115 Amazing Facts #OMGFacts

Here are a few amazing things that you might not (and probably did not) want to know:

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1. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
2. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
3. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
4. A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
5. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
6. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
7. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
8. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
9. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
10. Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump”.
11. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
12. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
13. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
14. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
15. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
16. If the population of China walked past you single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
17. A snail can sleep for three years.
18. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
19. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
20. The longest word in the English language in 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
21. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
22. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
23. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
24. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
25. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
26. The most common name in the world in Mohammed.
27. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
28. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
29. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
30. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
31. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
32. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
33. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
34. Americans eat an average of 18 acres of pizza every day.
35. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
36. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
37. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
38. Polar bears are left handed.
39. The catfish is the animal with the most taste buds – 27,000.
40. A cockroach will live 9 days without its head before it starves to death.
41. Butterflies taste with their feet.
42. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
43. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
44. Starfish don’t have brains.
45. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
46. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
47. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
48. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
49. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
51. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.
52. The flea can jump 350 times its body length…it’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
53. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
54. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off. (“Honey, I’m home. What the….”)
55. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
56. A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
57. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
58. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
59. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman logo somewhere.
60. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
61. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
62. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave it to Beaver”.
63. In the great fire of London in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
64. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan”.
65. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
66. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
67. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
68. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
69. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
70. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
71. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
72. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
73. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
74. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
75. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
76. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
77. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
78. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
79. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
80. Polar bears are left handed.
81. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
82. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
83. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.
84. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
85. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
86. Butterflies taste with their feet.
87. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
88. A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
89. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
90. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
91. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a bellybutton.
92. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
93. People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.
94. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!
95. Only 7% of the population are lefties.
96. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute…
97. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.
98. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
99. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
100. The average housefly lives for one month.
101. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
102. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
103. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
104. Eating breakfast cereals like “Fruity Pebbles” and “Cap’n Crunch” will cause your stools to come out green.
105. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
106. About 20% of all adults in the U.S. have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal HOME.
107. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
108. Among the music catalogs that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
109. If all the veins in your body were laid end-to-end, you’d be dead.
110. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
111. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
112. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
113. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.
114. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
115. If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola it would be green.

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