Going to dinner at your girlfriends house and need a cool fact to impress her family? Or are you prepping for this week's quizzo competition? Or maybe you're just a college student who is sick of studying for finals and is looking for absolutely anything to distract you from reading your bio textbook. No matter what your situation may be, here's a list of interesting facts that I would bet you never knew. If you're anything like me, your brain is filled with useless facts that although they may be interesting, hold no point. Here's a few more to add to the list!
1. 11% of people are left handed.
2. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
3. 8% of people have an extra rib.
4. Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex.
5. The first letter of the months July through November spell JASON (July, August, September, October, November).
6. All the blinking that you do in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes.
7. You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
8. At birth, Dalmatians are always white.
9. The safest car color is white.
10. Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
11. Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds.
12.An egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C.
13. Women blink twice as much as men.
14. Over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products.
15. Hiccups usually last for 5 minutes.
16. Men are struck by lightening 7 times more than women.
17. Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
18. Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second.
19. A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space it too small to squeeze through.
20. Tigers have stripped skin, not just fur.
21. The colors on the Olympic flag are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a white background because at least one of these colors appears on the flag of every nation.
22. Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear between the ages of 2 and 6.
23. 56% of typing is completed by your left hand.
24. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
25. Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
26. It costs more to buy a new car today in the US than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and take three voyages to and from the New World.
