Fun facts #2

1. You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
2. Honeybees never sleep
3. Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
4. Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald
5. 5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US
6. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
7. Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky
8. Chocolate contains an ingredient called “Theobromine” which can be toxic to dogs' central nervous system and cardiac muscles
9. San Jose was the original capital of California
10. Most lipstick have fish scales
11. In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
12. Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
13. Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
14. The oldest dog died at the age of 29
15. Tamiflu's main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
16. Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
17. The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
18. Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
19. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
20. Snakes with two heads fight each other for food
21. The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre. The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
22. Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
23. Both men and women can be turned on by the aromas of wine
24. The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
25. Earthworms have five hearts
26. The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
27. A Playboy magazine survey found more women talk dirty during sex than men
28. Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.
29. Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
30. Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
31. If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
32. If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
33. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
34. Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
35. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
36. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
37. As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
38. Two phone books with their pages interlaced require more than 8000 pounds of pressure to separte.
39. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
40. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
41. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
42. The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
43. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
44. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
45. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
46. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
47. Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
48. Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
49. As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
50. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
51. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
52. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
53. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
54. Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
55. For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
56. Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children
57. Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
58. The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.
59. Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips
60. Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
61. The egg came first.
62. Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.
63. Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
64. In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
65. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
66. Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.
67. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
68. Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
69. The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
70. The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
71. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
72. A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
73. The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
74. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
75. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
76. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
77. The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
78. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
79. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
80. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
81. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
82. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (Makes you think about ambidextrous people) This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
83. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
84. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
85. The US national anthem actually has four verses, but everyone just knows the first one. When the whole anthem is sung, the third verse is usually omitted.
86. During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
87. During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
88. The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946 (Thanks D.B. of AU)
89. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
90. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
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92. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
93. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
94. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
95. Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
96. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
97. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to plants.
98. In some Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (Filipinos and people from near by Asian countries have their individual names first and surnames last)
99. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
100. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
101. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
102. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
103. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"