Jennifer Love Hewitt's name can be rearanged to spell Jewel Thief Inventor.

The "London Bridge" which was built in 1831 was torn down piece by piece and flown to Lake Havasu, Arizona where it was reconstructed in 1971 and used as a tourist attraction.

French toast is not from France. It was invented by Joseph French in New York.

There are an estimated 750 million guns in the world, one third of them are in the US.

When tornadoes are about to die down, they make a left turn.

A record 4.7 million Internet domains were sold in the first three months of 2004, bringing the total number of registered addresses to a new high of 62.9 million.

The winds on Saturn can reach up to 1000 mph, and over 1000 mph on Neptune.

Each second there are 50 to 100 Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes to the Earth world-wide.

Years ago in Columbia, they used to chew coca leaves and when the effects wore off they would chew another one, they measured distance by how many leaves it took to get there. ie, how far away is the next town?... mmm 6 leaves.

In the US, if you have alcohol that you're not going to drink and sell it to a friend just to get rid of it, that is a punishable crime by law for selling alcohol without a license.

In some countries, the punishment for driving under the influence (DUI) is death, but in Uraguay drinking and driving is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.

People who drink alcohol in moderation tend to be healthier and live longer than those who either abstain or abuse alcohol.

If you don't drink alcohol, you raise the risk of heart disease, but many of the health benefits of alcohol are lost if you don't drink it regularly.

Only 30% of Americans believe that moderate drinking is part of a healthy lifestyle and balance life, even though they know medical reports show otherwise.

Contrary to common misperception, alcohol does not destroy brain cells. In fact, the moderate consumption of alcohol is often associated with improved cognitive functioning.

If you drink too much you'll have what?... a hangover. Here's what they call it in other countries, the French call it "wood mouth," Germans refer to it as "wailing of the cats," Italians call it "out of tune," Norwegians identify it as "carpenters in the head," Spaniards call it "backlash," Swedes refer to it as "pain in the hair roots," and most everyone else who speaks English just calls it a hangover.

In Welsh, the word for beer is "cwrw." It's pronounced koo-roo.

Sixty-two percent of Americans report that they have used the service of a designated driver, have you?

Beer was not sold in bottles until 1850 and was not sold in cans until 1935.

A raisin dropped into a glass of champagne will repeatedly bounce up and down between the top and the bottom of the glass.

Have you ever popped a cork on a wine bottle? The longest recorded flight was 177' 9".

Methyphobia is fear of alcohol.

When you drink alcohol, your body temperature rises right? Wrong, the alcohol causes your capillaries to fill with warm blood. This makes you think your temperature is rising but the alcohol actually makes your temperature drop.

If you have some strange facts that can be verified somehow let me know here.

Hunter June 12

 

42% of all statistics are worthless

More Strange Factoids (most of these were submitted, thanks!)

In the US, we use 192,000,000 gallons of gas per day. For every 1 cent increase in gas prices, the airling industry pays an extra $180,000,000 per year.

For the first time in 12 years, a ban on gum has been lifted by authorities in Singapore. But people who want to buy a pack have to submit their names and identification card numbers.

Italian pizza restaurants have to make thier pizza according to the law now.

bookkeeper is the only word with 3 sets of double letters in a row.

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year! Saturns are the most stolen car now.

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls which are phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States.

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

There are no visible clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

Umm...you drive on a parkway, park on a driveway and go straight on a turnpike

If you have any strange facts you'd like to share, contact me here.

-Hunter May 27 2004

 

The average amount of times a man will ejaculate in a lifetime, 7200, which adds up to about 14 gallons of semen.

The average US one dollar bill only lasts about 2 years before it wears out. There are 28,000 bills of all denominations destroyed each day and 38,000 bills are created each day to keep up.

30% of methane in the atmosphere is created from cow farts.

"a man a plan a canal panama" read backwards is "a man a plan a canal panama", the same is for "racecar", "kayak", and "radar".

"Stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand only, and "typewriter" is the longest word from one row of keys.

Men in the U.S. who drink alcohol receive about 7% higher wages than do abstainers, according to data from the national Household Survey on Drug Abuse (United States Department of Health and Human Services). Women who drink receive about three and one-half percent higher wages than do abstainers. They also found that the more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink.

-Hunter May 12

When a woman consumes about 3-5 alcoholic drinks her 'horniness' level skyrockets to about 5 times the normal level and may start showing obvious signs of it, the funny part is that when their 'horniness' level skyrockets after drinking, it reaches a man's 'horniness' level of everyday life which we have to learn to control.
- Contrary to popular Northern US belief, the highest incidence of incest in the US is in a northern state...Washington.
- Porn has been around since cave men have been drawing on walls. You've all seen the cows and outlined hands in books and on tv, but they didn't show you the sexual acts they also drew on those same walls.
- It's a little known fact that when the porn industry revolutionizes or make something their standard, you will use it for non porn purposes soon afterwards. You'd be amazed.
- The term lesbian comes from the first recorded "lesbian" in history. In the seventh century B.C. was a lady named Sappho who liked women as well as men, she was from the island of Lesbos, thus coining the phrase "Lesbian" for which she lived.
- In the bible it says that you are not allowed to eat any shelled seafood, read here for more info. I guess that means that if the bible says gay people are going to hell, so are people who eat shelled seafood. I loves me some shrimp, crabs, and lobster, oh well see you in hell.
- George "Dubya" Bush paid almost a quarter mil this year in taxes, click here (fixed link) for more info and see how much more Cheney paid.

Random extremely useful info,
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

-Hunter April 21

 

 There's enough semen in each male ejaculate to impregnate every woman in America...twice.
- On average, 648 people in the U.S. are arrested daily on drug charges.
- The guy who played Jesus in the movie The Passsion, was struck by lightning while filming it, and the assistant director was struck on two seperate occasions.
- Becuase of all the dams around the world, the rotation of the earth has actually slowed down, making the days slightly longer than what they were before the dams were stopping the natural water flow.
- I've got more I swear, but I forgot what they are. I think it's this cold medicine I'm taking