100 Random Facts Mystery Cache
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1. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
2. Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
3. In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times.
4. A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
5. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
6. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
7. No one knows where Mozart is buried.
8. Only one person won the $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question, Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing).
9. Zeus condemned Prometheus to having his liver eaten by a giant eagle for giving the Flames of Olympus to the mortals.
10. 1/3 of all ice cream sold is vanilla.
11. Hong Kong is the city with the most Rolls Royce's per capita.
12. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
13. First novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
14. A white Christmas in New York only has a snowball's chance, 1 in 4.
15. 70% of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World.
16. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
17. 9 rings of power given to men, and consequently, 9 ringwraiths.
18. Hallmark makes cards for quite a number of different family relationships, 105 in all.
19. 5 basic tastes are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami.
20. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
21. National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
22. 1/3 of the land in the US is owned by the government.
23. Abe Lincoln was the only President awarded a patent, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.
24. 90% of bird species are monogamous. 3% of mammal species are.
25. Washington DC is the city with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists.
26. 1/12 of the US annual rainfall falls in April.
27. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
28. About 44% of American adults go on a diet each year.
29. 1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have.
30. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38.
31. Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50.
32. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
33. Libra, the Scales, is the only inanimate symbol in the zodiac.
34. Alaska has the highest percentage of people in the States who walk to work.
35. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemange, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
36. Until at least 1980 the country of Bhutan had no telephones.
37. Giraffes have no vocal chords.
38. Quack's from a duck do not echo, and no one knows why.
39. 8 is considered a lucky number in Chinese and Asian cultures.
40. Smartest dogs in order: border collie, poodle, golden retriever. Dumbest--afghan.
41. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
42. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
43. Majel Barret is the only person to be on all four Star Trek series.
44. Pecans are the only food that astranauts do not have to treat and dehydrate when flying in space.
45. 2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5.
46. Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.
47. 80% of American men say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again. 50% of American women say they would marry the same man.
48. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
49. 1/3 of all the potatoes sold are French fried.
50. Antartica is the only continent without reptiles.
51. Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary my Dear Watson."
52. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
53. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
54. 0 does have a positive and negative value.
55. 7 is the fourth prime number.
56. Polar bears are left-handed.
57. Average life span of a major league baseball: 6 pitches.
58. 6 is the atomic number of carbon.
59. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
60. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
61. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
62. Eleanor Roosevelt was the only first lady to carry a loaded revolver.
63. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
64. Brazoria County in Southeast Texas is the only county in the United States and Canada to have every kind of poisonous snake found in those two countries.
65. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
66. 4/5 of Harvard students graduate with honors.
67. Hacky-sack was invented in Turkey.
68. Kermit the Frog is left handed.
69. Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
70. Tigers has striped skin - not just striped fur.
71. 36% of Americans say that God has spoken to them. 43% of Americans regularly attend religious services.
72. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
73. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
74. On average, about 61,000 people are airborne over the US any given hour.
75. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
76. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
77. x is commonly used as the name for an unknown value.
78. John F. Kennedy was the Only President to win a Pulitzer, for Profiles in Courage.
79. Canada is an Indian word meaning "big village."
80. Chances 1 in 7 that a burglary in the US will be solved.
81. Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
82. Hot water is heavier than cold.
83. When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
84. 58% of men say they are happier after their divorce or separation. 85% of women say they are happier.
85. Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
86. Eskimos never gamble.
87. 4 is the first positive non-Fibonacci number.
88. Chances are 1 in 2 that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up. This is known as propinquity.
89. 7% of Americans eat at McDonalds every day.
90. 3 people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, and Sebastian Shaw was his face.
91. The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
92. Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
93. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
94. Coca-cola was originally green.
95. They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
96. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
97. Jiffy is 1/100th of a second
98. Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a ballooon for a parade.
99. The hieroglyph for 100,000 is a tadpole.
100. James Buchanon was the only President to remain a bachelor.
* Facts not guaranteed to be accurate!
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