Miscellaneous Facts

Statistics say: If you were to board an airplane everyday, it would take 100,000 years before you were involved in a plane crash. Even then, chances are you would survive.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. 

Crayola makes so many crayons in a year, that if you lined them up end to end, they would wrap around the earth four times.

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to run your TV for three hours.

An estimated 661,000 tons (1.3 billion lbs.) of tire tread are worn off American vehicles every year.

About 90% of all tires on the road are under-inflated.

  On average, every motorist wastes 13 gallons of gas per year on under-inflated tires. That works out to 2 billion wasted gallons in America every year.

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.

It takes about five years before a coffee tree produces a harvestable crop of cherries, and each tree only produces the equivalent of a pound of roasted beans per year.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

"Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand.

The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is "lollipop".

"Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands.

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.

There is a Suicide attempted nearly once a week at Niagra Falls. Many of them are unsuccessful.