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 Humpday treat courtesy of BB Insurance Marketing. Check them out!

– The only place where you can really tickle yourself is on the roof of your mouth.

– In 2002, the average user spent 46 minutes on the Internet a day – In 2012, the average user spent 4 hours on the Internet every day.

– The life expectancy of the average person increases by 3 months every year.

– In Switzerland, you can rent fake police cars to park near your house so burglars stay away.

– The word “mortgage” comes from a French word that means “pledge to the death.”

– 600 Americans die from falling out of bed each year.

– Great Britain invaded 90% of the world’s countries.

– Mixing alcohol with diet soda will get you more drunk than mixing it with regular soda.

– “Pisanthrophobia” is the fear of trusting people due to bad past experiences.

– Cuteness inspires aggression – Which is why we often want to squeeze things we find cute.

– Nintendo has banked so much money, that they could run a deficit of over $250 Million every year and still survive until 2052.

– The sentence “A nut for a jar of tuna.” is the same when read backwards.

– A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.

– If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.

– Humans gave the brain its name. Therefore, theoretically, the human brain named itself.

(All Facts via @UberFacts, @OMGFacts and @GoogleFacts)