- The hardest bone in the human body is the femur, but it wasn’t nearly as hard as the corner of the bed that I walked into last night on my way to the bathroom.
- The Caesar salad was invented in 1924 even though Caesar himself never ate one because anchovies gave him gas.
- The sun is about 400 times larger than the moon, but if you hold your hand out at arms-length you can blot out either one with your thumb.
- The average person blinks 14 to 17 times per minute, but after you read this fact, you will be unable to stop yourself from blinking much more frequently than that, which makes you above average!
- 90 percent of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere. This is due to the fact that most people who move to the Southern Hemisphere lose their grip after only a few months and slide down to Antarctica where they eventually fall off the bottom.
- The average golf ball has 336 dimples, but not a single freckle.
- Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people’s opinions. I’d like to write an op-ed explaining how to outgrow this fear, but I don’t think any of my target audience would ever read it.
- Lemons float in water, but limes have such poor self-image that they all sink.
- The Eiffel Tower was originally made for Barcelona but once Monsieur Eiffel assembled it in the middle of Paris, he was too lazy to schlep it there.
- It would take 19 minutes to fall to the center of the Earth. Of course, your body would be completely incinerated by the heat of the molten core, so… moot point.
- The longest English word is 189,819 letters long. Put that in your spellchecker and smoke it.
- The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which, in case you’re wondering, is only 35 letters long.
- Penicillin was first called “mold juice.” The ad man who came up with that term was a real fun guy, but not a great marketer.
- The tiny pocket in jeans was designed to store pocket watches. It’s also a great place to stash lint when you’re not using it in your bellybutton.
- People once ate arsenic to improve their skin. But thanks to modern science and marketing we now have many more expensive toxic skin products available.
- The first commercial passenger flight lasted only 23 minutes. But it still took over a half hour to taxi into first position on the runway.
- The human circulatory system is more than 60,000 miles long. And all without a single tollbooth or orange barrel.
- The Pope can’t be an organ donor. But if he wants to donate his harpsichord to the Rome Philharmonic, they’ll be happy to accept.
- Tug of war was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920. Remember those great champions the next time someone makes fun of the badminton or synchronized swimming medalists.
- The world’s longest rock concert lasted 453 hours. And there are still some hippies at the festival venue who don’t realize that it’s over.
- NFL Super Bowl referees also get Super Bowl rings, but they have to hire water boys out of their own salaries to give them a ceremonial Gatorade shower.
- The average cloud weighs over one million pounds although a number of high-profile Cumulonimbi influencers have started seeding themselves with Ozempic.
- Wearing a necktie could reduce blood flow to your brain by up to 7.5 percent. This may be why many corporations require their middle managers to wear one.
- The earliest evidence of humans eating oatmeal dates to more than 30,000 years ago when a kid named Garth spit his breakfast out into a tar pit.
- Astronaut Alan Shepherd was the first man to golf on the moon. All subsequent Apollo missions were sent to try to find his lost ball.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. Unless you’re listening to marching band music in which case the bacteria will all go to someone’s ears who has a better playlist.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. And believe me, you don’t want to sit next to the guy who figured that out at a dinner party.
Some of my favorite fun facts:
– Why did the bicycle fall over? It was two-tired!
– Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing!
– Artificial intelligence: The only thing that makes sense without having any.
– Why don’t robots ever get lost? Because they always follow their GPS !
– I told my computer I needed a break, and now it won’t stop sending me travel ads. It really wants me to ‘go somewhere’!
– GPS and my spouse have the same tone. Both say, Recalculating… when I miss a turn. But the GPS does it without the passive-aggressive sigh.
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Some of my favorite fun facts:
– Why did the bicycle fall over? It was two-tired!
– Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing!
– Artificial intelligence: The only thing that makes sense without having any.
– Why don’t robots ever get lost? Because they always follow their GPS !
– I told my computer I needed a break, and now it won’t stop sending me travel ads. It really wants me to ‘go somewhere’!
– GPS and my spouse have the same tone. Both say, Recalculating… when I miss a turn. But the GPS does it without the passive-aggressive sigh.
View more at https://bestjokesabout.org/