Heather's Senseless Facts

For people that know me well, you know that I am always full of fun, useless information. I am now sharing that information with you. This information was compiled from various sources, reading, playing games, talking with people while traveling, and watching the Discovery Channel.

Did you know that...

  • Pez was originally intended to be a breath mint for smokers
  • There are over 400 Pez heads
  • The first TV Guide was put out April 3, 1953
  • Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
  • A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
  • The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
  • In 1920 Dr Pepper was marketed as a health food
  • 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
  • A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened
  • 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute
  • Jerry Springer was once the mayor of Cincinnati
  • American car horns beep in the tone of F
  • Scientists have a word for stomach growls, borborygmi
  • The toothbrush was invented in 1498
  • The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines
  • Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
  • Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older
  • The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
  • Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
  • Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
  • A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why
  • The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
  • Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
  • Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser
  • Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
  • Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor
  • Walt Disney was afraid of mice
  • Pearls melt in vinegar
  • Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches
  • It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs
  • The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
  • Only 7% of the population are lefties
  • Almonds are the 7th largest food export of the United States
  • Lime Jell-O has the same consistency as the male brain
  • Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
  • Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem
  • In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk
  • The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor
  • Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery
  • Green coloring is added to Coca-Cola
  • Polar bears are left handed
  • A flea can jump 350 times its body length
  • Dublin, TX is the only plant that manufactures Dr Pepper with pure cane sugar
  • People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more
  • Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton
  • Apples are more efficient than caffeine at waking you up in the morning
  • It would take 30 hours to ride around the entire NY Subway system
  • Lions mate over 50 times a day
  • You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
  • Feb. 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
  • Humans and dolphins are the only species to have sex for pleasure
  • The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
  • If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  • The TV dinner was invented in 1954
  • You use more gas making a left turn that making a right turn
  • Texas is the 28th state in the Union
  • The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China
  • The human brain makes up 3% of your body weight
  • There are over 650,000 species of insects
  • A pig orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
  • The orbicularis muscle is responsible for closing the eyelids
  • Butterflies taste with their feet
  • The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
  • A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear
  • The life span of a taste bud is ten days
  • Alligators cannot move backwards
  • The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
  • Marilyn Monroe had six toes
  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist
  • Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • Callipygian means to have shapely buttocks
  • Your brain is 80% water
  • The equinox occurs twice a year, around March 21 and around September 21

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