Transcript A group of jellyfish is known as a “smack.”

A group of jellyfish is
known as a “smack.”
Christopher Columbus’s
fee for “discovering”
America: about $300.
Washington, D.C., has
more psychiatrists per
capita than any other city
in the country.
One in ten children
sleepwalk.
What does an algologist
study?
Seaweed.
Laid end to end, the blood
vessels in your body
would wrap around the
equator three times.
Camel rule of thumb:
One-humped camels run
faster than two-humped
camels.
A misodoctakleidist is
someone who hates
practicing the piano.
Odds of winning if you
challenge a traffic ticket in
court: about 1 in 3.
The first thing Thomas
Edison filmed with his
movie camera was a
person sneezing.
You can sweat as much as
3 gallons of water a day in
a hot climate.
Your fingernails are made
from the same substance
as a bird’s beak.
Coconut shells can absorb
more impact than most
crash helmets.
One in every 5 potatoes
grown in the U.S. ends up
as french fries.
A runner consumes about
7 quarts of oxygen while
running a 100 yard dash.
Bagpipes were invented in
Iran and brought to
Scotland by the Romans.
Hardest substance in your
body: the enamel in your
teeth.
Armadillos can catch
malaria.
Aspirin has never been
approved by the FDA. It
has never been rejected,
either.
In her entire life, Queen
Berengaria of England
never once visited
England.
Odds that you will
become famous enough
to merit mention in a
history book:
1 in 6 million.
Your big toes have only
two bones each. The rest
of your toes have three.
Elvis owned $60,000
worth of prescription
sunglasses when he died.
According to a German
doctor who weighed
patients at the moment of
death…the human soul
weighs ¾ of an ounce.
The Pentagon uses up 666
rolls of toilet paper on an
average day.
On average, your left
hand does 56% of your
typing.
On an average night, it
take an average person
seven minutes to fall
asleep.
Average speed of a golf
ball in flight during the
PGA tour: 160 mph.
Even if baboons wanted
to, they couldn’t play
baseball. They can’t
throw overhand.
In Tucson, Arizona,
potholes are officially
known as “pavement
deficiencies.”
Worldwide, an estimated
85% of all phone calls are
conducted in the English
language.
More than 1,000 people
belong to the Society of
Jim Smiths…
and all of them are
named Jim Smith.
The youngest first lady:
Frances Cleveland, age 21.
The saguaro cactus does
not grow its first arm until
its at least 75 years old.
Q - What color is a purple
finch?
A - Crimson.
It’s impossible to snore in
the weightlessness of
space.
It takes around 200,000
frowns to create a
permanent brow line.
Chief, the U.S. Cavalry’s
last horse, died in 1968.
He was 36.
Chickens are the only
birds that have combs.
Moscow is closer to
Washington, D.C., than
Honolulu is.
Average annual income in
the U.S. at the start of
WWII: $1,070.
Short people have fewer
back problems than tall
people do.
At Old English weddings,
guests threw shoes at the
groom.
Clams can live as long
as 150 years.
Can you flare your
nostrils?
Only 30% of humans can.
Longest word in Japanese:
Chi-n-chi-ku-ri-n.
It means “very short
person.”
The world’s most
popular car color is red.
Brain food:
You can think 625
thoughts on the caloric
energy of one Cheerio.
Poll results:
Baby boomers now say
that “old age” begins at
79.
It’s estimated that 75% of
all U.S. dollars contain
traces of cocaine.
The fingerprints of
humans and koalas are
virtually identical.
In her films, Shirley
Temple always had 56
curls in her hair.
It’s estimated you’ll eat
some 35,000 cookies in
your lifetime.
The first cereal to come in
boxes?
Shredded Wheat.
Who’s won the most
Oscars?
Walt Disney
The most performed rock
song in history:
“You’ve Lost That Lovin’
Feeling”
Most types of lipstick
contain fish scales as an
ingredient.
Among other things,
ancient Egyptian
embalmers preserved
mummies with cinnamon.
The right whale’s eyeball
is about as big as an
orange.
Albert Einstein couldn’t
read until the age of 9.
Only pharaohs were
allowed to eat
mushrooms in ancient
Egypt.
There are 31,557,600
seconds in a year.
Flush away!
The average toilet will last
about 50 years before
having to be replaced.
Research reports:
An average 4 year old
child asks 437 questions
a day.
No surprise:
People laugh least in the
first hour after waking up
in the morning.
A bee can smell an apple
tree that’s 2 miles away.
A brown bear can run
faster than a horse
at full gallop.
In the 1880s waterskiing
was known as
“plankgliding.”
J, the youngest letter in
the English alphabet, was
not added until the 1600s.
Florida’s Disneyworld is
larger than the entire city
of Buffalo, New York.
About 75% of all the gold
mined each year is made
into jewelry.
Average number of days
each year when no major
league sports are played:
5.
Baby pigs can be
housebroken in as few as
three days.
Why are boxing rings
called rings?
Because they used to be
round.
Karate was invented in
India.
Take your weight and
divide by 3. That’s how
much your legs weigh.
233 Dalmatians were used
in the filming of the movie
101 Dalmatians.
Cats have two sets of
vocal chords: one for
purring, one for meowing.
Genetically speaking, a
guinea pig is more closely
related to a cow than it is
to a rat.
Quick fact:
20% of drivers get 80% of
the traffic tickets.
Leading cause of death in
Papua, New Guinea:
falling out of trees.
Humphrey Bogart’s first
line as an actor:
“Tennis, anyone?”
A cremnophobe is
someone who is afraid of
falling down the stairs.
Woodrow Wilson was the
last president to type all
his own letters.
69% of cake eaters eat
the cake first,
then the frosting.
The Cambodian language
has 72 letters in its
alphabet, the most of any
language.
Babe Ruth wore a
cabbage leaf under his
baseball cap to keep cool
during games.
60% of pets in Great
Britain have some form of
health insurance.
The Ford Motor Co.
earned an average of $2
profit on each Model T it
manufactured.
Big surprise:
About 60% of U.S. kids say
they “don’t want to be
like their parents.”
Aardvarks eventually stop
growing…
but their teeth never do.
Whales can get lice.
First meal ever eaten in
space:
“pureed applesauce.”
Roughly $20 million in
counterfeit U.S. currency
is circulating at any
given time.
The diesel cruise liner
Queen Elizabeth II gets 6
inches to the gallon.
The first tennis balls were
stuffed with human hair.
What’s the longest English
word you can type with
your left hand?
Stewardesses.
A snail breathes
through its foot.
An alligator has a brain
the size of your thumb.
Women blink nearly
twice as much as men.