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1)
In 1870, Jim Mace, the British boxing champion, fought an American challenger in a fight that lasted nearly 4 hours without landing one punch!

2)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard.

3)
On average women blink nearly twice as much as men.

4)
By the law of averages you are more likely to be killed by a flying champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

5)
When Coca Cola was first produced it was a green colour.

6)
Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

7)
In England in the early 1960's the Autolite Cigarette Company manufactured self lighting cigarettes.

8)
In San Diego, USA, in 2000, the record for the longest ever tennis rally was made with a total of 15,674 strokes being made.

9)
On average a baby's heart will beat about 60 million times before it is born.

10)
Male fruit bats have the highest incidence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom even overtaking humans!

11)
Ten percent of Britain's perfumes are bought at Heathrow Airport.

12)
Winnie the Pooh and his friends are now more valuable to the Disney Corporation than Mickey Mouse, being responsible for annual profits of 4.5 billion dollars.

13)
In the USA, in 1998, 48 people lost their lives due to rollercoaster accidents!

14)
If a man farted non-stop for six years and nine months and then lit it he would produce an explosion equal to the power of the first atomic bomb!

15)
There are more English speaking people living in China than there are in the USA!

16)
The worlds largest bacteria, Thiomargarita namibiensis, which was only discovered in 1998, is actually bigger than the full stop on this page!

17)
In the USA up to 200,000 Americans wake up every year under general anaesthetic!

18)
An ostrich's eye is actually bigger than it's brain is!

19)
In the USA Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza a day!

20)
In Britain, in 1999, 43 adults died in their bathtubs!

21)
The giant sloth sleeps for 17 hours per day yet only spends about 70 minutes dreaming.

22)
On average there is about 3,000 feet of electrical wiring in every car.

23)
During World War II, at the the battle for the city of Stalingrad, in Russia, the German army lost more men attacking a single house than it did occupying Paris, in France, three years before.

24)
It has been estimated that you spend about a year of your life looking for things you have lost.

25)
If you are right handed you tend to chew on the right hand side of your mouth and if you are left handed you tend to chew on the left hand side of your mouth.

26)
On average a human being spends two weeks of their entire lives waiting for traffic lights to change.

27)
1.2 billion letters are sent worldwide through the post every day. If they were joined together they would make a bridge that would span the Atlantic ocean.

28)
The average person uses more household energy (In the form of water pumps) having a wet shave at the wash basin than he does using an electric razor.

29)
The average person spends about two years of their lives talking on the phone.

30)
The average housewife walks about four miles every year making beds.

31)
When asked to name a colour three out of five people on average will say RED.

32)
It has been estimated that 17% of human beings are left handed which is roughly the same figure as for gorillas and chimpanzees.

33)
The average person spends about 12 years of their life watching television.

34)
The average US marriage lasts about 9.4 years.

35)
You have more chance of being killed by a champagne bottle cork than by a poisonous spider.

36)
You have a higher chance of being killed by a donkey than dying in a plane crash.

37)
In Taiwan a third of all funeral processions feature a stripper.

38)
In the USA an average of 55,700 people are injured by their own jewellery every year.

39)
In ancient Greece the word 'idiot' meant a private citizen or layman.

40)
In Russia money was made from leather until the 17th century.

41)
In the USA Christmas did not become a national holiday until 1890.

42)
Of all the mail that is delivered by the US Postal Service only 4.5 percent are personal letters.

43)
If you drove at 100mph for four years you would still not cover every stretch of road in the USA.

44)
Every day more money is printed for the Monopoly game than is printed for the US treasury.

45)
The USA uses enough water in one day for every American to have 64 baths. The average water consumption for the rest of the world is only a third of the USA's.

46)
During the First World War the US Air Force consisted of just 50 men.

47)
45 percent of Americans admit to peeing in the shower.

48)
Contrary to popular belief Florida is not the most southerly state in the USA, but Hawaii is.

49)
The US state of Florida is bigger than England.

50)
100,000 cubic feet of water pours over Niagara Falls every second.

50)
The amount of junk mail that Americans receive each day could produce enough energy to heat a quarter of a million homes.

51)
About 70 million Americans go jogging every day.

52)
There are more phones in New York City than there are in the whole of Spain.

53)
In the USA a house catches fire every 45 seconds.

54)
There are more analysts in the USA than there are postmen.

55)
There are no clocks in the casinos of Las Vegas.

56)
Two out of five American women dye their hair.

57)
The Great Pyramid in Egypt contains enough stone to build a 10 foot high wall around France.

58)
Antarctica is the only continent on earth without reptiles.

59)
A census in 1920 revealed that fewer than one Eskimo in 46 has ever seen an igloo.

60)
The Chinese were the first people to ever use toilet paper.

61)
Although China has over a billion people in the country there are only about 200 family names.

62)
Kettle drums were once used as currency on a remote Indonesian island.

63)
Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.

64)
Brazil got it's name from the nut not the other way around.

65)
There are no public toilets in Peru.

66)
In Africa the women of the Xhosa tribe are allowed to smoke pipes when they come of age.

67)
Eskimos do not gamble.

68)
If everyone in the world had exactly the same amount of land each they would get approximately 100 square feet.

69)
Mount Everest is one foot higher than it was in 1900.

70)
The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.

71)
More Capital cities begin with the letter B than with any other letter.

72)
In Andorra it does not cost anything to post a letter.

73)
The first letter of every continent in the world is the same as the last. Antarctica, Asia, Australasia, America, Africa and Europe.

74)
There is a town in Norway called Hell and another in Newfoundland called Dildo.

75)
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

76)
The furniture polish "Pledge" means "Piss" in the Netherlands.

77)
Over 820,000 golf balls are sold every day worldwide.

78)
The most common name in the world is "Mohammed".

79)
If you were to spell out numbers you would have to get to 1000 before you found the letter "A".

80)
There were once more sea lions on earth than people.

81)
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

82)
If you keep a goldfish in a darkened room for long enough it will turn white.

83)
A person swallows about three spiders every year on average.

84)
The US pilgrim fathers would not eat lobster because they thought it was a giant insect.

85)
In Alaska, USA, the eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing solid.

86)
One of the main ingredients of dynamite are peanuts.

87)
Chop Suey was invented in New York City not in China.

88)
The only date in history written in Roman Numerals from the highest point to the lowest point is 1666 (MDCLXVI) M=1000, D=500, C=100, L=50, X=10, V=5, I=1.

89)
When the Chevrolet Motor Company tried to introduce the "Nova" car to Spain it wasn't a big seller. "Nova" means "Doesn't go" in Spanish.

90)
Car airbags explode at 200 miles per hour.

91)
The United States Mint makes about 13 billion one cent coins per year, about half of which will disappear within the first 12 months. Each coin costs about 4/5 of a cent to make.

92)
In the last 50 years the average working vocabulary of a 15 year old has decreased from 25,000 words to just 10,000 words.

93)
In the United Kingdom Indian restaurants employ more people than steel making, mining and shipbuilding industries put together!

94)
In Calais, France, the Tesco Alcohol Superstore sells nearly 4% of all the wines and spirits consumed in the entire United kingdom.

95)
Nuclear scientists have spent the last 20 years producing anti-matter and have so far made about 1 millionth of a gram!

96)
The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning the light off.

97)
There are 6,000 new computer virus's released every month.

98)
The average human being will accidentally eat about a pound in weight of insects over the course of a lifetime.

99)
A "tin" can is actually made from steel although there is a 0.0005in thick coating of tin covering the steel to prevent rust!

100)
60 percent of all the gold stored in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York is from foreign central banks!

101)
Right handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left handed people!

102)
Christine, the queen of Sweden during the 17th Century, had a tiny four-inch cannon built so that she could fire miniature cannonballs at the fleas in her room.

103)
The Gabonese government has banned AIDS sufferers from swimming in the sea. Shark fishing is an important part of the economy and they are worried that sharks may contract the disease and die.

104)
Today's average household in the USA contains more computer power than existed in the entire world before 1965.

105)
Glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

106)
Britons eat, on average, 2.2 curries per week - spending £2.8 billion on the hot stuff every year!

107)
A typical hurricane releases the energy of 10,000 hydrogen bombs - more than the entire world's nuclear arsenal.

108)
American men cry an average of 1.88 times per month. Women shed a tear 3.55 times over the same period.

109)
Every year we leave 105 million answerphone messages. Which explains why British Telecom makes a profit of over £100 per second.

110)
Every week 10,000 new websites appear on the internet.

111)
For each second of operation during lift-off the space shuttle's engines consume enough fuel to power two million cars.

112)
There are five million people living in Finland and for every one of them the country boasts 15,000 trees.

113)
In the UK every year about 19 million injuries are caused by accidents sustained by people who have been taking part in sports and exercise.

114)
Want to kill yourself? Have you ever wondered how long you have left after jumping from a tall structure? Well here are a few examples of the amount of time you have left to live after jumping from the top of some of these famous high places.
The old Twin Towers at Wembley Stadium, London, which stands at a height of 38.4 metres would take you 2.375 seconds to splatter!
Big Ben Tower in London, which stands at a height of 100.3 metres would take you 4 seconds to sploshhhh into the concrete!
The Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, which stands at a height of 147 metres would take you 4.94 seconds to hit the sand in a bloody pulp!
The Empire State Building, New York, USA, which stands at a height of 449 metres would take you 9.98 seconds before being pulverised in a gory mess!
Mount Everest, which stands at a height of 8,882 metres, would take you 2 minutes and 50 seconds to hit the ground. So If you and your girlfriend jumped from here you would have enough time for a decent screw anyway!

115)
Since the 1970's microchips have doubled in power and halved in price. If the same thing happened to cars then a Rolls Royce would do 100,000 miles to the gallon and would only cost you £25 for a brand new one!

116)
There are approximately 20 million slaves in the world today. More slaves than at any other time in the history of world!

117)
Mcdonalds restaurant buys two billion eggs a year solely for the huge demand for their egg Mcmuffins!

118)
British Petroleum makes a profit of £3,800.00 per second!

119)
The people of England eat about 22,920 bars of chocolate every minute!

120)
80 billion aspirins are eaten throughout the world every year!

121)
In England the chance of a woman having twins has doubled since World War II. At this rate every pregnancy will result in twins by the year 2060!

122)
The only month in recorded history not to have a full moon was February 1865.

123)
The dark side of the moon was first seen in 1959, thanks to satellite photographs.

124)
Sweden was the very first country to scrap glass milk bottles in favour paper cartons.

125)
The very first hat factory in the USA produced only 18 hats a week.

126)
Dry ice does not actually melt. It evaporates.

5)
France eats more cheese per head per year than any other country in the world.

127)
Margarine is named after the greek word for pearl.

128)
The cigarette lighter was actually invented before the match was.

129)
On average 15% of people secretly chew their toenails.

130)
There are as many molecules in a spoonful of water as there are spoonfulls of water in the Atlantic Ocean!

131)
The most dangerous job in the world is being an astronaut.

132)
Indian Totem poles represent family trees the same way as English Heraldic crests do.

133)
There were 144 public toilets in Rome in 315 AD.

134)
If Russia were the size of a soccer pitch then the Vatican city would be no larger than a quarter of the size of a postage stamp.

135)
450 million years ago the South pole was situated where the Sahara desert is now.

136)
-40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

137)
Anyone in England who reaches the age of 105 will receive a telegram from the Queen or King on every birthday.

138)
Soya beans are not only edible. They are also used in the manufacture of paint, glue, plastics and explosives.

139)
The human race doubles in number about every 35 years.

140)
The last English town to become a city was Derby.

141)
Tibetans rub themselves down with rancid yak fat to keep themselves warm.

142)
When cellophane first appeared in shops it was so expensive that it was only used to wrap costly gifts.

143)
The longest word that can be typed only with the left hand is 'Stewardesses'.

144)
The only English word that ends in 'mt' is dreamt.

145)
The word 'Queue' is the only word in the English language that can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed one by one.

146)
Rice paper is not made from rice.

147)
French Fries are originally from Belgium not France.

148)
Lead pencils contain no lead whatsoever. They are filled with graphite.

149)
Peanuts are not nuts they are legumes.

150)
The soft drink '7-Up' got it's name from the inventor who had already rejected six other names for the product.

151)
Grapes will explode if you cook them in a microwave.

152)
Rainbows will only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

153)
Disneyworld is bigger than the world's five smallest countries.

154)
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world to be in two continents. Europe and Asia.

155)
Mongolians put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

156)
There are more English speaking people in China than there are in the USA.

157)
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

158)
The odds of winning the British National lottery are about 14 million to one.