One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
The only 2 days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!
A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.
A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
Less than 1% of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air; respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.
It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (please don't try that though!)
The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
$26 billion in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.
Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million. Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.
Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.
Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.
Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.
13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.
The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word
Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
All together, Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this, I hope you've enjoyed reading these useless, but intresting facts. Have a wonderful weekend!!! *hugs* :D
Happy Holidays
-Crystal-
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