ZIP code 12345 is assigned to
General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
The highest place people have settled in the United States is Climax, Colorado. It is at a
height of 11,360 feet above sea level.
Per capita, Canada has more doughnut shops than any other country.
Ireland boasts the highest per capita consumption of cereal in the world - 15 pounds per
person annually.
The Humane Society estimates that there are 800,000 dog bites that require medical
attention every year. Dog bites rank second behind sexually transmitted diseases as the
most costly health problem in the United States. More than 60 percent of those bitten are
children, and 80 percent of the fatalities are also children.
Per capita, it is safer to live in New York City than it is to live in Pine Bluff,
Arkansas.
It can cost up to $20 million to launch a new fragrance. Saudi Arabia reportedly has the
highest per capita fragrance use in the world, at more than a quart a year for every man,
woman, and child.
Per year, 400,000 people die from smoking-related cancer and respiratory diseases.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States that it cost Christopher
Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
It has been determined that 69 percent of accidents occur within 25 miles of home.
The hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, in 1900, claimed more lives than the Chicago
Fire, Johnstown Flood and great San Francisco Earthquake combined.
The initial printing of the first issue of Life magazine consisted of 200,000 copies and
sold out. The presses did not stop until 1.5 million copies had been printed.
Police estimated that 10,000 abandoned, orphaned, and runaway children were roaming the
streets of New York City in 1852.
The largest book in the Library of Congress is John James Audubon's Birds of America,
containing life-size illustrations of birds. The book is 39.37  inches (1 meter) high.
Pornography is a $4 billion business in the United States annually.
The largest New Year's Eve celebration ever held in Times Square's 95-year history was
Times Square 2000, called "The Global Celebration at the Crossroads of the
World."
Reportedly, an average of 30 percent of U.S. school bus drivers nationwide quit their jobs
every year.
The largest Olympic stadium ever constructed was Stadium Australia in Olympic Park. It
seats 110,000 people. Opening and closing ceremonies, men's soccer finals and athletic
events were held there.
Results of a survey show that 76 percent of women make their bed every day, compared to 46
percent of men.
The largest painting measures 92,419 square feet and was completed by ID Cultur in
Amsterdam, Netherlands on August 14, 1996.
Roughly 40 percent of the population of the under-developed world is under 15 years old.
The largest uncut diamond in the world was the Cullinan diamond, at 3,106 Carats. It was
unearthed in 1905 and presented to King Edward VII. He had it cut and the most significant
of the separate gems is now in the British Crown Jewels.
Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
The lightest human adult ever was Lucia Xarate. At the age of 17, in 1889, she weighed 4
pounds 11 ounces (2.13 kilograms).
Scientists at Oxford University's Imperial Cancer Research Fund found that people who eat
fresh fruit daily had 24 percent fewer heart attacks and 32 percent fewer strokes.
The literary collections in the New York Public Library expand at the rate of
approximately 10,000 items per week, in dozens of languages.
Seventy percent of house dust is made up of dead skin flakes.
The longest place name in Britain is in Wales;
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantyssiliogogogoch. It means St Mary's Church in
the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of
Llantysilio of the Red Cave.
Seventy-three percent of Americans are willing to wear clothes until the clothes wear out.
The poll conducted by Louis Harris and Associates also revealed: 92 percent are willing to
eliminate annual model changes in automobiles; 57 percent are willing to see a national
policy that would make it cheaper to live in multiple-unit apartments than in
single-family homes; 91 percent are willing to eat more vegetables and less meat for
protein.
Ships carry out more than 90 percent of the trade between countries and about half the
communications between nations use underwater cables.
"Hey Jude" by the Beatles had the longest running time of any British Number 1
hit ever. The second longest was "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
"The Nutcracker" ballet has inspired many other artists. Thousands of live
productions, over 300 recordings, 40 videos, and 200 books have dealt with the ballet.
Even Nancy Drew paid homage to the ballet in Mystery #110, "The Nutcracker Ballet
Mystery."
The state of Maine produces 98 percent of the nation's low-bush blueberries.
The state with the most automobile miles driven per capita is Delaware, racking up an
average of 10,165 miles average annually per person.
The steel industry in 1943 introduced the 5-day, 40-hour work week. Henry Ford adopted it
in 1926.
The Sun is estimated to be 20 to 21 cosmic years old.
The U.S. Library of Congress has compiled a 232-source bibliography on the subject of
when, properly speaking, centuries roll over. Almost all of the sources agree that the
twentieth century will not end until December 31, 2000.
The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
The United States has the rest of the world beat when it comes to its toilets. Per a
survey of 100 international travel writers, the United States has, by far, the best in the
world. Western Europe may have the best castles and museums, but johns finished a distant
second. Scandinavia, rated separately from Western Europe, placed third. China's bathrooms
are considered the absolute worst according to the surveyed travel writers. Almost as bad
are those toilets in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was
also voted the worst when it comes to toilet paper.
The United States produces 19 percent of the world's trash. The annual contribution
includes 20 billion disposable diapers, 2 billion razors, and 1.7 billion pens.
A 1997 Gallup poll found that about one in four American workers - 24 percent - said that
if they could do so, they would fire their boss.
A basketball ring's inner diameter is 18 inches.
A bolt of lightning travels at speeds of up to 100 million feet per second, or 72 million
miles per hour.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds.
A Club Med survey found that couples who dieted while on vacation argued three times more
often than those who didn't, and that those who didn't diet had three times as many
romantic interludes.
A cosmic year lasts 225 million earth years. That's the amount of time it takes the sun to
make one revolution around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
A Dutch study indicated that 50 percent of the adult Dutch population have never flown in
an airplane, and 28 percent admitted a fear of flying.
A fourth of the population in metropolitan Detroit claims German heritage, a million
people in Michigan as a whole.
A Harvard study of college drinking showed that more than 40 percent of students indulge
in binge drinking, which is defined as consuming five drinks at one sitting by men or four
drinks by women. Of college students who drink, one-third drink to get drunk.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's
surface.
A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the
length of England.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you
are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls
of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.
A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations.
A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.
A poll of U.S. undergraduate and graduate students found that 48 percent have bounced a
check during college, 71 percent carry a credit-card balance, and 72 percent have called
home for money.
A poll taken shows that between 74 and 94 percent of workers in the United States and
Canada take 5 to 15 minutes daily for a morning coffee break. The coffee break in the
workplace did not become common until the early 1940s.
A quarter of the horses in the United States died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A recent Gallup poll shows that 69 percent of Americans believe they will go somewhere
after death.
A recent Gallup Poll Social Audit on gambling showed that 57 percent of Americans have
bought a lottery ticket in the last 12 months, making lotteries by far the favorite choice
of gamblers.
A recent Gallup survey showed that in the United States, 8 percent of kissers kept their
eyes open, but more than 20 percent confessed to an occasional peek. Forty-one percent
said they experienced their first serious smooch when they were 13, 14, or 15 years old;
36 percent between the ages of 16 and 21. The most memorable kiss in a motion picture was
in Gone With The Wind, according to 25 percent of those polled.
A recent study conducted by the Shyness Clinic in Menlo Park, California, revealed that
almost 90 percent of Americans label themselves as shy.
A recent survey found that 86 percent of American teenagers reported eating candy each
week, and 21 percent said they eat candy every day.
A recent survey of 1,023 children, ages 10 to 13, showed the number who feel uncomfortable
talking with their parents nearly doubles between the fifth and eighth grade, when kids
turn 13.
A recent survey reveals that one in four Americans "believe in" astrology, up
from 18 percent in 1988. One third (33 percent) of those in the 18- to 29-year-old bracket
believe, to some extent, that horoscopes and the stars influence and predict events in
their lives. Only 18 percent of those 60 years or
older put much credence in astrology.
A scientist at Michigan State University has calculated that the production of a single
hen egg requires about 120 gallons of water, a loaf of bread requires 300 gallons, and a
pound of beef, 3,500 gallons.
A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of
moisture.
A stack of $1 dollar bills one-mile high would be worth more than $14 million dollars.
A study by researcher Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that women
who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
Among the tallest people in the world are the Tutsi from Rwanda and Burundi in central
Africa, with the men averaging 6 feet tall.
An American Animal Hospital Association survey revealed that 62 percent of dog owners sign
letters or cards from themselves and their dogs.
An average household, in America, will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and see 28
eight cards return in their place.
An average of 51 cars a year overshoot and drive into the canals of Amsterdam.
An average toilet uses 5 to 7 gallons of water every time it is flushed. A single leaky
toilet can waste more than 50 gallons a day, amounting to 18,000 gallons a year.
An experienced tunnel worker in New York earns more than $100,000 a year.
Approximately one-third of Greenland, the world's largest island, is national park.
Around 1/3 of all feces is solid bacteria.
As of 1976, Chile, Egypt, and Guatemala had the highest birth rates in the world.
As of 1976, there were approximately 375 ten-thousand dollar bills in circulation in the
United States.
A study of New York marathoners a few years ago found that their divorce rate - male and
female - was twice the national average. Persons that engage in solitary endurance sports
are the ones most likely to be compulsive exercisers - for example, joggers, long-distance
swimmers, weight-lifters, and cross-country skiers. Occasionally, devotees of these
activities set unrealistic, ambitious goals and then drive themselves mercilessly to reach them.
A survey revealed that 87 percent of snowmobilers in Maine are males. Snowmobiling added
$226 million to the state's economy in 1996.
A ten-gallon hat holds 3/4 gallon or 3 quarts.
A typical lightning bolt is only two to four inches wide, but two miles long.
About 24 percent of alcoholics die in accidents, falls, fires, and suicides.
About 24 percent of American adults say they have participated, at some time or another,
in illegal gambling.
About 25 percent of alcoholics are women.
About 25 percent of all male Americans between the ages of 10 and 15 were "gainfully
employed" at the turn of the century. By 1970, so few in that age bracket were
employed that the U.S. Census Bureau did not bother to make inquiries about them.
About 60 percent of all American babies are named after close relatives.
About 66 percent of all traffic death rates occur at night. It is believed that more
fatalities occur at night because of more people driving under the influence, even though
there are fewer cars on the road than during the day.
As of 1998, Reno, Nevada, had the highest rate of alcoholism in the United States; Provo,
Utah, had the lowest rate.
Aside from medical costs, it's been determined that new parents in the United States
typically spend $7,000 in a baby's first year on everything from diapers to formula to day
care.
Assuming a rate of one drop per second, a leaking faucet wastes about 900 gallons of water
a year.
At a steady jogger's pace of six miles per hour, it would take 173 days to go around the
equatorial circumference of Earth, and over five years to go around Jupiter, the largest
planet.
At about 200 million years of age, the Atlantic Ocean is the youngest of the world's
oceans.
At one time, the longest speech given in the U.S. Senate was made on June 12, 1935, when
Senator Huey Long began a filibuster that lasted a continuous 15½ hours. His record was
broken by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond in 1957. Thurmond spoke continuously for
24 hours and 18 minutes.
At the height of the Great Depression in 1932, the United States saw 12 million of its
people unemployed.
Australia is home to more than half of the shark and ray species in the world.
Australia is the only country to take up an entire continent. Its full name is the
Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia is the world's largest exporter of: black coal, diamonds, bauxite, and mineral
sands. It also produces most of the world's finest opals.
About 70 percent of American households buy yellow mustard every year.
About 71 percent of Vermont traffic tickets in 1996 were issued to male drivers. A
newspaper's analysis found that a few male officers issued almost none of their tickets to
women.
Absterse is a little-used verb meaning "to clean."
According to a 1984 study, the average consumer is exposed to 1,600 ads a day.
According to a 1995 poll, 1 out of 10 people admitted that they will buy an outfit
intending to wear it once and return it.
According to a Gallup poll, 11 percent of the U.S. population believes in ghosts and other
supernatural entities.
According to a poll, 58 percent of those responding admitted that they had falsely called
in sick to get a day off from work.
According to a poll, only 29 percent of married couples agree on most political issues.
According to a recent poll, 39 percent of the people interviewed admitted that they snoop
in their host's medicine cabinets.
According to a recent study, there are more than 100 art galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona,
which, surprisingly, exceeds the number in either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
It has been estimated that at least 33 percent of blondes in the United States are not natural.
It has been estimated that the deep seas may contain as many as 10 million species that
have yet to be discovered.
0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.
1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecoms service every minute.
111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,32
13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5.
2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
25% of Americans have internet access.
25% of native Africans have AIDS.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.
50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
51% of turns are right turns.
56% of the video game market is adults.
60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
68% of Americans who view computer commercials on TV that advertise a processor, such as
the Pentium III, believe it speeds up your internet connections. However, a modem does
that.
70% of all boats sold are used in fishing.
811,000 faulty rolls of 35 mm film will be purchased this year.
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information
on their magnetic strips.
9% of Americans reported having been in the presence of a
ghost.
95% of food poisoning cases are never reported.
97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.
A survey in the U.S shows that nuns of small or medium build expect to live far longer
than tall unskilled and divorced alcoholic labourers.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.
Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
August is the month when most baby's are born.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones:
50.6.
By 65 years old, Americans have watched more than nine years of television.
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Chances that a burglary in the U.S. will be solved: 1 in 7.
Did you know that you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous
spider?
Experienced waitress say that married men tip better than unmarried men.
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.
If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.
In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewellery.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their
wallets.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark. |
