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ever wonder how much pizza americans eat each day? and other facts


Count the number of cricket chirps in a 15-second period, add 37 to the total, and your result will be very close to the actual outdoor Fahrenheit temperature.

The volume of the Earth’s Moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

A chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.

It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow’s milk.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

There are 22 stars in the paramount studios logo.

On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

This common everyday occurrence composed of 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, and 9% carbon-dioxide is called a fart.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the Earth.

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

According to Utah law, a husband is responsible for any criminal act that his wife commits while in his presence.

Van Gogh only sold one painting when he was alive.

The longest word comprised of one row on the keyboard is ‘Typewriter’.

A strawberry is the only fruit whose seeds grow on the outside.

‘Facetious’ and ‘Abstemious’ contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does ‘Arsenious’, meaning “containing arsenic”.

In 1997, a woman in Bradenton, Florida lost her cat. In 2004, the cat turned up wandering the streets in San Francisco, California.

The phrase “Rule of Thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

12% of people dream in black and white.
The longest word in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter “Screeched” and “Strengths”.

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