Bits o' Randomness

Today's blog is all about random facts. Fun little tidbits of information that you can use to impress your friends and family!

• Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
• The average person spends 2 weeks of their life stuck at traffic lights.
• During his or her lifetime, an average person will grow 590 miles of hair.
• A group of owls is called a parliament.
• An earthquake on December 16th, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow BACKWARDS! (how cool would it have been to see THAT!)
• The size of your foot is the distance from your elbow to your wrist.
• The only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable is "W".
• There are more dogs than children in the city of Paris.
• The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.
• If you bite down on a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in the dark, you can see SPARKS!
• A hippo can open it's mouth wide enough to hold a 4 foot child inside.
• Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• Your brain is more active when sleeping than watching TV.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
• Porcupines float in water!
• The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
• The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• Washing machines use about 22% of the water consumed in the average American home
• Clothes washers account for 93% of lost socks in a typical American household.
• The clothes dryer is typically the second-biggest electricity using appliance in a household after the refrigerator.

Have a fabulous weekend and as always, keep it clean!!