There are a few of you who know I LOVE fun facts. Here are a few.
More diabetics die on Easter Sunday than on any other day.
A jester or bard character who speaks in verse can be found in all but three Shakespeare plays: King John, Measure for Measure, and As You Like It.
Six out of ten Chinese speak english, while only one and a half speaks cantonese.
Paper only burns at 451 degrees Farenheit at an altitude of 12,000 feet. At sea level, it ignites at 464 degrees.
The primary cause of death for male Swedes between the ages of 20 and 23 is venereal disease.
Phoenix, Arizona has the highest number of smokers per capita of any U.S. city.
When first introduced in the late 1800s, a synthetic fur coat was six times more expensive than a real fur coat.
Bees are more likely to sting on the neck than anywhere else on the body.
After achieving national recognition for the light bulb, Thomas Edison unsuccessfully ran for mayor of his hometown.
The average person will handle less than 94 different $100 bills in their lifetime.
42 Civil War renactors were injured last year when their historical simulation erupted into a Yankee versus Dixie brawl.
The average time between posting an email address on a website and the first piece of spam received is 6.21 hours.
Contrary to their popular depiction, most barns are white, not red.
Approximately three new manuscripts are discovered each year that are initally attributed to William Shakespeare. Only one in the last 50 years has ever been conclusively proven to authored by the Bard.
A yellow jacket can sting 14 times before running out of venom.
Nine percent of over-the-counter prescriptions are written for placebos.
An adult Andean condor can fly while carrying a fully grown sheep over one mile.
The game Yahtzee was originally played by gold miners in the 1850s.
The average independent film is shot at a cost of one twentieth the average Hollywood film's advertising budget.
A rat's sneeze contains no bacteria.
Three original members of Monty Python died in a bus accident two months before the troupe began production for the premiere of their BBC television show.
Most people eat waffles around once per year.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote of George Washington shortly after he assumed office, "Though an able commander, I presume the General knows little of diplomacy and tact. His manner is often rude and his mood is quite unstable."
At each campaign stop, George Bush kissed an average of 4.1 babies, while John Kerry kissed only 1.2.
Henry Winkler, who played Arthur Fonzarelli on the show Happy Days, is celebrated in his hometown of Ulliott, Minnesota with a small statue depicting a closed hand with a thumb raised skyward.
Three former presidents have been selected as commissioners of Major League Baseball after finishing their terms.
The winter of 1918 was the only year cold enough that all of Niagara Falls froze.
A piece of paper and 10 matchsticks use roughly the same amount of wood.
The animated character Gumby was originally intended to be blue.
One out of 15 Americans don't know the order of the months.
Canadians will eat, on average, six fortune cookies each year.
Despite its low price, Top Ramen is the sixth highest grossing packaged food product.
The average house has more spoons than forks.
An American's nap will usually last around 31 minutes, compared to a European's nap which usually lasts 84.
The dime has the highest ratio of value to weight of any coin in the world.
43 percent of all legal pads are yellow.
Shoelaces have an average lifespan of 3.2 years before breaking.
Bananas account for 83 percent of Ecuadors exported goods.
Experts predict that by 2009 cellular phones will outnumber conventional phones three to one.
One quarter of Starbucks' garbage is taken up by used coffee grounds.
There is no US patent declared for the personal computer.
Due to small irregularities in Earth's orbit, the length of day will shrink or expand by up to .003 seconds each year.
12 percent of married couples divorce within six months of purchasing a house.
The music of Elvis Presley is banned in seven different countries across the world.
In its first year of business Amazon.com was sued by the Amazon Bookstore in Frankfort, Michigan for stealing their name.
Kids who first bite the heads off of "Teddy Grahams" and other animal-based snacks tend to show violent behavior later in life.
Marketing executives at KY-Jelly did not realize the sexual connotations of their slogan "See what happens" until after their campaign began.
Most books being sold in used book stores are selling for less than the cost of publishing them.
Even those allergic to nuts will end up consuming more than two pounds of nuts in their life.
By number, Americans constitute 4.6 percent of the world's population and seven percent by weight.
Fashion experts say that around one half of all suits currently being worn at any given moment are "out of style."
The technical name for a plus sign (+) is a quadrapoint.
Red-haired people are twice as likely to be married by age 23 than their blonde-haired counterparts.
U.S. Banks currently hold $48.6 billion in unclaimed inheritance funds.
Wyoming leads the nation in the ratio of federal tax dollars going in, versus federal tax dollars coming back at $1.42 received for every $1 paid.
26 percent of iPod Minis distributed are acquired for free through internet banner and pop up advertisements.
The average rubberband can stretch up to 5.2 times its length before breaking.
The letters "WD" in WD-40 refer to the weight and density of the lubricant, 40 representing the ratio thereof.
Breakfast ceral is more commonly consumed as an afternoon snack than a morning meal.
The first grocery laser scanner was installed in a Safeway in Santa Monica, California, in 1972, and is still in use today.
The common cold is actually any of over 300 different viruses. Each one of them, like the chicken pox, can only be caught once in a lifetime.
Of America's floors, 61 percent are carpet, 21 percent are linoleum, and 12 percent are wood.
Dentists estimate that while four out of five of their patients claim to brush their teeth twice a day, only one in three actually does.
Although they are commonly assumed to go together, phrase "once upon a time" predates "and they lived happily ever after" in printed books by almost 150 years.
Over half of the comic books sold in the United States last year were printed in Japan.
Time zone differences cost the world economy over 12 billion dollars a year in lost efficiency.
Users of earbud headphones, like the ones that come with an iPod, experience a 61 percent increase in ear wax production.
The average person changes their underwear every 2.21 days.
Early in his career Harry Houdini was forced to cut a world tour short when he was accused of witchcraft, in South Africa, a crime punishable by death at the time.
Any given day, one in 12 people describes themselves as having a "bad hair day."
Roughly eight eggs are consumed each year for every person on earth.
To relieve stress Bob Dole would, without warning, volunteer to give tours of the Senate building to school tours.
The number of professional accordion players has dropped 92 percent in the last 40 years.
54 percent of lost earrings are never found.
Most puzzles with over 1,000 pieces are never completed.
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More diabetics die on Easter Sunday than on any other day.
A jester or bard character who speaks in verse can be found in all but three Shakespeare plays: King John, Measure for Measure, and As You Like It.
Six out of ten Chinese speak english, while only one and a half speaks cantonese.
Paper only burns at 451 degrees Farenheit at an altitude of 12,000 feet. At sea level, it ignites at 464 degrees.
The primary cause of death for male Swedes between the ages of 20 and 23 is venereal disease.
Phoenix, Arizona has the highest number of smokers per capita of any U.S. city.
When first introduced in the late 1800s, a synthetic fur coat was six times more expensive than a real fur coat.
Bees are more likely to sting on the neck than anywhere else on the body.
After achieving national recognition for the light bulb, Thomas Edison unsuccessfully ran for mayor of his hometown.
The average person will handle less than 94 different $100 bills in their lifetime.
42 Civil War renactors were injured last year when their historical simulation erupted into a Yankee versus Dixie brawl.
The average time between posting an email address on a website and the first piece of spam received is 6.21 hours.
Contrary to their popular depiction, most barns are white, not red.
Approximately three new manuscripts are discovered each year that are initally attributed to William Shakespeare. Only one in the last 50 years has ever been conclusively proven to authored by the Bard.
A yellow jacket can sting 14 times before running out of venom.
Nine percent of over-the-counter prescriptions are written for placebos.
An adult Andean condor can fly while carrying a fully grown sheep over one mile.
The game Yahtzee was originally played by gold miners in the 1850s.
The average independent film is shot at a cost of one twentieth the average Hollywood film's advertising budget.
A rat's sneeze contains no bacteria.
Three original members of Monty Python died in a bus accident two months before the troupe began production for the premiere of their BBC television show.
Most people eat waffles around once per year.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote of George Washington shortly after he assumed office, "Though an able commander, I presume the General knows little of diplomacy and tact. His manner is often rude and his mood is quite unstable."
At each campaign stop, George Bush kissed an average of 4.1 babies, while John Kerry kissed only 1.2.
Henry Winkler, who played Arthur Fonzarelli on the show Happy Days, is celebrated in his hometown of Ulliott, Minnesota with a small statue depicting a closed hand with a thumb raised skyward.
Three former presidents have been selected as commissioners of Major League Baseball after finishing their terms.
The winter of 1918 was the only year cold enough that all of Niagara Falls froze.
A piece of paper and 10 matchsticks use roughly the same amount of wood.
The animated character Gumby was originally intended to be blue.
One out of 15 Americans don't know the order of the months.
Canadians will eat, on average, six fortune cookies each year.
Despite its low price, Top Ramen is the sixth highest grossing packaged food product.
The average house has more spoons than forks.
An American's nap will usually last around 31 minutes, compared to a European's nap which usually lasts 84.
The dime has the highest ratio of value to weight of any coin in the world.
43 percent of all legal pads are yellow.
Shoelaces have an average lifespan of 3.2 years before breaking.
Bananas account for 83 percent of Ecuadors exported goods.
Experts predict that by 2009 cellular phones will outnumber conventional phones three to one.
One quarter of Starbucks' garbage is taken up by used coffee grounds.
There is no US patent declared for the personal computer.
Due to small irregularities in Earth's orbit, the length of day will shrink or expand by up to .003 seconds each year.
12 percent of married couples divorce within six months of purchasing a house.
The music of Elvis Presley is banned in seven different countries across the world.
In its first year of business Amazon.com was sued by the Amazon Bookstore in Frankfort, Michigan for stealing their name.
Kids who first bite the heads off of "Teddy Grahams" and other animal-based snacks tend to show violent behavior later in life.
Marketing executives at KY-Jelly did not realize the sexual connotations of their slogan "See what happens" until after their campaign began.
Most books being sold in used book stores are selling for less than the cost of publishing them.
Even those allergic to nuts will end up consuming more than two pounds of nuts in their life.
By number, Americans constitute 4.6 percent of the world's population and seven percent by weight.
Fashion experts say that around one half of all suits currently being worn at any given moment are "out of style."
The technical name for a plus sign (+) is a quadrapoint.
Red-haired people are twice as likely to be married by age 23 than their blonde-haired counterparts.
U.S. Banks currently hold $48.6 billion in unclaimed inheritance funds.
Wyoming leads the nation in the ratio of federal tax dollars going in, versus federal tax dollars coming back at $1.42 received for every $1 paid.
26 percent of iPod Minis distributed are acquired for free through internet banner and pop up advertisements.
The average rubberband can stretch up to 5.2 times its length before breaking.
The letters "WD" in WD-40 refer to the weight and density of the lubricant, 40 representing the ratio thereof.
Breakfast ceral is more commonly consumed as an afternoon snack than a morning meal.
The first grocery laser scanner was installed in a Safeway in Santa Monica, California, in 1972, and is still in use today.
The common cold is actually any of over 300 different viruses. Each one of them, like the chicken pox, can only be caught once in a lifetime.
Of America's floors, 61 percent are carpet, 21 percent are linoleum, and 12 percent are wood.
Dentists estimate that while four out of five of their patients claim to brush their teeth twice a day, only one in three actually does.
Although they are commonly assumed to go together, phrase "once upon a time" predates "and they lived happily ever after" in printed books by almost 150 years.
Over half of the comic books sold in the United States last year were printed in Japan.
Time zone differences cost the world economy over 12 billion dollars a year in lost efficiency.
Users of earbud headphones, like the ones that come with an iPod, experience a 61 percent increase in ear wax production.
The average person changes their underwear every 2.21 days.
Early in his career Harry Houdini was forced to cut a world tour short when he was accused of witchcraft, in South Africa, a crime punishable by death at the time.
Any given day, one in 12 people describes themselves as having a "bad hair day."
Roughly eight eggs are consumed each year for every person on earth.
To relieve stress Bob Dole would, without warning, volunteer to give tours of the Senate building to school tours.
The number of professional accordion players has dropped 92 percent in the last 40 years.
54 percent of lost earrings are never found.
Most puzzles with over 1,000 pieces are never completed.
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Chicken eggs, right?