A List of 100 Strange (Mostly Worthless) Facts - Page 3

  1. The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer.
  2. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  3. Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".
  4. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  5. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
  6. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
  7. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
  8. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
  9. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.
  10. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
  11. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
  12. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
  13. There are more chickens than people in the world.
  14. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
  15. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
  16. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
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