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- If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”
- The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
- The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
- Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.
- In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
- One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.
- If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.
- A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
- A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
- James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.
- The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!
- A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.
- Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
- New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.
- A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.
- A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
- Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.
- It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.
- 10% of the World’s population is left handed.
- A broken clock is right two times every day.
- According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
- Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”
- A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.
- A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4 foot tall child in.
- Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
- If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
- Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer
- There are more collect calls on Father’s day than on any other day of the year.