Random Funny 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.

Fun Random Facts About Life

• 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!
• 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!
• The average 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!
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction!
• The people in Bali have either of these four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut!

... About Women

• 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!

... About 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!

... About Animals

• The elephant is the one and 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 its head. 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!