Odd Facts Most People Don't Know

By Unknown Wednesday, September 12, 2018

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12 Weird and Fun Facts About Sports

1. In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
2. Retired basketball sensation Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
3. The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
4. The average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
5. Dueling is legal is Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
6. All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job in case their pants split.
7. In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered very American League team.
8. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
9. Every year 56,000,000 people attend major league baseball games.
10. In 18th century England, gambling dens employed someone whose job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
11. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.
12. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

31 Weird Science Facts

1. The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.
2. The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house.
3. In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
4. At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
5. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.
6. A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day. Good night!
7. Every year 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers, and eventually, oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.
8. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow.
9. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
10. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
11. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. you also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
12. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
13. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a television for three hours.
14. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
15. The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
16. A category three hurricane releases more energy in ten minutes that all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
17. There is enough fuel in full jumbo jet tank to drive an average car four times around the world.
18. An average of 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
19. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
20. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel it burns.
21. San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that can move.
22. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
23. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
24. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
25. Lightning strikes the Earth 100 times every second.
26. La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, the Falkland Islands, and Punta Arenas, Chile.
27. There are over 87,000 Americans on waiting lists for organ transplants.
28. Catsup leaves the bottle at a rate of 25 miles per year.
29. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals do.
30. You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.
31. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

    21 Odd Facts About Your Body

32. It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
33. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
34. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
35. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
36. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
37. Women blink nearly twice as often as men.
38. Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin.
39. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
40. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
41. The longest bout of hiccups lasted nearly 69 years.
42. Babies is born without kneecaps. They appear between the ages of 2 and 6.
43. Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.
44. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
45. 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.
46. A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals that cause relaxation. Women seem to like light and frequent kisses while men like them more strenuous.
47. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
48. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
49. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
50. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
51. According to Chinese acupuncture, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.
52. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell.