Crazy Facts

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 The fastest sevice in a restaurant in the world is 13 seconds from the order to the food on the table.
 Wayne Static (from staticX) uses glue to stick his hair up.
 The letter combination 'ough' can be pronounced in nine different ways.
 Every time you lick a stamp you consume one tengh of a calorie.
 Permanent marker is not actually permanent.
 The shortest poem ever goes 'Adam, hae'em'.
 In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
 On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
 On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
 Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
 Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
 It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers
failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
 A snail can sleep for three years.
 Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)
 In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
 If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches
tall.
 To convert milli-inches to micro metres you must times by 25.4
 There is an average of 3000 ft. of electrical wiring in every car.
 During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the war and became a monk.
 Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roomates at Harvard.
 Kermit the Frog is left handed.
 There is a city called Rome on every continent.
 The Earth is hit by lightning 100 times a second.
 Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of the keyboard.

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