FUN FACTS BY MCLAUGHLIN AIR CONDITIONING CO. IN STOCKTON, CA

1. More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money is printed throughout the world.
2. You are about one centimeter taller in the morning than the evening.
3. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
4. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don’t.
5. When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
6. Blueberry juice boosts memory.
7. None of the Beatles knew how to read music. Paul McCartney finally taught himself.
8. Your fingernails grow faster in the summer.
9. There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
10. It takes food seven seconds to go from your mouth to your stomach.
11. It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
12. In 1996, research found that having excessive body hair is linked to higher intelligence.
13. The earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to space dust.
14. The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.
15. Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
16. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of the New York Times.
17. Most dust particles in your home come from dead skin.
18. On average, the life span of an American dollar is eighteen months.
19. The “vintage date” on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling.
20. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
21. The average home creates more pollution than a car.
22. The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
23. The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan crab fisherman.
24. There are 365 steps on the front of the United States Capitol Building, one for every day of the year.
25. To sell your home faster and for more money, paint it yellow.
26. 15% of Americans bite their toes.
27. 8% of a Hostess Twinkie is air.
28. A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
29. A bird chews with its stomach.
30. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
31. A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
32. A lightning bolt generates temperature five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface do.
33. A lump of gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
34. A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
35. A pound of potato chips cost 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
36. A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
37. A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.
38. A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.
39. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
40. A car operates at maximum economy at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
41. Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
42. Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
43. Avocados are poisonous to birds.
44. Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
45. By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.
46. Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
47. Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downward.
48. Hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.
49. Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
50. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food: that’s the weight of 6 elephants.
51. Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
52. For every gallon of seawater, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
53. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations.
54. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
55. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
56. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
57. If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
58. The head’s picture on a penny weighs more so it ends up on the bottom more than tails side.
59. If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
60. In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
61. In an average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.
62. The word tips is actually an acronym standing for “to insure prompt service.”
63. Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
64. Your home is ten times more likely to be damaged by a fire than be burglarized.
65. According to the United States FDA Standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
66. The average disposable diaper sold today could easily last well over on hundred years in a local landfill, and the average baby will need approximately 7500 diapers from birth to potty toilet trained.
67. Using the average 12-ounce soda or beer can, it would take about 33 empty cans to equal a pound.
68. Major league baseball requires that all umpires working in the league must wear black underwear at every game.
69. If you squeeze your nose together where no air goes in or out, you can’t hum. Try it!
70. There are more women in the U.S. than men.
71. Every U.S. bill, regardless of denomination, costs just 4 cents to make.
72. Annually, 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.
73. One billion seconds is 32 years.
74. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin one million glasses of fresh water.
75. The average American online user spends 70 minutes a day online.
76. The average four-year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
77. The twelve days of Christmas are December 25th through January 5th.
78. The longest engagement lasted 67 years and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82.
79. The most popular name for a pet in the U.S. is Max.
80. The third biggest party day after New Year’s and Super Bowl Sunday is Halloween.
81. If you place your shoes from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
82. If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out, it would measure 87 feet.
83. The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
84. The name of the dog on a Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
85. The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia has nearly 68,000 miles of telephone lines.
86. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup shaped object placed over the ear will produce the same effect.
87. The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.
88. The Statue of Liberty’s mouth is 3 feet wide.
89. There are 6,272,640 square inches in an acre.
90. There are 63,360 inches in a mile.
91. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper every day.
92. Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.
93. Maine is the toothpick capitol of the world.
94. On average, a disposable diaper can hold 7 pounds of liquid.
95. Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage.
96. Research indicates that babies that suck on pacifiers are more prone to earaches.
97. Some toothpaste and deodorants contain the chemicals found in antifreeze.
98. The life expectancy of a garbage disposal is 5–10 years.
99. The oldest documented footwear found was an 8,000-year-old sandal found in a cave located in Missouri, USA.
100. When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
101. Recycling a glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
102. A rat can fall from a five-story building without injury.
103. Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5 times its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
104. The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is dish soap.
105. Acts of kindness make us happier and healthier.
106. Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq. fit in which to live.
107. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery ticket is greater than your chance of winning.
108. The smallest park in the world is a two-foot circle in Portland, Oregon
109. In Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
110. In the U.S., people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
111. Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies.
112. You can’t tickle yourself.
113. It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitos to drain the human body.
114. Denver, Colorado now has more marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks.
115. 25% of your bones are located in your feet.
116. According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more than women do.
117. Babies are born without kneecaps.
118. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
119. Every hour, one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
120. Every 3 seconds, a new baby is born.
121. If you cut a “V” shape into your toenails you can prevent an in grown toe nail.
122. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.