Unusual Facts Thread

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Theodor Seuss Geisel dropped out of Oxford before getting his PhD and called himself Dr. Seuss as a nod to his father.

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In order to burn off a Supersized Coke, fries and Big Mac you would have to walk for seven hours straight.

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When you talk on a cell phone while driving you are increasing your chance of being in an accident by 400 percent.

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Bullet proof vests ,fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

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Coke makes so many different beverages that if you drank one per day, it would take you over nine years to try them all.

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Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

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In the average trick-or-treater's bag, there's around 5,435 calories.

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Around 1,600 New Yorkers are bitten every year by other New Yorkers.

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It is believed that around 80% of Earth's gold is still buried underground.

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There are no area in Japan that is more than 100 miles from the sea.

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The earth's atmosphere is proportionately thinner than the skin of an apple.

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A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex

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The average woman's uterus expands up tp five hundred times its normal size during pregnancy.

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The average person flexes the joints in his fingers 24 million times in his lifetime.

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About 40% of people who go to a party in someone's home admit to snooping in the host's medicine cabinet.

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In its first four months of sales in 1958, over 25 million hula hoops were sold

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Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

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Chewing gum can help improve one's memory

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20% more antacids are sold the day after the Super Bowl than any other day.

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Aprosexia is the inability to concentrate.