Weird Facts

• The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
• You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
• A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
• Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
• It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
• There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.
• The drummer for the rock group Def Leppard only has one arm.
• For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
• A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
• False teeth are often minutely radioactive.
• Historically, sweat has been an active ingredient in perfume and love potions.
• Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.
• If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.
• Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
• In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
• There are around 200 corpses on Mount Everest.
• One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
• It would take 17,000 McDonalds strawfuls of water to fill a standard bathtub.
• Larry Walters tied 45 balloons to his lawn chair and rose to 15,000 feet.
• In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
• In 1977 a 13 year old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
• Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
• The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.
• The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War.
• All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
• A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
• Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
• You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
• Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
• Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• The U.S. military's dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!
• The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
• The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.
• The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.