1. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
2. 85% of red lingerie is bought by men.
3. A new product is launched somewhere in the world every three and a half minutes.
4. A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.
5. A ripe cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
6. A Zambian man divorced his wife because she gave him a cup of tea with a frog in it.
7. An almond is a member of the peach family.
8. Aston Barrett (the bassist of Bob Marley’s band) has 52 children.
9. Bananas contain the same ‘happy’ chemical as prozac.
10. Blond beards grow quicker than dark beards.
11. Charles Dickens always wrote while facing north.
12. Charlie Chaplin once came 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.
13. Fingernails grow at around 0.1mm every day.
14. For each gallon of petrol used, the QE2 will move six inches.
15. Grapes explode if you put them in a microwave.
16. Hilary Clinton won a Grammy in 1996 for the Best Spoken Word album.
17. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
18. It is estimated that at least 0.7% of the worlds population are drunk at any given time.
19. It is illegal for cars to drip oil on the pavement in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
20. Jack Nicholson has an art collection worth over $150 million.
21. Listening to music using headphones can increase the bacteria in your ear by upto 700 times.
22. Maine is the only state in the US with one syllable.
23. Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
24. Pandas are the only bear that doesn’t hibernate.
25. Queen Victoria sent over 2,500 valentine cards during her reign.
26. Ringo Starr was the first person in Britain to own a video recorder.
27. The art of map-making is older than the art of writing.
28. The average bed contains 6 billion dust mites.
29. The average motorist will spend 6 months of their life at red lights.
30. The average toilet roll has 333 sheets.
31. The average workman’s ‘lunch-hour’ lasts just over 19 minutes.
32. The Bay Of Pigs in Cuba is named after a fish and not a pig!
33. The black boxes in aeroplanes are actually orange.
34. The cat flap was invented by Isaac Newton.
35. The chemicals in the human body have a monetary value of £4.
36. The first British telephone directory was published in 1880 and had only 25 names in it.
37. The first text message was sent in 1992.
38. The Himalayas cover one tenth of the Earth’s surface.
39. The human body contains enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.
40. The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years.
41. The longest word in English without any vowels is rhythms.
42. The most filmed story of all time is Dracula.
43. The pole star, Polaris, is 680 light years away from the Earth.
44. The white part of your fingernails is called the lunula.
45. There are more than 7,000 types of apples grown in the world.
46. Uma Thurman wears a size 11 shoe.
47. US presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4th, 1826.
48. Water expands by about 10% as it freezes.
49. William Wordsworth could only sleep standing up.
50. You have a one in 2 billion chance of living to be 116 or older.

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