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  • Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
  • More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
  • More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
  • A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
  • Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
  • In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
  • Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
  • Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
  • During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
  • About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
  • 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
  • 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
  • The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
  • Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
  • you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
  • A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
  • Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
  • There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
  • If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
  • The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
  • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  • The average person laughs 13 times a day!
  • Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
  • The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
  • There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
  • Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
  • 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
  • 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
  • 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
  • 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
  • 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
  • There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
  • Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
  • You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
  • Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
  • Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  • 21% of us don't make our bed daily. 5% of us never do.
  • Men do 29% of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
  • 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
  • 85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
  • 67.5% of men were tightie whities.
  • The average bra size today is 36C whereas 10 years ago it was a 34B.
  • 85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
  • 50% admit they regularly sneak food into movie theaters to avoid the high prices of snack foods. 81.3% would tell an acquaintance to zip his pants.
  • 69% eat the cake before the frosting.
  • When nobody else is around, 47% drink straight from the carton.
  • Snickers is the most popular candy.
  • 22% of us skip lunch daily.
  • 85% of us will eat Spam this year.
  • 70% of us drink orange juice daily.
  • 9% of us skip breakfast daily.
  • 66% of us eat cereal regularly.
  • 22% of all restaurant meals include french fries.
  • 14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.
  • 22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
  • Only 13% brush our teeth from side to side.
  • Nearly 1/3 of U.S. women color their hair.
  • 53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
  • 58% of women paint their nails regularly.
  • 33% of women lie about their weight.
  • 45% use mouthwash every day.
  • The typical shower is 101 degrees F.
  • 9% of women and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery.
  • 4 out of 5 of us have suffered from hemorrhoids.
  • The average girl starts her period at age 12.
  • 30% of us refuse to sit on a public toilet seat.
  • 54.2% of us always wash our hands after using the toilet.
  • 23.5% admit they don't always flush.
  • 62% of us pop our zits.
  • 33% of women lie about their weight.
  • 45.2% pee in the shower.
  • 44.9% pee in the ocean.
  • 28.1% pee in the pool.
  • 46.5% of men say they ALWAYS put the seat down after they've used the toilet, yet women claim to ALWAYS find it up.
  • 44% have broken a bone.
  • Only 30% of us know our cholesterol level.
  • 14% have attended a self-help meeting.
  • 15% regularly go to a shrink.
  • 78% would rather die quickly than live in a retirement home.
  • 55.2% will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're sing the toilet.
  • 4 out of 5 sing in the car.
  • 12% of men never use their car blinkers.
  • 45% of us consistantly follow the speed limit.
  • 2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light.
  • 1/3 of us don't wear seat belts.
  • 71% can drive a stick-shift car.
  • 44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
  • 25% of us drive after we've been drinking.
  • 13% of us admit to occassionally doing our offspring's homework.
  • 91% of us lie regularly.
  • 58.4% have called into work sick when we weren't.
  • 27% admit to cheating on a test or quiz.
  • 29% admit they've intentionally stolen something from a store.
  • 13% (mostly men) have spent a night in jail.
  • 10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
  • How far would you go for $10 million? 25% would abandon their friends, family, and church. 7% would murder.
  • 39% of us peek in our host's bathroom cabinet.
  • 17% have been caught by the host.
  • 29% of us ignore RSVP.
  • 71.6% of us eavesdrop.
  • 90% believe in divine retribution.
  • 10% believe in the 10 Commandments.
  • 82% believe in an afterlife.
  • 45% believe in ghosts.
  • 10% of us claim to have seen a ghost.
  • 49% believe in ESP.
  • 57% have had deja vu.
  • 90% of us depend on alarm clocks to wake us.
  • 53% read their horoscopes regularly.
  • 16% of us have forgotten our own wedding anniversary (mostly men).
  • 59% of us say we're average-looking.
  • Less than 10% are trilingual.
  • 22% are functionally illiterate.
  • 37% claim to know how to use all the features on their VCR.
  • 53% prefer ATM machines over tellers.
  • 44% reuse tinfoil.
  • 56% of women do the bills in a marriage.
  • 2 out of 3 of us wouldn't give up our spouse even for a night for a million bucks.
  • Only 30% of us can flare our nostrils.
  • 20% of us have played in a band at one time in our life.
  • 40% of us have had music lessons.
  • Blacks are more than twice as likely to call themselves beautiful.
  • The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.
  • 57% save pretty gift paper to reuse.
  • 66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for doing it from scratch.
  • 53% of us would take advice from Anne Landers.
  • 28% of us have skinny-dipped. 14% with the opposite sex.
  • 51% of adults dress up for a Halloween festivity.
  • On average, we send 38 Christmas cards every year.
  • 20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
  • 2 out of 5 have married their first love.
  • 3 out of 4 of us store our dollar bills in rigid order with singles leading up to higher denominations.
  • Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand.
  • 1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
  • 6% propose over the phone.
  • 29% of us are virgins when we marry.
  • Over 50% believe in spanking - but only a child over 2 years old.
  • 35% give to charity at least once a month.
  • Pennies are not legal tender in amounts over twenty-five, unless the recipient agrees to accept them. In other words, if a debtor owes you more than twenty-five cents and spitefully tries to pay you in pennies, you can legally refuse to accept them, without affecting the debt.
  • Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  • Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  • On average, a woman will speak 7000 words over the course of a day while a man will only speak 2000 words in the same period of time.
  • There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
  • The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
  • More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
  • The world's three richest people have assets that exceed the combined wealth of the 48 least developed countries, according to a recent United Nations report on global inequality.
  • A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the United States.
  • A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  • The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  • Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
  • Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
  • Estimated % of American adults who go on diet each year: 44%
  • Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
  • Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years.
  • Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.
  • Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
  • Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
  • Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%
  • Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
  • City with highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Washington DC.
  • Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
  • Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
  • Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%
  • Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%
  • Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105
  • One third of U.S. convicts in prison were drunk at the time of the crime.
  • Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
  • Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
  • Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%
  • Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  • Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
  • In 1996 Mexico had an estimated population of 95,772,462. Population density in the mid-1990s averaged 49 persons per sq. km. (114 per sq. mile).
  • Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3
  • The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  • A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 120 m.p.h.
  • In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
  • About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied this?)
  • The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
  • No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
  • If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
  • You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
  • Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
  • Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  • Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
  • By 1990 we spent as much on computers as we did for 200 years on textbooks.
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  • An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
  • The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
  • In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
  • Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
  • Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonald's each day: 7
  • Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%
  • Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%
  • Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%
  • Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
  • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
  • Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
  • Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
  • Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
  • Amount American Airlines saved in '87 by taking out 1 olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000
  • On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
  • Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
  • Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
  • About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

    Famous People Statistics/Facts

    • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
    • Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
    • Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
    • Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
    • Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
    • All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
    • Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
    • Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
    • Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
    • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
    • Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
    • Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
    • Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
    • Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
    • Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
    • The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
    • Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
    • Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
    • The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the "American Pie."
    • Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.
    • Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.
    • Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
    • Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll, his pen name) was an ordained priest of the Anglican church.
    • Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers. (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
    • Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.
    • Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
    • The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
    • David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
    • Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
    • In thanks for narrating a documentary, the museum of Natural History named a spider after Harrison Ford..Calponia Harrisonfordi.
    • The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
    • Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
    • Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
    • Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
    • Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his strange characters.
    • The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
    • John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
    • Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
    • Paul Reiser is playing the piano in the "Mad About You" theme.
    • Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around. It doesn't matter whether they are in front, behind or beside them.
    • The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
    • In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."
    • In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
    • Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
    • Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
    • St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
    • Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
    • Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
    • Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
    • Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
    • Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
    • There is no existing photograph of Italian violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) however, a photograph that has been proven beyond a doubt to be a fake, can still be found in encyclopedias etc.
    • Margaret Hamilton, the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard of Oz was once a kindergarten teacher.
    • In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
    • Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
    • Walt Disney got his idea for Mickey Mouse while he worked in a garage. He was watching the mice play one night and got the inspiration for Mortimer Mouse. He didn't change the name until shortly before he finished the first Mickey Mouse cartoon - the 1928 "Steamboat Willie".
    • Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
    • The youngest pope was 11 years old.
    • In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
    • Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
    • Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (the subject was boxing).
    • Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
    • Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo"
    • Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
    • John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
    • Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
    • Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
    • Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
    • Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
    • In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
    • In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
    • IThe phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" was never used in any of the Star Trek Motion Pictures, although they came close in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, when Chekov said "Scotty, beam me up!"
    • Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
    • During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby ****', only sold 50 copies.
    • The world's greatest lover was King Mongut of Siam. He had 9,000 wives. Before dying of syphilis, he was quoted in saying he only loved the first 700.
    • Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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