Stimulating the brain is good for people of all ages. Share these interesting strange facts with someone for the fun of it!
• There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo
• Your body creates and kills 15 million red blood cells per second
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
• One car out of every 230 made was stolen in 2013
• A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
• The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day
• Every day 20 banks are robbed; the average take is $2,500
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
• When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour; to photograph the event a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second
• A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
• A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface
• Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill
• One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen
• The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
• A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average
• Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10th of a calorie
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
• Over 10,000 birds die each year from smashing into windows
• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
• The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open
• Slugs have 4 noses
• Human ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe
• A jellyfish is 95% water
• Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
• Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year
• More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby
• One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water
• Every second, Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate
• Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
• There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year
• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,2000 people
• A lump of gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
• The average person laughs 13 times a day