1. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
2. A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
3. Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
4. Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
5. Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.
6. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
7. The estimated number of M & M’s sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
8. The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
9. Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.
10. "0 & Wine" magazine reported that in Japan, squid is the most popular topping for Domino's pizza.
11. Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer.
12. Sixty cows can produce a ton of milk a day.
13. For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
14. Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.
15. You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
16. There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.
17. Milk delivered to the store today was in the cow two days ago.
18. The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires 2 tons of water to grow.
19. Dunkin' Donuts serves about 112,500 doughnuts each day.
20. A tenth of the 7 million tons of rice grown in the U.S. each year goes into the making of beer.
21. There are professional tea tasters as well as wine tasters.
22. Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.
23. It takes more than 500 peanuts to make one
12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
24. Over 15 billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes.
25. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
26. Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
27. Hot water is heavier than cold.
28. If you went out into space, you would
explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
29. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
30. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
31. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce
higher than one made entirely of glass.
32. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom
shorter than its original length.
33. Time slows down near a black hole; inside it stops completely.
34. light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the earth.
35. A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky
Way, about 225 million years.
36. Rain contains vitamin B12.
37. ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.
38. From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on over 264 computers per day.
39. The first man-made item to exceed the speed
of sound is the bull whip our leather whip. When the whip is snapped, the knotted end makes a "crack" or popping noise. It is actually causing a mini sonic boom as it exceeds the speed of sound.
40. The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
41. A bowl of lime Jell-O, when hooked up to an EEG machine, exhibited movement which is virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult man or woman.
42. If the world were tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.
43. Clothes that are dried outside DO smell better because of a process called photolysis. What happens is this: sunlight breaks down compounds in the laundry that cause odor, such as perspiration and body oils.
44. Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
45. A "fulgerite" is fossilized lightning. It forms when a powerful lightning bolt melts the soil into a glass-like state.
46. If you stand in the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime.
47. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
48. Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
49. Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
50. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is predicted to topple over between 2010 and 2020.
51. Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
52. It takes a plastic container 50000 years to
start decomposing.
53. Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
54. Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
55. There are 3 golf balls sitting on the moon.
56. An iceberg contains more heat than a match.
57. Bacteria can reproduce sexually.
58. The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
59. The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
60. The state of Oregon has one city named Sisters and another called Brothers.
61. The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
62. Guam has seven public elementary schools.
63. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
64. Alaska is the only state without a state motto.
65. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
66. Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.
67. There are only three world capitals that begin with the letter "O" in English: Ottawa,
Canada; Oslo, Norway; and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
68. Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
69. Australia is the richest source of mineral
sands in the world.
70. Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
71. People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States
than are Americans.
72. Shortest Intercontinental Commercial Flight
in the world is from Gibraltar (Europe) to Tangier (Africa.) Distance 34 miles, flight time 20 minutes.
73. There are 3,900 islands in the country Japan, the country of islands.
74. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
75. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the
world combined.
76. England is smaller than New England.
77. The largest city in Africa is Cairo in Egypt.
78. The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
79. The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.
80. At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.
81. Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. It held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation.
82. The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1, 904 pounds.
83. The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
84. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
85. No one seems to know why people blush.
86. Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze
when they are exposed to light.
87. Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.
88. The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.
89. In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
90. It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
91. During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
92. You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
93. Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
94. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
95. The Average American/Canadian drinks about 600 soda’s per year.
96. More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones.
97. Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
98. Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
99. Percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed. Male or female, all left-handed people are "in their right mind
100. About 24 percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires, and suicides.
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