Interesting and useless facts :)

1. No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
2. Blueberry juice boosts memory
3. When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut
4. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
5. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
6. Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
7. The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only.  (Please don’t send me corrections to add the penis; the penis is not a muscle).
8. We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams
9. During thinking, we use on about 35% of our brains
10. The percentage of people dreaming in black and white started decreasing after the spread of color TV
11. Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss
12. Just days before the World Cup of 1966 in England, the trophy was stolen and then later retrieved by a dog
13. Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches
14. Coffee drinkers have more sex than non-coffee drinkers.  They also enjoy it more.
15. The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844.  Heads for Portland and tails for Boston. 
16. A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day
17. No president of the United States was an only child for his parents
18. Laughter is a proven way to lose weight
19. Pumice is the only rock that floats in water
20. The African cicada fly spends 17 years sleeping, then wakes up for two weeks, mates and then die.
21. The vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female “hysteria” during the 19th century
22. Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah, the lowest.
23. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.  Hemp doesn’t contain THC and won’t make you high.
24. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles
25. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

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1. The state official motto of Alaska is ” North to the Future”
2. People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers
3. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies
4. Orgies were originally religious events. They were originally offerings to the gods
5. 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover
6. It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
7. A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28
8. Human eye detects 10 million colors
9. The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king (shah) is dead (mat).”
10. Kissing helps prevent tooth decay
11. One California law states that sunshine is guaranteed to all people
12. Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour
13. Your thumb is the same length as your nose
14. Butterflies smell with their feet
15. Canada is the westernized version of “Kanata” which is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”
16. An egg laden goldfish is called a twit
17. In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands
18. In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named.
19. Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
20. Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states
21. Horses can’t vomit and pigs can’t look up in the sky
22. In1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament
23. The oldest dog died at the age of 29
24. Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
25. Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
26. In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
27. San Jose was the original capital of California
28. Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
29. 5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world’s prisons population are held in the US.
30. All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
31. Women are more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are
32. Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like as if it’s kissing the conveyor belt
33. The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley’s gum.  
34. Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. 
35. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
36. The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
37. Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
38. 250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S
39. You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
40. Honeybees never sleep
41. Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
42. Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald
43. 5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world’s prisons population are held in the US
44. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
45. Horses can’t vomit and pigs can’t look up in the sky
46. Chocolate contains an ingredient called “Theobromine” which can be toxic to dogs’ central nervous system and cardiac muscles
47. San Jose was the original capital of California
48. Most lipstick have fish scales
49. In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
50. Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
51. Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
52. The oldest dog died at the age of 29
53. Tamiflu’s main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
54. Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
55. The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
56. Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
57. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
58. Snakes with two heads fight each other for food
59. The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre.  The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
60. Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
61. Both men and women can be turned on by the aromas of wine
62. The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
63. Earthworms have five hearts
64. The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
65. A Playboy magazine survey found more women talk dirty during sex than men
66. Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.
67. Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
68. Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
69. If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
70. If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available.  (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
71. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
72. Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book “Historia de duobos amantibus” in 1444.
73. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
74. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like “baby-talk in Portuguese”.
75. As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
76. Two phone books with their pages interlaced require more than 8000 pounds of pressure to separte.
77. Urban birds have developed a short, fast “rap style” of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
78. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
79. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
80. The Pope’s been known to wear red Prada shoes.
81. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
82. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
83. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
84. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
85. Ghandi didn’t allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
86. Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
87. As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
88. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
89. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
90. Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
91. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
92. Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
93. For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
94. Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children
95. Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
96. The more panels a football has – and therefore the more seams – the easier it is to control in the air.
97. Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips
98. Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
99. The egg came first.
100. Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing “less problematic behavior” involving sex, drugs and drink.
101. Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it’s cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
102. In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
103. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
104. Camel’s milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow’s milk.
105. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
106. Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
107. The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
108. The brain is soft and gelatinous – its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
109. The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.
110. A “lost world” exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
111. The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
112. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

113. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

114. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.  

115. The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
116. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
117. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
118. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
119. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.  (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
120. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.  (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)  This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
121. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\’t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
122. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
123. The US national anthem actually has four verses, but everyone just knows the first one.  When the whole anthem is sung, the third verse is usually omitted.
124. During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
125. During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
126. The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946  (Thanks D.B. of AU)
127. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
128. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
129. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
130. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
131. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
132. Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
133. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
134. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to plants.
135. In some Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second (Filipinos and people from near by Asian countries have their individual names first and surnames last)
136. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
137. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
138. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
139. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
140. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named “El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula”
141. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn’t true; Joseph Swan did.
142. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
143. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
144. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
145. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “e.”
146. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any most other countries.  Locals in Japan might also get offended if you leave a tip.
147. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
148. The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
149. Pinocchio was made of pine.
150. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
151. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
152. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
153. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
154. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
155. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
156. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
157. There was once a town in West Virginia called “6.”
158. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota Oklahoma City.
159. Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
160. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator. (He actually tried to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul and a priest)
161. The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
162. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
163. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
164. The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
165. “Jaws” is the most common name for a goldfish.
166. On an average work day, a typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles.
167. Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
168. Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
169. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
170. Blue and white are the most common school colors.
171. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
172. In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
173. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
174. America’s best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.