More OMG Facts

By popular demand, I give you more random facts. In case you’re wondering, all the facts I’ve listed have been verified by the OMG Facts staff (which is probably iron-clad, since everything you read on the internet is true, right?).

Anyway, enjoy!

When flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you landed 2 hours before you left.

Farmville players on Facebook outnumber real farmers in the US by a ratio of 60 to 1.

The cost of the halftime commercials during the Superbowl could feed the world's entire refugee population - twice.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

Every three minutes someone in the world reports a UFO.

Vending machines kill four times more people each year than sharks do.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word novel, "Gadsby", which doesn't contain the letter E.

'Typewriter' is the longest English word that can be made by using only one row of a keyboard.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

“Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Eating a bag of chips a day is the equivalent of drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

Women speak about 7000 words a day. The average man? 2000.

The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.

Over 2500 left-handed people a year are killed from using equipment made for right-handed people.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Almost 100,000 kids in the United States bring guns to school DAILY.

Eagles mate in mid air.

All swans in England are the property of the queen or king.

The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day.

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'.

In Venezuela, fuel costs around $0.02 per gallon.

The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach.

A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

Of all things, Andrew Jackson's tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States.

Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.

Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

People who are lying to you tend to look up and to their left.

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught.

Walmart generates approximately $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes.

There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

About 8 million toothpicks can be made from a cord of wood.

The combined weight of all the ants in the world is about the same or slightly greater than the weight of all humans.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun.

You would need to stack 11 Empire State Buildings one on top of the other to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

There are more cars in Los Angeles than people.

Most heart attacks happen on Mondays.

The Pope’s official barber earns an annual salary equivalent to $250,000 USD.

Eighty percent of all pictures on the internet are nude women.

Studies have proven that bees can count.

Human hair, while seemingly fragile, is almost indestructible.

Eating celery is technically an exercise, since chewing it burns more calories than it contains.

Married men tip better than unmarried men, by about 10%.

If you lined up your blood vessels from end to end, they could circle the globe, and then some.

In the winter of 1932, Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Shakespeare wrote about one-tenth of the most quotable quotations ever written or spoken in English.

Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted somewhere in the world from the wrong account in the next hour.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram can kill 150 people.

By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.

The average person spends about three years of their life on a toilet.

Food for thought!