Wacky Wednesday: You’ll Never Believe These 15 Crazy Facts!

As is Wednesday tradition, 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!

– Britney Spears’ used pregnancy test was sold on eBay for $5,001 in 2005.

– There are 14 billion insects for every human on Earth.

– California needs about 11 trillion gallons of water to recover from its current drought.

– Orangutans share 97% of DNA with humans.

– When you walk into a room and you forget why you walked in there in the first place is the phenomenon known as “event boundary.”

– Using a warm air dryer after washing your hands, increases bacterial count on average by 250%.

– Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.

– In several different studies, pregnant women have been found to attract roughly twice as many mosquito bites as others.

– It was calculated that an average silence between to people takes almost 4 seconds to turn awkward.

– A blind taste test found most people are unable to tell the difference between a cheap wine and an expensive one.

– With the total grossing money James Cameron’s Titanic movie made, about 5 real life Titanics could’ve been built instead.

– A woman tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch because Crunchberries are not real fruit.

– If everyone in the world washed their hands properly, we could save more than 1 million lives a year.

– The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water.

– In the state of California, you need more hours to become a Barber than a Police officer.

(via @UberFacts, @GoogleFacts & @Know)