Weird Facts about People

1. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
2. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
3. Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
4. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
5. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
6. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
7. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
8. The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
11. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
12. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windscreen wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
13. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the “honeymoon”.
14. The world’s largest palace was built by the Sultan of Brunei (once the richest man in the world) and has 1788 rooms.
15. Abraham Lincoln taught himself to read and write as he only went to school for less than a year.
16. The longest recorded swim was 2938 km down the Mississippi River in 1930. The swimmer spend 742 hours in the water.
17. The longest jail sentence passed was in the United States – 10,000 years for a triple murder.
18. In Ancient Rome only important people wore purple clothes. This is because the purple dye came from a particular kind of shellfish and was very expensive.
19. Dentists have recommended that people store toothbrushes 6 feet or more from a toilet to avoid airborne particles when the toilet is flushed.
20. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
21. The human body burns more calories sleeping than watching television.
22. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
23. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
24. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. That is why most manufacturers strategically place holes in them. (to allow air to pass through them and avoid choking)
25. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
26. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
27. # We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
28. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
29. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
30. There are more people alive today than have ever died.