11.40.02 AM Amazing fact 31 |
Every minute
47 Bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world. 4 out of 5
sing in the car. 44% of men
tailgate to speed up the person in front of them. 12% of men
never use their car blinkers. The average
IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ. There are
over 15,000 miles of lighted neon tubing in the many signs on the Strip and
downtown Las Vegas. The average
life span of London residents in the middle of the 19th century was 27 years.
For members of the working class, that number dropped to 22 years. It takes an
average person fifteen to twenty minutes to walk once around the Pentagon. 81.3% would
tell an acquaintance to zip his pants. 54.2% of us
always wash our hands after using the toilet. 30% of us
refuse to sit on a public toilet seat. Significantly
more black women die from heart disease than any other group. 78% would
rather die quickly than live in a retirement home. 15%
regularly go to a shrink. 14% have
attended a self-help meeting. Only 30% of
us know our cholesterol level. 44% have
broken a bone. 4 out of 5
of us have suffered from hemorrhoids. 49% believe
in ESP. 57% have had
deja vu. 10% of us
claim to have seen a ghost. 33% of women
lie about their weight. 62% of us
pop our zits. 58% of women
paint their nails regularly. 53% of women
will not leave the house without makeup on. 9% of women
and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery. Nearly 1/3
of US women color their hair. The typical
shower is 101 degrees F. 22% leave
the glob of toothpaste in the sink. 2/3 of us speed
up at a yellow light. 45% of us
consistently follow the speed limit. 71% can
drive a stick-shift car. 6% propose
over the phone. 1 in 5 men
proposed on his knees. The biggest
cause of matrimonial fighting is money. 2 out of 5
have married their first love. 20% of women
consider their parents to be their best friends. On average,
we send 38 Christmas cards every year. 51% of
adults dress up for a Halloween festivity. 28% of us
have skinny-dipped. 14% with the opposite sex. 53% of us
would take advice from Ann Landers. 90% of us
depend on alarm clocks to wake us. 16% of us
have forgotten our own wedding anniversary (mostly men). 53% read
their horoscopes regularly. 66% of women
and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for doing it from
scratch. 57% save
pretty gift paper to reuse. 44% reuse
tinfoil. 40% of us
have had music lessons. 20% of us
have played in a band at one time in our life. 56% of women
do the bills in a marriage. 53% prefer
ATM machines over tellers. 37% claim to
know how to use all the features on their VCR. Less than
10% are trilingual. 71.6% of us
eavesdrop. 29% of us
ignore RSVP. 45% use
mouthwash every day. Only 13%
brush our teeth from side to side. 14% of us
eat the watermelon seeds. 22% of all
restaurant meals include French fries. 66% of us
eat cereal regularly. 9% of us
skip breakfast daily. 22% of us
skip lunch daily. Snickers is
the most popular candy. 70% of us
drink orange juice daily. 85% of us
will eat Spam this year. When nobody
else is around, 47% drink straight from the carton. 69% eat the
cake before the frosting. 35% give to
charity at least once a month. On average,
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. Over 50%
believe in spanking - but only a child over 2 years old. 29% of us
are virgins when we marry. 13% (mostly
men) have spent a night in jail. 45% believe
in ghosts. 82% believe
in an afterlife. 10% believe
in the 10 Commandments.(Only 10%?!) 90% believe
in divine retribution. 50% admit
they regularly sneak food into movie theaters to avoid the high prices of snack
foods. 3 out of 4
of us store our dollar bills in rigid order with singles leading up to higher
denominations. 85% of women
wear the wrong bra size. 67.5% of men
wear briefs. 40% of women
have hurled footwear at a man. Men do 29%
of laundry each week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.
Only 30% of
us can flare our nostrils. Pennies,
plural, have value to most Americans. A penny, singular, does not. Almost half
of Americans say they would not bother to bend over to pick up a penny on the
street, but more than half of us report having stashes of pennies laying around
the house. During the
heating months of winter, the relative humidity of the average American home is
13% nearly twice as dry as the Sahara Desert. Nine out of
10 Americans tell pollsters they have NEVER had a professional massage. The standard
escalator moves 120 feet per minute. Most deaths
in a hospital are between the times of 4pm and 6pm, the time when the human
body is at its weakest. The chance
of contracting an infection during a hospital stay in the USA is 1 in 15. By 1995 8
million U.S. households had computers with CD-ROM drives, a 1600% increase over
1990. 68% of
Americans who view computer commercials on TV that advertise a processor, such
as the Pentium III, believe it speeds up your Internet connections. However, a
modem does that. A United
Parcel Service delivery person typically makes up to 300 pickups or deliveries
a day. That compares to someone doing 600 sets of step aerobics a day. The Earth
experiences 50,000 earthquakes a year. Last year
Americans ate more than 8.5 million pounds of tortilla chips on Super Bowl
Sunday. Dominos
Pizza sales typically double on Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowl
Monday sales of antacids increase by more than 20% over other Mondays. In the USA -
more toilets flush at the half time of the Super Bowl than at any other time of
the year. During the
Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times
every minute in the U.S. It rains
more often in London, England, on a Thursday than any other day of the week. You have to
break a lot of eggs to serve breakfast in Las Vegas. At Caesar’s Palace
alone, an average of 7,700 are prepared each day. With 2.8 million eggs
delivered each year to that one resort. Caesars serves over 427 pounds of
coffee each day and pours more than 3,000 ounces of orange juice every 24
hours. There are
over 15,000 miles of lighted neon tubing in the many signs on the Strip and
downtown Las Vegas. The number
one reason people choose to buy a wireless phone is for safety (nearly 50% of
those who own wireless phones purchased it for safety). In the U.S.,
54% of wireless phone users are men and 46% are women. They call it
puppy love: An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33% of dog
owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an
answering machine while away. The most
popular name given to boat-owners’ boats is "Obsession". Conception
occurs in December more than any other month. Over 2500
left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed
people. As of 1983,
an average of Three billion Christmas cards were sent annually in the United
States. In 1790, the
U.S. government conducted its first head count. The total population was just
under four million (3,929,625). In 1984,
13,126 people were arrested in Federal drug cases. There are
more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada. Portion of
land in the US owned by the government: 1/3 Chances that
a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7. Portion of
Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5 The average
American pays more in taxes than for food, clothing and shelter put together. The average
US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay
income tax. 55,700
people in the US are injured by jewelry each year. 56% of the
video game market is adults. The average
American looks at eight houses before buying one. 75% of
people wash from top to bottom in the shower. 8% of
Americans twiddle their thumbs. 5,840 people
with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992. "Evaluation
and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two
and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research
project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study
the various ways children fall off bicycles. According to
the US Government people have tried nearly 28,000 different ways to lose
weight. 40,000
Americans are injured by toilets every year. The average
person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. Statistically
speaking, the most dangerous job in the United States is that of Sanitation
Worker. Firemen and Policeman are a close second and third, followed by Leather
Tanners in fourth. Since the
Lego Group began manufacturing blocks in 1949, more than 189 billion pieces in
2000 different shapes have been produced. This is enough for about 30 Lego
pieces for every living person on Earth. Since 1978,
at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an
attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 have been injured. Seventy-three
percent of Americans are willing to wear clothes until the clothes wear out.
The poll conducted by Louis Harris and Associates also revealed: 92 percent are
willing to eliminate annual model changes in automobiles; 57 percent are
willing to see a national policy that would make it cheaper to live in
multiple-unit apartments than in single-family homes; 91 percent are willing to
eat more vegetables and less meat for protein. Seventy
percent of house dust is made up of dead skin flakes. Half of all
people who have ever smoked have now quit. Adults spend
an average of 16 times as many hours selecting clothes (145.6 hours a year) as
they do on planning their retirement. Results of a
survey show that 76 percent of women make their bed every day, compared to 46
percent of men. Police
estimated that 10,000 abandoned, orphaned and runaway children were roaming the
streets of New York City in 1852. Per capita,
it is safer to live in New York City than it is to live in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
In 1996,
Americans bought only 12 inches of dental floss per capita. In 1995,
each American used an annual average of 731 pounds of paper, more than double
the amount used in the 1980s. Contrary to predictions that computers would
displace paper, consumption is growing. In 1990 the
life expectancy of the average American male was 72.7 years and 76.1 years for
females. In 1900 the life expectancy was 46.6 for males and 48.7 for females. In 1977,
less than 9 percent of physicians in the U.S. were women. In 1970 only
5 percent of the American population lived in cities. In 1915, the
average annual family income in the United States was $687 a year. Per a
national survey, 80 percent of U.S. teachers in grades kindergarten through
eighth grade have received chocolate as a gift from their students. Per a
"Newsweek" poll, 49 percent of American fathers described themselves
as better parents than their dads. Pediatricians
estimate that 58 percent of their young patients go to child care or school even
when ill, according to a Gallup survey. This despite the fact that 81 percent
of mothers working full-time have stayed home at times to care for a sick
child. In 1990
there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S. There have
been several documented cases of women giving birth to twins who had different
fathers, including cases where the children were of different races. To do so,
the mother had to have conceived both children in close proximity. There has
also been one recent case where a mother gave birth to unrelated
"twins." In that instance, the mother underwent in vitro
fertilization and had her own child and the embryo of another couple
accidentally implanted in her. While the
average cost of air travel is about $60 per hour, using an air-phone during
that plane trip can cost as much as $160 per hour. Over 15
billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes. Two out of
three adults in the United States have hemorrhoids. Hawaii is
the only state in the United States where male life expectancy exceeds 70
years. Hawaii also leads all states in life expectancy in general, with an
average of 73.6 years for both males and females. Hawaii has
the highest percentage of cremations of all other U.S. states, with a 60.6 percent
preference over burial. Only 3
percent of Americans ages 18 to 21 attended college in 1890. Executives
work an average 57 hours a week, but just 22 percent say their hours are a
major cause of stress. Out of the
34,000 gun deaths in the U.S. each year, fewer than 300 are listed as
"justifiable homicide," the only category that could include shooting
a burglar, mugger, or rapist. Only about
30 percent of teenage males consistently apply sun protection lotion when going
poolside, compared to 46 percent of female teens. There are
more telephones than people in Washington DC. Occasionally,
hot dog sales at baseball stadiums exceed attendance, but typically, hot dog
sales at ballparks average 80 percent of the attendance. Each year
approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by
their wives. Canada is
the largest importer of American cars. Ninety
percent of U.S. households have at lease one remote control for the television;
8 out of 10 report losing it. More than 50
percent of adults surveyed said that children should not be paid money for
getting good grades in school. Spaghetti is
the favorite pasta shape, with 38 percent favoring it over other pasta shapes.
The second favorite shape is elbow macaroni, at 16 percent. The one
extra room new-home shoppers want the most is the laundry room, at 95 percent.
Only 66 percent of new-home buyers request an extra room to use as an office. Residential
buildings use about 35 percent of all available electricity. A recent
Gallup survey showed that in the United States 8 percent of kissers kept their
eyes open, but more than 20 percent confessed to an occasional peek. Forty-one
percent said they experienced their first serious smooch when they were age
thirteen, fourteen, or fifteen; 36 percent between the ages of sixteen and
twenty-one. The most memorable kiss in a motion picture was in "Gone With
The Wind" according to 25 percent of those polled. The
population divides approximately in half between AM and PM people. But early-birds
have the edge - 56 percent routinely rise early while 44 percent stay up late.
Medical studies, by the way, find that people tend to work more productively in
the morning. According to
a major hotel chain, approximately the same numbers of men and women are locked
out of their rooms. 32 percent are less than fully dressed. Nearly 87
percent of the 103 people polled in 1977 were unable to identify correctly an
unlabeled copy of the Declaration of Independence. By the end
of the U.S. Civil War, 33 percent of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was
counterfeit. This was a devastating situation for a nation struggling to
recover economically from such a destructive war. On July 5, 1865, the Secret
Service was created as a part of the Department of the Treasury to help
suppress counterfeit currency. Before the
Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were
Buddhist monks. One in five
American households move in a given year. The average American moves 11 times.
But most of us - 61 percent - still live in the state we were born in. And big
corporations report increasing resistance to transfers to new cities...with
many people turning down promotions in order to stay put. Focus group
information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do
not like using a mouse. According to
one U.S. study, about 25 percent of all adolescent and adult males never use
deodorant. Half of all
men start to lose their hair by the time they turn 30. Everybody loses dozens
of hairs a day - the key thing is whether or not they grow back. More than 40
percent of men wind up with significant hair loss. About 10
percent of the workforce in Egypt is under 12 years of age. Although laws
protecting children are on the books, they are not well enforced, partly
because many poverty-stricken parents feel forced to send their children out to
help support the family. About 60
percent of all American babies are named after close relatives. About 25
percent of all male Americans between the ages of ten and fifteen were
"gainfully employed" at the turn of the century. By 1970, so few in
that age bracket were employed that the U.S. Census Bureau did not bother to
make inquiries about them. About 24
percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires, and suicides. A recent
study conducted by the Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, California, revealed that
almost 90 percent of Americans label themselves as shy. It is
illegal to marry the spouse of a grandparent in Maine, Maryland, South Carolina,
and Washington, DC. Golf was
banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the
serious pursuit of archery. The murder
rate in the Unted States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan no
private citizen can buy a handgun legally. Impotence is
grounds for divorce in 24 U.S. states. The minimum
age set in the U.S. Constitution for the President of the United States is 35. In Milan,
Italy, there is a law on the books that requires a smile on the face of all
citizens at all times. Exemptions include time spent visiting patients in
hospitals or attending funerals. Otherwise, the fine is $100 if they are seen
in public without a smile on their face. Talking on a
cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel. Because of
heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome
during daylight hours. In 1968, a
convention of beggars in Dacca, India, passed a resolution demanding that the
minimum amount of alms be fixed at 15 paisa (three cents). In the
marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was
considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to
each other. During the
eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes
punished by being whipped. The Spanish
Inquisition once condemned the entire Netherlands to death for heresy. A girl, in
the Vacococha tribe of Peru, to prepare her for marriage at the age of 12, is
placed in a basket in the hut of her prospective in-laws and must remain
suspened over an open fire night and day for 3 months. In the
Middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for
injuring a human. Margaret
Sanger was jailed for a month, in 1917, in a workhouse for founding a clinic
that dispensed contraceptives. The curtain
or veil used by some Hindus and Moslems to seclude or hide their women from
strangers is called a "purdah." It is
illegal to marry the spouse of a grandparent in Maine, Maryland, South
Carolina, and Washington, DC. Golf was
banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the
serious pursuit of archery. The murder
rate in the Unted States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan no
private citizen can buy a handgun legally. Impotence is
grounds for divorce in 24 U.S. states. The minimum
age set in the U.S. Constitution for the President of the United States is 35. In Milan,
Italy, there is a law on the books that requires a smile on the face of all
citizens at all times. Exemptions include time spent visiting patients in
hospitals or attending funerals. Otherwise, the fine is $100 if they are seen
in public without a smile on their face. Talking on a
cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel. Because of
heavy traffic congestion, Julius Caesar banned all wheeled vehicles from Rome
during daylight hours. In 1968, a
convention of beggars in Dacca, India, passed a resolution demanding that the
minimum amount of alms be fixed at 15 paisa (three cents). In the marriage
ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered
officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other. During the
eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes
punished by being whipped. The Spanish
Inquisition once condemned the entire Netherlands to death for heresy. A girl, in
the Vacococha tribe of Peru, to prepare her for marriage at the age of 12, is
placed in a basket in the hut of her prospective in-laws and must remain
suspened over an open fire night and day for 3 months. In the
Middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for
injuring a human. Margaret
Sanger was jailed for a month, in 1917, in a workhouse for founding a clinic
that dispensed contraceptives. The curtain
or veil used by some Hindus and Moslems to seclude or hide their women from
strangers is called a "purdah." The
mummified hand of a notary public, chopped off for falsely certifying a
document, has been on display in the city hall of Munster, Germany, as a
warning to other notaries for 400 years. It is legal
in North Dakota to shoot an Indian on horseback, provided you are in a covered
wagon. Women in
Florida may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon
owner. Snoring is
prohibited in Massachusetts unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely
locked. It is also illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath. Mailing an
entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a
40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates. In Hartford,
Connecticut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on
your hands. To pass U.S.
Army basic training young female recruits must do 17 pushups in two minutes.
Males must do 40 pushups in two minutes. At the first
professional baseball game, the umpire was fined 6 cents for swearing. During the
time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who wore a beard was required to pay a
special tax. During World
War II, bakers in the United States were ordered to stop selling sliced bread
for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves were made
available to the public. It was never explained how this action helped the war
effort. During World
War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution. Quebec and
Newfoundland are the only two provinces which do not allow personalized license
plates. The ship,
the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual
queen. In Atlanta,
Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. In 1996,
Christmas caroling was banned at two major malls in Pensacola, Florida.
Apparently, shoppers and merchants complained the carolers were too loud and
took up too much space. In 1388,
English Parliament banned waste disposal in public waterways and ditches. In most
places, when a drawbridge is open, the only land vehicle that can claim
priority over boats is a truck hauling the US mail. This option is seldom if
ever exercised, of course. Found on a
butane lighter: "Warning: Flame may cause fire." Found on the
handle of a hammer: "Caution: Do not use this hammer to strike any solid
object." Found on Bat
Man The Animated Series Armor Set Halloween costume box: "PARENT: Please
exercise caution, mask and chest plate are not protective; cape does not enable
wearer to fly." Found on the
instruction sheet of a Conair Pro Style 1600 hair dryer: "WARNING: Do not
use in shower. Never use while sleeping." Found a box
of Tampax Tampons: "Remove used tampon before inserting a new one." Found on
Axius Sno-Off Automobile Windshield cover: "Caution: Never drive with the
cover on your windshield." A local
ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut prohibits people from playing Scrabble
while waiting for a politician to speak. In December
1997, the state of Nevada (USA) became the first state to pass legislation
categorizing Y2K data disasters as "acts of God"— protecting the
state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in
the year 2000. In Hartford
Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays. In Milan,
Italy, when an operator dialed a wrong number, the phone company fined the
operator. In Italy, it
is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood. It is
illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona. In Turkey,
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was
put to death. Christmas
was once illegal in England. In Utah,
birds have the right of way on all highways. During the
time that the atomic bomb was being hatched by the United States at Alamogordo,
New Mexico, applicants for routine jobs like janitors, were disqualified if
they could read. Illiteracy was a job requirement. The reason: the authorities
did not want their trash or other papers read. In Kentucky,
it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket. No building
in DC may be taller than 13 floors. This is so that no matter where in the city
you are, you can see the monument to our first president, Washington. Texas is the
only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. The
first to exercise this right to vote while in orbit was astronaut David Wolf,
who cast his vote for Houston mayor via e-mail from the Russian space station
Mir in November 1997. Hypnotism is
banned by public schools in San Diego. It was once
against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland. In Pakistan,
it is rude to show the soles of your feet or point a foot when you are sitting
on the floor. In Thailand,
the left hand is considered unclean, so you should not eat with it. Also,
pointing with one finger is considered rude and is only done when pointing to
objects or animals, never humans. Being rude
to a telephone operator in Prussia was once a crime. In 1908, a respected
citizen was reprimanded by the government after becoming exasperated with an
operator and saying "My dear girl!" In South
America, it would be rude not to ask a man about his wife and children. In most
Arab countries, it would be rude to do so. In some
smaller towns in the state of Arizona, it is illegal to wear suspenders. In
seventeenth-century Japan, no citizen was allowed to leave the country on
penalty of death. Anyone caught coming or going without permission was executed
on the spot. In
Pennsylvania, Ministers are forbidden from performing marriages when either the
bride or groom is drunk. In San
Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad. In Saudi
Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her
supplied with coffee. Women were
banned by royal decree from using hotel swimming pools in Jidda, Saudi Arabia,
in 1979. Vermont,
Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine are the four states in the U.S. that do not allow
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