If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
If the average person had started counting the moment they were born and continued counting, without stopping, until they turned 65 years old, they still would not have counted to a billion.
If the coils of a French horn were straightened out, the instrument would be 22 feet long.
If the earth were to become totally flat and the oceans distributed themselves evenly over the planet's surface, the water would be approximately two miles deep at every point.
If the entire population of the world were moved to Texas, it would still be less densely populated than New York City.
If the goverment passed a law that all the outdoor lighting in the united states had to be provided by low pressure sodium light bulbs, then they would save enough money to pay for evey college students tuition.
If the gross for Gone With the Wind were to be adjusted to allow for inflation in the period since its release, it would be regarded as the most successful film ever.
If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia
If the liver ever stops working a person will die within 8 to 24 hours.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.
If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentance "My very educated mother justed served us nine pickles," Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitor, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll lose more energy than you'll gain from actually eating it.
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees
If you cut off the head of a cockroach, it can still survive but will eventually die, but only because it cannot eat without its head.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
If you fold a piece of A4 paper in half 44 times it will reach the moon
If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.
If you go blind in one eye, you only lose about one fifth of your vision, but all your sense of depth.
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)
If you had $10 billion in $1 bills and spent one every second, it would take 317 years to spend them all.
If you had 15 cubes numbered 1 to 15 and you tried to line them up in every possible sequence, and if you made a change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do it.
If you had fifteen books on a shelf and you arrange them in every possible combination, and if you made one change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do them all.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you head directly south from Detroit, the first forign country you will enter is Canada
If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.
If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white.
If you like your espresso coffee sweet, you should use granulated sugar, which dissolves more quickly, rather than sugar cubes; white sugar rather than brown sugar or candy; and real sugar rather than sweeteners which alter the taste of the coffee.
If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word of the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" If you get the coffee and are polite say: "Thank you," get two more decimal places. (3.141592653...). Here is another sentance: How I wish I could calculate Pi. (3.141592)
If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.
If you pile up the cans of Yeo's products, you would be able to reach the moon.
If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won't pop.
If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
If you rubbed garlic on the sole of your feet, it would be absorbed and eventually show up on your breath
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
If you strech your arms straight out as far as you can, thats about how tall you are. Try it.
If you suffer from iatrophobia, you're afraid of doctors.If you take any number between 1 & 9 and multipy them by 9 the sum of the two numbers will always be 9 (ex: 7 X 9 = 63 ; 6 + 3 = 9)
If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
If you travel across the former Soviet Union you will cross seven time zones.
If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.
If you wanted to count from one to one trillion and you started right now, counting twenty-four hours a day, it would take you about 31,688 years.
If you wear headphones for one hour, it increases bacteria in your ear 700 times.
If you were at 0° latitude and 0° longtitude, you would be standing in the Atlantic Ocean
If you were to go on vacation for eleven days, you'd have less than one million seconds to enjoy it.
If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. cool eh?
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (unsure)
If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.
If your shoes squeak, it simply means that two layers of leather in the sole are rubbing together. Driving a tack through the sole will often remove the squeak.
Imperia, Italy is the home of the Agnesi Historical Museum of Spaghetti.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
In "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) does not blink in any scene.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
In 1516, Friar Tomas sailed to the Caribbean bringing banana roots with him; and planted bananas in the rich, fertile soil of the tropics, thus beginning the banana's future in American life.
In 1638, Sweden founded a colony in the New World in the Delaware River Valley. It was called New Sweden.
In 1649, Massachusetts's Puritan government ruled the following: "Any childe over 16 who shall CURSE or SMITE their natural FATHER or MOTHER, or act in a STUBBORNE or REBELLIOUS manner shall be put to death."
In 1659 the state of Massachusetts outlawed Christmas.
In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts ordered that anybody caught feasting or laying off from work, or in any other way goofing off on any other day other than Christmas, would be fined five shillings for each such offense.
In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.
In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.
In 1771 the kingdom of Poland was larger in are than any other European country except Russia and had a bigger population than any other European country except France.
In 1789, Morocco became the first country to recognize the United States.
In 1810 US population was 7,239,881. Black population at 1,377,808 was 19%. In 1969 US population reached 200 million.
In 1831, Captain William Driver, a shipmaster from Salem, Massachusetts, left on one of his many world voyages. Friends presented him with a flag of 24 stars. As the banner opened to the ocean breeze, he exclaimed, "Old Glory." He kept his flag for many years, protecting it during the Civil War, until it was flown over the Tennessee capital. His "Old Glory" became a nickname for all American flags.
In 1832 Abraham Lincoln ran for the Illinois legislature, and lost.
In 1836 the U.S. government had so much extra money that it repaid all its debts, and still had money left over.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
In 1850, Michigan's state constitution included the following line: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state." This inadvertently legalized slavery as an appropriate punishment for crime. It wasn't until 1963 that the grammar was fixed to outlaw slavery. The change required shifting the comma following "servitude" to the position after "slavery."
In 1853, Illinois passed a law that required any black entering the state and staying more than ten days to pay a fine of $50. If he could not pay, the person could be sold into slavery for a period commensurate with the fine.
In 1860, 'Godey's Lady's Book' advised US women to cook tomatoes for at least 3 hours.
In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
In 1865 opium was grown in the state of Virginia and a product was distilled from it that yielded 4 percent morphine. In 1867 it was grown in Tennessee: six years later it was cultivated in Kentucky. During these years opium, marijuana and cocaine could be purchased legally over the counter from any druggist.
In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, called the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1879 during the term of Rutherford B. Hayes the first telephone was installed in the White House.
In 1886, Grover Cleveland became the only president to be married in the White House.
In 1889, the 1st coin-operated telephone, patented by Hartford, Connecticut inventor William Gray, was installed in the Hartford Bank.
In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.
In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.
In 1899, a pharmacist named George Bunting blended his own cold cream, which, in addition to removing makeup and relieving sunburn, gained popularity for its ability to cure eczema. The product's claim of "No Eczema" led to its name, Noxzema.
In 1900 the average age at death in the US was 47.
In 1900, coffee was often delivered door-to-door in the United States, by horse-pulled wagons.
In 1900, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greetings to the British troops stationed in South Africa during the Boer War in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.
In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became the only U.S. President in history to deliver his inaugural address without using the word “I”. For the record, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower said “I” only once during their speeches.
In 1905, 18 men died from injuries sustained on the football field. President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and instituted safety measures to make the game safer.
In 1908, figure skating became the first winter sport to be included in the Olympics.
In 1915, Winston Churchill fought in the front line trenches before he became the Minister of Munitions.
In 1920, 57% of Hollywood movies billed the female star above the leading man. In 1990, only 18% had the leading lady given top billing.
In 1920, Eugene Debs, a Socialist, received 920,000 votes for president of the United States even though he ran his entire campaign from prison.
In 1924, Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snuff users.
In 1925, the 1st motel -the "Motel Inn" -opened in San Luis Obispo, California.
In 1926, when a Los Angeles restaurant owner with the all-American name of Bob Cobb was looking for a way to use up leftovers, he threw together some avocado, celery, tomato, chives, watercress, hard-boiled eggs, chicken, bacon, and Roquefort cheese, and named it after himself: Cobb salad.
In 1930, the heaviest a female flight attendant could be was 115 pounds. They also had to be unmarried nurses.
In 1931, Charleston, SC was the first city in the United States to pass legislation establishing a historical district. The city has more than 1,000 buildings that predate the Civil War.
In 1932 James Markham obtained the 1st patent issued for a tree. The patent was for a peach tree.
In 1936, England became the first country in the world to provide regular public broadcasting on television.
In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.
In 1938, Hewlett-Packard became the first corporation to move to Silicon Valley.
In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had no choice but to fix a computer glitch manually. The source of the problem? A moth. Hence the term "computer bug."
In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
In 1947, heavy snow blanketed the Northeast, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths.
In 1947, Toys for Tots started making the holidays a little happier for children by organizing its first Christmas toy drive for needy youngsters.
In 1950, UNIVAC became the first computer to tabulate the United States census.
In 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on television in the U.S.
In 1957, the Shipping port Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.)
In 1959, the Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to : 55,000.
In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
In 1964 General Mills began marketing Lucky Charms cereal with pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers. The marshmallow bits (technically referred to as marbits) were invented in 1963 by John Holahan. The cereal is marketed using a leprechaun character named Lucky (L.C. Leprechaun is his full name) that touts his cereal as being "Magically Delicious." Over the years the various shapes and colors of the marshmallow bits in the cereal have undergone many changes.
In 1964, Sandy Koufax, Elstom Howard, Jimmy Brown, Oscar Robertson, and Cookie Gilchrist were all voted MVP from their respected (MLB, NFL, NBA) leagues. Each of them wore the number 32.
In 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined together to become Tanzania.
In 1964, University of Oregon grad student Carolyn Davidson designed what became known as the Nike “swoosh” for a mere $35. She did it four years after Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports.
In 1965, Congress authorized the Secret Service to protect former presidents and their spouses for their lifetime, unless they decline the protection. Recently, Congress limited the protection of former presidents and their spouses (elected after January 1, 1997) to 10 years after leaving office. President Clinton, who was elected in 1996, will be the last president to receive lifelong protection from the Secret Service.
In 1965, LBJ enacted a law requiring cigarette manufacturers to put health warnings on their packages.
In 1968, "Apollo Seven," the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.
In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)
In 1970, 127 runners ran the NY Marathon. In 1998, 32,000 did.
In 1970, an Arizona lawyer named Russel H. Ansie filed a $100,000 law
In 1975, it cost only $180,000 to produce an hour-long TV drama.
In 1976, the average human had $5.60 of chemicals in their bodies. In 1946, that number was 98 cents.
In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly® flavors were launched: Orange, Green Apple, Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.
In 1980, the only country in the world with no telephones was Bhutan.
In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
In 1985, Pete Rose became the first professional athlete to appear on the front of a Wheaties box.
In 1987 Playtex premiered the first US TV commercials with real lingerie models displaying their bras and underwear on national television.
In 1987, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers became the first NHL goalie to score a goal. Actually, Ron Hextall was the first NHL goalie to score a goal by shooting the puck towards the opposing team's net in 1987. Billy Smith was the first goalie credited with a goal in 1979 when his clearing pass hit an opposing skater and went into the other team's goal.
In 1990, Bill Carson, of Arrington, Tennessee, grew the largest watermelon at 262 pounds that is still on the record books according to the 1998 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1990, over 4 billion dollars of coffee was imported into the United States.
In 1991 Procter & Gamble won a $75,000 lawsuit against James & Linda Newton who were found responsible for spreading rumors that the company supported the Church of Satan. The two were distributors of Amway Products, a competitor of Proctor & Gamble.
In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence.
In 1992, the best selling American-produced car in Japan was the Honda Accord. It was built in Ohio and exported to Japan.
In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.
In 1996, people in the United States sent and received 182,660,700,000 pieces of mail domestically. By way of comparison, Japan ranked second on this list with just 24,971,279,000.
In 1997, Fourteen percent of the one million citizens of Nairobi, Kenya carry the AIDS virus. Some 20% of the Kenyan military is infected.
In 1998 OSHA reported 1171 construction related fatalities, the sixth straight year this number has increased.
In 1999, the most common food allergy was to nuts.In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.
In 24 hrs. an average healthy human breathes 23,000 times.
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.
In a psychology experiment, an electrode was attached to the pleasure centre of a rat's brain, which the rat could stimulate at the press of a button. It died of starvation when it wouldn't stop pressing the button long enough to eat.
In a recent survey in Japan, instant noodles were chosen as the greatest invention of all time
In a six-pack of pop, the cans cost more to make than the drink.
In a soccer game, the average length of time the ball is in play [for ninety minutes] is only 52 minutes.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand, or attempted to do so (apart from bones).
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where An ostrich buried its head in the sand.
In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
In a typical season major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.
In a University of Arizona study, rails and armsrests in public buses were found to be contaminated by the highest concentration of bodily fluids.
In a year, your heart can beat up to 40 000 000 times!
In Alabama it is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.
In Alaska it is against the laww to look at a moose from an airplane.
In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are moose hunting.
In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from a flying vehicle.
In Albania nodding the head means "no" and shaking the head means "yes".
In Albany, New York, you cannot play golf in the streets.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico it is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.
In Alderson, West Virginia, it is illegal to walk a lion, tiger or leopard in the city limits, even it is on a leash.
In all of Shakespeare's works and excluding Roman numerals only one word begins with the letter "X." Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, appears in The Taming of the Shrew.
In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
In an article in 1998, The Journal of the American Medical Association claimed that adverse drug reactions may cause more than 100,000 deaths a year in the US alone.
In an authentic Chinese meal, the last course is soup because it allows the roast duck entree to "swim" toward digestion.
In an average lifetime, a person will eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.
In ancient China people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
In ancient chinese culture it was common for them to use the lining of a cats stomach as a condom.
In ancient Egypt they paid their taxes in honey.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In ancient Greece the custom of allowing a condemned man to end his own life by poison was extended only to full citizens. Condemned slaves were instead beaten to death.
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a hooked nose.
In ancient Rome, people found guilty of murdering their fathers were executed in a bizarre manner. The punishment was to be put in a sack with a rooster, a viper, and a dog, then drowned along with all three animals.
In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was put to death.
In April 1964, The Beatles had the top five songs in the United States. This is the only time that the top five songs at any one time were by the same group.
In Arizona it is illegal to take naked photographs before noon on Sunday.
In Arizona, you cannot Drive past the same place more then 3 times in one hour. Its a law.
In Arkansas it is illegal to buy or sell blue lightbulbs.
In astrology, synastry is the comparison of natal charts to forecast how people will interact.
In Atlanta, GA, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
In Australia, there is no death penalty.
In Baltimore it is illegal to mistreat oysters.
In Baltimore, it is illegal to wash or scrub sinks no matter how dirty they get.
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