Amusing Facts - 11

A group of grasshoppers is called a "cloud."

Strawberries contain about 200 seeds each.

When someone has sexual fantasies about losing a limb, it's referred to as "apotemnophilia."

At least 300,000 people have been killed by volcanoes in the last 500 years.

According to surveys, three percent of Americans clean their pets by showering with them.

Thirty-eight percent of men sleep in a room other than the bedroom at least once a month.

Sharks will continue to attack even when disemboweled.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Japanese researchers have calculated Pi to 1.2411 trillion places.

In the U.S. judicial system, the defense can pay for testimony. The prosecutor can't.

The spots on dice are called "pips."

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

Sixty-eight percent of teenage girls say if they could change just one part of their body, it would be their stomach.

"Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer's real father was killed by a man named Arthur Niles.

Fifty-three percent of American women claim they will not leave the house without makeup on.

The first VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano.

The three cities with the highest percentage of counterfeit bills are Los Angeles, New York and Miami.

Americans eat an average of 75 bananas a year per person.

Baby seahorses are called "colts."

The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela. It's 3,212 feet high.

Seventy-five percent of Japanese women own vibrators. The global average is 47 percent.

The most common speed limit in the U.S. is 25 m.p.h.

Frogs jump. Toads walk.

"Acrotomophilia" is a sexual attraction to amputees.

China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.

A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.

The oldest piano still in existence was built in 1720.

A group of rattlesnakes is called a "rhumba."

Studies prove it's harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.

A hamburger bun is called a "bap" in England. In the northeast, it's also called "breadcake," in the northwest it's "barmcake," and in the midlands, it's "batch."
 

On average, Americans stand 14 inches apart when they converse.

Bolivia holds the record for the country with the highest turnovers in governments. Since 1825, Bolivia has had almost 200 governments.

The Earth has 196,950,711 square miles of surface area.

"Passion purpura" is the medical term for a hickey.

The Space Station is the most expensive single object ever built. The contribution made by the United States has been estimated at $96 billion.

The speed of an average size raindrop, under normal conditions, is seven miles per hour.

Hong Kong is Chinese for "fragrant harbor."

Most experts agree Jack the Ripper was left-handed.

The first time a cow ever flew in an airplane was on February 13, 1930.