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Interesting Facts IV

1- Fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

2- Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men.

3- There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

4- Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

5- 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.

6- 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.

7- Superman is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld", either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator.

8- 85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex.

9- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

10- Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28

11- Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38

12- Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80

13- Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50

14- Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58

15- Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85

16- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches

17- Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90

18- Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3

19- Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7

20- One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government.

21- The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

22- Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.

23- John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.

24- In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.

25- Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), killed his mother with a claw hammer.

26- One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.

27- Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song "Layla". That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.

28- There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

29- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

30- The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.

31- Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.

32- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

33- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

34- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

35- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

36- Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.

37- Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

38- There are no venomous snakes in Maine.


39- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

40- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.


41-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

42- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.

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

44- A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

45- A snail can also sleep for three years.

46- A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

47- A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.

48- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

49- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

50- A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.