General Facts
1. Tuesday is the most productive day of the working week.
2. The ZIP code means Zoning Improvement Plan.
3. Months that start on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th.
4. Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts.
5. In a recent survey, 68% of people admitted to fantasising about somebody else whilst making love.
6. Due to the contraction and expansion of metal, the Eiffel Tower's height varies by several inches, depending on temperature.
7. Tulips originated in Turkey and were only exported to Holland in the 17th century.
8. The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.
9. Australian bank notes are now made out of plastic.
10. Paper money in the UK is made out of cotton and linen.
11. The average person will spend around 2 weeks of their life waiting on traffic lights to change.
12. Petroleum accounts for nearly half the world's energy supply.
13. London cabbies estimate that their average driving speed is just under 10 mph due to the ever increasing traffic congestion.
14. Broken clocks are right at least twice a day.
15. The average American will see or hear over 500 advertisements each day.
16. In America, it's estimated that around 4-5 million junk telephone calls are made daily (phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine).
17. Per capita, Canada has more doughnut shops than any other country
18. There are more TV sets in the UK (70 million+) than there are people (~60 million).
19. In logging slang, a messy pile of logs is called a "jackpot".
20. The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.
21. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
22. The typical pencil can draw a line 35 miles long.
23. The word dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in mt.
24. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
25. In Spain, Colgate faced a marketing problem with its toothpaste. Colgate - phonetically close to Cuelgate, which translates to "go hang yourself."
26. In the 1940s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it "bitch."
27. Man is the only animal that cries.
Word/Numbers Facts
1. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be created by using only the top row of the keyboard.
2. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.
3. The most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'.
4. In Chinese script, there are more than 40,000 characters.
5. A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
6. In 1939 Erneset Vincent Wright published a novel called Gadsby, containing 50,110 words, none of which contained the letter 'e'.
7. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
8. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
9. The word "karate" means "empty hand."
10. Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow.
11. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
12. "Aegilops" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
13. The word SILENT contains exactly the same letters as the word LISTEN.
14. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
15. The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a tittle. Tittle is Latin for something very small.
16. The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
17. Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
18. The word 'karate" means "empty hand."
19. The word "live" spelled backward is "evil."
Geography Facts
1. There is a town in Arizona called Monkey's Eyebrow, one in Arkansas called Toad Suck aswell as a Montana town called Hungry Horse.
2. The Netherlands is the lowest lying country with an estimated 40% below sea level.
3. Austria's national anthem was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
4. Reykjavik, Iceland is the world's most northerly capital city.
5. Finland has 179,584 islands, the greatest number in the world.
6. The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska.
7. Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
8. England is smaller than New England.
9. Due to water depletion, Mexico City is Sinking every year.
10. China has over 50,000 rivers.
11. In 1867 the United States paid Russia only $7.2 million (2 cents an acre) for Alaska.
12. The American state of Tennessee was formerly known as Franklin prior to 1796.
13. The city of Timbuktu does exist - located in northern Mali.
14. A town named Dildo exists in Newfoundland, Canada.
15. There are no major rivers in Saudi Arabia.
