Tag: Facts

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an “Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.”

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.

The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

In England, in the 1880s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

Dogs can hear sounds that you can’t.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby,” which contains over 50,000 words – none of them with the letter E.

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds.