Wacky Wednesday: 15 Random Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

This week BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 facts you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining, information and we would be crazy not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this Wacky Wednesday treat courtesy of BB Insurance Marketing. Check it out:

– Putting dry tea bags in smelly gym bags or shoes will absorb the nasty odors and get rid of the smell.

– Car airbags kill one person for every 22 lives that they save.

– 63% of restaurant workers say they have handled or served food while sick.

– The medical term for “brain freeze” is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.”

– When a male lion takes over a pride, he will kill all of the young cubs that are not his genetic offspring.

– If you weigh over 400 pounds, you can live one year without eating anything.

– Some ostriches fall in love with humans.

– If leap years didn’t exist, we’d currently be in November 2013.

– You’d have to walk for about 6 hours straight to burn off a McDonald’s Big Mac combo meal.

– A honey badger’s skin is so thick, they can withstand multiple machete strikes, arrows and spears.

– The average internet user watches about 186 videos every month.

– Piñatas were first invented in China.

– Americans buy about 90 million pounds of marshmallows each year. That’s equal to the weight of 1,286 gray whales.

– Girls between the ages of 14-17 text on average, 100 times a day.

– Dopamine is the chemical responsible for our addiction to the internet. This causes us to constantly seek new information.

(All Facts via @Factsionary, @UberFacts and @GooogleFacts)