Wacky Wednesday: 15 Fantastic & Whimsical Fun 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!

– A baby is born on its predicted due date just 4% of the time.

– You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

– Sweden pays high school students $187 per month to attend school.

– According to one poll, 45% of Americans believe in ghosts or that the spirits of dead people can come back.

– The World Health Organization says a healthy amount of sugar a day should be 25 grams, or one Snickers bar.

– By distributing all the money in the world equally to everyone, you would get $10,000.

– Smiling slows down aging and prevents wrinkles.

– If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be about 28 people in Manhattan.

– The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.

– In Iowa, pigs outnumber people seven to one.

– If a shirt shrinks, put it in a bowl with ice water and one cup of hair conditioner. It will restore it to its normal size.

– A sleeping human brain can still understand the words being spoken around it.

– Drinking milk used to be considered a luxury by the ancient Greeks and by the Romans.

– You can ask Siri to flip a coin if you don’t have one.

– The distinctive smell of Crayola crayons comes from beef fat, which is used to make the crayons waxy.

(via @UberFacts, @GoogleFacts & @Factsionary)