Cool+Facts

= Interesting Facts =

For Your Warehouse of Useless Knowledge

 * 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
 * 1) 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
 * 2) 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
 * 3) 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
 * 4) 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
 * 5) 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
 * 6) 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
 * 7) 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
 * 8) 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
 * 9) 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
 * 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
 * 1) 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
 * 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
 * 1) 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
 * 2) A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
 * 3)  A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
 * 4) A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
 * 5) A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
 * 6) A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
 * 7) A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
 * 8) A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
 * 9) A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
 * 10) A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
 * 11) A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
 * 12) A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
 * 13) A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
 * 14) A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
 * 15) A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
 * 16) A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
 * 17) A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
 * 18) A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
 * 19) A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
 * 20) A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
 * 21) A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
 * 22) A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
 * 23) A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
 * 24) One pepper is so hot, you can't touch it or your hands will get burned!
 * 25) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
 * 26) A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
 * 27) A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 * 28) A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
 * 29) A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
 * 30) A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
 * 31)  A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
 * 32) A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
 * 33) A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually ...
 * 34) About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
 * 35) About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
 * 36)  According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.