General Life Facts

Here is a list of all the interesting general life facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that your daily life ain’t that boring after all.

• An ‘earworm’ is a song that gets stuck in your head!
• Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites!
• 10% of all the photographs in the world were taken in last 12 months!
• A burning candle creates 1 million tiny diamonds per second!
• There are enough diamonds in existence to give every human on this planet a cupful!
• An average person walks the equivalent of 3 times around the earth in his lifetime!
• Scientists believe that untidy and unmade beds are healthier for us than neat and made beds!
• Swearing when you are hurt helps in reducing the pain!
• It takes 4 seconds for a silence to become awkward!
• Most people are happiest at 7:26 PM on Saturday night!
• 40% women would consider dumping their boyfriends if her friends didn’t like him!
• An average woman’s handbag weighs between 3-5 pounds!
• Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than tea or coffee!
• Pearls dissolve in vinegar!
• More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing!
• The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’ which refers to the number one with a hundred zeroes after it!
• If you could drive your car straight up, you would arrive in space in just over an hour!
• Every year lightning kills 1000 people!
• The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph, by Fred Rompelberg!
• The small “You Are Here” sticker that indicates your position on a map has a name- it’s called an ideo locator!
• A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs!
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple!
• Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year!
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
• 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is “a meaningless existential hell.”!
• An average person laughs about 15 times a day!
• 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed!
• You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather!
• Cashews are actually a fleshy fruit. The nut that we eat is the seed that grows on the outside of the fruit!
• Diamonds are actually unstable at surface temperature and pressure. Every diamond above ground is very, very slowly altering into graphite, another form of pure carbon!
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th”!
• If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom!
• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom!
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes!
• Your dead skin accounts for most of your house dust!
• More people have allergies to Cow’s milk than any other food product!
• More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes!
• No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
• It doesn’t matter how fresh-picked they are, coffee beans are actually tasteless until they’re roasted!
• Coca-Cola gets its name from its 2 key ingredients derived from the coca leaves and kola nut.(Its creator changed the ‘K’ in Kola to ‘C’ to make the name look better)!
• The name ‘Adidas’ comes from the name of its founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler (Das)!
• Istanbul is the only city in the world that is located on 2 continents!
• Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right,but the women’s shirts have the buttons on the left!
• The name hamburger has nothing to do with ham ,but comes from the German city, Hamburg!
• The blast of air you often feel while walking into a store is to prevent insects from flying in!
• Honey is the only natural product that does not deteriorate with time!
• Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill!
• The chances of dying by fire are 15 billion to 1!
• Mother’s Day is the second most popular day for gift giving, after Christmas!
• Women Speak about 20,000 word’s daily whereas men speak only 7,000!
• Under extreme conditions, diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

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