50 Random Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

1. Air leaks from the ears and one man can blow out candles and blow up balloons doing this.
2. When Bill Gates recieved his honorary knighthood from the queen she told him she has never even used a compter.
3. 71,000,000 packets of McVities biscuits are produced a year which are thought to create 128.7 tons of crumbs.
4. Traffic wardens (The ones that give out parking tickets) walk about 15 miles every day.
5. A man named Arthur Robinson, an ex-soldier, had bet on his own death in 2005.
6. Bill Gates does not use an iPod.
7. The Lion costume in the film “The Wizard of Oz” was made from real Lions.
8. One third of all the cod caught in the world is eaten in the UK.
9. Tony Blair’s favourite dish to cook is the italian spaghetti bolognaise.
10. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
11. For every 10 people that succesfully climb Mount Everest 1 dies.
12. It is easier to control a football that has 40 seams than 20 seams.
13. Clive Calder is richer than Sir Paul McCartney.
14. Goths are more likely to become doctors, lawyers and architects than people who are not goths.
15. The CIA used to watch Mission Impossible for Spying tips.
16. 40% of McDonalds profits come from Happy Meal sales.
17. The mother of Adolf Hitler was heavily contemplating an abortion but her doctor talked her out of it.
18. The only word in the English language that ends in “mt” is dreamt.
19. The KFC slogan “Finger lickin good” means “Eat your fingers off” in Chinese.
20. The first person who owned Malboro Ciggarettes died of lung cancer.
21. Colgate found it hard to find a good market in Spain because “Colgate” in Spanish means “Go Hang Yourself”.
22. The longest name for a place is Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua—anatahu which is a hill in New Zealand.
23. If you wear headphones for around an hour the bacterial build up in your ears increases 700 times.
24. Every continents letter ends with the letter it starts with. Africa, Europe, Antartica, (South) America, (North) America, Asia and Australia.
25. It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
26. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
27. Honey is the only food that does not go off.
28. $40,000 was saved by American Airlines in 1987 by removing one Olive from every salad that was ordered in the First Class cabin.
29. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
30. The dot on a lower case “i” is called a “tittle”
31. In the chariot scene in the film “Ben Hur” a red car can be seen driving in the distance
32. It took 10 years for Leonardo Da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa’s lips.
33. Leonardo Da Vinci’s second name means Of Vinci which is a small town in Italy.
34. The Guinness book of world records holds its own record for being the most popular book stolen from public libraries.
35. Michael Myers mask in the “Halloween” film series was the Star Trek Captain Kirk’s face mask painted white.
36. Around the 1830’s Tomato Ketchup was sold as a medicine.
37. A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minuites.
38. A pigs penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
39. Yelling for 8 years 7 months and 6 days will produce enough sound energy to heat a cup of coffee.
40. Scratching your ear if you have a itchy throat works.
41. If the US Goverment denies knowledge of Aliens then how come Title 14,Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
42. “Go.” is the shortest complete sentance in the english language.
43. 23% of photocopiers faults occue because people sit on them photocopying their bottoms.
44. French toast is not French it was invented in new York by a man named Joeseph French.
45. When glass breaks the cracks in it move at around 3,00 miles per second so you would need a camera that takes a picture every millionth of a second to record it.
46. There are two words that rhyme with purple in the english words which is curple and hurple.
47. Chilver also rhymes with Silver, a chilver is a young ewe.
48. In the 1800’s anyone who tried to commit suicide and failed faced the death penalty.
49. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders!
50. im Henman has a tennis court at his new home in Oxfordshire which he has never used. (As of 2005)