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.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
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.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
The average bed is home to more than six billion dust mites.
5% of American men are now six feet or taller, compared to only 4% on 1900.
Only 6% of all coupons printed are ever redeemed.
The world has been at peace only 8% of the time over the last 3,500 years.
There is a 33% chance that a peanut grown in the U.S. will end up as peanut butter.
72% of Americans don’t know the people who live next door.
1% of U.S. businesses allow their employees to take naps during working hours.
20% of men say that their TV has taught them more about life than their parents have.
53% of Americans think they are paid the right amount.
57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.
1 in 4 people admit to searching in their host’s medicine cabinets.
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.
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.
The average American male laughs 69 times a day where the average woman laughs 55 times a day.
If a girl owns one barbie, she most likely owns seven.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, “Well, are you there?”. It wasn’t until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase “number please?”.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7″ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
Ants never sleep.
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with “MONTH”.
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
No president of the United States was an only child.
Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.
Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’’s clothes.
It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
Collected by: Stephane Mueller
-James Hartig
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