Stupid Facts

• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
  
  
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
  
  
• There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
  (see Worlds Tallest Buildings)
  
• A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  
  
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  
  
• The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
  (see The Solar System)
  
  
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  
  
• Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
  
  
• There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.
  
  
• Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
  (see U.S. States)
  
  
• Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
  
  
• The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.
  
  
• In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
  
  
• The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
  
  
• Most soccer balls have 32 panels.
  (see World Cup Soccer Winners)