Some
books are too irresistible. One such book is 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.
Media
Connect, the PR firm I work for, is promoting this book from Norton. I was
thumbing through it the other day and found myself in a trivia stupor.
Here
are 21 facts I didn’t know:
1.
Light
travels 19 million times faster than rain.
2.
Kangaroos
have three vaginas.
3.
The
words written on Twitter every day would fill a 10-million-page book.
4.
At
least 75% of convicted criminals are unable to read or write.
5.
Most
diamonds are at least 3 billion years old. There are enough diamonds in
existence to give everyone on the planet a cupful.
6.
The
designer of Saddam’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s
bunker.
7.
A
language dies every 14 days.
8.
The
U.S. tax code is four times as long as the complete works of Shakespeare.
9.
The
10,000 trillion ants in the world weigh about the same as all the human beings.
10.
98%
of British homes have carpeted floors. In Italy only 2% do.
11.
The
same man invented heroin and aspirin -- in the same year -- Felix Hoffman, in 1897.
12.
The
US retail industry makes $6.8 billion a year from gift cards that no one
redeems.
13.
If
you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take
you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.
14.
Lightning
strikes the Earth 8.6 million times a day or about 100 times a second. A single
bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
15.
The
human eye can detect 10 million different shades of color.
16.
Humans
have the same number of hair follicles as chimpanzees.
17.
The
average person who lives to be 75 will have spent six years dreaming.
18.
There
is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average
person in 17th century England would have come across in a lifetime.
19.
There
are about 6,900 languages in existence but more than half the world’s
population uses only 20 of them.
20.
Sending
a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the
same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.
21.
Every
human being starts out as an asshole; it’s the first part of the body to form
in the womb.
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Brian Feinblum’s
views, opinions, and ideas expressed in this blog are his alone and not that of
his employer, the nation’s largest book promoter. You can follow him on Twitter
@theprexpert and email him at brianfeinblum@gmail.com. He feels more important when discussed in the third-person. This
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