30 Interesting Fun Facts Of The Day
1. At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
2. It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
3. 91% of us lie regularly.
4. An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
5. The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
6. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
7. About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.
8. In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.
9. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
10. The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
11. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.
12. All humans Are 99.9% genetically identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
13. You can use pinecones to forecast the weather--the scales will close when rain is on the way.
14. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. About 1000 new soft drinks are launched in Japan every year.
17. Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded.
18. Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
19. President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
20. In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
21. Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.
22. The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.
23. Every year we produce more transistors than grains of rice.
24. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
25. The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary. When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law.
26. During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
27. Squirrels can't remember where they hide half of their nuts.
28. From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.
29. An average American will spend an average of 6 months during his lifetime waiting at red lights.
30. Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
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