Ridiculous Human Factoids
A single sneeze shoots roughly 100,000 germs into the air and travels at this speed?
What is 100mph?
Sid Weisenheimer
Who is Cookie Monster?
The Supreme Court building houses this type of sporting facility nicknamed "the highest court in the land"
What is a basketball court?
This waterfall is on the Iguacu River at the border of Argentina & Brazil
What are the Iguacu falls?
This animal is the loudest on Earth at 230 decibels.
What is a sperm whale? (An airplane is 150 decibels at takeoff)
By the time you’re an adult, you have 4 to 5 quarts of blood in your body. Babies are born with roughly how much blood?
What is one 1 pint?
Forsythe P Jones III
Who is Jughead? (Archie comics)
This is the actual date of US Independence Day
What is July 2, 1776? (When Congress approved freeing the colonies from British rule. The first signatory was John Hancock on July 4, 1776)
The major powers of Europe were involved in this war that lasted the 7 years between 1756 & 1763
What was the Seven Years War?
To prevent themselves from drifting apart, sea otters do this while they sleep.
What is hold hands?
The human body contains enough fat to make how this many bars of soap?
What is 7?
Jeff Albertson
Who is the Comic Book Guy on "The Simpsons"?
This is the number of US states that have a population smaller than NYC's 5 boroughs
38 (and NYC's 8.2 million population is spread over only 300 square miles)
The Rhine River flows north from Switzerland into Germany & through the Netherlands before emptying into this sea
What is the North Sea?
Blue whale hearts weigh roughly one ton and beat how many times per minute?
What is 6? (roughly every 10 seconds)
It’s impossible to do this while holding your nose.
What is hum? (Go ahead...give it shot)
Edgar Mallory
Who is the Monopoly "Go To Jail" square officer?
The year the first woman, Jeannette Rankin of Montana was elected to Congress
What is 1916. Impressive? Yes. More impressive: women's suffrage wasn't ratified until 1920.
In 1984 this novel first published 35 years earlier was on the bestsellers list
What is 1984 (Orwell)?
This animal actually sleeps with one eye open, to remain constantly on the lookout for predators
What is a dolphin?
Your stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve this type of solid
What is metal?
Aloysius
Who is Snuffleupagus?
The word "democracy" does not appear in this founding US document
What is the US Constitution? The US is a republic, not a democracy.
This was first imprinted in black on individual M&Ms in 1950
What is the letter M?
This animal doesn't actually have sweat glands, so the idiom that one sweats like one is ludicrous
What is a pig?