Fascinating Facts and Trivia

A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time.

That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

In the 16th and 17th centuries in the country of Turkey, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

Microscopic mites live on your face.

Your face is crawling with eight-legged, spider-like creatures. Fortunately, they are microscopic and impossible to see—but, according to the BBC, they're mites with long, worm-like bodies residing in hair follicles and pores or sebaceous glands.

You can't breathe and swallow at the same time.

"This is because the food and fluids we swallow and the air we breathe in both travel down the same part of our throat," according to registered psychiatric nurse James Steinmetz

The World's Biggest Tyre Producer is LEGO

The toy company produces approximately 306 million tyres per year—far more than any other manufacturer in the world. They may be tiny toy tyres, but the fact still stands.

Right enough sex!

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen.

US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually.

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Fredric Baur was the man who invented the iconic “Pringles” can. When he died, his ashes were buried in one.

The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine.

Apparently it works?