Interesting Facts

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

There are 10 million people who share your birthday.

There are 10,000,000 bricks in the Empire State Building.

There are 100 tiles in a 'Scrabble' crossword game.

There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.

There are 13,678 McDonald's fast food joints in the United States.

There are 132 rooms in the US White House.

There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.

There are 2,320 Navy SEALs.

There are 2,382,500 (rounded) Smiths in the U.S.

There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.

There are 24 known "perfect" numbers. These are numbers that equal the sum of all its divisors except itself. For instance, six the lowest of these numbers is divisible by 1, 2, or 3 and 1+2+3=6. The largest of the known "perfect" numbers has 12,003 digits.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 300 distinct different types of honey.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves per side in a game of chess.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.

There are 350,000 Italians living in Toronto, Canada, a population about the same as that of Venice, Italy.

There are 38 peaks in South America higher than Mt. McKinley, which is the highest point in North America.

There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty.

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.

The typical shower is 101 degrees F.

Nearly 1/3 of US women color their hair.

9% of women and 8% of men have had cosmetic surgery.

53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.

58% of women paint their nails regularly.

62% of us pop our zits.

33% of women lie about their weight.

10% of us claim to have seen a ghost.

57% have had deja vu.

49% believe in ESP.

4 out of 5 of us have suffered from hemorrhoids.

44% have broken a bone.

Only 30% of us know our cholesterol level.

14% have attended a self-help meeting.

15% regularly go to a shrink.

78% would rather die quickly than live in a retirement home.

Significantly more black women die from heart disease than any other group.

30% of us refuse to sit on a public toilet seat.

54.2% of us always wash our hands after using the toilet.

81.3% would tell an acquaintance to zip his pants.

It takes an average person fifteen to twenty minutes to walk once around the Pentagon.

The average life span of London residents in the middle of the 19th century was 27 years. For members of the working class, that number dropped to 22 years.

There are over 15,000 miles of lighted neon tubing in the many signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.

The average IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ.

12% of men never use their car blinkers.

44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.

4 out of 5 sing in the car.

Every minute 47 Bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world.

In a century's time Islam had converted one-third of the world.