To ensure your weekend conversations are lively and full of random, useless information, I present to you Friday’s Factoids*. Happy weekend everybody!
Until early in the 20th century, Monday the 13th, not Friday the 13th, was considered unlucky
Scratch and sniff stickers were originally used as medical tools. Their purpose was to detect and identify any deficient smell receptors.
The catfish is the only fish that can consciously and independently blink its eyes.
Over half of all earthquakes occur between the hours of 2:08 AM and 5:47 AM
A variation of the idiom "easy as pie" exists in almost every major language, ranging from "simple as cooking wontons" in Chinese to "easy as making snow-cake" in Swedish.
The typical bedroom closet in American homes contains 37 percent more clothing than it was designed to hold
In 2005, 147 people were admitted to hospitals in Canada after having touched their tongue to freezing cold metal.
Among cities in western Europe, and North America, Jersey City, NJ, has had the largest percentage increase in office space over the past seven years.
On average, the 'T' key will be the first key to fail on a Blackberry. The failure generally occurs after the 42,000th time it is depressed.
On average, left-handed people type ten words per minute faster than right-handed people.
*courtesy of http://www.gullible.info/
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