The book of cool pointless facts

Hi :)

Before every chapter I will also include the websites I got the facts from so they can take most of the credit, because I'm nice like that :')

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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/

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1. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

2. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

3. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

4. In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?" It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

5. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favoured day for self-destruction.

6. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

7. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

8. It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

9. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

10. It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

11. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

12. Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

13. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

14. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

15. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

16. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

17. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

18. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

19. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

20. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

21. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

22. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

23. There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

24. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

25. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

26. There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

27. Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

28. The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

29. The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

30. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

31. If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

32. Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

33. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

34. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

35. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.