Random Fact Friday
- When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
- 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
- The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
- The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
- The average housefly lives for one month
- 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
- A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
- The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
- Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
- The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
- If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.



