1. Interesting Fast Facts

2. The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

3. “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right hand.

4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

6. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

7. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

8. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

9. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

10. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

11. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

12. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

13. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

14. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

15. A lightening bolt generates temperatures 5 times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface.

16. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

17. It takes glass one million years to decompose!

18. Most lipstick contains fish scales!

19. No piece of normal-sized square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

20. Over 2,500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people!

21. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State building.

22. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

23. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

24. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

25. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time 1/100th of a second.

26. Porcupines float in water.

27. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

28. The first product to have a barcode was Wrigleys gum!

29. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

30. The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!

31. The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

32. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

33. A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

34. Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand!

35. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

36. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

37. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

38. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

39. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less grove!

40. Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny.

41. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it’s known as Tennessee!

42. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off until it dies from starvation!

43. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

44. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

45. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

46. The average American & Canadian will eat about 11
The average American & Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

47. You are born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206 bones!

48. A human thigh bone is stronger than concrete!

49. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

50. The state of Florida is bigger than England!

51. There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

52. Your heart beats over 100,000 times per day.

53. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

54. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

55. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing!