some of these may be true, they all may be false. i don't know. here are 35 facts and statistics i came up with on the spot.
1. Eighty percent of animals in the wild would attack their on kind to escape from fire.
2. Red is the most attention-grabbing colour.
3. Over 15 million photographs are taken in photo booths each year.
4. During the average french kiss, the kissers exchange enough saliva to half-fill a pint glass
5. Six out of ten men have gone a day without underwear.
6. Blue fur does not occur naturally in the wild.
7. Each year, people drink more milkshake than milk.
8. 12% of buildings in New York have secret rooms.
9. On average, 1k of chocolate contains 7 insects.
10. If you tried to flatten a human hair on a steel girder, the hair would leave an imprint in the steel.
11. The average person will miss 6 months of nights sleep in their lifetime.
12. There are twice as many internet pages as there are people in the world.
13. The average person thinks of someone they've never met twice a day.
14. A library contains on average more books than the average person would read in their lifetime.
15. Fourty out of a hundred people will say they don't like food without trying it.
16. 68% of women are afraid of spiders, 32% of men.
17. There are more people who think clowns are scary than who think they're funny.
18. There are more than 5 million grains of sand in a sandcastle.
19. Enough snot is picked from noses around the world each year to fill the Grand Canyon.
20. In a lifetime, the average fingernail grows long enough to wrap around the world.
21. The odds that in a group of people two people will share the same birthday become close to 100% after 22 people.
22. The strength of an animal is usually inversely proportional to the size of the animal, with just three exceptions.
23. Nine out of ten people lie in personal ads.
24. The nose is the most disliked facial feature.
25. There are more grains of sand in a beach than words spoken in your lifetime.
26. The memory span of a cat is longer than of a dog.
27. Every 17 seconds a computer crashes.
28. People bite fingernails more often than mints.
29. Goldfish can see infra-red beams from television remotes.
30. Fourty percent of people own films they've never watched.
31. Two thirds of people will pick out a left and right sock from a pair if asked.
32. Eighty percent of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
33. Every day you make contact indirectly with thirteen penises, due to people not washing their hands.
34. At any given time, 27% of car-owners will be customising or attempting to repair their car.
35. There is more sugar in a lemon, pound for pound, than a strawberry.
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