20 Interesting Facts 3/14

1. If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

2. The strongest human bite force ever recorded: 350 pounds. The strongest shark bite force ever recorded: 132 pounds.

3. Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

4. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.

5. The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

6. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

7. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

8. The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.

9. Goodyear Rubber Company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.

10. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

11. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.

12. Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.

13. You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

14. According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.

15. Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.

16. President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!

17. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

18. Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.

19. Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.

20. In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.