· On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
· On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
· In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
· Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
· Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
· Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
· A snail can sleep for three years.
· No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
· Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
· Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
· The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
· "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. “I Am” is the shortest sentence in the bible.
· A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
· The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
· Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
· The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
· The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
· Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
· Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
· Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
· The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
· The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
· Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
· Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.
· Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
· Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
· The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
· The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
· Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
· Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
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