Amusing Facts - 21

A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.

Cockroaches can run up to three miles per hour.

"Hussy" originally meant "housekeeper."

The bar symbol used on slot machines is derived from a Bell Fruit Gum logo.

"Peladophobia" is the fear of becoming bald.

The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

About 26 percent of the land in Melbourne, Australia is reserved for parks.

Earth is the densest planet in our solar system.

The name Jeep came from the military abbreviation GP, short for the army's General Purpose Vehicle.

Thirty-eight percent of doctors in America are Indian.

A new car depreciates 20 to 30 percent the moment it's driven off the dealer's lot.

Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhea.

Ancient Egyptians could be put to death for mistreating a cat.

Fidel Castro once worked as a Hollywood extra.

In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of a corpse.

Pain travels through your body at 350 feet per second.

Hawaii has three interstate highways.

If a rhino has two horns, it's from India. If it has one horn, it's from Africa.

A cow can't vomit.

"Resistentialism" is the theory that inanimate objects demonstrate hostile behavior against us.

The world's termites outweigh humans 10-to-1.

The two most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.

Erect giraffe penises are about four feet long.

"Hockey" is archaic slang for "semen."

The average person spends about five years of their life eating.

The world's shortest river, the D River in Oregon, is just 121 feet long.

Protestants tend to have lower incomes than Catholics.

The bumps on a basketball are called "pebbling."

Ice covers 10 percent of the Earth's surface.

A group of ferrets is called a "business."

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

The sport that's most often the subject of movies is boxing.

Seventy percent of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World.

The worst traffic bottleneck in the U.S. is at the juncture of the I-10 and 405 freeways in Los Angeles.

"Allodoxaphobia" is the fear of opinions.

Stevie Nicks does most of her songwriting in the bathroom.

Denny's restaurants were originally called "Danny's."

The first Social Security check was issued by the US government on January 31, 1940 to Ida Fuller of Brattlesboro, Vermont. Her check number was 00-000-001 and it was for $22.54.

"Myomancy" is the practice of predicting the future based upon the movements of mice.

Crocodiles sometimes swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number was 9.

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States, in 1789, was a Baptist preacher.

"Squiff it" and "pull a cluck" are euphemisms for dying.

Bolshoi (as in the Bolshoi Ballet) means "big" in Russian.