Feast your eyes on our random fact of the day, which can be heard weekdays on our 3 hour show around 1:00 PM. Hey... You might learn something!
September 2nd, 2008
- 60-70% of the world's information is published in Russian -
September 3rd, 2008
- More than thirteen billion doses of tranquilizers and related medications are prescribed each year -
September 4th, 2008
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th -
September 5th, 2008
- If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom -
September 8th, 2008
- Time Magazine's man of the year, 1938, was Adolph Hitler -
September 9th, 2008
- Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine -
September 10th, 2008
- Why do we say "heads up" when we actually duck? -
September 11th, 2008
- You don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing -
September 12th, 2008
- No word in the English language rhymes with month -
September 15th, 2008
- Why was Lynyrd Skynyrd called Lynyrd Skynyrd? It was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them: "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin." -
September 16th, 2008
- "Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas" -
September 17th, 2008
- More people die playing golf than any other sport, the leading cause of death is heart attack and strokes -
September 18th, 2008
- Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for Rocky and sold it for a very low price on the condition that he star in the movie and receive a share of the profits. Rocky went on to win three oscars, including best picture. It made Stallone's movie career -
September 19th, 2008
- The most popular reason for not voting in elections, according to the U.S. Census, was "Too Busy" -
September 22nd, 2008
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily -
September 23rd, 2008
- Every year, kids in North America spend close to a half billion dollars on chewing gum -
September 24th, 2008
- Did you know that 35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married! -
September 25th, 2008
- China has 100 million Internet users, second to the US's 135 million users -
September 26th, 2008
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years or older -
September 29th, 2008
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos -
September 30th, 2008
- Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult -
October 1st, 2008
- A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories -
October 2nd, 2008
- In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes." -
October 3rd, 2008
- Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world -
October 6th, 2008
- Missouri has been to more NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four -
October 7th, 2008
- The average person in the United Kingdom drinks as much tea as 23 Italians -
October 8th, 2008
- People might eat oats when they're hungry, but people from Hungary don't eat oats! -
October 9th, 2008
- Peru's national bird is the Andean cock of the rock -
October 10th, 2008
- 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1.00 per day -
October 13th, 2008
- At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States -
October 14th, 2008
- It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk -
October 15th, 2008
- Men can read smaller print than woman; woman can hear better -
October 16th, 2008
- Many Americans live alone - the United States leads the world in one person households -
October 17th, 2008
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it -
October 20th, 2008
- Heroin enters the brain quickly. It slows down the way you think, slows down the way you think, slows down reaction time, and slows down memory. This affects the way you act and make decisions. -
October 21st, 2008
- In all countries surveyed, women do more housework than men -
October 22nd, 2008
- The average life-span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches -
October 23rd, 2008
- America once isisued a 5-cent bill! -
October 24th, 2008
- In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave -
October 27th, 2008
- In Cleveland, OH, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places -
October 28th, 2008
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidently planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them -
October 29th, 2008
- Undecided -
October 30th, 2008
- Undecided -
October 31st, 2008
- The biggest pumpkin in the world tipped the scales at a whopping 1,446 pounds. This gigantic gourd was weighed in October 2004 at a pumpkin festival in Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada. -
November 3rd, 2008
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows -
November 4th, 2008
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television -
November 5th, 2008
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel -
November 6th, 2008
- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing -
November 7th, 2008
- The average entertainment internet user (someone who frequents entertainment related sites) spend $323.00 a year online -
November 10th, 2008
- The Earth weights around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)! -
November 11th, 2008
- The United States has the most money, airports, radios, and Internet Service Providers -
November 12th, 2008
- A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day -
November 13th, 2008
- The average person laughs 13 times a day! -
November 14th, 2008
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on primetime TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone -
November 17th, 2008
- Nearly three percent of the ice in Atlantic glaciers is penguin urine! -
November 18th, 2008
- One motor vehicle is produced for every 10 people in Belgium, the highest rate in the world -
November 19th, 2008
- The flush toilet was invented in Flushing, NY. -
November 20th, 2008
- Before 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher -
November 21st, 2008
- No Random Fact of the Day -
November 24th, 2008
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as a medicine -
November 25th, 2008
- No Random Fact of the Day -
November 26th, 2008
- A man says an average of 4850 words in 24 hours -
November 27th, 2008
- No Random Fact of the Day - Thanksgiving -
November 28th, 2008
- No Random Fact of the Day - Thanksgiving -
December 1st, 2008
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing -
December 2nd, 2008
- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206 -
December 3rd, 2008
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's -
December 4th, 2008
- No Random Fact of the Day - Thanksgiving -
December 5th, 2008
- On average a single person - male or female - will go out on 100 dates before getting married -
December 8th, 2008
- 83% of Americans still pay with checks instead of credit cards -
December 9th, 2008
- If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," you would receive 364 presents -
December 10th, 2008
- On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles -
December 11th, 2008
- In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat -
December 12th, 2008
- The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours -
December 15th, 2008
- The biggest selling christmas single of all time is Bing Crosby's White christmas -
December 16th, 2008
- During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards are used an averag of 5,340 times every minute in the United States -
December 17th, 2008
- In North America, children put stockings out at Christmas time. Their Dutch counterparts use shoes -
December 18th, 2008
- Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game Monopoly -
December 19th, 2008
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens -
December 22nd, 2008
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard -
December 23rd, 2008
- 30-35 million Real Christmas Trees are sold in the U.S. every year -
December 24th, 2008
- The Christmas season begins at sundown on December 24th and lasts through sundown on January 5th. For that reason, this season is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas -
December 25th, 2008
- No Random Fact of the Day - Christmas Day! -
December 26th, 2008
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing! -
December 29th, 2008
- If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb -
December 30th, 2008
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction -
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