Random Fact List

Did you know:

1. Penguins have knees.

2. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.

3. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

4. A single cloud can weigh more than 1 million pounds.

5. The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.

6. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

7. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.

8. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.

9. 10% of the worlds population is left handed.

10. A hippos wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in.

11. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

12. 95% of people text things they could never say in person.

13. A crocodile can't poke its tongue out.

14. About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.

15. A hardboiled egg will spin, but a soft boiled egg will not.

16. The word "gorilla" is derived from a Greek word meaning "A tribe of hairy women."

17. Gorillas burp when they are happy.

18. Donald duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

19. Hamsters run up to 8 miles at night on a wheel.

20. You are 1% shorter in the evening than in the morning.

21. Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump!

22. Just like fingerprints, everyone has different tongue prints.

23. Blue-eyed people tend to have the highest tolerance of alcohol.

24, More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

25. Every year more than 2500 left-handed people are killed from using right-handed products.

26. Mountain lions can whistle.

27. The giraffes tongue is so long that they can lick the inside of their own ear.

28. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

29. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

30. You can't hum while holding your nose closed.

31. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

32. The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely to fall asleep.

33. Nintendo was originally a trading card company.

34. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

35. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.

36. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant Of Venice.

37. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.

38. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

39. A strawberry is NOT a berry.

40. A banana IS a berry.

I hope you have enjoyed my 40 random facts. If toy have any of your own fun and random facts please feel free to share them with me.