Strange Information

Here is a list of information collected from around the web.

People

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
Here are some people with strange names. (some of these specific facts have not be verified)
Ure A. Pigg (Portland, Oregon)!
Ima Hogg (Houston, Texas)!
Ima June Bugg (Chicago, IL)!
Eura Fisch (Charlotte N.C)!
Ima Fisch (Charlotte N.C)!
menna pause (Indianapolis,indiana!
Serious Misconduct (Welwyn, England)!
General Error (Pueblo, Colorado)!
Dr. Safety First (Tulsa, Oklahoma)!
Pearl Harbor (Birmingham, Alabama)!
Honor Roll (Birmingham, Alabama)!
E. Pluribus Eubanks (San Francisco, CA)!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!

Computers or keyboard related

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!

English Language

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

Plants & Animals

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
Porcupines float in water!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
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!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

Science

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

Math

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

Work

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Other interesting information

First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!

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