#FunFacts

Water Cooler
#1

#FunFacts

  • You can send a potato, sombrero, brick, inflated beach ball, coconut, frisbee, or pillow through USPS without a box – just needs postage and an address label.
  • Until 2001, the employees at Disneyland who dressed up as Disney characters couldn’t wear their own underwear – they had to wear shared underwear.
  • Deaf people with schizophrenia don’t hear voices in their head – instead, they see a pair of disembodied hands signing in their mind.
  • The world’s longest penis and the world’s shortest person are roughly the same size – the record for longest junk is 18.9” and the record for shortest adult is 21.5”.
  • Anyone in Sweden can get a copy of anybody else’s tax return to find out how much money they make – only catch is that the person whose tax return you want to see will receive a message telling who requested to see that information.
#2

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqxMlmpB66k]

#DidYouKnow?

#3
  • There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky
  • There is a spider in brazil whose bite can cause erections that last for hours
  • Google’s founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down
#4

#5

  1. 78% of NFL players are bankrupt two years after finishing their careers. 2. 60% of NBA players are bankrupt within five years of leaving the league. 3. Male koalas have two penises. Female koalas have two vaginas. 4. In Utah, it is against the law to fish from the back of a horse. 5. If you put a can of Diet Coke in water, it floats. Regular Coca-Cola sinks. 6. Also, according to Utah law (where I live) a husband is responsible for any criminal act that his wife commits while in his presence. 7. Apparently, if you eat a Polar Bear’s liver, you will die of a vitamin A overdose. 8. The number one tire manufacturer in the world? LEGO. 9. If you combine all the ants in the world, they’ll weigh about the same as if you combine all the people. 10. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down. 11. Because news traveled so slow back then, slaves in Texas didn’t know they were free for more than two months after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. 12. Talk about pressure. Female ferrets die if they can’t find a mate after going into heat. 13. There are 18.6 million vacant homes in America. There are 3.1 million homeless people. 14. Humans have had dogs as companions and workers for more than 14,000 years. 15. A snail can sleep for more than three years at a time. 16. The air quality of Mumbai is so bad, it’s equivalent to smoking 2½ packs of cigarettes a day. 17. Everyone on earth is born with the ability to wiggle their ears, but if you don’t learn how early on, the muscle atrophies and you can’t learn any longer.

  2. Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball that hit a fan in the stands. As they were carrying her away, he hit another one which hit her again. 19. More than 13,000 years of human life have been spent watching the Gangnum-Style video. 20. In 1938, Time Magazine named Adolf Hitler Man of the Year. 21. Your fingernails grow faster in cold weather. 22. Four out of five people over the age of 100 are women. 23. Moles can dig more than 300 feet in a single night. 24. The average person eats about 60,000 pounds of food in their lifetime. That’s six elephants, in case you were wondering. 25. There is no word that rhymes with “month.” 26. The Mississippi River once started flowing backwards after an earthquake. 27. The Ribbon Worm will eat itself if it can’t find food. 28. If there are three people involved in a duel, it’s not a duel. It’s a truel. I’m not making this up. It’s truel! 29. The first engines put into Fords? They were made by Dodge… 30. Jimmy Carter once left nuclear launch codes in his dry cleaning. Oops. 31. Cows have the ability to walk upstairs but not down again. 32. People who measure more intelligent also measure more zinc and copper in their hair. 33. Every year, millions of trees around the world grow where squirrels forgot their buried nuts. 34. Baby rabbits are called… kittens.

  3. Smallpox does not exist anywhere on Earth except in a laboratory. 36. The brain can’t create a new face. It only remembers faces you’ve seen somewhere before. This includes in your dreams. 37. Nachos were invented by a guy named Nacho. 38. If you love ice cream and eat a lot of it, chances are you’ve had plenty of beaver anal gland extract. 39. Speaking of dreams, did you know that 12% of people dream in black and white? 40. There is a significant population of people in Argentina who speak Welsh. 41. Ulysses S. Grant tried to have the Dominican Republic annexed so that a special safe-haven could be setup for blacks to get away from the Klu Klux Klan. 42. The American Sports industry is worth $422 billion a year, and more than 1% of all Americans are employed by it. 43. Wikipedia banned the Church of Scientology from editing any articles. 44. Farts measure more potently in the shower than they do outside it. 45. Apparently there is a conspiracy theory that remnants of an Egyptian Civilization was discovered in the Grand Canyon and covered up by the Smithsonian Institute. 46. Two days after they die, ants give off an odor which other ants pick up on. They come pick up the ant and carry it to an ant graveyard. 47. Birds cannot live in space because they can’t swallow without gravity. 48. Freddie Mercury refused to have his teeth worked on because he was afraid it would change his voice. 49. ‘Rubber Duckie’ by Ernie on Sesame Street won a Grammy nomination in 1970. And reached #16 on the charts. 50. In 1995, the winner of the $1 million Monopoly game piece at McDonald’s sent it to St. Jude’s in an anonymous letter.

#NowYouKnow

#6
  1. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
  2. In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day!
  3. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!
  4. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
  5. A flock of crows is known as a murder.
  6. “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists.
  7. The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
  8. 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day“.
  9. Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
  10. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
  11. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
  12. Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
  13. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
  14. The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died!
  15. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
  16. If Pinokio says “My Nose Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox. Details here.
  17. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting. (If they lived in the same place)
  18. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
  19. Movie trailers were originally shown after the movie, which is why they were called “trailers”.
  20. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
  21. Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
  22. If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb!
  23. in 2015, more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks.
  24. The top six foods that make your fart are beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk!
  25. There is a species of spider called the Hobo Spider.
  26. A lion’s roar can be heard from 5 miles away!
  27. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
  28. A baby spider is called a spiderling.
  29. You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
  30. The following can be read forward and backwards: Do geese see God?
  31. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
  32. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
  33. In Uganda, 50% of the population is under 15 years of age.
  34. Hitler’s mother considered abortion but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby.
  35. Arab women can initiate a divorce if their husbands don’t pour coffee for them.
  36. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
  37. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
  38. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an odd number of whiskers.
  39. Facebook, Skype and Twitter are all banned in China.
  40. 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
  41. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
  42. In Poole, ‘Pound World’ went out of business because of a store across the road called ’99p Stores’, which was selling the same products but for just 1 pence cheaper! Read More.
  43. About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
  44. The French language has seventeen different words for ‘surrender’.
  45. Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
  46. Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
  47. A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out :stuck_out_tongue:
  48. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
  49. A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
  50. Bin Laden’s death was announced on 1st May 2011. Hitler’s death was announced on 1st May 1945.

#50MoreRandomFacts