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1,000 Random Facts
I'll start: 1. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
2. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
3. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
4. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
5. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
6. Texan astronauts can vote from space.
7. Happy Birthday is still under copyright.
8. Carrageenan, the ingredient that makes peanut butter so spreadable, comes from seaweed.
9. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
11. The Hawaiian alphabet consists of only 12 letters.
12. Pineapples belong to the berry family.
13. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
14. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
15. Most soccer players run an average of seven miles each game.
16. Fredric Baur designed the Pringles can ... and his ashes were stored in one.
17. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
18. The letter S takes up the most pages in almost every English dictionary.
19. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
20. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
21. The Statue of Liberty's nose measures five feet.
22. There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
23. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your pocket.
24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
25. Mata Hari donated her body to science but somehow, her head disappeared.
26. The music for the Star Spangled Banner was originally used for a drinking song.
27. The Etch-A-Sketch is the state toy of Kansas.
27. Female cats tend to be right pawed, while male cats are more often left pawed. Interestingly, while 90% of humans are right handed, the remaining 10% of lefties also tend to be male.l
29. Humans lose half their taste buds by age 60.
30. Rats cannot vomit.
31. There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
32. There used to be Olympic long jump and high jump events ... for horses.
33. Calico cats are always female. There are rare cases of male Calico cats, but that is mostly because of a genetic defect.
34. Normal hamsters (golden/syrian hamsters) need to be alone or else they will fight and eventually probably kill each other.
34. They have square watermelons in Japan ... because they stack better.
33. One out of every eight letters you read is the letter ‘e’.
36. Celery takes more calories to eat than it actually contains.
37. There is a room in the US (at a laboratory) that is 99.9% sound absorbent. The longest anybody ever stayed in there was 45 minutes.
34. In America, we buy 57 books per second. It would take a shelf 78 miles long to hold all of one day’s books.
39. A talking Barbie once complained, "Math is hard."
40. An ear of corn always has an even number of rows.
Sorry , I messed up! The next fact will be number 42.
42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
43. Finnish driver Jussi Salonoja was fined a world-record $217,000 for speeding.
44. Venus spins in the opposite direction of all the other planets.
45. A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
46. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
47. Twinkies only have a shelf life of about 25 days.
48. A group of (common) ravens was often called Unkindness or conspiracy.
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