I'm a sucker for facts and I want to learn weird shit every day thus I read books like this constantly. I don't collect sports trivia, but unusual things get me hooked. Like;
-Wombats have cubic faeces.
-Octopuses have three hearts.
-Kangaroos have three vaginas.
-The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
-More than 7,000 Americans die each year and 1,500,000 are injured as a result of doctors' bad handwriting.
-The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second, but is only aware of 40.
-Women buy 80% of everything that is for sale.
-At least 99% of all the species that ever existed have left no trace in the fossil record.
-Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the dry cleaner's with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.
-There are ten times as many stars in the known universe as there are grains of sand in the world.
-There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than an average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.
-All polar bears are Irish.
-Every human being starts out life as an asshole.
-Loch Ness is deep enough and long enough to contain the entire population of the world ten times over.
-Mushroom are more closely related to human than to plants.
-All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.
-The inventor of 'Best before' dates, originally for milk, was Al Capone.
-More than twice as many people are killed by vending machines as by sharks.
-Humans have been hunter-gatherers for 99% of their history.
-Highways in the western USA are based on the migratory routes of bison.
-Seahorses are the only fish with a neck and the only family of animals where the male give birth.
-Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater with their eyes shut.
-'Mother-in-law' is an anagram of 'Hitler woman'.
-250,000 birds were killed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. About the same number die from crashing into window glass in the US every day.
-There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
-Squirrels can remember the hiding places of up to 10,000 nuts.
-Humans kill at least 100 million sharks a year or about 11,000 an hour.
-Two-thirds of the world's population has never seen snow.
-Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.
-The speed of the wind has fallen by 60% in the last 30 years.
-99% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct.
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