facts.json

{
    "interesting": [
		"If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.",
		"McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”",
		"The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.",
		"The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.",
		"You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.",
		"There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.",
		"Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.",
		"In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.",
		"One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.",
		"If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.",
		"A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.",
		"A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders while sleeping.",
		"James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. president continuously bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.",
		"There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.",
		"The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.",
		"Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.",
		"Coca-Cola would be green if coloring wasn’t added to it.",
		"You cannot snore and dream at the same time."
    ],
    "fun": [
		"The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!",
		"A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.",
		"Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.",
		"New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.",
		"A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.",
		"A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.",
		"Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.",
		"It would take a sloth one month to travel one mile.",
		"10% of the World’s population is left handed.",
		"A broken clock is right two times every day.",
		"According to Amazon, the most highlighted books on Kindle are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.",
		"Bob Marley’s last words to his son before he died were “Money can’t buy life.”",
		"A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night.",
		"A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in.",
		"Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.",
		"If you were to stretch a Slinky out until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.",
		"Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.",
		"There are more collect calls on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year.",
		"Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.",
		"95% of people text things they could never say in person.",
		"A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out.",
		"It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.",
		"Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries."
    ],
    "funny": [
		"The word “gorilla” is derived from a Greek word meaning, “A tribe of hairy women.”",
		"Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.",
		"Gorillas burp when they are happy.",
		"In New York, it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.",
		"In 2006 someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price got up to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.",
		"It is considered good luck in Japan when a sumo wrestler makes your baby cry.",
		"A man from Britain changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.",
		"A woman from California once tried to sue the makers of Cap’n Crunch, because the Crunch Berries contained “no berries of any kind.”",
		"Apple launched a clothing line in 1986. It was described as a “train wreck” by others.",
		"In Japan, crooked teeth are considered cute and attractive.",
		"A Swedish woman lost her wedding ring, and found it 16 years later- growing on a carrot in her garden.",
		"Donald duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.",
		"The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is actually greater than your chance of winning.",
		"Cherophobia is the fear of fun.",
		"The toothpaste “Colgate” in Spanish translates to “go hang yourself.”",
		"Pirates wore earrings because they believed it improved their eyesight."
    ],
    "animal": [
		"Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so that they do not drift apart.",
		"The Golden Poison Dart Frog’s skin has enough toxins to kill 100 people.",
		"The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.",
		"Mountain lions can whistle.",
		"The giraffe’s tongue is so long that they can lick the inside of their own ear.",
		"Cows kill more people than sharks do.",
		"Cats have 32 muscles in each of their ears.",
		"Butterflies taste their food with their feet.",
		"A tarantula can live without food for more than two years.",
		"The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than most elephants!",
		"Ever wonder where the phrase “It’s raining cats and dogs” comes from? In the 17th century many homeless cats and dogs would drown and float down the streets of England, making it look like it literally rained cats and dogs.",
		"It takes about 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for the NFL for only one year.",
		"Male dogs lift their legs when they are urinating for a reason. They are trying to leave their mark higher so that it gives off the message that they are tall and intimidating.",
		"A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.",
		"An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.",
		"Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures and have demonstrated the ability to do simple mathematical calculations.",
		"A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.",
		"Birds don’t urinate."
	]
}