Fun Facts

Fun Fact #1381

When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.

Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.

Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.

Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!

Womens’ hearts beat faster than mens’.

Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.

World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.