Michael’s Blog

This is a list of wierd facts that I have found in the 20 minutes I’m waiting for my DVD player to get working again…

American Facts

• The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
• Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
• The average American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat in their lifetime.
• A new book is published about every 13 minutes in America during business hours.
• Betsy Ross’s other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
• America’s best selling ice-cream flavor is vanilla.
• Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
• Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
• Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
• The average American will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Useless Facts

• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
• The word ‘byte’ is a contraction of ‘by eight.
• The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
• Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
• Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head”.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “E”.
• No president of the United States was an only child.
• Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
• Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
• The human brain is 80% water.
• Ants never sleep.
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
• 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.
• There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
• Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
• The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
• The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.
• Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.
• Reindeer like to eat bananas.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
• Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.

Chuck Norris Facts

• Chuck Norris’ tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
• Chuck Norris doesn’t need to shower. Dirt is too scared to touch him.
• Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
• The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
• Chuck Norris defines love as the reluctance to murder. If you’re still alive, it’s because Chuck Norris loves you.
• Chuck Norris isn’t hung like a horse. Horses are hung like Chuck Norris.
• If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.
• Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother’s womb.
• There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris can win a game of Monopoly without owning any property.
• There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
• In fine print on the last page of the Guinness Book of World Records it notes that all world records are held by Chuck Norris, and those listed in the book are simply the closest anyone has ever gotten.
• Chuck Norris invented cancer because he was tired of killing people
• In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.
• Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
• When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
• Chuck Norris has two speeds: walk and kill.
• When Chuck Norris jumps into a body of water, he doesn’t get wet. The water gets Chuck Norris instead.
• Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
• Chuck Norris can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
• When Chuck Norris runs with scissors, other people get hurt.
• If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
• There is no ‘ctrl’ button on Chuck Norris’s computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.
• Apple pays Chuck Norris 99 cents every time he listens to a song.
• Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open.
• Chuck Norris can eat just one Lay’s potato chip.
• Chuck Norris is suing Myspace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you.
• Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise.
• Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
• Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.
• Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
• Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
• Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
• Chuck Norris invented airplanes because he was tired of being the only person that could fly.
• Every year on his birthday, Chuck Norris randomly selects one lucky child to be thrown into the sun.
• If Chuck Norris is late. Time better slow down.
• Chuck Norris once shot down a German plane by pointing his finger and yelling “bang”.
• God wanted 10 days to create the world. Chuck Norris gave him 6.
• Once, Chuck Norris built a time machine, went back before the universe existed. God appeared startling Chuck, with a sudden bang he round housed kicked god. And within that bang of a kick the universe was made.