1 When Twister was introduced in 1966, critics denounced it as “sex in a
box”
2 There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on
Earth.
3 OJ Simpson was originally cast to be the Terminator, but the studio was
afraid no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
4 20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
5 If you were to remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up
every human on earth, the entire population of earth would fit in an apple.
6 A CIA program called “Acoustic Kitty” implanted batteries, microphones,
and antennae in cats in order to spy on Russian embassies.
7 The three wealthiest families in the world have more wealth than the
poorest 48 nations.
8 The world’s largest traffic jam lasted 10 days with cars moving only .6
miles per day.
9 Over 200 corpses have been left on Mt. Everest as way points for climbers
10 Adjusted for inflation John D Rockefeller was
the richest man in the modern world with a net worth ten times that of Bill
Gates.
11 All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck at
4:20.
12 There are more possible iterations in a game
of chess than there are atoms in the universe.
13 Forbes estimated in 2011 that Scrooge McDuck
had a net worth of $44.1 billion.
14 Two-thirds of the people on earth have never
seen snow.
15 The sound effects for the famous shower scene
in Psycho was created by stabbing a casaba melon.
16 There are more vacant houses than homeless
people in America.
17 The Wooly Mammoth was still alive when the
Egyptian Pyramids were built.
18 The average American drinks over 600 sodas a
year … or, about 7,200 cubes of sugar.
19 Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t
added to it.
20 If you try to suppress a sneeze you could
rupture a blood vessel in your head and die.
21 The average person walks the equivalent of
three times around the world in a lifetime.
22 You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the
morning.
23 Currently, it would take over 1,000 years to
watch every video on youtube. It will take flash only two more years to post
them all on TBP.
24 Reed Hastings was inspired to launch Netflix
after racking up a $40 late fee for a VHS.
25 A cockroach can live several weeks with its
head cut off.
26 15% of the air you breathe in a subway station
is human skin.
27 Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their
lifetime.
28 The human body’s strongest muscle is the
tongue.
29 Frozen lobsters can come back to life when
thawed.
30 In 1918, Charles Jung – an American – created
the fortune cookie.
31 French was the official language in England
for over 600 years.
32 Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were freshman
roommates at Harvard.
33 Falling coconuts kill more people than shark
attacks.
34 The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World
Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
35 The average mattress doubles in weight in ten
years due to dust mites and dust mite shit.
36 In 1881 three men served as President … Hayes,
Garfield, and Arthur.
37 In 1386, a pig in France was executed by
public hanging for murdering a child.
38 25% of the land area of Los Angeles is taken
up by automobiles.
39 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
40 Clans that wanted to get rid of unwanted
people without killing them used to burn down their houses … which is the
origin of the term “to get fired”.
41 The term “in a jiffy” relates to time — a
“jiffy” is the actual term for 1/100 of a second.
42 The average NFL game has only 12 minutes of
actual play time.
43 We eat more than a pound of insects per year.
44 It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, all
sucking at once, to drain a human of blood.
45 Blue Whale fart bubbles are large enough to
contain a horse.
46 A Blue Whale’s heart is as big as a VW Beetle,
and you could swim through its arteries.
47 All British tanks come with tea making
equipment.
48 Frederick Baur invented the Pringles can. When
he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
49 Google’s founders were will to sell for under
one million dollars to Excite in 1999.
50 Velociraptors were only slightly larger than
chickens.
51 In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought
Sherlock Holmes was a real person …. While 20% thought Winston Churchill was
not.
52 Facebook engineers original wanted to call the
“like” button the “awesome” button.
53 The current population of Ireland is still 2
million less than the potato famine 160 years ago.
54 The human brain can perform 38 thousand
trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful computer can manage
only .002% of that.
55 There is a garbage swirl in the Pacific the
size of Texas.
56 Two days before the signing of the
Constitution a surviving bill shows an order of; 54 bottles of Madeira, 60
bottles of Claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 8 bottles of cider, 12 bottles of
beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch …. for 55 people.
57 You have a 1 in 200 chance of being related to
Genghis Khan.
58 When your own mother was born, she was already
carrying the egg that would become you.
59 It takes a photon 200,000 years to travel from
the core of the sun to its surface, and then just a little over 8 minutes from
the sun’s surface to your eyeballs.
60 Of all the people in history that have reached
65 years of age, half of them are living right now.
61 A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a
ballpoint pen.
62 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike
annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
63 Human fingers are so sensitive that if they
were the size of the earth you could tell the difference between a house and a
car.
64 Half of all humans who have ever lived have
died from malaria.
65 A hummingbird’s heart beats at more than 1,200
beats per minute.
66 We humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas.
67 In 30 minutes the human body gives off enough
heat to bring a gallon of water to a boil.
68 Airplane food sucks because our sense of smell
and taste can decrease by as much as 50% at altitude.
69 “I don’t want to sell my husband” —- oldest
example of graffiti found in 1st century Pompeii
70 54 million people alive today will be dead
within one year.
71 Two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern
Hemisphere.
72 Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon
landing than to the building of The Great Pyramid.
73 There are more atoms in a single glass of
water than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
74 The probability than any glass of water you
drink also contains at least one molecule once drunk by Cleopatra is
practically 100%
75 All the gold mined in the history of the world
would fit in a 20x20x20 meter cube.
76 The core of a star can reach 16 million
degrees Celsius. A single grain of sand at that temperature would kill you from
100 miles away.
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