Random Fun Facts

Useless tidbits of knowledge to impress your friends with.

1) You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

2) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

3) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

4) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front 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 has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

5) There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

6) Hummingbirds can't walk.

7) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

8) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

9) It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. (0_o)

10) The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

11) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Whoa, these are good!
That toad one makes me: o.O

Yanz wrote:

That toad one makes me: o.O

Same.

The McDonald's one doesn't surprise me.

11. (Was the donkey one but you stole it xD) All continents end in the same letter they started with

Eurasia maybe not?

^Eurasia is a place that I can't consider a continent. More or less, a region. Most people say Austrailia is a country and Oceania is the continent

Did you know Australia is a continent and a country?

12: Walt Disney was afraid of mice
13: The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
14: Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.
15: Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
16: Pearls melt in vinegar.
17: Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.