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latin-lover

Italy

    1. In average a woman smiles more often than a man?
    2. Of all the foreigner who travel to the UK about 50% visit London?
    3. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
    4. Only 12 people have ever set foot on the Moon?
    5. 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused?
    6. Only 10 people out of every 3 million in the world get the opportunity to see a volcanic eruption in their lifetime?
    7. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom?
    8. If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb?
    9. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes?
    10. 40% of all people at a party snoop in your medicine cabinet?
    11. Chickens out populate humans 1:4, for every human there are 4 chickens?
    12. Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts?
    13. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married?
    14. The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime?
    15. 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so?
    16. On average, people move house every 7 years?
    17. There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK?
    18. According to Gillette, around 70% of women who remove hair, do so by shaving?
    19. Women blink nearly twice as much as men?
    20. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year?
    21. 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats?
    22. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year?
    23. More than 50% of the world's population lives in Asia?
    24. A poll by an American Animal Hospital Association revealed that 33 percent of dog owners admitted to talking to their dogs on phone or leaving an answering machine message when away?
    25. A cow farts about 600 litres of metangas every day. That is enough to fyll up 40 party ballons?
    26. Conception occurs more often in December than any other month?
    27. On average, a person laughs about 15 times each day?
    28. A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch?
    29. The average person walks about 65,000 miles in a lifetime?
    30. More than six billion hot dogs are consumed annually in the US?
    31. The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a period at the end of this sentence?
    32. You breathe about ten million times a year?
    33. A supertanker can carry as much as 747,000 tons of oil?
    34. A 1997 survey showed that 75% of women made their bed every day, whilst only 45% of men admitted to performing this daily chore?
    35. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil?
    36. Sweden was the first country in the world to keep population statistics?
    37. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year?
    38. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1?
    39. The number of twin births have more than doubled since the early 1970s?
    40. In excess of 20 percent of men and 10 percent of women have stated that at least once they've forgotten their wedding anniversary?
    41. There are over 60 towns in USA where the word turkey appears in the name?
    42. 22 percent of twins are left-handed? In the non-twin population the number is just under 10 percent?
    43. If you attempted to count to stars in our galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all?
    44. Rougly 75% of a living tree is composed of water?
    45. Rats destroy an estimated 33% of the world's food supply each year?
    46. Drivers kill more deer than hunters?
    47. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants?
    48. If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people?
    49. Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials?
    50. The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City?
    51. The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia?
    52. Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day?
    53. The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic?
    54. The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees?
    55. 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day?
    56. Elderly Dutch and Swedish are the most likely to live in old-age homes. Elderly Japanese are the most likely to live with their children?
    57. Women make up 49% of the world population?
    58. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals?
    59. Nearly a quarter of people in Monaco are over 65?
    60. The top six countries for percentage of houses with five rooms or more are all English-speaking?
    61. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes?
    62. The ten most generous countries are all in Europe?
    63. China's labor force stands at 706 million people, almost three times that of Europe and twice that of North and South America combined?
    64. Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world – and the highest rate of female suicide?
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12:32 PM Sep 09 2008 |

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lilimira

lilimira

Algeria

i don't use to know most of them.eg: a forest is burning,here and may be this fire was caused by rats as we don't know it's origin. and, how about the most generous countries.generous in what and how?!!

01:49 PM Sep 09 2008 |

latin-lover

Italy

sorry guys, I can't answer about your questions…I found it interesting so I posted it.

That's all

02:22 AM Sep 11 2008 |

CaN I CrY

CaN I CrY

Turkey

Yeaa i already know some of the before… but there are so many diffirent and interesting ones :))

Thanks for sharee…

 

On average, a person laughs about 15 times each day?

> But me and my grandmother aren't in these avarage ppl.. We laugh too much..:P Expecially my grandma.. She is so funny..

:) now i can understand why she is still yo young and happy..

 

Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world – and the highest rate of female suicide ?

 

Ohooo…So interesting..:) Now we can understand, diveorce is important.. :) Always being married isn't good for women psokology..:)

 

 

Drivers kill more deer than hunters?

Definitely true… A lot of ppl die becoz of trafic problems and about crazy drivers every year :((

06:42 AM Feb 04 2009 |

black_baby

black_baby

Azerbaijan

thanks it is interseting

10:48 AM Feb 04 2009 |

:-(

India

Cause of all the wars:

 

If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people?

 

 

 

 

05:43 PM Apr 11 2009 |