More Factoids

• The average lifespan of an eyelash is five months.
• A spider has transparent blood.
• Every acre of American crops harvested contains 100 pounds of insects.
• Prince Charles is an avid collector of toilet seats.
• Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
• An adult has 206 bones, while a newborn infant has 300.
• The most common street name in the U.S. is Second Street.
• American children ages 6-14 have 6 billion dollars in small change.
• Tehran is the most expensive city on earth.
• The sweat drops drawn in cartoon comic strips are called pleuts.
• Babies are most likely to be born on Tuesdays.
• About one million Americans drink coke for breakfast.
• The HyperMart outside of Garland Texas has 58 check-outs.
• The Minneapolis phone book has 21 pages of Andersons.
• In the 1980's American migraines increased by 60%.
• Poland is the "stolen car capital of the world".
• In Florida, there are grasshoppers with the wingspan of a small bird.
• The state name Iowa comes from an Indian word meaning "one who puts to sleep".
• South Carolina has 179 different license plate designs.
• Life Savers got their start in Cleveland.
• Meteor literally means anything up in the air.
• Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter, the monetary system, and the folding attic ladder.
• Uranium decays by half every 4.5 billion years.
• The Hundred Years War started in 1619 and ended is 1648.
• The S in Harry S. Truman did not stand for anything.
• In Micronesia, coins are 12 feet across.
• Wyatt Earp died of natural causes.
• Napoleon is known as the father of canning.
• A quarter pounder with cheese has 500 calories.
• The atmosphere on Mars is so thin it would make a humans blood boil.
• The Indian elephant has the littlest ears among elephants, spanning 3 feet across.
• If the sun were to blow out, it would take us eight minutes to realize it.
• A horse can look forward with one eye and back with the other.
• During growth spurts, a baby can grow inches overnight.
• An earthworms heart is wrapped around its esophagus.
• Potatoes produce natural valium.
• Glandular secretions of the beaver are used to produce chewing gum.
• A flamingo can stand on one leg for four hours.
• An adult moth never eats.
• Shakespeare is quoted 33,150 times in the Oxford English dictionary.
• The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
• Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
• The average person eats 50 bananas a year.
• You spend 7 years of your life in the bathroom.
• There is 92 times as much pressure on Venus than on earth.
• There are 187,888 lakes in Finland.
• Grease Wrestling is the national sport of Turkey.
• A family of 26 could go to the movies in Mexico city for the price of one in Tokyo.
• 10,000 Dutch cows pass through the Amsterdam airport each year.

Wil's Note: Some of these seem a bit suspect and vague. Babies are more likely to be born on Tuesday? By what margin? Hit me again!

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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