Some Additional Random Facts

1.       Oral sex was illegal in Singapore until 2007.

2.       Each year, Google receives more than two million job applications from around the world.

3.       Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.

4.       In 2014, individual Americans gave US$258 billion to charity —more than twice the amount given by corporations and foundations combined.

5.       A NY man spent almost 5 months in prison in 2014, unaware that his bail was US$2.

6.       After Barack Obama visited Kenya in 2015, two women named their sons Air Force One.

7.       Converse shoes, is a Nike Company since 2003.

8.       18 years after Vietnamese man Ma Van Nhat had surgery for injuries sustained in a car crash, doctors found surgical scissors in his abdomen.

9.       On a QWERTY keyboard a typist's fingers cover 20 miles a day; on a Dvorak keyboard it's only one mile.

10.   The longest human nipple hair was 17 cm (6.6 in) long.

11.   You can die instantly after being struck by a dropping coconut.

12.   Ernest Hemingway received 36 shock treatments for depression, some of which impaired his memory so badly that he couldn't remember his name.

13.   Englishman Ken Edwards ate 36 Madagascan cockroaches in one minute in 2001.

14.   According to a Pew study, 56% of Americans think the use of atomic bombs in Japan in 1945 was justified, down from 63% in 1991.

15.   Before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Saddam Hussein had turned over the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government to his aides and was spending most of his time writing a novel.

16.   One-armed tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.