Friday, February 4, 2011

Useless Facts You Really Didn’t Need To Know!


  • The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  • 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 (does this count wet ones?).
  • Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speeds will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
  • There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
  • The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
  • Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
  • A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.
  • The average person laughs 15 times a day.
  • 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.
  • The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.
  • The Earth experiences about 50,000 earthquakes every year.
  • The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.
  • About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas (interesting).
  • Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.
  • There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
  • Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
  • The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
  • Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.
  • More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
  • More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  • 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.
  • There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
  • In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
  • Your body burns more calories eating celery than what's in the celery itself.
  • Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
  • One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep.
  • Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. 
  • Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m. 
  • It's been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple. 
  • It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. 
  • It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound. 
  • Hamsters blink one eye at a time. 
  • If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks’ time. 
  • Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. 
  • It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal. 
  • When small amounts of liquor were placed on a scorpion, it would instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

1 comment:

  1. 15 times a day ? thats cool ! but what about grumpy ? this fact INSULTS him !!!
    this stuff is cool !!! :D

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