50 WEIRD FACTS

Cool and Weird facts about our everyday lives that
everyone should know. Check out this collection of 50 Cool
and Weird Fun Facts.
Start your day learning something you didn't know
yesterday.
1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
2. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the
13th in them.
3. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an
adult you will have 206.
4. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles
long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
5. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet.
6. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime
waiting for the light to change from red to green.
7. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the
celery has in it.
8. The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by
the year 2080.
9. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8
inches thick.
10. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it
makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
11. Native Americans used to name their children after the
first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their
children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and
Running Water.
12. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version
of football, instead of a normal football they use a human
skull.
13. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't
added.
14. During the 17th Century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his
hole harem of women to be drowned and replaced with a
new one.
15. Coffins used for cremation are usually made with plastic
handles.
16. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with
all the letters in alphabetical order.
17. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
18. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut
off.
19. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare
you, give it a try!
20. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon.
21. Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET"
has the most definitions.
22. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in
Nebraska.
23. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging
for the murder of a child.
24. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
25. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000
years old!
26. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000
miles.
27. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in
56 days.
28. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the
average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
29. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would
have to visit 2 million flowers.
30. A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000
insects in an hour.
31. One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our
planet disguised as humans.
32. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by
law to be blind.
33. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is
admissible in court.
34. James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America
died of a heart attack while running.
35. The average American spends about a year and a half of
his or her life watching commercials on television. What
are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half
doing something productive!
36. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth
control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath,
making her squat, and sneezing.
37. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of
apple butter.
38. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even
blueberries are purple!
39. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the
important meetings of the University of London.
40. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
41. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different.
42. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
43. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow.
44. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day.
45. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
46. 11% of the World is left handed.
47. A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
48. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright
brothers' first flight.
49. A broken clock is right two times a day.
50. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows
why.