| 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May. | ||
| 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day. | ||
| 76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20. | ||
| A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second | ||
| A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel! | ||
| A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level. | ||
| A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! | ||
| A moth has no stomach. | ||
| A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter. | ||
| About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. | ||
| Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. | ||
| Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them in the course of a day. | ||
| An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace. | ||
| Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day. | ||
| Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. | ||
| Cold water weighs more than hot water. | ||
| Dirty snow melts faster than clean. | ||
| Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste. | ||
| Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use. | ||
| Enrico Caruso and Roy Orbison were the only tenors this century capable of hitting e over high c! | ||
| Goodyear Rubber Company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left. | ||
| Halloween was originally a Celtic holiday celebrated on October 31. | ||
| Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world. | ||
| If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode. | ||
| If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet. | ||
| In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed. | ||
| In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world. | ||
| In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10. | ||
| Iron weighs more after it rusts. | ||
| It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota. | ||
| It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine. | ||
| Jennifer Aniston's original name is Jennifer Anastassakis! | ||
| Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process. | ||
| Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes! | ||
| Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp! | ||
| Linen is actually stronger when wet. | ||
| Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients. | ||
| Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women! | ||
| Moist air holds heat better than dry air. | ||
| Monica Lewinsky bought her infamous blue dress at The Gap. | ||
| More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones! | ||
| More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides. | ||
| More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. | ||
| Most burglaries occur during the daytime! | ||
| Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister. | ||
| Nike Air Soles do not actually have 'air' in them. | ||
| Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree. | ||
| Oak trees can live 200 or more years. | ||
| Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older. | ||
| Oenophobia is the Fear of wines. | ||
| One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs. | ||
| One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons. | ||
| One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed. | ||
| One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood ! | ||
| One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building! | ||
| Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught! | ||
| Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116. | ||
| Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better. | ||
| Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day. | ||
| Rice paper does not have any rice in it! | ||
| Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December " | ||
| Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine. | ||
| Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake. | ||
| St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called 'Pigs Eye'. | ||
| Sticky buns were a Philadelphia specialty in the 19th century. | ||
| The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'. | ||
| The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F. | ||
Some random thoughts from a simple man with too much time on his hands and too many voices in his head...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sunday Trivia - Totally worthless information slammed into a post so I could get this done by 2:00 PM - Enjoy!
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