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Statistics, mostly American

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Среда, 08 Октября 2008 г. 11:51 + в цитатник
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1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.

27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.

45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

53% of women in America would dump their boyfriend if they did not get them anything for Valentine's Day.

66% of home based businesses are owned by women.

70% of the poor people in the world are female.

85% of weddings are held in a synagogue or church.

96% of candles that are purchased are by women.

A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.

A study revealed that men that were born with a low birth weight were less likely to get married.

According to a study by the nation's largest auto insurer, most accidents occur between 3 and 6 p.m. on Friday.

According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year.

American women, on average, spend 55 minutes per day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.

Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.

An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in their car in a lifetime.

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.

Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.

Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have ran a red light.

Approximately 74% of Americans celebrate Valentine's Day.

Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic.

Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

Each day Americans 15 and over spend an average of 55 minutes of driving.

Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.

Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.

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.

Four out of five brides in the U.S. have a job.

In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring.

In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times.

In America, 38% of doctors are Indians.

In America, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce.

In an average lifetime, people spend four years traveling in cars and six months waiting for red light to turn green.

In an year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls.

In one day, 230 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas.

In the U.S. 7 out of 10 homes use candles.

In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year.

In the United States, more than 4.2 million couples live together that are not married.

In the United States, you are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a shark attack.

In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time.

In twins, there is a great chance that one will be left handed.

It is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

Leaving the water running while brushing your teeth can waste four gallons of water in a minute.

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

Men are more likely to be colorblind than women. About one of out of 12 men are colorblind.

Most American women have their first baby when they are 24.3 years old.

Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse.

On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime.

On average, Americans spend five times more of their time in their cars than they do on vacation.

One in five Americans move homes every year.

One out of every five births in the United States are delivered by Cesarean section.

Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date.

Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.

Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon.

Over 52.4 % of Boulder, Colorado citizens have a bachelor's degree making it the highest educated city in the United States.

Parents typically spend $7,000 in a baby's first year to cover items such as diapers, day care and formula.

People in low-income homes spend 50% more time playing video games than people in high-income homes.

Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds.

The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes.

The average number of bridesmaids at a wedding is four.

The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189.

The average person changes their career every 13 years.

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

The murder rate in the United States is about four times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA.

Two out of five people end up marrying their first love.

Women smile more than men do.

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

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Strange & useless facts, pt 1

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Среда, 08 Октября 2008 г. 11:24 + в цитатник
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In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.

The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.

In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.

In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty.

In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."

In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.

In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest.

India has the most post offices in the world.

Majority of brides plan their wedding for approximately 7 to 12 months.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

Studies show that divorced women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men.

The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.

The first Halloween card was created in the 1920's.

The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old.

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

The most popular name for a pet in the United States is Max.

The third biggest party day after New Year's and Super Bowl Sunday is Halloween.

The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years.

There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, eventhough the ocean is no farther than 80 miles away.

There is enough water in American swimming pools to cover the whole city of San Francisco seven feet deep.

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Useless facts

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Среда, 19 Марта 2008 г. 00:25 + в цитатник
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous" : tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron : in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, with the exception of North America.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
"Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No president of the United states was an only child.
And last and definitely most important :
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!

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