Random Facts
Here are some random facts that I thought were interestering....and random.
1) If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
2) The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
3) In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
4) The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
5) It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
6) A duck can't walk without bobbing it's head.
7) The first penney had the motto "Mind your own business."
8) If you doubled one penney every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
9) Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
10) A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.
11) Frogs never drink.
12) The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
13) If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
14) The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
15) In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
16) You share your birthday with at least a million other people.
17) Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
18) Pigs get sunburn.
19) Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.
20) There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
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2) The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
3) In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
4) The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
5) It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
6) A duck can't walk without bobbing it's head.
7) The first penney had the motto "Mind your own business."
8) If you doubled one penney every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
9) Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
10) A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.
11) Frogs never drink.
12) The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
13) If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
14) The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
15) In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
16) You share your birthday with at least a million other people.
17) Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
18) Pigs get sunburn.
19) Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.
20) There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
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