40 Things to Ponder About...

1. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
2. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
3. There are more chickens than people in the world.
4. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
5. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
6. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
7. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
8. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
9. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
10. A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
11. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
12. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
13. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
14. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
15. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints get compressed during the day.
16. Australia is the only continent that does not have an active volcano.
17. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
18. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
19. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
20. A baby is born every 7 seconds.
21. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
22. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
23. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
24. A cockroach can live more than a week with its head cut off.
25. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
26. The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
27. A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.
28. During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.
29. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
30. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
31. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody knows why.
32. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million people in the world?
33. "a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backward is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
34. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
35. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
36. There are about 250,000 pores on the soles of your feet; these pores squirt a quarter cup of liquid each day.
37. There are 20,000 species of bees and only 4 of them make honey.
38. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
39. In a lifetime the average person will walk 74,670 miles. That's equal to 3 times around the world at the equator.
40. Some lions will mate over 50 times a day; maybe this is why they are king of the jungle?

These bizarre and mind-boggling facts are taken from 130 Things People Don't Care About.