Fun Miscellaneous Facts
- The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone and Roger Burges for maps in 1618!
- The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean!
- The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy!
- During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
- No one knows where Mozart is buried!
- Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia!
- Eddie Cochran's last recording before he died was Three Steps to Heaven!
- The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of 6 in the home is liquid dish soap!
- 80% of 10 year old girls go on a diet in America!
- In Tibet, it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone!
- Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine!
- During his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh sold only one of his paintings!
- Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
- Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies!
- There are 86,400 seconds in a day!
- John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of America!
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer!
- Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards!
- Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing!
- Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers!
- The majority of suicides occur on a Monday!
- There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the 10 opening moves in a game of chess!
- 22% of people leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink!
- The average IQ is 100 while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ!
- 62% of us pop our zits!
- The Sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth!
- Eskimos don't gamble!
- Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico!
- Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar!
- The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!
- Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the US!
- Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun!
- Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!
- One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood!
- Al Capone died in prison from syphilis!
- Henry Ford is also the father of the charcoal briquette!
- If the chemical sodium is dropped into water, it will immediately and violently explode!
- There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan!
- Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
- No piece of normal-sized paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
- Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world!
- There was a coin toss in 1844 to name a city in Oregon. Heads was Portland and tails was Boston. The coin was heads up!
- No President of the United States was an only child for his parents!
- Pumice is the only rock that floats in water!
- The vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female hysteria during the 19th century!
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper!
- In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court, he would swear on his testicles!
- George Washington didn't want his image on US coins!
- In South Africa, it is a law that single ply toilet paper must have 500 sheets in the roll!
- In Victorian times, prostitutes wore pubic wigs!
- Charlie Chaplin once won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest!
- The United States holds the record for highest divorce rate in the world!
- Names in Iceland's phone books are listed alphabetically by first name!
- Linda Wolfe is the most married woman in the world. She married 23 men!
- There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA! (not including the federal National Cemetery)
- Married men tip better than unmarried men!
- India never invaded any country in her history!
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321!
- Cleopatra married two of her brothers!
