Wacky Wednesday: 15 Cool & Interesting Fun Facts!

This week BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 fun and crazy you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining AND factual information and we would be crazy or wacky ourselves 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!

– In North Korea, only military and government officials can own motor vehicles.

– A 5-minute shower in North America uses more water than is available in an entire day to a person living in the slum of a developing nation.

– We use the internet more in 60 seconds today than we did in the entire year of 1993.

– In 1998, Sony released 700,000 infrared camcorders onto the market that they did not know could see through clothing.

– Aardvark means “earth pig.”

– There are natural painkillers in your saliva, which is why you put your finger in your mouth when it gets a cut.

– Cleopatra attributed her beauty to pickles.

– A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.

– New research suggests that dolphins are second only to humans in intelligence.

– Cheesecake was invented in Ancient Greece and served to athletes at the very first Olympic Games.

– In 1927 several million people in the United States sent over 100,000 petitions urging Congress to adopt the metric system.

– Chinese courts have a 99.99% conviction rate (measured in 2009)

– Pencil sales increased 700% in the year following Sudoku becoming popular.

– A fitness trainer intentionally gained 70 pounds to better understand the plight of his overweight clients. He lost it all 6 months later.

– The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers.

(via @UberFacts & @GoogleFacts)