Fun Facts

The following is a list of interesting facts I dug up, and of course my response to them.

There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
And that’s why you don’t go up in it, all the damn frogs!

About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.
And you thought they were made of steel!

More than 10 people a year are killed by a vending machine.
But the huge question remains, which one? He’s out there hiding in plain sight!   

Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.
I think one invention was the weird middle name

The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
All of them blank. Idiots…

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
Coincidentally the exact amount of coffee I need to get out of bed.

It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce…and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
So the next time you order a Rolls, consider ordering 332.3 Toyota’s instead! (Yes, I did the math)

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
So, if I somehow save 22 lives I’m allowed to go kill someone with no repercussions?

A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
And while driven at that speed, all drivers behind you experience a strange straightening of the middle finger.

The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
Obviously her Saturday night babysitter quickly became a multi-millionaire

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
So does my wife’s screams!

Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
And that’s just my neighbor!  I’ll be here all week folks…

A new baby usually deprives each of its parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year.
Now do you approve of spankings!?!

If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
What happens if NOT left alone?  World domination?

One human hair can support 3 ounces.
Um.. so you can take it on a plane?

The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
And that’s just my neib…oh wait, I used that joke. Still, I feel like I didn’t go over 1450 pounds last year.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
Last year I blinked 8,400,000 times just so I could go all year this year without blinking. Man I’m gonna get a lot of stuff done.

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.
This is why the employees take a 53 minute break every hour.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
Too many germs

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
I thought there was only one- Turn and run with said dollar. And don’t look back. You sir, have a one shiny dollar now.  Go spend it at Walmart, they need the cash.

The largest diamond ever found was 3,106 carats.
Says Bugs Bunny! That guy thinks everything’s a carrot!

Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day.
Hi, I graduated from MIT with a degree in Seaweed and Seaweed Related Measurement Science. So like I was saying, did you want fries with that?   

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Ok Linda ‘Hemmingway’ Lovelace!  If you get this joke, move on, if not, move on. DO NOT Google it.

More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year.
“Sir, when you say ‘the pillow started it’, exactly what do you mean by that”

More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
Better than falling asleep on someone else’s side.

More than 10% of the world’s salt is used to de-ice American roads.
That’s why rush hour road reports say things like ‘this main artery is clogged’.  All that salt!  There’s a great joke in there somewhere, not here but somewhere.

In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
I told you the Pogo Stick was still super popular!

Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
Probably from the rye bread!  Oh I’m sorry, I thought a Jewelry was a delicatessen for Jewish people.