1. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
2. Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet.
3. During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
4. The longest word in the English language, with all of the letters in alphabetical order is “Almost”.
5. Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
6. A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them.
7. There is 293 different ways to give back change on a dollar.
8. A giraffe’s heart weighs an incredible 24 pounds.
9. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
10. In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
11. An average person farts 16 times a day.
12. 3% of pet owners give Valentine’s gifts to their pets on Valentine’s Day.
13. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
14. After a person dies there nails and hair continues to grow.
15. Dolphins and Humans are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.
16. In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times.
17. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
18. The human heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
19. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
20. Cat urine glows under a black-light.
21. A giraffe can lick it’s own ears.
22. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
23. A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes.
24. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
25. There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952.
26. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
27. Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
28. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
29. 53% of women in America would dump their boyfriend if they did not get them anything for Valentine’s Day.
30. The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male.
31. Three years of a person’s life is spent on the toilet.
32. The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.
33. A human can not kiss his elbow with his lips. Also 96 % of people who reads this information are compelled to try this.
34. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
35. More people are kill by falling coconuts every year then sharks attack.
36. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
37. On average, 100 people die from falling coconuts every year.
38. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
39. Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
40. Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.
41. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
42. Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
43. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.
44. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
45. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
46. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
47. Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.
48. Jews, on average, have a 0.2cm longer nose than the rest of the population.
49. There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.
50. 27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
51. Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
52. Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.
53. 1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.
54. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
55. Every year about 7 people gets killed by sharp objects in the dishwasher.
56. A duck’s quack does not echo.
57. An eyelash lasts 150 days
58. 45% of Americans don’t know that the sun is a star.
59. Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic.
60. Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.
61. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in the english language that has 3 letters that consecutively repeat.
62. 31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
63. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
64. If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court.
65. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
66. Squirrels cannot contract rabies.
67. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
68. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
69. It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
70. Polar bears are left-handed.
71. In the gyms they called Jennifer Lopez “La Guitarra” because her body curved like a guitar.
72. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”
73. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
74. About 90% of Americans view themselves as being shy.
75. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
76. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
77. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
78. A snail can sleep for three years.
79. The world record for finishing the Rubik’s cube is 16.5 seconds.
80. A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.
81. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
82. The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant is 69.
83. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
84. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
85. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar.
86. John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
87. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
88. On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.
89. You lose 60 hairs a day.
90. Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.
91. 50% of female polar bears also have a penis.
92. The average length of an orgasm for a pig is 30 minutes.
93. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
94. During their periods womens middle fingers shrink. No one knows why.
95. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
96. When the divorce rate goes up in the United States, toy makers report that the sale of toys also rise.
97. Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.
98. There are more pigs than humans in Denmark.
99. Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.
100. 75% of people will believe any made up statistic.
It's obvious that all of these so called facts are not true but still fun conversation pieces non the less.
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