141 strange things… all true.
1) Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969
2) In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes
3) There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo
4) Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution
5) Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second
6) The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card
7) There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
8) There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants
9) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off
10) Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is 2,500
11) The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
12) Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating
13) Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
14) One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year
15) The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye
16) Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
17) The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
18) When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second
19) A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
20) A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile
21) The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day
22) A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface
23) A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
24) It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States
25) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times
26) Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill
27) Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada
28) The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows
29) Most lipstick contains fish scales
30) Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing
31) One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen
32) It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis
33) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
34) No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half
35) A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein
36) Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
37) There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
38) If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion
39) Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive
40) A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth
41) The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth
42) Clinophobia is the fear of beds
43) A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
44) Porcupines float in water
45) Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"
46) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet
47) The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches
48) The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins
49) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
50) The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds51)
51) There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S
52) Dogs and cats consume over 11 billion worth of pet food a year
53) Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
54) Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year
55) In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
56) Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
57) A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
58) The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia
59) There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world
60) Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum
61) An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards
62) A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day
63) Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace
64) One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water
65) More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby
66)In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds
67) Rice paper does not have any rice in it
68) Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
69) In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
70) Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
71) The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice
72) The average person laughs 13 times a day
73) Dogs can hear sounds that you cant
74) Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
75) The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used
76) There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year
77) The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
78) Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?
79) The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven
80) Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints
81) Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow
82) Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings
83) Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight
84) A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though
85) The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
86) The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people
87) A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
88) After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again
89) It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them
90) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E
91) Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions
92) A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
93) Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
94) The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth
95) During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants
96) Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
97) Dolphins sleep with one eye open
98) The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old
99) In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces
100) There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones
101) About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30
102) More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones
103) A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
104) Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe
105) In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons
106) Slugs have 4 noses
107) Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours
108) Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
109) Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
110) The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year
111) It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
112) There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses
113) Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes
114) The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out
115) Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy
116) A jellyfish is 95 percent water
117) In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals
118) The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs
119) A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate
120) More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
121) The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump
122) The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly
123) Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
124) One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet
125) America once issued a 5-cent bill
126) You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime Wow
127) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
128) There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month
129) Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool He changed it every 2 innings
130) Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung
131) A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years Wow
132)A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
133) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
134) 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S
135) 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S
136) 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways
137) 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S
138) 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year
139) Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
140) The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head
141) In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs
