55 Crazy facts

Here are a list of 55 crazy facts that seem unbelievable but are true. 





  1. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
  2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
  3. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
  4. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
  5. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  6. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
  7. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
  8. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
  9. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theaters.
  10. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.
  11. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans.
  12. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.
  13. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  14. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
  15. Adolf Hitler was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year and was Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
  16. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
  17. Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months.
  18. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
  19. A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
  20. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.
  21. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
  22. Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.
  23. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid.
  24. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
  25. Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer.
  26. Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
  27. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
  28. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.
  29. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  30. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
  31. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
  32. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  33. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
  34. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
  35. It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
  36. Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
  37. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
  38. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
  39. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
  40. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
  41. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
  42. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
  43. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
  44. We are attracted to those who look and/or smell similar to one of our parents.
  45. The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years.
  46. More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
  47. 90% of media in the US is controlled by 6 major news networks known as “The Big Six.”
  48. The cast of Super Mario Brothers was constantly drunk while filming just to get through their scenes.
  49. There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves of any chess game.
  50. Male mice sing love songs for female mice.
  51. The world's quietest room is -9 decibels. It's so quiet, you can hear your blood flowing in your own body!
  52. Marilyn Monroe had a higher IQ than Albert Einstein.
  53. April 4, June 6, October 10 and December 12 will all fall on the same day of the week in any year. 
  54. A kid born in Sweden in was named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116. His parents said it was pronounced "Albin."
  55. Caligula once ordered his troops to go to war with the sea.