50 Strange and Interesting Facts

Here, I share with you some interesting and strange facts I've recently run accross.

It's easier to find gold than it is to win the lottery.

Technically speaking, coffee is a fruit juice.

Bill Clinton is the most widely traveled president in U.S. history.

Are you a chicken when it comes to chickens? Then you have alektorophobia.

The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyranosaurus rex.

Chickens can't swallow when they are upside down.

Lachanophobia is fear of veggies.

You use 20 different facial muscles when you kiss.

Melbourne, Australia has an 8 p.m. curfew for cats.

Americans spend over 2 billion hours a year mowing their lawns.

An average water droplet contains 100 quintillion molecules of water.

Many residents of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, have blue skin.

The smell of peppermint improves concentration.

The "@" symbol is over 500 years old.

Porsche owners are more likely to cheat on their partners than any other car owner.

The flashing light on the Capitol Records Tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

Houseflies hum in the key of E.

The most common women's shoe size is 7 ½.

Uranus is about 19 times larger than Earth and 20 times more fun to say.

It takes about 0.004 gallons of fuel to start your car in the morning.

74% of threats against federal workers are directed at IRS employees.

A Big Mac costs $5.11 in Switzerland.

A dollar bill is exactly six inches long.

A raw steak is about 75% water.

Nancy Green was the first living person whose image was trademarked as Aunt Jemima.

Botulism bacteria are so toxic that only one pound could kill every human on Earth.

Taco is Spanish for "plug."

Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere were distant relatives.

The Good News: You are 96% more likely to a die a natural death. The Bad News: You are still going to die.

A 30-minute cartoon may contain over 18,000 separate drawings.

The technical name for a kazoo is a membranophone.

Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking.

Americans spend $2 billion per year on candles.

Before 1920, it was technically legal to send children through the mail.

Shakespear spelled his own name four different ways in his will.

The youngest soldier to die in the Civil War was only 12.

A white flag means surrender; a yellow flag means infectious disease.

Jupiter has 63 moons.

Cats have no collarbones.

There are exactly 216 noodles in every can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup.

25% of Americans will catch more than four colds this year.

Meterologists definition for drizzle: "No more than 14 drops per square foot per second."

The B.F. in B.F. Goodrich stands for "Benjamin Franklin."

Milk cartons were invented in Sweden.

69% of Americans own at least 1 personal computer.

Sputnik I, the first space satellite, was about the size of a basketball.

Ostriches can swim.

The sound of thunder travels at about 1,100 feet per second.

Only 12 % of those arrested for murder are woman.

Approximately 673,693 Americans are born on today's date.