The Rest of the Facts

1.) The state of Florida is bigger than England.

2.) 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets a year.

3.) A man once rode a bike down the Eiffel Tower's 1665 steps.

4.) The planet Venus spins backwards.

5.) A googol is 1 followed by a hundred 0's.

6.) A googelplex is 1 followed by a googol 0's.

7.) The average American eats 98 bananas a year.

8.)Your eyes produce a teaspoon of tears every hour.

9.) The Himilayan mountains grow 1/2 inch taller a year.

10.) 700000000 marshmallow peeps and bunnies are eaten every Easter.

11.) 3 U.S states have towns named Shamrock: West Virginia, Texas, and Oklahoma

12.) A comet is a gigantic ball of ice and dirt.

13.) 60000 miles of blood vessels run through your body.

14.) Months that begins with Sunday always have a Friday the 13th.

15.) Every continent has a city called Rome (except Antarctica).

16.) A spacesuit costs about 10000000 dollars to make.

17.) 900000000 Valentine's Day cards are exchanged every year in the U.S.

18.) A lightbulb in Texas has been burning continuously for 96 years.

19.) Astronauts grow up to 3 inches taller in outer space.

20.) About 1/4 of the United States was covered in ice 18000 years ago.

21.) About 75 percent of all volcanoes are underwater.

22.) Jupiter weighs twice as much as all the other planets in the solar system combined.

23.) More than 64000 people in the U.S. are 100 years old or older.

24.) Kids laugh up to 200 times a day, adults only laugh up to 15 times a day.

25.) Traffic lights were invented before cars.

26.) Kids in the U.S. use about 730 crayons by their 10th birthday.

27.) It would take about 788832000 two-inch sticky notes to encircle the globe at the equator.

28.) Most Americans eat about 1500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before graduating from high school.

29.) A lock of Elvis Presley's hair sold for 115120 dollars.

30.) Bill Gates recieves 4000000 e-mails a day.

31.) 97% of the Earth's water is salt water.

32.) You lose 9 pounds of skin cells a year.

33.) Popsicles were invented by an 11 year old.

34.) The average human brain weighs 3 pounds.

35.) Shakespeare spelled his name several different ways.

36.) There are more than 1000 chemicals in coffee. Only 26 of those are tested, and more than 500 of them are known to cause cancer in rats.

37.) The U.S. government doesn't allow portraits of people who are living to appear on stamps.

38.) The U.S. government doesn't allow a manmade chemical be named after someone living.

39.) On average, men can reader smaller words than women can, and women can hear better than men.

40.) 15 people have been crushed by tilting soda machines in hopes of a free soda.

41.) The average person laughs 13 times a day.

42.) Fortune cookies were invented in the U.S. in 1918 by Charles Jung.

43.) In most advertisements, including those in newspapers, the time shown in a watch or clock is 10:10.

44.) There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

45.) At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.

46.) Santa Claus couldn't possibly be real without elf magic. Read the whole story here

47.) Over 50% of scientists worldwide are assigned to military projects.

48.) Almost all varieties of cereals are made from grass.

49.) Each day, more than 40 trillion dollars changes hands worldwide.

50.) Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

51.) When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.

52.) Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital.

53.) During his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.

54.) If Walmart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.

55.) The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

56.) The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

57.) Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.

58.) In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!

59.) Tomatoes were once thought to be poisonous.

60.) Each year, more than 50000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.

61.) Vitamins are identified by letters to make it easier for people to discuss them.

62.) Schools in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Hawaii don't allow soda to be sold in the cafeteria or vending machines -- only water, milk, and juice.

63.) After a fitness magazine named Philadelphia the fattest city in America in 2000, residents improved their diets and lost more than 135000 pounds.

64.) The only B vitamins are B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, and B12. Vitamins B4, B7, B8, B9, B10, and B11 no longer exist because they weren't true vitamins.

65.) The pretzel's shape mimics how Christians in the Middle Ages crossed their hands over their chests to pray.

66.) At European weddings in the 1600s, the bride and groom would make a wish and pull on a soft pretzel like a wishbone.

67.) A pretzel without salt is called a baldie.

68.) Strawberries are a member of the rose family.

69.) The average strawberry has about 200 seeds in its skin.

70.) Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds outside of their skin instead of inside.

71.) The average American eats about five pounds of strawberries a year.

72.) In Japan, you can get strawberries as a topping on your pizza.

73.) Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

74.) Light from the sun takes eight minutes to reach Earth.

75.) It would take 1.3 million Earths to fill the sun.

76.) One recycled soda can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.

77.) 4855 recycled boxes makes the world's largest cardboard structure, a sports car as tall as a two story building!

78.) 150000 sneaker soles were recycled to make a quarter mile running track.

79.) Two feet of ribbon is how much every U.S. family would have to recycle to tie a bow around the Earth.

80.) 48 microwave meals can be cooked with the electricity generated by recycling two gallons of motor oil.

81.) Only 12 people have walked on the Moon.

82.) The lowest sound ever recorded came from a "singing" black hole.

83.) The average temperature on Venus is about 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

84.) More than 100 known planets exist outside our solar system.

85.) If you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you'd weigh 6 pounds on Pluto.

86.) The sun produces as much energy as 100 billion tons of dynamite exploding again and again.

87.) Saturn is the only known planet that could float on water.

88.) One of Uranus's moons has a 12 mile high cliff.

89.) The longest spacewalk ever lasted just under 9 hours.

90.) Mars is home to the largest volcano in our solar system -- it's three times taller than most volcanoes on Earth.

91.) Humans can recognize 10000 different smells.

92.) Four asteroids are named after the Beatles.

93.) Kids blink about five million times a year.

94.) One teaspoon of seawater contains five million living organisms.

95.) 20% of the food we eat is used to fuel the brain.

96.) A slinky once rode the space shuttle into outer space.

97.) More people celebrate birthdays in August than in any other month.

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