Funny Random Facts

Ants never sleep.
In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
A group of officers is called a mess.
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute".
The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!
Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Since 1313, it is illegal for an MP to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.
In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!
Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.