- There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
- Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
- In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
- Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
- A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
- The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
- There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
- Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
- An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
- A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
- Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
- One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
- More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
- In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
- Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
- The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
- The average person laughs 13 times a day!
- Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
- Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
- There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
- The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
- Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
- Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
- Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
- Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
- The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
- After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
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