Funny Facts - Other
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown.
Men are more likely to be left-handed (10%) than females (8%).
The deepest hole ever made in the world (in Texas) is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting in front of traffic lights.
Babies crawl an average of 200 meters a day.
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches a day.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Typewriter, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
If you take a pencil, you can draw a 50 kilometer (31 mile) long line.
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple".
The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and cement.
Every year some 50 million cars are added to the worldโs roads.
India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
"Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
The name for having a fear of long words: Hippopotomonstroses*quippedaliophobia. Ironic, isn't it?
The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia.
The very first Olympic race, held in 776 BC, was won by Corubus, a chef.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter as they start with. Coincidence?
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown.
Men are more likely to be left-handed (10%) than females (8%).
The deepest hole ever made in the world (in Texas) is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting in front of traffic lights.
Babies crawl an average of 200 meters a day.
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches a day.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Typewriter, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
If you take a pencil, you can draw a 50 kilometer (31 mile) long line.
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple".
The major air-polluting industries are iron, steel and cement.
Every year some 50 million cars are added to the worldโs roads.
India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
"Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
The name for having a fear of long words: Hippopotomonstroses*quippedaliophobia. Ironic, isn't it?
The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
365 different languages are spoken in Indonesia.
The very first Olympic race, held in 776 BC, was won by Corubus, a chef.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter as they start with. Coincidence?