CoolFacts--Household
- 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
- A 60-minute cassette contains 565 feet of tape.
- A coat hanger is forty-four inches long if straightened.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A good typist can strike twenty keys in a second.
A person uses more household energy shaving with a hand razor at a sink (because of the water power, the water pump and so on) than he would by using an electric razor.
- A quarter has 119 rigdes on its edge.
- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
- A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites.
- A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
- According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.
- According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- All hospitals in Singapore use Pampers diapers.
- Aluminum is strong enough to support 90,000 pounds per square inch.
- An average of 200 million credit cards are used every day in the United States.
- As of 1983, an average of three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United States.
- At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to 4 quintillion German marks.
- Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.
- Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
- Each of us generate 5 pounds of rubbish a day; most of it is paper.
- Hallmark makes cards for 105 different relationships.
- How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies.
- If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
- If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
- In 1977, Cairo only had 208,000 telephones and no telephone books.
- In 1990, there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S.
- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
- In historic Deerfield, Massachusetts a guide was showing us fireplaces and some old cooking items. One of the items was an iron standing grid that they would slide bread slices into and place in front of the fire. This grid could turn around and the story goes that the women would push it with their toe; originating the term toe stir which eventually became toaster.
- It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
- Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
- John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.
- Johnson & Johnson's "BAND-AID" brand adhesive bandages have been around for 75 years.
- Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished or corroded brass.
- Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
- More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
- Mosquito repellants do not repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they do not know you are there.
- Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
- On average, 100 people choke on ballpoint pens every year.
- On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Scotch tape has been used as an anti-corrosive shield on the Goodyear Blimp.
- Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
- Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
- The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
- The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.
- The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
- The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.
- The average women's handbag weighs 3 to 5 pounds.
- The concave dish shape that a liquid takes on inside a glass or tube is called a meniscus.
- The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key F.
- The face of a penny can hold thirty drops of water.
- The first U.S. coin to bear the words, United States of America was a penny made in 1727. It was also inscribed with the plain-spoken motto: Mind your own business.
- The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
- The number in the lower-right corner of the NEW $20, $50, and $100 bills changes color at different angles to prevent cons from copying them.
- The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $100 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The pound sign on a telephone is called a 'octothorp'.
- The quartz crystal in a wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
- The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
