26. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
27. Back in the mid to late ’80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless
it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
28. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
29. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
30. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
31. Jim Henson first coined the word “Muppet”. It is a combination of “marionette” and “puppet.”
32. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words
“North” and “South).
33. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company’s first ads in 1896.
34. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of
human activity.
35. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
36. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
37. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.
38. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
39. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
40. China has more English speakers than the United States.
41. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind
and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is
set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
42. One in every 9000 people is an albino.
43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
44. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
45. Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
46. Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
47. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
48. Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
49. In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
50. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches
tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
51. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
52. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
53. Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
54. About 55% of all movies are rated R.
55. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
56. Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
57. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it
illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
58. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
59. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built
in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
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