burns about 360 calories per hour.
50. In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
51. Children's sense of smell is better than adults'.
52. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
53. When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.
54. None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)
55. Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for
a life long mate.
56. Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting!
57. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
58. The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
59. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them
off!
60. In 1977 a 13 year old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
61. Your fingernails grow faster in winter.
62. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because
of the rate of reproduction.
63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the
keyboard.
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ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae.
65. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
66. In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!
67. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
68. 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
69. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by
swearing on their testicles.
70. Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second.
71. A group of officers is called a mess.
72. In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing
6mph!
73. The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.
74. In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away
8 years later.
75. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
76. If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
77. It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
78. Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.
79. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
80. It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
81. In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may
only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any
manner desired.)
82. It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
83. In Kentucky, US, every citizen is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
84. There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
85. The word "fart" comes from the Old English "feortan" (meaning "to break wind").
86. You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
87. If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: "I End Lives."
88. If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
89. Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!
90. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide
Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
91. Larry Walters tied 45 balloons to his lawn chair and rose to 15,000 feet.
92. There are around 200 corpses on Mount Everest.
93. Coca Cola was originally green.
94. Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
95. If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white
96. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
97. The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
98. Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!
99. The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
100. It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.