Cool Facts

Here are some interesting facts that I found. There's a lot more, but I can't write them all down - there's too many: 

1. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

2. The Baby Ruth candy bar wasn't named after the baseball player, but Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth. 

3. Bert & Ernie, the two characters on "Sesame Street" were named after Bert the Cop and Ernie the taxi driver on "It's a Wonderful Life".

4. The average American drinks 600 sodas each year. 

5. The verb "cleave" is the only word in the English dictionary with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other - adhere and separate. 

6. The word "samba", which is known to be a Brazilian dance actually means to rub navels together!

7. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 

8. Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. 

9. There are more plastic flamingoes in the world than real ones. 

10. Thomas Edison, the lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark. 

11. To escape the grip of a crocodiles jaws, stick your thumbs in its eyeballs and it will instantly let you go. 

12. Women's hearts beat faster than men's hearts. 

13. People blink over 20,000 times a year.

14. Your stomach has to create a new layer of mucus every two weeks, or else it will digest itself. 

15. The sound of E.T. walking was made by somebody squishing her hands in jello. 

16. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows". 

17. The only 15-lettered word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. 

18. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 

19. The "L.L." in L.L Bean stands for Leon Leonwood

20. The housefly hums in the middle octave key of f.

21. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver". 

22. On the Canadian dollar bill, the flag flying over their Parliament building is the American flag. 

23. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of it's original size to "L.A.".

24. Everyone's tongue print is different just like fingerprints. 

25. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 

26. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.

27. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in the Dewey-decimal category. 

28. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19, and also the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. 

29. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head. 

30. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, the weight of about 6 elephants. 

31. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. 

32. An average person laughs about 15 times a day. 

33. America once issued a five cent dollar bill.

34. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

35. Most American's car horns beep in the key of F. 

36. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. 

Source:

http://www.tealdragon.net/humor/facts/facts.htm