Random Facts to Show Off Your Knowledge

These are some random facts that I have found while browsing around the internet and also from some personal stories. I hope you will be able to share some of these facts and awe your friends.

-Most lipstick contains fish scales

-It takes a million years for glass to decompose

-Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing

-The first bar code was on Wrigley's gum

-A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein

-2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products for right handed people

-The sun is 330,330 times bigger than the earth

-Porcupines float in water

-The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

-Until 1796, there was a state named Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee

-One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television

-Thomas Edison, the light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

-In space, astronauts can't cry properly, because of no gravity

-Owls are the only bird that can see the color blue

-There are no words that rhyme with orange, purple, and month

-Fortune cookies were invented in America in 1918

-A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks

-50 Bibles are sold each minute across the world

-An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi to flow backwards

-In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word

-Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than a woman

-Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake

-Smelling bananas and/or green apples can help you lose weight

-Walt Disney was afraid of mice

-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

-The two most dangerous jobs in the U.S. are commercial fishing and logging

-A referee tossed jump ball after every basket until 1937

-Every lake in Ohio is manmade

-Someone in New York could eat out every night and never eat at the same restaurant

-Half the world will eat rice on any given day

-Consuming chocolate during the 16^th and 17^th centuries was considered a sin

-Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast each day

-Ketchup was once sold as a medicine

-People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide

-It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

-A ducks quack doesn't echo

-23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

-Turtles can breath through their butts

-If you yelled for 8yrs., 7months, and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

-If you farted consistently for 6yrs., and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

-The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is dead."

-If coloring wasn't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green

-101 Dalmations and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

-According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg

-Actor Tommy lee Jones from men in black and Al Gore were freshmen roommates at Harvard

-Saluting came from military times when a knight rode past his king. He would raise his visor to let his king identify him.

-By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand

-The term your fired, came from a term from long ago when a clan wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them they would just burn their houses down.

-Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

-George Washington grew marijuana in his garden

-If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse is on all four legs, the person died of natural causes.

-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

-Spain literally means, land of rabbits

-To testify was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

-Turkeys have been known to die from drowning after looking up at the sky in a rainstorm.

-In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated

-The original game of Monopoly was circular

-One-Fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year

-Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up in the morning

-The outdoor temperature can be estimated by timing the chirps of a cricket in warm weather only. It is done by counting the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and then adding 37 to the total.

- Pizza was invented as a killing device. Greek Physicians thought that tomatoes were deadly so they made a tomato paste to disguise the tomato and put it on pita bread. Then they fed it to their queen hoping to kill her, instead she loved it and made a decree to her kingdom to eat this delightful treat. Italy later put cheese on top of it.