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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