Facts you always wanted to know!

[DJ Elemental]

Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day

 

4 people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines.

 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

 

There are more English speakers resident in China than in the USA

 

It would take six years and 9 months of non-stop farting to produce enough gas to equal the power of an atomic bomb.

 

There are 1,058 million acts of sex in Britain each year, resulting in the spillage of 3 million litres of semen. This is enough to fill six Olympic sized swimming pools!

 

Lions can mate up to 50 times a day.

 

The average bolt of lightening is 6 miles long. It's temperature can reach 50,000 °F - over four times that of the sun.

 

By the time he or she is 18, a young Brit will have spent 12,000 hours in school. And will have watched 14,000 hours of TV.

 

Right-handed people live an average of 9 years longer than left-handers.

 

There are 20 billion active processors on the planet.

 

There are 2,000 chemicals in the average cup of coffee, only 27 of which have been tested for carcinogens.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

 

A pig's orgasm lasts for half an hour.

 

The average adult will eat- inadvertently, mind- a pound of insects over the course of a lifetime.

 

You are more likely to die from a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.

 

There is an average of 3,000 ft of electrical wiring in every car.

 

Twenty-five million people have downloaded the phantom menace trailer since it was first posted on the internet at the beginning of the year.

 

For every second of operation, the space shuttle's main booster rocket, firing at full capacity, consumes as much oxygen as a billion people inhaling at the same time.

 

You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet in a cube with sides measuring just 1km in length.

 

An appropriate 69% of all internet content consists of pornographic material.

 

The earth is hit by lightening some 100 time a second.

 

Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

 

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

 

There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

 

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

 

There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.

 

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

 

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

 

Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest.

 

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

 

German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule. That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored.

 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

 

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

 

There is cyanide in apple pips.

 

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

 

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

 

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

 

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change

 

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

 

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 

Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

 

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

 

The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

 

The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

 

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

 

If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

 

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230

 

years of peace throughout the civilised world.

 

The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.

 

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

 

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

[SAVAGE]

Some mad [censored] there, lol

[Clubbing Si]

giraffes have long necks cos their feet smell bad!

 

 

[TomD]

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

 

Get te [censored], no way

[Clubbing Si]

wel im off choc now lol

[Mr Moo]

LOL @ sum of them!!1

[LiquidEyes]

I want to be a pig!!

 

Not sure I believe the one about people eating spiders when they're asleep! Bloody hope it's not true, anyway!

[DJ Elemental]

i've hads a fly gone down my ear when i sleeping

[Blink]

Women do Blink nearly twice as much as men

That is a lie, I am not gay......actually, it is true, seeing as I don't "do" men, 2 * nothing = nothing, which is about how much I am "doing" women at the moment!!

 

There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month.

If I gave you an o-range

See what we could a-range

I know it might seem st-range

I am not de-range-d

 

Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

They also contain carcinogens!! Unlike Brussell Sprouts which are good anit-carcinogens

 

The average Stalker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

 

So remember, count who much someone spits on you, they could be a stalker

[Nick G]

Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day

 

[censored] me - i can only just manage a Domino's Mighty Meaty and i doubt that's even half a square meter !!

 

Fat bastards !!!

[SAVAGE]

It's how the word is pronounced, not spelt blink!

[djiceman]

 

 

some weird [censored] there, you been eating a bloody encylcopedia or what??

[Wonky]

ur right range obviously rhymes with range

 

strange but true

[Blink]

Ermm, I pronounce orange and arrange the same way, apart from obviously one starts with "oh" and the other starts with "ah". Maybe I just don't speak proper!!!

 

 

Or I supposed if you pronounce it oringe, then it rhymes with syringe.

 

Where The [censored] is my Rhyming dictionary?

 

(actually, that is a good point, where is my rhyming dictionary?)

[LiquidEyes]

Er, I presume you're joking Blink, but the whole word has to rhyme, not just the last syllable!