Pointless Facts

[BarraGT]

Found these pointless facts at: http://www.grayscroft.freeserve.co.uk/point.htm.

* 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 speaking residents 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.

* 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 during the first year of it's release.

* 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.

:D

[aniken]

  BarraGT said:

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

[BarraGT]

LOL. I wish they would go into detail with some of them.

[Mondie]

l think l would like to be a lion crossed with a pig in my next life

[BarraGT]

Ha ha ha, Mondie! Doesn't sound like a bad deal, hey?

[Cobra]

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

reproduction

struth ... B)

[Dagabond]

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

Baaaaah is that all we get.

[BarraGT]

Ha ha ha, nice one Dagabond.

I must have missed that one. That's a lot off sites!

[Guest Butzy]

I found one today.

*When a whale ejaculates it produces 400 gallons of sperm and only puts 10% into the female.

that's a lot of sperm floating around the ocean. LOL

Sorry if its point less but it seemed to go with the topic.

[Guest 56Mainline]

"400 gallons"

WTF!!!!

That's it......public swimming pools from now on.....there is no way kids weeing in the pool could be as bad as that!