Random Facts

Knowledge may be the best despite being random. Feast and remember for I have violent spasms to throw scraps of tidbits like these without documenting them in a somewhat respectful way.


In the time to it takes to read this sentence, 50000 cells in your body will die and be replaced.
An average snail moves at a rate of 58cm per hour.
Vintage port takes 40 years to reach maturity.
Around 4 billion litres of petroleum is consumed around the world each day.
On average, there are 8 peas in a pod.
Rice is the main food consumed for half the people worldwide…
The low rumbling of distant thunder is called ‘brontide’.
The fastest sneeze was recorded at 166.7km/hour
Barbie got her first car in 1962.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they are still sitting on it.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Licorice can raise your blood pressure.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
American airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by omitting one olive from each salad served in first class.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13th’.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if it was thrown west.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
Winston Churchill was born in ladies room during a dance.
Swedish people drink more coffee than any other race in the world.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
All of the clocks in the move ‘Pulp Fiction’ are stuck on 4.20
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are more plastic flamingoes than real ones in America.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
The average person left hand does most of the typing.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
The microwave was invented when a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Hair grows the slowest at night.
The skeleton of a 70kg body weighs about 13 kg.
If you have ozostomia, you are suffering from halitosis or bad breathe.
A woman arthritic pain will also always disappear when she becomes pregnant.
An anteater is about 6 feet long but its mouth is only an inch wide.
The more money a person makes, the less likely he is to buy lottery.
There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
The human brain is 85% water.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
The average human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
From the age of 30, humans begin to shrink.