[quote]Here's some random facts for ya'll![/quote] 1. Nearly 90% of American teens used the Internet in 2005. 2. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. 3. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. 4. 35% percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. 5. 90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants. 6. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk. 7. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 8. The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. 9. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally entitled Headcheese, but was changed at the last minute. 11. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched". 12. Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping. 13. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. 14. Butterflies taste with their feet. 15. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. 16. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. "I am." is another short one. 17. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. 18. In 2005, the country of Singapore had the lowest infant mortality rate in the World with slightly more than 2 deaths per 1,000 births. 19. If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high. 20. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. 21. It is impossible for the average person to lick his elbow. (The far-end of the joint where the two main bones in your arm meet.) 22. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. 23. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 24. There are over domestic 58 million dogs in the US. 25. Walt Disney was afraid of mice. 26. There are more germs in the human mouth than in the -blam!-. 27. The US has about 9 billion chickens. China has more than 13 billion. 28. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 29. About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas. 30. Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy". 31. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day. 32. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public. 33. In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. 34. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. 35. All polar bears are left handed. 36. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton. 37. 28% percent of people who have read #21 would have tried to lick their elbow by now. 38. Licking a stamp leads to the consumption of 1/10 of a calorie. 39. The word "democracy" is banned in online chat rooms in China. 40. Swallowed gum is not digested by the gastrointestinal system, it usually passes through within 24 hours. 41. In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds. 42. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been struck by lighting. 43. By now, there is probably no replies made on this thread. 44. There are no poisonous snakes in Maine. 45. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. 46. The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal. 47. By now, 4/10 who were the first to read #43 have made a reply. 48. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. 49. Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator 'I'll be back' was originally scripted as 'I'll come back'. 50. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain. 51. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. 52. North Dakota is the only state in the US that has never had an earthquake. 53. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. 54. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. 55. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. 56. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. 57. The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world. 58. The average person laughs 15 times a day. 59. The average person would have laughed 6 times before they read this far. 60. Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching. 61. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. 62. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. 63. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. 64. The US has used military force a number of times, but has only actually declared war 5 times (the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II). 65. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate. 66. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. 67. As of July 2005, China was the largest country in the World with a population of over 1.3 billion people (over 20% of the World's population). 68. The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women. 69. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. 70. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water. 71. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. 72. No president of the United States was an only child. 73. Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion. 74. "Tom Sawyer" was the first novel written on a typewriter. 75. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 76. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. 77. By now, 70% of the people who read #37 would have tried to lick their elbow. 78. Starfish don't have brains. 79. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. 80. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. 81. Pearls melt in vinegar. 82. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5. 83. The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515. 84. In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping. 85. In 2005, Canada was the single-largest trading partner with the United States. China was second and Mexico was third. 86. The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year. 87. The most popular car color between 2000 and 2005 was silver. 88. 40% to 50% of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network. 89. The Hawaiian alphabet consists of only 12 letters. 90. The unemployment rate of Liberia was estimated at 85% in 2003. 91. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles. 92. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 93. Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air. 94. Mosquito's are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color. 95. In 1976, the 10 billionth gallon of "Coca-Cola" syrup was produced. 96. The human brain is 80% water. 97. Hummingbirds can't walk. 98. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest. 99. Rice paper does not have any rice in it. 100. On average people fear spiders more than death. 101. Every person who has read through this entire list has already known one of these facts. [Edited on 05.16.2009 9:28 PM PDT]