More Random Facts

December 21st, 2005

The popular frog known as Kermit is left handed.
Creamer, the non-dairy kind, is flammable.
It is estimated that 15% of people chew on their toenails.
Dreamt is the only English word ending in the letters mt.
You have to have your back to the sun in order to see a rainbow.
The first use of toilet paper was by the Chinese.
Christmas was not made an annual holiday until 1890.
Koala’s fingerprints are the most like humans than other animals.
The identity of Jack the Ripper is still unknown.
It is estimated that 100 million messages are sent to your brain every second.
318 miles is the speed of the fastest wind ever recorded.
The carrying of a comb in your pocket is illegal in the state of Alabama.
More males are killed by lightening than females.
The shortest sentence in the English language is “I am.”
A crocodile can not move its jaw from side to side.
An elephant can smell water from an amazing 3 miles away.
The leader in brains is the leech, with 32!
Every 45 seconds in the United States a home fire starts.
The leader in noses is the slug with 4.
Ironically the fear of long words is a phobia by the name of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Vincent Van Gogh sold only a single painting while he was alive.
The Mona Lisa is not signed or dated by Da Vinci.
Everyone knows that a lowercase I has a dot above it, but did you know it’s called a tittle?
The little circles of paper that are left after the use of a hole puncher are called chad.
The Webby Award is the award given to the best web sites.
Punctuation wasn’t used until the 15th century.
Barney, the famous purple dinosaur, comes from Dallas.
On the Hollywood walk of fame, 6 stars belong to fictional characters.
Michael Jackson was the first black artist to have a video appear on MTV.
Only 38% of people in the United States eat breakfast on a daily basis.
The olive tree has a life span of up to 1500 years.
About one trillion tons of water evaporates every day because of the sun.
The average yawn is six seconds long.
Betty Rubble wasn’t included as a Flintstones vitamin until 27 years after they started making them.
The flu vaccine works only 70% of the time.
Women are blessed with more taste buds than males.
The average home creates more waste products than the average car.
The ‘Times’ man of the year was none else than Adolf Hitler in 1938.

9 Responses to “More Random Facts”

  1. Aiden Bauman Says:

    did you know that

    every ten seconds someone in the U.S. dies of suicide.

    bet you didnt know that … i want to see this fact on here.. and i want my name by it too .

    Sincerely
    Aiden

  2. cklj babushka Says:

    & every ten seconds some one not only dies of suicide, but a new driver is on the street!

    i want to see this fact on here & with my name. thanks.
    -cklj

  3. Sara is a koolkat! Says:

    Cows can only walk up stairs not down.
    please put this random fact on there please w. my name

    ♥koolkat

  4. K00LK@T Says:

    And Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
    ♥koolkat

  5. K00LK@T Says:

    && Odontophobia is the fear of teeth

  6. K00LK@T Says:

    &&&
    7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

    &&&&
    The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
    plz put all of this on!

  7. Anonymous Says:

    the little things on adidas sandles are called massging nubs.
    yay

  8. amy Says:

    the average male has a sexual thought every three seconds and the average women has one every seven seconds.

  9. Anonymous Says:

    57% of aduld males pick their nose, only 46% of adult women do

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