Random Facts.

Random Facts

Random facts are known brain stimulators, and are great convorsation starters.

• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
• Babies are born without kneecaps.
• You consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp.
• It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery provides you with.
• Some lions mate 50 times a day.
• No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver.
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
• The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
• The French words 'eau' [water] and 'oui' [yes] have no consonants
• The word 'rhythm' has no vowels.
• It is commonly believed that acne is caused or made worse by poor diet or poor hygiene.
• "Almost" is the longest word with all the letters in alphabetical order.
• Satan is an anagram of Santa.
• All polar bears are left-handed.
• Crocodiles have 2 penises.
• The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
• The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
• According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
• Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
• Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
• The most common name in the world is Mohamed.
• The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
• A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
• It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
• The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
• Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
• The Kins on a deck of cards represents a major king from history.
• 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.
• 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
• The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• American car horns toot in the key F
• The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.