Funny facts, useless knowledge

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

The plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces are called “aglets”

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The “57” on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times

You lose 60 hairs a day

Ants do not sleep.

Barbies parents names are George and Margaret.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

The average length of an orgasm for a pig is 30 minutes.

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle

70% of the poor people in the world are female.

Monkeys only smile when they are scared

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

You are approximately two inches taller when you wake up than when you go to sleep.

You cannot fold any kind of paper by half more than 8 times. No matter how big it is.

Jews, on average, have a 0.2cm longer nose than the rest of the population.

John Tiemens received the same letter 287 times, confirming his credit card cancellation

If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court

Butterflies taste with their feet.

An average person farts 16 times a day

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes biting you simultaneously to drain all your blood.

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

An ostrich’s eye is larger than it’s brain.

Polar bears are left-handed.

In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

Camel’s have three eyelids.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Cockroaches can live up to 10 days without their head.

An elephant cannot jump.

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.

Thomas Edison created the English word, ‘Hello’.

The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant, is 69.

There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.

There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.