Interesting Facts - 100 Amazing Interesting Facts
Here is a collection of 100 Funny, Amazing and Interesting Facts to increase your general knowledge.
- ’Second Street’ is the most common street name in the USA. ’First Street’ is the sixth.
- 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
- 20252 is Smokey the Bear’s own zip code.
- 68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air.
- 80% of millionaires drive used cars.
- 85% of all Valentine’s Day cards are purchased by women.
- 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
- A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
- A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds.
- A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
- A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what it is worth and subtract 10%.
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h..
- A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.
- All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
- Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
- An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
- An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years.
- An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
- Babies are born without knee caps.
- Babies start dreaming even before they’re born.
- Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
- Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
- Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
- Chrysler built B-29’s that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
- Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
- During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
- Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas.
- Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
- Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
- Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
- Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
- Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
- Ice isn’t slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
- If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
- If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
- If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
- In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research.
- In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.
- In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
- In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
- In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
- In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed.
- In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
- In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
- It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
- It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
- It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.
- Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
- Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes.
- Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp.
- Los Angeles’s full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".
- Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states.
- More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
- More than 10% of the world’s salt is used to de-ice American roads.
- More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
- More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Most people who read the word ’yawning’ will yawn.
- New York’s Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
- Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
- No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
- Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
- On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
- On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
- Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
- Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
- Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
- Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) started as a coffee shop.
- The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
- The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world’s population.
- The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
- The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
- The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
- The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
- The search engine Google got its name from the word ’googol’, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
- The song ’Strawberry Fields Forever’, sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
- The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
- The symbol on the ’pound’ key (#) is called an octothorpe.
- The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy.
- The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
- There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capital Building - one for every day of the year.
- There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
- The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.