THE AVERAGE PERSON TIDBITS:
The average person laughs 17 times a day
The average person opens the fridge 22 times a day
The average person eats 20,000 M&M's in a lifetime
The average person eats 87 hot dogs a year
The average person eats 35,000 cookies in a lifetime
The average person drinks 70,000 cups of coffee in a lifetime
The average person eats at McDonald's 1811 times in a lifetime
The average person speaks at a rate of 120 words a minute
The average person sweats one pint a day
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
The average person has four dreams per night
The average person is a quarter of an inch taller at night
The average person gets 533 pieces of junk mail a year
The average person walks 65,000 miles in a lifetime
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
During a lifetime, the average person eats 35 tons of food
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
The human brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb
A human being has enough iron to make a small nail.
Every person has a unique tongue print
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one
A human hair can support 6.6 pounds
Women's hearts beat faster than men's
Humans shed an entire layer of skin every month
Men can read smaller print than women, and women can hear better
Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV
Sneezes travel at over 600 miles per hour
CAT TIDBITS:
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds
Cats can hear ultrasound
Most blue eyed cats are deaf
Cats can't taste sweet food
Only one out of a thousand orange cats will be female
Cats have 30 teeth
Very young kittens cannot go to the bathroom by themselves. The mother cat stimulates them into going by licking their genital area after they've eaten
A cat can not move it's jaw side to side
Dogs and cats see in blue
When cats rub your forehead with their forehead, they are recognizing you as 'one of them' and showing their affection
Calico Cats are all females
Black cats are more calm than white cats
In Argentina, it is rumored that eating cats is good for your health and stimulates sexual potency
Cats cannot see in complete darkness
The average house cat weighs in at 11 pounds
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day
Black and White Cats are said to be meaner than other kinds of cats
OTHER ANIMAL TIDBITS (all except for cats!):
Penguins can jump six feet high
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Bees have to visit two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A hippopotamus can run faster than a human can
The smallest dog in the world can fit in a teacup
In the 1300's, animals were put on trial for things like killing sheep
A camel can drink 20 gallons of water in 10 minutes
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body
After eating a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again
Nose prints are used to identify dogs
Bats always turn left when exiting a cage
Snails can sleep for three years straight
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
If goldfish are left in the dark for a long enough time, they will turn white
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
1 in 5,000 north atlantic lobsters are born bright blue
Dogs and cats see in blue
A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
Dogs and cats consume over 11 billion dollars worth of pet food in a year
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, But actually clear
Rats can't vomit
Giraffes have no vocal chords
FOOD TIDBITS:
Bubble gum contains rubber
The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley's gum
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
1260 Oreo cookies are produced every minute
At the Coca-Cola plant, they produce 2000 cans a minute
96% of all Americans will eat at McDonald's this year
Over Easter holiday, 26.7 million chocolate bunnies are made
Coca-Cola was originally green
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them look like it's kissing the conveyer belt
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake
Smelling bananas or green apples can help you lose weight
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
The crunch of a dill pickle can be heard exactly 22 feet away
SPAM is the world's most popular food
By the time the average person has graduated from high school, he has eaten 1500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Potatoes are more genetically complex than humans
Almonds are members of the peach family
MISCELLANEOUS TIDBITS:
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in America.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows of stone
Human beings are the only animals that sleep on their backs
The average North American spends 6 months of his life watching TV commercials, unless he watches PBS
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
We spend one-third of our life waiting
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it
A Saudi Arabian women can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
It takes an average of three seconds to pick up a penny, which works out to $12 an hour
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
We spend 6 mos. of our life waiting at red lights
The longest movie is 48 hours long
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants
On average, every seven minutes, a conversation will end somewhere in the world
A day on Jupiter lasts 9 hours and 50 minutes
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
90 people were killed in the filming of Ben Hur
A basketball is 22 inches in diameter
Most orchids are bisexual
In one hour, an oak tree can lose 990 gallons of water through its leaves
Aspirin is found in the bark of the willow tree
The world's largest herb is the banana
If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321
Potatoes are more genetically complex than humans
It is more likely to get hit by lightning than it is to win the lottery
According to Newton's Law of Motion, when a car going 60 miles per hour in one direction gets hit by a mosquito going one mile per hour in the opposite direction, the car will slow down one-millionth of a mile per hour
Florida is bigger than England
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit in time, for 1/100th of a second
Q is the only letter not in any state of the USA
Some toothpaste contains antifreeze
Most lipstick contains fish scales
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
There are more than 200 different types of Barbies
The word "sophomore" means "sophisticated moron"
It is not sweat that stinks, but the excrement of the bacteria that eat sweat
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119
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