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There's quite a few, but some are very hard to believe:
There are the same amount of dimples in an average golf ball as there are ridges in a dime
Three times as many people in America put ketchup along side their French Fries as put it on top.
84 percent of American men eat an Oreo cookie intact; 41 percent of American women pull it apart and eat the creamy middle first.
68 percent of Americans prefer their toilet tissue to unwind over the spool, not under it.
80 percent of Americans eat their corn on the cob in circles rather than from side to side.
Women aged 21 to 34 are by far the group most likely to look behind the shower curtain when using someone else's bathroom.
If all the pickles eaten each year were placed end to end they would reach the moon and back 8.25 times!
Americans drink an average of 90 million cans of beer a day.
A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
About 7 percent of all working Americans have worked at McDonalds at least once in their lifetime.
When asked if they like the way they look when their naked, 68 percent of the men and 22 percent of the women answered yes.
When shampooing their hair, most people (84%) pour the shampoo into their hand first, not onto their head.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale
A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
Experiments conducted in Germany and at the University of Southampton in England show that even mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by noise. The sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world
According to many language experts, the most difficult kind of phrase to create is a palindrome, a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backward and forward. A few examples:
Red rum, sir, is murder.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.
He lived as a devil, eh?
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Lightning strikes the earth 100 times every second
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words
More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquitoes bite
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the houses.
It is impossible to sneeze and keep one's eyes open at the same time
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Yes, it's against the law to: Doze off under a hair dryer in Florida Slap an old friend on the back in Georgia, and Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.
There is more lemon in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
More people worry about cleaning the house before a party (56.2 percent) than about the food (42.9 percent).
Of all of the cola sold in the United States, 12 percent is consumed with or instead of breakfast.
Licking a regular-sized, multicolor stamp delivers 0.007 calories. A larger commemorative stamp has 0.014 calories.
In three years, Campbell Soup Co. makes more pasta stars than there are in the Milky Way
It takes 300 gallons of water to grow one pound of rice
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury
Smartest dogs: 1)border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever Dumbest: afghan
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80 . Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58 . Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
Polar bears are left-handed
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner
Your nose and ears never stop growing
Your Eyeballs are the same size when you are born, as when you die!
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined
Hot water is heavier than cold
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer".
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
Men get hiccups more often than woman.
Armadillos can be housetrained.
Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits
An average of 13 boxes of Jell-O are purchased every second in the united states.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of "Happy Meals".
There are the same amount of dimples in an average golf ball as there are ridges in a dime
Three times as many people in America put ketchup along side their French Fries as put it on top.
84 percent of American men eat an Oreo cookie intact; 41 percent of American women pull it apart and eat the creamy middle first.
68 percent of Americans prefer their toilet tissue to unwind over the spool, not under it.
80 percent of Americans eat their corn on the cob in circles rather than from side to side.
Women aged 21 to 34 are by far the group most likely to look behind the shower curtain when using someone else's bathroom.
If all the pickles eaten each year were placed end to end they would reach the moon and back 8.25 times!
Americans drink an average of 90 million cans of beer a day.
A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
About 7 percent of all working Americans have worked at McDonalds at least once in their lifetime.
When asked if they like the way they look when their naked, 68 percent of the men and 22 percent of the women answered yes.
When shampooing their hair, most people (84%) pour the shampoo into their hand first, not onto their head.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale
A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
Experiments conducted in Germany and at the University of Southampton in England show that even mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. It is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by noise. The sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world
According to many language experts, the most difficult kind of phrase to create is a palindrome, a sentence or group of sentences that reads the same backward and forward. A few examples:
Red rum, sir, is murder.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.
He lived as a devil, eh?
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Lightning strikes the earth 100 times every second
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words
More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquitoes bite
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.
A Virginia law requires all bathtubs to be kept out in the yards, not inside the houses.
It is impossible to sneeze and keep one's eyes open at the same time
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Yes, it's against the law to: Doze off under a hair dryer in Florida Slap an old friend on the back in Georgia, and Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.
There is more lemon in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
More people worry about cleaning the house before a party (56.2 percent) than about the food (42.9 percent).
Of all of the cola sold in the United States, 12 percent is consumed with or instead of breakfast.
Licking a regular-sized, multicolor stamp delivers 0.007 calories. A larger commemorative stamp has 0.014 calories.
In three years, Campbell Soup Co. makes more pasta stars than there are in the Milky Way
It takes 300 gallons of water to grow one pound of rice
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury
Smartest dogs: 1)border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever Dumbest: afghan
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better
Chances that an American lives within 50 mi of where he/she grew up: 1 in 2
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80 . Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58 . Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French-fried: 1/3
Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
Polar bears are left-handed
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner
Your nose and ears never stop growing
Your Eyeballs are the same size when you are born, as when you die!
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined
Hot water is heavier than cold
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
First novel ever written on a typewriter was "Tom Sawyer".
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
Men get hiccups more often than woman.
Armadillos can be housetrained.
Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits
An average of 13 boxes of Jell-O are purchased every second in the united states.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of "Happy Meals".
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