There is a remote control shortcut to skip unavoidable trailers, title screens and warnings in DVDs, simply press STOP STOP PLAY. The number 2520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, among many others. 2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10. The number 37 will wholly divide (no decimals) into 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. 37 x 3 = 111 37 x 6 = 222 37 x 9 = 333 37 x 12 = 444 37 x 15 = 555 37 x 18 = 666 37 x 21 = 777 37 x 24 = 888 37 x 27 = 999 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 123 - 45 - 67 + 89 = 100. 123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100. 123 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 + 8 - 9 = 100. 1 + 23 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 - 9 = 100. 12 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100. 166³ + 500³ + 333³ = 166,500,333 296³ + 584³ + 415³ = 296,584,415 710³ + 656³ + 413³ = 710,656,413 828³ + 538³ + 472³ = 828,538,472 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876 123 x 8 + 3 = 987 12 x 8 + 2 = 98 1 x 8 + 1 = 9 (6 × 9) + (6 + 9) = 69 The number 14233221 describes itself; it has one four, two threes, three twos, and two ones. Multiplying 21,978 by 4 reverses the order of the numbers to 87,912. A “Buttload” is an actual measurement of volume - Equal to 126 gallons A 'butt' was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a buttload of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons. In cooking, a smidgen is 1/32 of a teaspoon, a pinch is 1/16 and a dash is 1/8. A “moment” technically means 90 seconds. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time equal to 1/100th of a second. The total amount of data humankind has ever collected up to 2003, is now collected every two days. Artificial raspberry flavoring is made from the anal glands of a beaver. If you're making pizza at home, put a wet towel in the oven for ten minutes before you put the pizza in. It'll be restaurant quality! "Jay" used to be slang indicating a stupid or naive person (a.k.a. "a rube"), thus a "jaywalker" was a pedestrian too stupid to obey the posted street signage. Alexis, Ashley, Aubrey, Audrey, Beverly, Brook, Carol, Courtney, Dana, Ethel, Jocelyn, Kelly, Kelsey, Kimberly were all originally boy names Farting can help reduce high blood pressure & is good for your health There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than there is in Country Time Lemonade. "Everyday" and "every day" are two different things. "Everyday" means "ordinary" while "every day" literally means "each day" Knock is the world's shortest horror story with only 2 sentences. "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door." Shortest horror story? "Unable to connect to the internet at this time." If we took all empty space between our atoms, the human race would be the size of a sugar cube! At one point in 2011, Apple had more money than the entire U.S. Government; by about 2.7 billion dollars. If you were to spell out numbers from one, you wouldn't find the letter "A" until you reach "One Thousand". When you're stressed, you eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is DESSERTS. When buying something online from Apple, leave it in your cart for a few days. They'll want you to buy it and give you a 15-20% discount. Accidentally wrote on the white board with permanent marker? Scribble over it with dry erase marker and it will erase right off. Most lip balms are made with salicylic acid crystals - An ingredient that causes your lips to peel, so you'll use even more lip balm. Green bell peppers are simply unripened red bell peppers. When sleeping = Our brains tends to be significantly more active compared to when we are watching TV. There are more Subway restaurants in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. Pasta is a type of noodle. However, noodles are not a type of pasta. To burn one 1 small M&M candy, you'll have to walk an entire length of a football field. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats. Earth's helium supply will run out by 2030. Party balloons will cost about $90 each. A woman bought a used bible in California, found an essay in it that she wrote 65 years ago and 2000 miles away while living in Kentucky. There are 923 words in the English language that break the “I before E” rule. Only 44 words actually follow that rule. A 3-hour baseball games contains about 18 minutes of actual baseball action. The average NFL game features just 10 minutes and 43 seconds of action. Neil Armstrong was the first human being on the moon. Neil A. backwards is Alien. There are braille Rubik's Cubes for those who are blind. Buttons were used as decoration centuries before anyone thought to create holes for them. An anagram is when you rearrange the letters in a word or phrase to get a new word or phrase. Sometime the new phrase is a fitting commentary on the original phrase; sometimes it's just funny. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA becomes... DINE OUT: TASTE A 'MAC, FRIES. TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA becomes... HUGE WATER TALE STUNS. END HAD YOU TENSE. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS becomes... THE CON BITES MALE FLESH. THE AMERICAN DREAM becomes... MEET A DEAR, RICH MAN. RUDOLPH, THE RED-NOSED REINDEER becomes... DEPLORED, HE IS THE ODDER RUNNER. WALTER CRONKITE becomes... NETWORK RECITAL. THE IRS becomes... THEIRS. MADAM CURIE becomes... ME? RADIUM ACE. NEW YORK YANKEES becomes... SNEAKY OWNER KEY. RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON becomes... HIS CLIMAX RUINED HONOR. ROMEO AND JULIET becomes... ONE JILTED AMOUR. MICKEY AND MINNIE MOUSE becomes... KID MICE MEAN MONEY IN U.S. THE GREAT DEPRESSION becomes... OH, DO I SEE GDP SHATTERER? THE PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY becomes... HI! BEHOLD BURLY GUY'S POT! SLURPEE becomes... REPULSE. SPAM LUNCHEON MEAT becomes... MEANS CHUM ON PLATE. The letters in SLOT MACHINES can be rearranged to spell CASH LOST IN ME. When you rearrange the letters of ''The Titanic disaster'', you will get: '"Death, it starts in ice." Sweden is so efficient in using its garbage in waste-to-energy programs that it is now out of garbage and imports it from Norway! The ACT is an achievement test, measuring what a student has learned in school . The SAT is more of an aptitude test, testing reasoning and verbal abilities. Domain names are being registered at more than one million names per month. It took twelve years for Leonardo Da Vinci to finish painting Mona Lisa's lips till he thought they were right. Drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate nearly $1 billion of his money each year. In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash. When a customer service representative puts you on hold they can hear everything you're saying. In 1977 earth received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. Scientist still don't know how or where it came from. The crime rate in Netherlands is so low that they are shutting down their eight prisons due to lack of prisoners! 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated, and 37% confuse thirst for hunger. Every year the dates 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10 & 12/12 all fall on the same day of the week. Over 60,000 pounds of shrimp are consumed in Las Vegas every day. Press "9" on your phone if you are getting a call from a telemarketer. Don't say anything, it'll add your # to the don't-call list. It wouldn’t be until 15 years after basketball was invented before someone got the bright idea of putting a hole in the bottom of the basket to allow the ball to pass through so it wouldn’t have to be manually retrieved every time someone made a shot. Agaricus bisporus, also known as common mushroom, is an edible mushroom with several names; button mushroom, white mushroom, cultivated mushroom, table mushroom, champignon mushroom, portabello mushrooms, you name it, they are all the same mushroom! The name you give to this mushroom depends on it's different levels of maturity and color! No words in the English language rhymes with "silver", "orange", "purple", or "month". Recent studies have found that alcohol is actually less addictive than KFC chicken. What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us? The technology in one Gameboy exceeds all the computing power used to put man on the moon. In all of history man has only pulled out two olympic sized swimming pools of gold from the Earth. If you ate the sugar in a can of Coke (39 grams) alone, your body would vomit uncontrollably. Coke adds phosphoric acid which prevents this. Each year, about 130 million babies are born and 58 million people die. There were about half as many people on earth in 1970 as there are today. It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach 3 billion -- It only took 40 years for it to grow by another 3 billion after that. The only vegetable that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh is lettuce. Gay marriage is only legal in 6 states, yet having sex with a horse is legal in 23. All thirteen minerals necessary for human life, can actually be found in beer. During WWII an American plane crashed on a Japanese island (Chi Chi Jima). There were 9 men on board. Eight of them were captured and eaten. The one who was rescued was George H W Bush. It takes approximately five liters of water to create a one liter plastic water bottle. Ninety percent of all the pumpkins grown in the United States are grown within a ninety mile radius of Peoria, Illinois. If a football field were a timeline of cosmic history, cavemen to now spans the thickness of a blade of grass in the end zone. Before the 1930's, pink was considered a boy's color and blue a girl's color. Before the 40's, pink was a masculine color and blue was a feminine color. You would need 76 8-hour workdays to read all the Terms and Conditions you agree to in a year. You think you're having a bad day? Remember this: In 1976 Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stock in Apple for $800! Now its worth $84 Billion. The can opener was invented over 75 years after the invention of the can. Early cans were opened with a hammer and chisel. There is Mormon folklore teaching that Bigfoot is the biblical Cain. Put a sticker with a fake PIN number on your debit card. If you lose it and someone tries to use it 3+ times, the machine will eat the card. The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on the moon. The total amount of data humankind has ever collected up to 2003, is now collected every two days. Sporange (a botany term) and Blorenge (a name of a hill in Wales) are the only two words that rhyme with the word ”orange”. A woman bought a used bible in California, found an essay in it that she wrote 65 years ago and 2000 miles away while living in Kentucky. It only takes blood 60 seconds to make a complete circuit through your body. "Eleven plus two" & "Twelve plus one" are spelled with the same exact letters and both equal the same amount. It has been calculated that in the last 3,000 years there have only been 240 years of peace throughout the civilized world. To see if batteries are good, drop them on the floor. If they bounce once, they're good. If they bounce more than once they're empty. Drop each ALKALINE battery (with the flat, negative end down) from a couple of inches up. If the battery is charged, it should make a solid thud and most likely stay standing. If, however, the battery is dead, it will bounce and fall over immediately. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments 3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues 4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists 5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace. 6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation 7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments 8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes 9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit 10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments 11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles 12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards. In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each of its neighbors. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely. Sweden recycles so well that it has run out of garbage and now must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent". There are about 14 people who are raped by dolphins every year. The lion used in the originial MGM movie logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was filmed. Oxfam reports that the 85 wealthiest people in the world have the same net worth as bottom 3.5 billion people (half of world population). When you drink a glass of water, it has already been drunk by other people and animals, possibly several times over. If the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky way galaxy would be the size of the United States. The largest known star is 4,982,686,912 times bigger than the sun, and is only 9,500 light-years away. NASA shows the film "Armageddon" to new staff to test how many scientific inaccuracies they can spot. The record is 168. Starbucks pays more for employee health insurance than it pays for coffee. The technical name for the division sign (÷) is "Obelus". The US has more empty houses than homeless people. One million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 33 years. A billion is a lot. Historically, lobster was not desired and seen as food for poor people. Prisoners complained because they were forced to eat lobster often. A Boeing 747 has 6 million parts; half of them are fasteners. There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all. 86% of land species and 91% of marine species are still out there waiting for names. It would take more than 1,000 years to name them all. The human brain isn't fully functional for learning until after 10 a.m. 85% of the world's population makes less than $200 a month. Bill Gates makes $290 per second. How much have you lost? 1 pound = a Guinea Pig 1.5 pounds = a dozen Krispy Kreme glazed donuts 2 pounds = a rack of baby back ribs 3 pounds = an average human brain 4 pounds = an ostrich egg 5 pounds = a Chihuahua 6 pounds = a human’s skin 7.5 pounds = an average newborn 8 pounds = a human head 10 pounds= chemical additives an American consumes each year 11 pounds = an average house cat 12 pounds = a Bald Eagle 15 pounds = 10 dozen large eggs 16 pounds = a sperm whale’s brain 20 pounds = an automobile tire 23 pounds = amount of pizza an average American eats in a year 24 pounds = a 3-gallon tub of super premium ice cream 25 pounds = an average 2 year old 30 pounds = amount of cheese an average American eats in a year 33 pounds = a cinder block 36 pounds = a mid-size microwave 40 pounds = a 5-gallon bottle of water or an average human leg 44 pounds = an elephant’s heart 50 pounds = a small bale of hay 55 pounds = a 5000 BTU air conditioner 60 pounds = an elephant’s penis (yep, weighs more than his heart!) 66 pounds = fats and oils an average American eats in a year 70 pounds = an Irish Setter 77 pounds = a gold brick 80 pounds = the World’s Largest Ball of Tape 90 pounds = a newborn calf 100 pounds = a 2 month old horse 111 pounds = red meat an average American eats in a year 117 pounds = an average fashion model (and she’s 5’11”) 118 pounds = the complete Encyclopedia Britannica 120 pounds = amount of trash you throw away in a month 130 pounds = a newborn giraffe 138 pounds = potatoes an average American eats in a year 140 pounds = refined sugar an average American eats in a year 144 pounds = an “average” adult woman (and she’s 5’4”) 150 pounds = the complete Oxford English Dictionary 187 pounds = an average adult man 200 pounds = 2 Bloodhounds 235 pounds = Arnold Schwarzenegger 300 pounds = an average football lineman 400 pounds = a Welsh pony If you replace the "w" in when, what, and where with a "t", you answer the question. If you took all of the gold ever mined and melted it into a cube, the sides would be 20.5 meters across. Pope John Paul II snuck out of the Vatican more than 100 times to go skiing in the Italian Alps without anyone noticing. Lobster was once a food reserved for the poor and for prisoners and that servants refused to eat lobster more than twice a week. The only countries in the world to use the Month-Day-Year format are the USA and Belize. The metric system is the official system of measurement in every country in the world except for Burma, Liberia and the U.S. There are only 5 countries in the world that still use Fahrenheit to measure temperature, the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau, and the United States. A Russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets over 40 years with the same man. The "richest" country in the world (the US) would lose that place if you excluded just the top 5% of wealth holders. The sentence "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" contains every single letter from the English alphabet. Lead rhymes with read. Lead also rhymes with read. Our mind is not inventing faces. In our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but do not remember. If a single teacher can't teach us all the subjects then how can you expect a single student to learn all the subjects? The "Fi" in "WiFi" doesn't mean anything – It was just called that because it sounded catchy and rhymed with "HiFi." The word "oxymoron" is an oxymoron. The Greek word "oxy" means "sharp" and "moron" means "dull". One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days. When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried pieces of the Wright Brothers' first airplane. There's 60 seconds in every minute, but 90 seconds in every moment. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time equal to 1/100th of a second The tendency to be pessimistic and negative is a genetic trait similar to hair and eye color. Some people are just born to be pessimistic. Beds can be deadly. Every year, 600 people die just in the U.S. alone after falling out of bed. An idiot is someone with an IQ from 0-25, an imbecile is someone with an IQ from 26-50, and a moron is someone with an IQ between 51 and 70. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the wright brother's first flight. Despite their strong association with the Middle East and Africa, camels actually originated in North America. Marinara wasn't invented until the New World was discovered, since tomatoes came from the Aztecs. Before that, pasta was eaten with no sauce. The last episode of Breaking Bad is #62 — the 62nd element on the Periodic Table, samarium, is used to treat lung cancer. A lightning bolt strikes so quickly it could circle the globe eight times in just one second. An average dust particle is the halfway point between the size of the Earth and the size of a proton. Times Square, while taking up just 0.1% of New York City’s total land area, creates 11% of the city’s economic output and 10% of its jobs. Ancient Rome had a 4-story-tall shopping mall with 150 shops and offices. The mortality rate for abortions in the U.S. is 0.67 per 100,000 procedures. For colonoscopies is about 20 per 100,000 procedures. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists. One quarter of the world’s languages are spoken only in Africa. Gray in America vs Grey in Europe "Stayin' Alive" and "Another One Bites The Dust" have the optimum tempo for performing CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack. Anything that is a root, leaf, or stem of a plant is a vegetable—which is why corn, zucchini, green beans, and tomatoes are fruits. There are castles for sale in France cheaper than old two-bedroom apartments in Sydney, Australia. There are more than 1500 newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations, 2400 publishers, owned by only 3 corporations. Paul McCartney is the only musician to have number one singles as a solo artist, as part as a duo, a trio, a quartet, a quintet, and a sextet. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado Burning Mad: The Burning Man festival, established in 1986, preaches (among other things) radical self-reliance, communal effort, civic responsibility, and “leaving no trace” on the Nevada desert floor where it’s held. To set up Black Rock City, organizers must get a permit from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the cost of which has been rising steadily: $858,000 in 2011, $1.4 million in 2012, $2.9 million in 2013, and more than $4 million in 2014. The 2015 permit is expected to cost nearly $5 million, and this year, in addition to the BLM “headquarters” that must be built to house its 150 officials (and please pony up $253,000 for their new two-way radios), BLM wants some special accommodations for “VIPs” — high-level government officials. For them, BLM wants organizers to set up a special air-conditioned camp with flush toilets and laundry facilities. There, Burning Man must supply an extensive and detailed menu of food offerings, which in addition to regular meat and vegetable items, includes M&Ms, Chobani Greek Yogurt, butter and margarine, salsa, hot peppers, brown sugar, raisins, a salad bar, and a variety of desserts. And not just during meal times: the BLM specified 24-hour access to hot coffee (regular and decaf), hot chocolate, fruit juice, hot water and tea bags (regular and decaf), Coke-branded products, dry cereal (minimum of four flavors, including Froot Loops), milk (both white and chocolate), milk alternatives (almond, vanilla, and soy), personal pizzas, Hot Pockets, burritos, noodle cups, candy bars, meat and cheese snacks, cookies, brownies, Popsicles, protein bars, nuts, chips, popcorn, fresh fruit, and (of course!) a stand-alone freezer filled with a variety of ice cream treats, especially including Choco Tacos and Drumsticks. The “unprecedented” VIP accommodations would cost at least $1 million to provide, Burning Man officials estimate, and meanwhile BLM hasn’t issued the permit. So far, Burning Man has refused the demands. (RC/Reno Gazette-Journal) ...After all that, it then becomes “necessary and reasonable” to supply man-carried sedan chairs to haul the Very Immense People around the festival. There's "hell" in hello, "good" in goodbye, "lie" in believe, "over" in lover, "end" in friend, "ex" in "next". A Subaru production plant in Indiana produces less waste in a year than an average family of 4 does in a week. American coinage was made using definite measurements. 16 pennies stacked equals 1 inch and 16 pennies in a line equals 1 foot. Atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space, so without it the entire human race could fit in a sugar cube. “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness”. (Here we see a twenty-word sentence where each successive word increases in length by a single letter until we arrive at incomprehensibleness. A literary gem!) i before e ... except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor In 1969, NASA possessed the technology to land on the moon but not the technology to fake the moon landings. Over 80% of the world's gold was formed by earthquakes—they pull rocks apart so quickly that the fluids inside them vaporize, leaving gold. A new word in English is created every 98 minutes. We can find 10 words in the 7-letter word ‘therein’ without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Schoolmaster is an anagram of ‘the classroom.’ ‘Go.’ is the shortest complete sentence in the language. In medieval Europe, a moment was precisely 1/40th of an hour, or 90 seconds. One in eight of all the letters written in English is ‘e’. In written English, only one letter in every 510 is a Q. Quartzy is the highest scoring word in the game of Scrabble. ‘CHECKBOOK’ is the longest horizontally symmetrical word in the English language. More English words begin with the letter “s” than with any other letter. ‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels. The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is ‘rhythm’. The shortest -ology is oology, the scientific study of eggs. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrightable’. Rounding up for astronomical purposes. Stars are big.) Driving at 60 miles per hour 24 hours per day it would take you 1 year 38 weeks to drive the diameter of the Sun. To drive the diameter of VY Canis Majoris at the same speed would take 2,336 years and 20 weeks. (Any driver who has driven 900,000 miles or more has driven the diameter of the Sun.) There are so many different types of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all. (7000) The first worker to die during the construction of the Hoover Damn (J.G. Tierney) was the father of the last person to die during the project (Patrick Tierney, 13 years to the day after his father’s death). The longest period of time that con occur without a Friday the 13th is 14 months. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States. Lobster wasn't always considered fancy. It was once so cheap it was served to prisoners. The most children born to one woman was 69 - Before dying at the age of 40, the woman had 16 twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruplets. Is the “C” or the “S” silent in the word SCENT? If you replace the “W” in Where, When and What with a “T”, you end up answering the question. The NFL makes about $9 billion a year and hasn't paid taxes since 1966. Panama is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic without moving. There are 7 different kinds of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Half-Identical, Mirror Image, Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, Superfetation It takes about 50 glasses of water to grow the oranges to make one glass of orange juice. New York City, at 8.4 million (2013) has a higher population than 39 out of the 50 U.S. States. We sent a man on the moon before we started putting wheels on our luggage. An average dust particle is the halfway point between the size of the Earth and the size of a proton. 10% of Earth’s Wilderness Has Disappeared Since the 1990s February 22nd of 2022 will fall on a Tuesday and henceforth should be forever known as “Two’s-Day”. Rope, boats, woven cloth, baskets, sewing needles and even the flute were all invented before the wheel. On a QWERTY keyboard a typist's fingers cover 20 miles a day; on a Dvorak keyboard it's only one mile. The labeling "genuine leather" isn't there to let you know the item is made of authentic leather, it's a particular grade of leather that happens to be the second worst kind. In 1982, the Almeida family lost their pet tortoise, Manuela, while their house was being renovated. 30 years later, they were cleaning out the attic after their father died and finally found Manuela... alive. They think she was able to survive by eating termites that lived in the piles of furniture their dad had been hoarding. Sharks kill 12 people per year – people kill 11,417 sharks per hour. There are 18.6 million empty homes and 3.5 million homeless people in America meaning that every homeless American can own six houses. A "II" suffix specifies that the first person to bear a name wasn’t the namesake's father—"Jr." indicates a person was named after their dad How come pink is considered to be a different colour than red but light green is considered to be a lighter shade of green? Hemingway once wrote a 6 word story- "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" Tampons were originally designed for bullet wounds. The longest single mail route in the U.S. is in Mangum, Oklahoma, where a carrier drives 182.75 miles (294 km) a day to serve 248 customers. The shortest single mail route in the U.S. is in Athens, Georgia, where a city carrier walks 950 feet (289 meters) to make 281 deliveries. Hospitals in the United States charge up to $800 for an IV bag of sterile saltwater. Average manufacture price is about $1. Since taking office, the President’s Mar-a-Lago trips have cost the federal treasury some $10 million—Meals on Wheels costs $306,000 a year. Freddie Mercury and Paul McCartney used the same piano to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Hey Jude." In his first 10 weeks in office, President Trump spent seven weekends at his Florida club. This has incurred costs estimated at upwards of $24 million. The travel bill of the entire Obama presidency was $97 million, or $12.1 million per year When United Airlines broke a man's $4500 guitar and refused to pay for it in 2009, he wrote a protest song. Over the next 4 weeks, United's stock price fell 10%, costing stockholders $180 million. It is estimated that Earth’s helium supply will have run out by 2030 and party balloons will cost about $90. Less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated Tyrannosaurus rex from Stegosaurus. Nicotine addiction is harder to take control of than an addiction to heroin. There is more money loaded on Starbucks cards and the Starbucks mobile app than some banks have in deposits. More people are killed by hippos every year than sharks, bears and lions combined. Antarctica was discovered in 1820. We discovered Uranus in 1781. McDonald's coke is good for a number of reasons, the first being that they pay Coca-Cola extra so their syrup (the main ingredient apart from water and carbonation) comes in stainless steel containers rather than the plastic bags that other chains use. McDonald's also serves their carbonated drinks a few degrees colder than their rivals this helps hold the carbonation better. Another reason is the straw, you’d never know it but McDonald's has done quite a bit of testing to get the right diameter straw, too big and it’s too fizzy, too small and not flavor hits the tongue. Finally McDonald's has a better water filtration system, it’s a double one and it costs lots of money to maintain but to them it’s worth it. All this results in the cleanest, freshest and tastiest coke around. Coke sold 25 bottles its first year. Today, it sells 1.8 billion bottles—per day. A swine flu outbreak in 1976 killed one person but, the vaccine for the swine flu killed 25. Good morning is two words and goodnight is one. Mornings are so bad that ‘good’ doesn’t even want to be with it. “Indescribable” is an adjective used to describe something HBO passed up “The Walking Dead” because it was “too violent.” They also passed up “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad.” Twin boys born in Massachusetts will forever need a few minutes to explain who is older thanks to Daylight Savings Time. On November 6, Samuel Peterson was born at 1:39 a.m. The birth of his twin brother, Ronan came 31 minutes later – just minutes after the clocks were rolled back one hour. So, despite the fact that Ronan was born 31 minutes after Samuel, his time of birth was recorded as 1:10 a.m. rather than 2:10 a.m. – making Ronan the “older” twin. 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only The Americas. Yellow teeth are stronger, the natural color of our teeth is a light yellow color. Whitening your teeth can permanently weaken them. “Apart” is one word, but implies separated. “A part” is two words, but implies together. Intentionally farting on a California prison guard can get you an additional 11 years in prison. On December 30, 1899, the S.S. Warrimoo crossed the meeting point of the equator and the international dateline at midnight. The shop's forward entered January 1, 1900 while the aft remained in 1899. The Warrimoo simultaneously sat in both hemispheres, two different season, months, days and centuries all at once! While approximately 27 people die from using elevators every year, 1,600 die from taking the stairs. Researchers have identified 15,152 different types of life forms living on the New York subway. On 8/8/88 the temperature in New York City hit a high of 88 degrees. The man who ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the U.S. on 9/11 was on his first day on the job. Flip bell peppers over to check their gender. Peppers with four bumps are female and ones with three bumps are male. In the United States, which contains 8 percent of the world's forests, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce and 13 hours to build a Toyota. Psychology says, being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones. Over three out of every five traffic citations in downtown San Francisco from April 1 through June 30 were for vehicles that were associated with a ride sharing company like Uber or Lyft. Ride share vehicles incurred 1,723 of the 2,656 violations in the period. About 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year. Nearly two weeks after Maria obliterated Puerto Rico, President Trump left Washington for PR and explained: "It's now acknowledged what a great job we've done. In Texas and in Florida, we get an A-plus. And I'll tell you what -- I think we've done just as good in Puerto Rico." Upon arriving, Trump's traveling improv show continued: "Now, I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico — and that's fine; we've saved a lot of lives. Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overbearing. No one has ever seen anything like that. What is your death count?" October 1st was the 274th day of the year and Las Vegas massacre was the 273rd mass shooting of 2017. All tortoises are in fact turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. The computer used to guide the Apollo 11 moon mission was less powerful than a modern calculator. There are 13 minerals found in beer that are necessary for human life. China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than America did during the entire 20th century. The United States joins Myanmar and Liberia as one of only three nations that don’t recognize the metric system. Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes on two consecutive days. An estimated 80% of creatures on Earth have six legs. Humans actually have 15 other senses which include things like balance, temperature, internal senses for suffocation, thirst and fullness. Scientists discovered in 2015 that there are 8 times more trees on earth than we previously thought. In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1--35 days. Dogs, goldfish, and ferns have more chromosomes than human beings. Prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years. A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes, a million seconds is about 11 days, and a billion seconds is about 32 years. If you keep going north, you will eventually go south, but if you keep going east, you will never go west. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Broccoli is man made. It was made over 2000 years ago, by farmers selectively breeding different types of cabbage. Several years back, probably 1000-2000 years ago, there was no broccoli. It came about in existence after some patient horticulturists selectively bred wild cabbage plants. Broccoli is actually a human innovation, which became popular in modern times only when, in the 16th century, farmers in Italy started growing it. It came to England only in 1720 and to America, much later, in the last century. According to the Washington Post, Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year. How Many Lights Are On The Eiffel Tower? France's Iron Lady has five billion light bulbs on her. The tower also has 108 stories, with 1,710 steps, and in total, weighs 10,000 tons. Why are Zoey and Zoe pronounced the same but Joey and Joe aren’t? A solar eclipse in Asia Minor occurred, leading to a battle truce, and historical astronomy has set May 28th, 585 BC as the likely day for this event. This became a cardinal point from which other dates in ancient history have been calculated. The majority of the Canadian population lives south of Seattle. The average Canadian is richer than the average American. J.K. Rowling was the first person to ever become a billionaire from writing books. Only 4 countries call it "soccer", while 188 countries call it "fùtbol". If the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States. A hippopotamus can swallow a man whole. On 8/8/88 the temperature in New York City hit a high of 88 degrees. A 99-year-old man divorced his 96-year-old wife after 77 years of marriage because he discovered that she had an affair in the 1940's. Kiribati, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean, is the only country in the world that is situated within all four hemispheres of the globe. In 1908, an explosion in a Siberian forest produced nearly 185 times more energy than an atomic bomb—to this day, its cause is unknown. Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time in October, 1994. The world spent $1735 Billion on war in 2012. It would take $135 billion to eradicate global poverty. God killed nearly 3 million people according to the Bible – Satan killed 10. Burt Reynolds turned down the role of James Bond, Han Solo in Star Wars, Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Rocky Balboa in Rocky, and John McClane in Die Hard. Also Jack Nicholson's part in One Flew Over the Cucokoo's Nest and Richard Gere's part in Pretty Woman. The deepest point in all of the Earth’s oceans is the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The deepest area within the trench, appropriately named the Challenger Deep, is a staggering 36,070 feet (10,994 meters) below sea level. A man called Michael Nicholson enrolled in school for 55 years straight, earning 30 degrees. The speed of light through space is 670x faster than a million miles per hour. ‘umop apisdn’ is ‘upside down’ spelled upside down. Most Converse shoes have a layer of felt on the bottom of them. This classifies them as slippers and saves the company tax dollars. Adam Rainer is the only person ever to be both a dwarf and a giant. At 18 he was 4'6”; at 50 he was 7'8". The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is newly out in a sixth edition. It adds such gems as “bestie,” “bizjet,” “qapik,” “twerk” and “zomboid.” But more importantly, “ok” and “ew” have been added to the supremely useful list of two-letter words. There are now 106 of those in the book. Pay close attention now: aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax, ay, ba, be, bi, bo, by, da, de, do, ed, ef, eh, el, em, en, er, es, et, ex, fa, fe, gi, go, ha, he, hi, hm, ho, id, if, in, is, it, jo, ka, ki, la, li, lo, ma, me, mi, mm, mo, mu, my, na, ne, no, nu, od, oe, of, oh, oi, ok, om, on, op, or, os, ow, ox, oy, pa, pe, pi, po, qi, re, sh, si, so, ta, te, ti, to, uh, um, un, up, us, ut, we, wo, xi, xu, ya, ye, yo, za. Elon Musk proposed his second wife after 10 days together. They divorced 2 years later, remarried the following year, filed for divorce again, withdrew the filing, re-filed for divorce and finally followed through with it. Michael Buffer, the boxing announcer best known for his phrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!” has made a fortune with the catchphrase. Since he successfully trademarked it in 1992, the phrase has generated over 400 million dollars in revenue through licensing deals. Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada by a Greek immigrant, who was inspired by Chinese food to put a South American ingredient on an Italian dish, that went on to be most popular in Australia. There was only one plane allowed to take off after flights were grounded on September 11, 2001. It was a plane carrying antivenom to a man bitten by a highly venomous snake. Chainsaws were originally used in childbirth. Scientists discover between 5-10,000 new species every year, the majority of which are insects or arachnids. Every 100 years, we skip a leap day to correct for the overcorrection created by the regular routine of adding a leap day to every fourth year—unless the year in question is evenly divisible by 400, as in the case of the years 1600, 2000, and 2400. If you started putting $2 in your savings account every day when you turned 20, you would be a millionaire by age 65. A mentally ill man shot himself in the head as a suicide attempt. The bullet cured his disorder and he became a straight-A college student. Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park were all in theaters at the same time in October, 1994 Within only 2,000 years of humanity's arrival in the New World, indigenous peoples drove to extinction 84 of the Americas' 107 genera of large mammals. Four popes have died while having sex. The phrase "I don't give a fuck" originated in 1790. About half of Americans born at the turn of the 20th century had blue eyes. Today, only about one 1 of every 6 Americans has them. Blowing out candles on birthday cakes results in roughly 3000 bacteria capable of forming colonies on the cake. In 1915, doctors believed that a menstruating woman could kill an entire colony of bees with her stare. The buttonhole was invented more than 1,000 years after the button. More than 4,000 Swedish citizens now have microchip implants under their skin to speed up their daily routine -- Using it to access their homes, gyms, offices, as well as e-tickets for events, social media profiles, and emergency contact info. Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull. Hundreds of years ago, humans would go to sleep early, wake up in the middle of the night to perform tasks, then go back to a “second sleep". When Steve Jobs was at his deathbed, he asked for five different oxygen masks so that he could choose the one with the best design. During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination. Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild. The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion. 27,000 trees are chopped down every day just to make toilet paper. Blood donors in Sweden are sent a text message every time their blood is used to save a life. Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s. A can of Mountain Dew can dissolve a mouse. Bananas have more trade regulations imposed upon them than AK-47s. “Albert Einstein” is an anagram for “ten elite brains”. Scotland has 421 words for “snow”. Alice Cooper used to babysit Keanu Reeves. The six Brady kids now range in age from 57 to 64 (2018). OJ Simpson's father was a well known drag queen and died of AIDS in 1986. The bell on early cash registers (circa 1884), not marketing, is why prices like $1.99 rather than $2.00 exist. The 1¢ change back to the customer forced the cashier to open the till, ringing the bell & make change. Otherwise the sale could more easily be pocketed by the clerk. The doctor who claimed there was a link between autism and vaccines, lost his medical license for creating fraudulent data for the study. 1974, Johnny Carson told NBC that he wanted the network to stop airing reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends by the following summer. They had to create an original program to run at 11:30 on Saturday nights. The show NBC created was Saturday Night Live. In 1825 painter Samuel Morse received a letter which read that his wife was sick. The day after that a new one said that she was dead. When 2 days later he went to his wife, he discovered that she was already buried. He was so upset that he invented the Morse code. A meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the Earth’s equator and the North Pole. Each time a man's heart beats, he makes 1500 new sperm. Only 4 countries call it "soccer", while 188 countries call it "fùtbol". The world spent $1735 Billion on war in 2012. It would take $135 billion to eradicate global poverty. When United Airlines broke a man's $4500 guitar and refused to pay for it in 2009, he wrote a protest song. Over the next 4 weeks, United's stock price fell 10%, costing stockholders $180 million. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. If you accidentally swallow a Lego, it'll take an average of 1.71 days to poop it out. On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists at an Australian resort, killing 35 people and wounding 23 more. Australia enacted strict gun laws and have had no mass shootings since. Only 14.5% of American males are 6 feet or taller and only about 3% are taller than 6'2". However, roughly 58% of CEOs in the U.S. are more than 6 feet tall. 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only the Americas. There are only 3 countries in the world that don't offer paid maternity leave: Suriname, Papua New Guinea and the United States. "Genuine leather" isn't reassuring you the item is made of real leather. It's actually a grade of leather and is the second-worst type of leather there is. We're closer in time to when the Tyrannosaurus Rex walked the Earth, than the T. Rex was to the Stegosaurus. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Samuel Seymour witnessed the Lincoln assassination at the age of five; not only was he the longest surviving witness of the event, but he lived so long that he was able to recount the incident on live television in 1956. Because of the amount of granite used in its construction, Grand Central Station produces more radiation than is allowable at a nuclear power plant. Julia Stewart started working as a waitress for IHOP when she was 16. Years later, she eventually became the president of their competitor, Applebees. When Applebees didn't offer her the position of CEO, she left to become the CEO of IHOP, and then she bought Applebees. The can was invented in 1810. However, the can opener wasn't invented until 48 years later. Kit Kats are made using imperfect Kit Kats. Nestlé leaves no Kit Kat uneaten, so every rejected Kit Kat is mashed into a paste that's used to fill the wafers. Every time you eat a Kit Kat, you're also consuming layers of Kit Kats within other Kit Kats. The world's billionaires made enough money in 2017 to end extreme poverty seven times over. Half of the world’s geysers are located in Yellowstone National Park. Vermont first tried to become part of Quebec, but Quebec refused so it joined the United States instead. In North Carolina, California, New York and New Mexico, it takes more hours of training to become a licensed barber than a police officer. Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelanglo knew each other. When he was still Marion Morrison, John Wayne met Wyatt Earp on a movie set. Ostriches are the only birds with a bladder. Asphalt is actually a very very slow moving liquid. The university of Queensland has been running the pitch drop experiment for almost 100 years. Over a 13 year period the 9th drop finally collided with the 8th. Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for funerals, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence. November 2nd, 2000 was the last time all living humans were on earth at the same time. Ever since then, the ISS has been continuously occupied. Ethiopia has a space programme. Due to the electoral college, it's possible for a presidential candidate to win an election with only 23% of the popular vote. In 1987, Richard Nixon's wife predicted that Donald Trump would one day become the President if he decided to run for office. To prove that fewer calories, not healthier foods, is the key to weight loss, a nutrition professor went on a low-calorie diet consisting mostly of Twinkies, Doritos, and Oreos. In two months, he lost 27 pounds, and dropped his bad cholesterol by 20%. The average US resident living in a moderately-sized city (where they walk past ten new people a day and live to be 71) theoretically walks by 16 murderers in a lifetime. Someone living in a large city (where they see 1,000 new people every day), would pass 1,600 murderers. The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is so vast that 1 million seconds ago was the start of last week. 1 billion seconds ago was 1987. (2019) It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach 1 billion. Then it only took 200 years for it to reach 7 billion. The CGI version of the Empire State Building in the 2005 film King Kong took 18 months of work to accurately render; the actual Empire State Building was constructed in 14 months. The average Australian cat eats more fish per year than the average Australian. In 1984, a cult sprayed salmonella on doorknobs and food in a town in Oregon to poison people so they would be too sick to vote and the cult could take over the town. It was the largest biological attack in U.S. history. The first drinking straw was designed to have a diameter slightly smaller than the typical lemon pip, as the inventor was tired of getting lemon seeds in his mouth when drinking lemonade. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of those Great Pyramids. Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to humans than it did to the stegosaurus. Jeff Bezos' wealth is so massive, an $88,000 purchase to him is similar to a $1 purchase for the average American. In 2007, the Australian government spent about $84 million on a porn filter. A 16-year-old boy named Tom Wood cracked the filter in about 30 minutes. Nintendo has so much money; the company can lose roughly $257 million every year and still survive until 2052. Every member of Congress has been receiving a copy of Hustler magazine each month for the last 30 years. And they can't stop it. Adam Rainer was a man who lived the first 20 years of his life as a dwarf with a height of 4'10". Then he began to grow at an alarming rate and died a giant with a height of 7'1". The world's smallest test tube has a diameter 10,000 times narrower than a human hair. Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea while he was drunk. The National Security Advisor at the time got on the phone and told the Joint Chiefs of Staff to stand down on the order until Nixon woke up sober the next morning. Then the strike was canceled. Lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars are the four big cats that can roar, but they cannot purr. Cougars (aka mountain lions, panthers, pumas) and cheetahs cannot roar, but they can purr. President Trump has now uttered more than 10,000 “false or misleading claims,” according to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker database. While it took Trump 601 days to reach 5,000, it only took 226 to reach 10,000, an average of almost 23 such claims a day during that time. [The Washington Post] When a poacher's trap killed one of their own, two young gorillas teamed up to find and dismantle any remaining traps in the Rwandan forest, their home. They were only four-years-old but learned how to dismantle each trap they found. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns a mountain in West Texas. Inside of it, he's constructing a 200-foot-tall clock designed to last 10,000 years. Alaska is geographically big enough to fit 19 U.S. states within its borders. Mick Jagger has a great-grandchild who is older than his youngest child. The average human would have to consume 300 hamburgers to match the equivalent of what hummingbirds eat every day to survive. Cats that have saggy stomachs aren't just fat. It's called a "primordial pouch." It helps protect them during fights, as well as helps them move more easily while running and jumping. In 1939, the population of London was 8,615,245. In 2015, the population of London was 8,615,246. 46% of American adults believe that the world is less than 10,000 years old, a 2012 survey found. In 2015, a Chinese billionaire bought a US$170 million painting by with his credit card so he could use the points for free airfare. Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo? The state of California is named after Queen Calafia, a fictional pagan warrior queen who ruled over an army of black women who kept man-eating griffins as pets. Facebook runs on 61 million lines of code. That's more than twice the amount needed for an F-35 Fighter Jet. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote two love letters to two different women while married to his first wife. His wife found them in the outgoing mail, switched the envelopes, then mailed them. Although the image format GIF is pronounced with a hard g (as in “gift” or “graft”) by most people today, the format’s creators pronounced it with a soft g (as in “jiffy” or “gin”). In 1978, a student working a minimum wage job could pay for 4 years of college with no debt. Do you have a favorite palindrome, and why or why not? "Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned." I can only faintly imagine how difficult this was to create. 1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is roughly 31.5 years. Shakespeare and Pocahontas were alive at the same time. As many as one in six Americans are not entirely convinced the world is round, according to a 2018 survey. More than 800 different languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on Earth. If you work a standard 40 hours a week all year, making $2,000.00 per hour (two thousand, not a typo), and do that every year for 2,000 years (again, not a typo. I’m talking working regular full-time hours since Jesus times) you would have made 8 billion dollars. You wouldn’t even be in the top 100 richest people on the planet. Roughly one in every 12 people in the world are estimated to have a copy of Pink Floyd's top selling album Dark Side Of The Moon (1973). Pharrell only made $2,700 in songwriter royalties from 43 million plays of "Happy" on Pandora. Two grandsons of President John Tyler—the 10th president of the United States, who was born in 1790—are still alive. "Dessert stomach" is a real thing. The sugar in sweet foods stimulates a reflex that actually expands your stomach, which is why you somehow find room for dessert, even if you're stuffed after the main course. Despite being the largest animal on Earth with a mouth large enough to fit 100 people, the blue whale cannot swallow any object wider than a beach ball. Their throats are too small. Every minute of the day, one billion tons of rain falls on the earth. Cats are one of the very few animal species that domesticated themselves. They started coexisting with humans because they felt like it. Human saliva contains a natural painkiller called opiorphin that’s six times more powerful than morphine. Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of "Fahrenheit 451" on a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library. It charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes. He spent $9.80 in total. Beekeepers in France noticed that their bees were producing honey in unusual shades of green and blue. After investigating, the beekeepers discovered that the bees had been eating remnants of M&M candy shells from a nearby factory. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002. Pluto will complete its first full orbit since its discovery on Monday, March 23rd 2178. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%. The postal code for Delta, BC, Canada is V4G 1N4. It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach 1 billion. Then it only took 200 years for it to reach 7 billion. A "hobo" is a person who travels and finds work. A "tramp" is someone who travels but mostly does not work. A "bum" is someone who neither travels nor works. The genetic similarity between two humans – 99.9% The genetic similarity between a human and a chimp – 96% The genetic similarity between a human and a cat – 90% The genetic similarity between a human and a dog – 84% The genetic similarity between a human and a banana – 60% The unique smell of Crayola crayons comes from stearic acid, a derivative of beef fat. In a 1982 study conducted by Yale University, Crayola crayons were among the top 20 most frequently identified scents. Titanic survivors were charged $1 per word to send telegrams from their lifeboats. One man used his last dollar to send the word 'Safe' to his mother. Jerry Parr, the Secret Service agent credited with saving Ronald Reagan’s life in the 1981 assassination attempt, was inspired to become a Secret Service agent after watching the 1939 film Code of the Secret Service, starring, you guessed it, a young Ronald Reagan. Out of the nearly 200 countries in the world, only 22 of them have never experienced a British invasion. In 2015, Nigel Richards (from New Zealand) learned every word in the French Scrabble Dictionary and won the French World Scrabble Championship. He won the championship again in 2018. But, he doesn't speak any French. Almost 75% of all aluminum ever made is still in use today thanks to recycling. The sentence "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" uses every letter in the English alphabet.