Chances are we all know at least one person who serves as a bottomless pit of seemingly useless information. For some reason, certain individuals are able to remember the most random things, which can come in handy if they're ever on Jeopardy. But even though I'm not someone who is capable of remembering random facts, I do get a kick out of them.
If you enjoy miscellaneous trivia as much as I do, you'll have a ball with the list below!
If you chew gum for an hour, you'll burn about 11 calories more than you would otherwise.
This sleeve was initially trademarked under the name "Java Jacket," and now it can be called a sleeve, a coffee clutch, a cozy, or a zarf!
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Enough people — not just babies, either — chew on pen caps that they are made with holes in them to reduce the risk of choking and suffocating on the plastic. While not a lot of air can get through those tiny holes, it's better than nothing.
There's a plastic liner in soda bottle caps that help create a tight seal with the bottles, keeping the soft drink from going flat. Unfortunately, the caps are difficult to recycle when they are not attached to the bottle as the small pieces of plastic often fall through the cracks in the recycling equipment.
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You could fold a dollar bill about 4,000 times in the same place before the bill would tear apart at the seam of that fold.
This means that these gross critters can live for days with their heads severed.
Google is now worth more than half a trillion dollars.
If you begin with just a penny and double your cash every day, it would take less than a month to become a millionaire.
Even though there are so many more ants than humans, the total weight of ants is roughly the same as the total weight of humans. At least we've got that going for us.
The Earth is hurtling through space at about 67,000 miles per hours. That means we're all traveling about 5,583 miles every five minutes.
