Numbers and Statistics
Cost to raise a medium-sized dog to the age 11 is 400 dollars.
The average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour is 61,000.
111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
If you wrote out all of the numbers until you got to the first "A", you would have to go all the way to one-thousand.
The average person laughs about 13 times a day.
45% of the dollar bills you will ever own have been in a stripper's g-string.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.
An average of 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens in one year.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average American spends 6 years of their life in the bathroom and 6 months in front of a stop light.
It takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "I'll be back in a jiffy". A jiffy is 1/100 of a second.
If you are asked to pick heads or tails for a coin flip, say tails. The heads side is heavier so it lands on tails 50.5% of the time.
The average family spends a quarter million dollars ($250,000) on each child from birth to age 18.
A dime has 118 ridges.
The average human heart beats 2 billion times.
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It is impossible to touch your tongue to your elbow. Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair than unintelligent people.
Every king in a deck of cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs - Alexander the great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
If there is a statue of a person on a horse, you can tell how the person died. If the 2 front feet of the horse are in the air, the person died in battle. If 1 foot of the horse is in the air, the person died as a result of battle wounds. If all of the feet of the horse are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
Saturday was named after the planet Saturn.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
Jack is the most common name in fairy tales.
"Underground" is the only word in the english language that starts and ends with "und".
Money is not made out of paper, it is made from cotton.
Maine is the only one syllable state.
The man who invented the toilet was named Thomas Crapper.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.
Women blink almost twice times as many as men.
February 1865 is the only month recorder not to have a full moon.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word with only the left hand, "lollipop" is the longest with only your right hand.
TYPEWRITER it the longest "t" word that can be typed on the top row of a keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance
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