- There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
- People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other country.
- In 75% of American households women manage the money and pay the bills.
- Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.
- Bull's can run faster uphill than down.
- Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while preschoolers laugh an average of 300 times a day.
- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
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