Wacky Wednesday: 15 Interesting and Splendid 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!

– Jellyfish fire their toxic barbs into their prey’s flesh at 10,000 times the force of gravity.

– 15% of iPhone users use an iPhone with a broken screen.

– In 1900, 40% of American automobiles were powered by steam and 38% by electricity.

– The sea otter is the furriest creature on Earth, with an astonishing 140,000 hairs per square centimeter of skin.

– Scientists have discovered that monkeys are susceptible to optical illusions, just like humans.

– The longest chess game that is theoretically possible has 5,949 moves.

– According to a study, a dog’s bark can reveal its age, gender, context, and whether or not it recognizes an individual.

– Right-handed people tend to chew food on the right side while left-handed tend to chew on the left side.

– 50% of Netflix users watch an entire season of a TV show in just one week.

– The world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day.

– Vultures have stomach acid so corrosive, they can digest anthrax.

– A bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about 40 minutes from starvation because of its extremely fast metabolism.

– Studies have found that people in convertibles don’t exhibit road rage as much as those with tinted windows.

– In Japan, three quarters of men give all their money to their wives and get a monthly allowance.

– Los Angeles has the worst traffic of any city in the Unites States and the 10th worst of any city in the world.

(via @UberFacts, @GoogleFacts & @Factsionary)