Mind Booster Facts – 1
# Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
# In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
# There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
# Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
# Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
# The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
# There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
# There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
# The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
# Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
# The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
# Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
# Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
# One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
# The names of Popeye’s four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Mind Booster Facts – 2
# Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
# The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders!
# When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
# A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
# A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
# The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
# A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface!
# A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
# It is estimated that 4 million “junk” telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
# It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
# Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
# Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
Mind Booster Facts – 3
# The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
# Most lipstick contains fish scales!
# Skepticism is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
# One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
# It’s illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you’re sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
# The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
# No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
# A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
# Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
# There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
# If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
# Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
# A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
Mind Booster Facts – 4
# The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
# Cat urine glows under a black-light!
# The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
# The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
# Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
# A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
# Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
# The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
# Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
# A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
# Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
# A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
# A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
# Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
Mind Booster Facts – 5
# During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
# Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
# Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
# The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
# In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow down their faces!
# There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
# About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
# More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
# A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
# Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
# In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
# Slugs have 4 noses!
# Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
# The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
# The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”!
# The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
Mind Booster Facts – 6
# There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
# Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
# Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
# Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
# In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an “Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.”!
# Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
# A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
# The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears…
# There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
# Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
# Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E!
# Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
# A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
# Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
# Pinocchio is Italian for “Pine Eye”!
# The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
# The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
Mind Booster Facts – 7
# An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
# A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
# Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
# One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
# More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
# In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
# Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
# Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
# In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word!
# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
# The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
# The average person laughs 13 times a day!
# Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
# Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
# It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Mind Booster Facts – 8
# The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
# There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
# The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
# Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!
# The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
# Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
# 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!
# Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
# Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
# A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there, though!
# The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
# The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
# A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
# After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Mind Booster Facts – 9
# Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it’s known as Tennessee!
# The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
# A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off – it dies from starvation!
# Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
# The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
# It’s against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
# One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
# The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
# It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
# you’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
# Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
# Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
# The state of Florida is bigger than England!
# There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
# In Natoma, Kansas, it’s illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
# It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
# Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
# Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Mind Booster Facts – 10
# Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
# The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
# It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
# Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
# There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
# Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
# The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
# Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
# A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
# Porcupines float in water!
