At -40 degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
· One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
· In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
· There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
· If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
· Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.
· The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
· There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
· The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
· More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
· Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
· The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
· Donkeys kill more people annually than are killed in plane crashes.
· Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
· The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
· You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
· It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
· The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.
· A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.
· A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.
· Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.
· It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
· During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
· 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and dung.
· Less than 1% of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air; respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
· The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.
· The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
· About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.
· Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
· The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
· No president of the United States was an only child.
· The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
· The average person swallows 8 spiders a year.
· It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
· $26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.
· You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
· On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
· There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
· Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.
· Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.
· Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.
· Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.
· Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
· The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
· 13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.
· There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
· About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.
· The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.
· The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
· The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.
· Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.
· 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.
· Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.
· Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
· The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
· Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
· Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.
· Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.
· If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
· 1/3 of all cancers are sun related.
· The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.
· There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
· It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
· The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
· The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
· Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.
· A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
· The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
· There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
· In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.
· In 75% of Americans households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
· The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
· Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.
· The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet (54.60 m).
· Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
· Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
· More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.
· 1/4 of the bones in your body is in your feet.
· Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
· You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
· There are 1,525,000,000 miles (2,453,725,000 km) of telephone wire strung across America.
· Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.
· If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
· The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.
· The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
· The average person laughs 15 times a day.
· It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
· The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
· When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles (4827 km) per hour.
· In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
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