The book of cool pointless facts

statistics and men vs women

The websites used to make this chapter are

http://www.e46fanatics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410233

http://informationcentral0.tripod.com/id20.html

http://www.digitallandfill.org/2009/08/37-really-cool-statistics-about-social-media.html

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/

Random statistics

106,000 aluminium cans are used in the U.S every 30 seconds.

1.14 million Paper bags are used in U.S supermarkets every hour.

60,000 plastic bags are used in the U.S every 5 seconds

One in 4 people over 60 has lost all their teeth.

Over 2,500 left handed people are killed per year, from using products made for right handed people.

A person uses about 57 sheets of toilet paper per day.

There are over 9,700 juveniles in prisons across the United States.

1.5 Million Americans are charged with drunk driving per year.

About 200,000 people die from cigarette smoking every 6 months.

It's estimated that at any given time 7% of the world’s population is drunk.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Camels can survive in a desert without drinking for almost 3 months.

The Fin Whale can live to be 116 years old.

The Leatherback is the biggest sea turtle and can weigh up to 1,500 lbs.

A Marion's Tortis Can live to be 152 years old.

Almost 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

The most yokes found in a single chicken egg was 9.

Turkeys can see movement almost 100 yards away.

An Ostrich egg needs to be boiled for 2 hours before it becomes a hardboiled egg.

Parrots can live to be 120 years old.

Woodpeckers can peck at a rate of 20 times per second.

A catfish has over 27,000 taste buds more than any other animal.

There are about 9,900 species of Cnidaria or "stinging nettle" animals around the world falling into 3 classes Jellyfishes, Sea Anemones, and Hydra's and their allies.