Interesting Facts #9

  • More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  • There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
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Interesting Facts #8

  • In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times.
  • In an average lifetime, people spend four years traveling in cars and six months waiting for red light to turn green.
  • The word “millipede” means “thousand legs” – but no millipede has more than 750 legs.
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Interesting Facts #7

  • Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.  )=
  • Forty percent of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked.
  • It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
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Interesting Facts #6

  • The Mexican version of the Tooth Fairy is known as the Tooth Mouse, which takes the tooth and leaves treasures in its place.
  • In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony.
  • Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.
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Interesting Facts #5

  • 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!
  • In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.
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