Interesting Facts

I always love reading these sorts of things; I thought you might like them too. Pardon my useless commentary…

Interesting Facts


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
longer than left-handed people do.


(Not surprising, they probably just give up on life because everything in this world is made for right-handed people.)





The flea can jump 350 times its body length which would be equivalent to a human jumping the length of a football field.



A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

(I think I just threw up a little. But come on people, those things can survive an atomic bomb; of course they can live without a head.)



American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

(That's fine, but don’t mess with my Sun Chips in Coach.)


Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

(Case in point: Men are from Mars Women are from Venus, women think logically.


Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

(My iced white mocha seems to do the trick.)



Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

(Perfect example of our screwed up society.)


Pearls melt in vinegar.

(Won’t be trying this one.)

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

(lovely...gag)


It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

(So, was the stranded cow really stranded?) Side note: I almost cried that it closed.


The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.



Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

(George Walker Bush insert clever word here ------.)


Turtles can breathe through their butts.


Butterflies taste with their feet.



On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

(Note to self.)


On average people fear spiders more than they do death.


Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.


Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

(But Mary Mack paid fifty-cents to see the elephant jump the fence, fence, fence. What a rip off…)

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

(I noticed, have you seen me on YouTube?)


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.

(That’s a Hoosier for you,love you Dana).


Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

(I have read this one several times before, but I absolutely refuse to except it!)


The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

(Have you seen the tools they use on your teeth? There all torture devices!)


In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

(OUCH, and I thought my eyebrow wax was painful)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

(I checked and this is a fact.)



If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

(Hmm, Barbie is not so perfect after all.)

Benny Goodman - Carmen Miranda 1943

Enjoy this Benny Goodman video about Paducah. I love this for so many reasons! You can't poo poo Paducah, its another word for paradise.