Random Facts of the Day
I pick these up at random places, plus i gots this nifty shiftyo book. I'll try and keep these up to date as much as possible.
March 30
Quartzy is the highest scoring word in Scrabble
March 28
Q is the only letter that isn't in the name of a state
March 27
The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end
March 26
22 percent of American teenagers can't name the country that the US declared independence from.
March 25
40 percent of car theft victims left their keys in the ignition
March 24
In Michigan, it is legal to kill a dog for attacking chickens, livestock or people, but you can't snuff the pooch in a high altitude decompression chamber or by electrocution.
March 23
Using profanity is against the law on playgrounds and in public parks in Columbia, Maryland
March 21
In Billings, Montana, it is illegal for anyone to sell, harbor or give away rats as pets or toys for any purpose other than to feed snakes or birds of prey. Scientists, however, can keep lab rats.
March 20
The Philippines is considered to be the largest producer of coconuts in the world
March 19
There are 6,374.6 miles worth of streets in New York
March 18
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun
March 17
World's largest manufacturer of clothing: Mattel. Barbie clothes, that is
March 16
Clothing is the third most popular item bought at yard sales
March 13
In the time it takes to turn a page in a book, you will have lost 3 million blood cells and made 3 million more
March 12
If Antarctica were to melt, the sea would raise 200 feet
March 11
Top speed of an Abalone on the move: 5 yards per minute
March 10
After a tornado killed migrating ducks at a migratory bird refuge, it rained dead ducks 40 miles away.
March 9
6 weeks after an aluminum can is recycled, it's back on the shelf in the form of a new can
March 7
Animal in your house closet to the average-size animal in the entire animal kingdom: Ye ol' housefly
March 6
Most common first name in the world: Muhammed.
March 5
28 percent of Southerners refer to their mother as "Mama" 9 percent of Non-southerners do.
March 4
Over 300 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold since its inception in 1950, which is enough putty to form a ball the size of a Goodyear Blimp
March 3
A British newspaper once reported that 60,000 people are injured every year from opening canned goods
March 2
Hawaii is the only state to never record a temperature lower than 0 degrees Fareinheit
February 28
Four out of every ten people are satisfied with their work/job.
February 27
It takes 2 and a half gallons of oil to make a car tire
February 26
Hostess Twinkies are 68 percent air
February 25
Mount Irazu in Costa Rica is the only place in the Americas where you can see both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
February 24
"J", The youngest letter in the English Alphabet,wasn't introduced until the 1600s
February 23
Herbicide has created 48 "Superweeds" that are impervious to chemicals.
February 21
It's healthy to consume 1/3 of an ounce of salt a day, but eat more than 4 ounces at once and you'll die.
February 20
It's National Canary Appreciation Day!!
February 19
Crocodile Tear Syndrom- A tear duct dysfunctionality that makes people cry when they eat.
February 18
The Iridium Proejct was designed to put 77 satellites into space to make global communication easier and faster. They got to about 23 and then ran out of money.
February 17
One of Elvis Presley's favorite meals was a pound of bacon. And nothing else.
February 14
Americans send approximately 900 million valentin
February 13
Today is National Pseudonym day.
February 12
It has been said that stuffing a cat's tail up your nose will cure a nosebleed. (superstious, anyone?)
February 11
The 10 Gallon hat can only hold 3 quarts of water
February 10
In the Middle Ages, Europeans "cured" muscle pains by drinking powdered gold
February 9
43 percent of the cost of a 12 ounce bottle of beer goes to federal and state tax
February 7
Australians used to name hurricanes after unpopular politicians
February 6
New Jersey has the most hazardous waste sites, with well over 1,000
February 5
It is estimated that you will spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects
February 4
Sitcom characters rarely say goodbye when they hang up the phone
February 3
The golf club Alan Shepard used on the moon was a six iron
February 2
According to a survey, 2.1 percent of nose pickers do so "for enjoyment"
January 31
The Humuhumunukunukuapua`a is Hawaii's state fish.
January 30
The German word for "Speed limit" is Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung
January 29
One percent of US employers allow employees to nap during work hours
January 28
According to Middle Eastern tradition, the original forbidden fruit was a banana
January 27
Today is National Punch a Clock Day
January 26
If a grasshopper gets hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house
January 24
Only 17 percent of Americans can name Andrew Jackson as the guy on the 20 dollar bill
January 23
It takes 80 feet of wire to make a slinky
January 22
Your brain only covers 2 percent of your total body weight, but uses 20 percent of your energy
January 21
The average office chair with wheels will travel a distance of 8 miles a year
January 20
One teaspoon of liquid nicotine, which is equal to a half ounce of straight caffeine, is considered a lethal dose for a 150 pound man
January 19
About one third of the peanuts grown in the US are put into peanut butter
January 17
The bones of a pidgeon weigh less than it's feathers
January 16
There is a 100 percent injury rate among pro football players
January 15
Princess Diana has the most appearances on the cover of People magazine; a total of 54 times.
January 14
Canada was the second country to legalize marijuana for medical use. Belgium was first
January 13
The Incas measured time by the time it takes to cook a potato
January 12
Africa's largest private sector employer is Coca-Cola
January 10
What's a hooker? An Irish fishing boat with a single mast.
January 9
Official DC Statistics state that Batman is 6 feet 2 inches and weighs 220 pounds
January 8
In Brooklyn, New York, its illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub.
January 7
How do airports scare birds off their runways? One British airline plays Tina Turner albums.
January 6
Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in America.
January 5
There are 24 flowers on every Oreo cookie. Because i got the feeling, here's another fact! :D
68 percent of gossip columnists say that the best place to interview a celebrity is in their kitchen.
13 percent say the bathroom.
4 percent say the yard.
January 3
The names of all the continents end with the same letter with which they start.
January 2
The smallest town in the United States is Hove Mobile Park City, North Dakota. Population: 2
January 1
Approximately 36 percent of people who make a New Year's resolution to diet and exercise break it by January 31.
December 31
The odds that a thunderstorm will occur in Daytona, Florida in the next four days is 100 percent
December 30
The massive light orb that drops in New York every year is called the "Star of Hope"
December 29
It was a common practice in Ancient Rome to build statues with interchangeable heads.
December 27
Every four seconds, someone in the world opens a can of Spam
December 26
Given that rudolph is always in front, there are 40320 ways to arrange the other 8 reindeer
December 25
The average shopping mall Santa weighs 218 pounds and has a 43 inch waist
December 24
There's a 40 percent chance that a battery was bought during Christmas season
December 23
The Netherlands used to be known as the "United States"
December 22
25 percent of men wait until "a few weeks" before Christmas to do thei present shopping. 15 percent of women begin in July
December 20
There are 364 gifts in the 12 days of Christmas
December 19
To cook one billion pounds of pasta, you'd need 2 billion gallons of water. Enough water to fill almost 75,000 Olympic sized swimming pools
December 18
Kayaking is a required course in Greenland curriculum
December 17
Nearly one fourth of all the freshwater in the world is found in Canada
December 16
It takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep
December 15
Only about 33 percent of people that are admitted to emergency rooms for having a heart attack actually have one.
December 12
There's about 845 languages spoken in India
December 11
Oregon has the most ghost towns out of any state
December 10
Tomatoes have more flavor at room temperature than chilled
December 9
Back in '92 taxpayers spent $57,000 for a set of gold embossed playing cards for Air Force One
December 8
If you lined up all the Slinkys ever made,they could wrap around the world 126 times
December 5
The official state dance of Utah is the square dance
December 4
On average, you'll spend 5 years of your life eating
December 3
Gesturing with your hands while speaking improves your memory
December 2
20% of men say that they learned more from watching TV than they learned from their parents
December 1
The diesel cruise liner Elizabeth 2 gets six inches to the gallon.
November 29
If you're too young to be a Baby Boomer but too old to be a Gen-Xer, you are known as a "Cusper"
November 28
In 1797 James Hetherington invented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace
November 27
Every year Americans consume more than 45 million turkeys. Thats one turkey for every five and a half people
November 26
There was so little dialogue in the original Mission Impossible that the lead actor, Peter Graves, once fell asleep in the middle of a scene and nobody noticed
November 25
The kid on the Cracker Jack box is named "Robert"
November 24
Emily Dickinson wrote 1,700 poems. 7 were published in her lifetime
November 4
Today is National Hayride Day, and A New Yorker could eat out every day of his or her lifetime and never eat at the same restaurant twice. So... if said New Yorker lived to be 80. 365 days a year times that is 29,200 days, plus 20 for leap year every four years is 29,220 restaurants AT LEAST! Thats a lot of restaurants.
November 3
Today is National Deviled Egg Day, and The spiral shaped part of a corkscrew is called a "worm"
May 2
People between the ages 24 and 35 worry less than anyone else
May 3
In Webster's 1996 dictionary edition, 315 entries were misspelled
May 5
Montpelier, Vermont, is the only state capital without a McDonalds
May 6
All clams start out as males. About half decide at some point in their lives to become female
May 7
The 57 on the Heinz Ketchup bottle refers to the 57 types of pickles the company once had
May 8-Two Times Thursday!
The coconut is the world's largest seed, and it's National Only Child Day!
May 9
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every category of the Dewey Decimal System
May 10
In their lifetime, an average person will have walked a distance equal to 5 times that of the equator
May 12
If you yelled continously for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
May 13
The first thing the Sony Corporation ever made was a rice cooker
May 14
40% of women have thrown footwear at a man
May 17
Heroin, the most addictive substance on the planet, was invented to replace morphine, because it (morphine) was deemed too addictive
May 19
The chances of you dying on the way to get a lottery ticket is greater than your chances of actually winning
May 20
Greater Los Angeles is bigger than Deleware and Rhode Island combined
May 21
Over 19,000 US scientists signed a petition stating that it is utterly impossible for humans to cause global warming
May 22
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden, it's Buy A Musical Instrument Day
May 23
Each year over 10,000 birds die as a result of smashing into windows
May 24
By the time you finish reading this, the Earth will have traveled 100 miles through space
May 26
This is an old one.. but: Technically, a moment lasts 90 seconds
May 27
About 40 percent of car theft victims left their key in the ignition
May 28
The leading cause of death in Papua New Guinea is falling out of trees
May 29
Constipation kills more fruitflies than any other ailment, and more ships have been sunk by hurricanes than by warfare
May 30
The White House has 412 doors
May 31
When groundhogs predict the start of spring, they're wrong 72 percent of the time
June 2
In their lifetime, the average person will breathe in about 44 pounds of dust
June 3
Left handed people only make up 5-15 percent of the population
June 4
End to end, the number of Crayola crayons made in one year (3 billion) would circle the Earth six times
June 5
The Pentagon spends $8,612 every second, and also every second 9 boxes of Jello are sold.
June 6
Every year, 6,000 people check into emergency rooms with "pillow-related" injuries
June 7
The average American eats 82 pounds of chicken a year
June 9
The Lemon Pledge furniture polish company has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade
June 10
The ashes of your average cremated person weigh about 9 pounds
June 11
A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
June 12
Crayola is a French word meaning "Oily Chalk", and a cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
June 13
According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
June 14
The Canary Islands were not named after the canary bird. They were named after a breed of dogs.
June 16
Technically,glass is a liquid that moves extremely slowly
June 17
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
June 18
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
June 19
Uncopyrightable is the longest word in the English dictionary that doesn't repeat letters, and that weird drain like thing on the middle part of your upper lip is a "phillum"
