Random Hilarious Facts

The world is full of weird, yet amusing things, and facts which are unbelievably true. Here are some interesting and funny facts that will give you a good laugh.

✦ You burn more calories while sleeping than you do while watching television.
✦ The pupil of the eye expands 45% if it finds something pleasing to look at!
✦ The average person falls asleep in just seven minutes.
✦ The most common names in Bali are: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut!

✦ Words form only 7% of our communication with others, including one's spouse. Tone of voice accounts for 38% and body language is responsible for 55% of the messages spouses receive from each other.
✦ Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.
✦ The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

✦ Alexander, the Great, made his soldiers remain clean-shaven, so the enemy couldn't grab them by the beards and stab them with their swords!
✦ On an average, a person makes 1,140 phone calls a year.
✦ The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

✦ It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
✦ Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
✦ More than half of the female population would prefer to receive a trip as a gift, rather than jewelry or lingerie.

✦ Due to kids, TV, the Internet, jobs, hobbies, home and family responsibilities, an average married couple spends just four minutes a day alone, together.
✦ When four or more women get together, they talk about men.
✦ The two highest IQ's ever recorded, both, belong to women.
✦ Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

✦ Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyche.
✦ Most men hate to shop. Maybe that's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store.

✦ Men forget everything; but women remember everything.
✦ When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.
✦ Men laugh louder, longer, and more frequently than women.

✦ The elephant is the only animal having 4 knees.
✦ A dolphin sleeps keeping one eye open.
✦ A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
✦ Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality among mammals.
✦ A goldfish has a memory span of merely three months.

✦ Magnetic ants are called so, because they always build their nests pointing north and south.
✦ A group of ravens is called a murder.
✦ There are more chickens than people in the world.
✦ Cockroaches can live for more than one week without their heads. Then they die due to starvation.

✦ Interestingly, human birth control pills are found to work for gorillas as well.
✦ The eyes of the chameleon can move independently, and hence, it can see in two different directions at the same time.
✦ When a giraffe's baby is born, it falls from a height of six feet, without being hurt.