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OMG Facts!
1.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
2.
1 billion seconds ago was May 1975.
3.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
4.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.
5.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
6.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
7.
The average life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
8.
Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats.
9.
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
10.
About 1 out of 4 homeless people in South Korea own a credit card.
11.
Canada is an indian word meaning big village.
12.
We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday..which may include this fact you just read.
13.
There are more musicians with albinism than any other type of public figure with albinism.
14.
According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place.
15.
'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
16.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
17.
If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.
18.
The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
19.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
20.
The sun is not closer to the Earth in Summer. Earth's tilt causes the Sun to be higher in the sky, which allows the rise in temp.
21.
Follow Friday is when people suggest users to follow on Friday. Started in Jan. '09 by @Micah.
22.
Scorpions have 12 eyes.
23.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
24.
More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
25.
97% of US bills contain traces of cocaine.
26.
Flamingos pee on their legs to keep warm.
27.
An apple is more efficient than a cup of coffee for keeping people awake in the morning.
28.
49% of Americans don't know that white bread is made from wheat.
29.
Currently, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, also works at PIXAR Animation Studios, a Disney division.
30.
The bottom-half of your fingernails is called the air pocket, but scientists don't know why it's there.
31.
@FredFigglehorn, a famous 6-year old YouTube celebrity, is played by a teenage actor named @LucasCruikshank.
32.
The viral RickRoll'D video was based on the famous Duckroll picture.
33.
Apple founder, Steve Wozniak, built the first phone-tapper, which lets you hear someone else's calls from the phone, for free.
34.
Saturn's rings are 500,000 miles in circumference but only a foot deep.
35.
Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy from Rigby, Idaho invented the Television at age 21. He sketched it in his Science class at 14.
36.
Google's name came from a typo.
37.
Google was originally named BackRub.
38.
OMGFacts
39.
All of Uranus's 27 moons are named after Shakespeare's characters.
40.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 and 5.
41.
#P4A Project For Awesome is an event every 12/17 on Youtube where thousands try to take over the top lists to promote charities.
42.
The hole in a pencil sharpener into which the pencil is places is called a "chuck."
43.
Camels were imported to British Columbia, Canada, during the mid-19th-century gold rush.
44.
Eating with a fork was considered scandalous in the Middle Ages.
45.
The shortest word with all five vowels in alphabetical order is "aerious," meaning "airy."
46.
The opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.
47.
Some ancient Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could been moved and be replaced by another.
48.
In Youngstown, Ohio, it is illegal to run out of gas.
49.
Jellyfish have no brains. They rely on nerve cells to help them see, smell, move, and eat.
50.
No words in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
51.
If you were to count continuously every moment of every day, it would take 31,688 years to count to one trillion.
52.
Butterflies taste their food with their feet.
53.
The slanted line that divides fractions (ex: 1/2) is called a "virgule."
54.
Forty is the only number with the letters in alphabetical order, while one is the only number with letters in reverse order.
55.
A "sesquipedalian" is a very long word, and means a person fond of extremely long words.
56.
The earliest toilet paper was used by Chinese emperors and each sheet was 2 x 3 feet. 7
57.
The Saguaro cactus can grow over 60 feet and live as long as 300 years.
58.
In ancient Egypt, people shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when their cats died.
59.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
60.
The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'
61.
The heart of a shrimp is in its head.
62.
The career of a tight-rope walker is called "funambalism."
63.
Cranberries are tested for ripeness by bouncing them. A fully ripe cranberry can be bounced like a basketball.
64.
There are now official @OMGFacts Myspace/Facebook fan pages. OMGFacts (Omg Facts) | MySpace & OMGFacts | Facebook
65.
The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called "aglets."
66.
"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
67.
There are 83 people in the U.S. named Edward Cullen.
68.
In a group of 23 people, there is a very high probability at least two people will have the same birthday.
69.
Some parts of the Atacama Desert in South America have gone without rain for 400 years.
70.
More types of fish swim in the Brazilian Amazon River than in the entire Atlantic Ocean.
71.
The human brain is only 2% of our body's weigh, but uses over 20% of our body's energy.
72.
Peter the Great, a Russian emperor, issued a special tax on men who had beards.
73.
The act of snapping your fingers has a name: "fillip!"
74.
The world's largest burrito weighed 4,217 lbs.
75.
If you spell out every number starting with one, you won't use the letter "a" until you reach one thousand.
76.
Hummingbirds eat approximately half of their body weight every day.
77.
The largest gold nugget ever found was in California in 1854. It weighed almost 200 lbs.
78.
In ancient Persia, people slept on goatskins filled with water.
79.
The SR-71 BLACKBIRD made it from New York to London in 1 hr. 54 min.
80.
The fattest newspaper ever was the New York Times' October 17, 1965 edition. 946 pages, weighing 7 lbs.
81.
Every person sheds about 4 pounds of skin in his or her lifetime.
82.
In ancient Mediterranean countries, olive oil was used for both cooking and washing.
83.
African Elephants are pregnant for 22 months - that's almost 2 years!
84.
Las Vegas has more churches per capita than any other US city.
85.
Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
86.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations.
87.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
88.
Honey is used as the center of some golf balls.
89.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army of the 'General Purpose' vehicle, GP.
90.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
91.
It is estimated that at any given time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
92.
George Washington loved to play marbles.
93.
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
94.
Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for Ladies Love Cool James.
95.
Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
96.
Worms reportedly taste like bacon.
97.
In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'.
98.
The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves slowly.
99.
A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, says the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, less on smell)
100.
At 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.
101.
The average US high school graduate has a vocabulary of about 60,000 words.
102.
Singapore has an average of 299,000 people per square kilometer.
103.
'Fortnight' is a contraction of 'fourteen nights.' In the US 'two weeks' is more commonly used.
104.
For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called 'Growing Up Skipper.' Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
105.
On the day The Wizard of Oz's Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.
106.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
107.
Winston Churchill was born in a womens restroom during a dance.
108.
Margaret Higgins Sanger, a pioneer of birth control, was one of 11 children.
109.
There is a company in Taiwan that makes dinnerware out of wheat--so you can eat your plate.
110.
All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.
111.
Albert Einstein's last words will never be known He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.
112.
Nevada has more out-of-work dancers than any other state.
113.
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
114.
There are 6,500 windows on the Empire State Building.
115.
Sheep out number humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
116.
The average man will spent about 145 days of this life shaving.
117.
Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.
118.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
119.
Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.
120.
Casualties during the Pearl Harbor attack included 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians.
1.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
2.
1 billion seconds ago was May 1975.
3.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
4.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.
5.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
6.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
7.
The average life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
8.
Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats.
9.
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
10.
About 1 out of 4 homeless people in South Korea own a credit card.
11.
Canada is an indian word meaning big village.
12.
We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday..which may include this fact you just read.
13.
There are more musicians with albinism than any other type of public figure with albinism.
14.
According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place.
15.
'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.
16.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver.”
17.
If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.
18.
The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
19.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
20.
The sun is not closer to the Earth in Summer. Earth's tilt causes the Sun to be higher in the sky, which allows the rise in temp.
21.
Follow Friday is when people suggest users to follow on Friday. Started in Jan. '09 by @Micah.
22.
Scorpions have 12 eyes.
23.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
24.
More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
25.
97% of US bills contain traces of cocaine.
26.
Flamingos pee on their legs to keep warm.
27.
An apple is more efficient than a cup of coffee for keeping people awake in the morning.
28.
49% of Americans don't know that white bread is made from wheat.
29.
Currently, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, also works at PIXAR Animation Studios, a Disney division.
30.
The bottom-half of your fingernails is called the air pocket, but scientists don't know why it's there.
31.
@FredFigglehorn, a famous 6-year old YouTube celebrity, is played by a teenage actor named @LucasCruikshank.
32.
The viral RickRoll'D video was based on the famous Duckroll picture.
33.
Apple founder, Steve Wozniak, built the first phone-tapper, which lets you hear someone else's calls from the phone, for free.
34.
Saturn's rings are 500,000 miles in circumference but only a foot deep.
35.
Philo Farnsworth, a farm boy from Rigby, Idaho invented the Television at age 21. He sketched it in his Science class at 14.
36.
Google's name came from a typo.
37.
Google was originally named BackRub.
38.
OMGFacts
39.
All of Uranus's 27 moons are named after Shakespeare's characters.
40.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 and 5.
41.
#P4A Project For Awesome is an event every 12/17 on Youtube where thousands try to take over the top lists to promote charities.
42.
The hole in a pencil sharpener into which the pencil is places is called a "chuck."
43.
Camels were imported to British Columbia, Canada, during the mid-19th-century gold rush.
44.
Eating with a fork was considered scandalous in the Middle Ages.
45.
The shortest word with all five vowels in alphabetical order is "aerious," meaning "airy."
46.
The opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.
47.
Some ancient Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could been moved and be replaced by another.
48.
In Youngstown, Ohio, it is illegal to run out of gas.
49.
Jellyfish have no brains. They rely on nerve cells to help them see, smell, move, and eat.
50.
No words in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
51.
If you were to count continuously every moment of every day, it would take 31,688 years to count to one trillion.
52.
Butterflies taste their food with their feet.
53.
The slanted line that divides fractions (ex: 1/2) is called a "virgule."
54.
Forty is the only number with the letters in alphabetical order, while one is the only number with letters in reverse order.
55.
A "sesquipedalian" is a very long word, and means a person fond of extremely long words.
56.
The earliest toilet paper was used by Chinese emperors and each sheet was 2 x 3 feet. 7
57.
The Saguaro cactus can grow over 60 feet and live as long as 300 years.
58.
In ancient Egypt, people shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when their cats died.
59.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
60.
The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'
61.
The heart of a shrimp is in its head.
62.
The career of a tight-rope walker is called "funambalism."
63.
Cranberries are tested for ripeness by bouncing them. A fully ripe cranberry can be bounced like a basketball.
64.
There are now official @OMGFacts Myspace/Facebook fan pages. OMGFacts (Omg Facts) | MySpace & OMGFacts | Facebook
65.
The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called "aglets."
66.
"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
67.
There are 83 people in the U.S. named Edward Cullen.
68.
In a group of 23 people, there is a very high probability at least two people will have the same birthday.
69.
Some parts of the Atacama Desert in South America have gone without rain for 400 years.
70.
More types of fish swim in the Brazilian Amazon River than in the entire Atlantic Ocean.
71.
The human brain is only 2% of our body's weigh, but uses over 20% of our body's energy.
72.
Peter the Great, a Russian emperor, issued a special tax on men who had beards.
73.
The act of snapping your fingers has a name: "fillip!"
74.
The world's largest burrito weighed 4,217 lbs.
75.
If you spell out every number starting with one, you won't use the letter "a" until you reach one thousand.
76.
Hummingbirds eat approximately half of their body weight every day.
77.
The largest gold nugget ever found was in California in 1854. It weighed almost 200 lbs.
78.
In ancient Persia, people slept on goatskins filled with water.
79.
The SR-71 BLACKBIRD made it from New York to London in 1 hr. 54 min.
80.
The fattest newspaper ever was the New York Times' October 17, 1965 edition. 946 pages, weighing 7 lbs.
81.
Every person sheds about 4 pounds of skin in his or her lifetime.
82.
In ancient Mediterranean countries, olive oil was used for both cooking and washing.
83.
African Elephants are pregnant for 22 months - that's almost 2 years!
84.
Las Vegas has more churches per capita than any other US city.
85.
Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
86.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations.
87.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
88.
Honey is used as the center of some golf balls.
89.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army of the 'General Purpose' vehicle, GP.
90.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
91.
It is estimated that at any given time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
92.
George Washington loved to play marbles.
93.
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
94.
Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for Ladies Love Cool James.
95.
Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
96.
Worms reportedly taste like bacon.
97.
In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'.
98.
The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves slowly.
99.
A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, says the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, less on smell)
100.
At 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.
101.
The average US high school graduate has a vocabulary of about 60,000 words.
102.
Singapore has an average of 299,000 people per square kilometer.
103.
'Fortnight' is a contraction of 'fourteen nights.' In the US 'two weeks' is more commonly used.
104.
For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called 'Growing Up Skipper.' Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
105.
On the day The Wizard of Oz's Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.
106.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
107.
Winston Churchill was born in a womens restroom during a dance.
108.
Margaret Higgins Sanger, a pioneer of birth control, was one of 11 children.
109.
There is a company in Taiwan that makes dinnerware out of wheat--so you can eat your plate.
110.
All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.
111.
Albert Einstein's last words will never be known He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.
112.
Nevada has more out-of-work dancers than any other state.
113.
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
114.
There are 6,500 windows on the Empire State Building.
115.
Sheep out number humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
116.
The average man will spent about 145 days of this life shaving.
117.
Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.
118.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
119.
Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.
120.
Casualties during the Pearl Harbor attack included 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians.
