Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Random Funny Facts

So instead of me "cartwheeling" myself into depression, I thought that I would look up some funny random facts on the Internet. Here are some that I thought was interesting:

Funny But True Facts
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.


Random Birthday Facts

# More people celebrate their birthdays in August than in any other month. The two other months in which birthday rates are high is July and September.
# Close to two billion Birthday Cards are sent each year in the U.S. alone, accounting for nearly 58 percent of all cards sent.
# The world’s largest birthday cake was created in 1989 it weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz. and used 16,209 pounds of icing.
# Anne Frank’s world famous diary was given to her when she was thirteen years old.
# The most common birth date is October 5 and the least common is May 22 in U.S.A.

Strange Funny Facts About Living Beings
# More babies are born in September than in any other month
# 53% of Americans think they are paid the right amount.
# About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
# 95% of the creatures on earth are smaller than a chicken egg.
# 57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.
# 63% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
# There are twice as many billionaires in the U.S. today as there were 10 years ago.
# 48% of men think balding has a negative effect on business and social relationships.
# The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 in its lifetime.
# The Ratio of people to T.V. in the world is 6 to 1.
# 58% of school kids say pizza is their favorite cafeteria food.
# 32% of singles polled think they will meet their future mate online.
# In 1948, 2.3% of American households had televisions. Today 99% do.
# In 1998, 58% of American adults were married and living with their spouses, an all time low.
# The top three products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and deodorant.
# One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
# 46% of violence on T.V. occurs in cartoons.
# Only about 5% of people dream in color.
# 80% of high school athletes, male and female, say they have been hazed.
# 65% of American adolescents get acne.
# 1 in 6 employees say they got so mad at a co#worker last year that “they felt like hitting them but didn’t.”
# The average American drinks 3.4 cups of coffee a day.
# 85% of parents use child safety seats incorrectly.
# The average American kid catches 6 colds a year, the average kid in daycare catches 10.
# The average American male laughs 69 times a day where the average woman laughs 55 times a day.
# 85% of obscene calls are made by males.
# 5% of Americans never get married.
# 60% of the county of Liechtenstein’s GDP is generated from the sale of false teeth.
# If a girl owns one barbie, she most likely owns seven.
# 50% of American adults attended an arts activity in 1997.
# People aged 24#35 worry less than adults of other age groups.
# 5% of Americans say they “never” make their beds.
# The average person moves their residence 11 times in their life, about once every 6 years.
# 35% of people watching T.V. yell at it.
# One in seven Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a map.
# American office workers send an average of 36 e#mails per day.
# 23% of workers said they would work harder if their employer offered a “$1,000 shopping spree at a store of their choice.”
# Only 30% of U.S. adults actually have dandruff while 50% are “self conscious about it.”
# 32% of women and 8% of men say they are better at doing laundry than their spouse.
# 13% of the letters in a given book are “e”.
# The average age kids begin to use a microwave is seven.
# The average American uses 730 crayons by the age of 10.
# 63% of American adults will rent at least 1 video this month.
# The average sleeper rolls over 12 times in bed per night.
# The Pentagon uses an average of 666 rolls of toilet paper each day.
# More babies are conceived in December than any other month.
# Your left hand does an average of 56% of your typing.
# It takes an average person seven minutes to fall asleep on an average night.
# About 8% of the students at the Dunkin Doughnuts training center fail the six week course.
# The average speed of a golf ball in flight during the PGA tour is 160 mph.
# 85% of phone calls are conducted in the English language.
# The Earth is turning to desert at a rate of 40 square miles per day.
# 99% of India’s truck drivers can’t read road signs.
# 80% of deaths in U.S. casinos are caused by sudden heart attacks.
# 12% of U.S. businessmen wear their ties so tight that they restrict the blood flow to their brain.
# 3% of all photos taken in the U.S. are taken at Disney Land or Disney World.
# Nearly 6% of all marriage proposals are made over the telephone.

Well that made me giggle a little!!! :)
(http://www.funnyjunksite.com/funny/random-funny-facts/)

2 comments:

  1. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
    Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries
    These are mi favorites...lol termites...

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  2. Wow lol some of these were a real joke...

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