(T)MMR: Random Silly Facts

This could make for a fun read...

~An estimated 1 million dogs in the US are the primary beneficiary in their owner's will.
~Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
~Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
~There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
~Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
~All polar bears are left handed.
~In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
~Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo in the Matrix. Will Smith was also approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West.
~The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
~A snail can sleep for three years.
~Every continent has a city called Rome.
~22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
~The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
~There is a law on the books of Detroit, Michigan that states that "Alligators may not be tied to fire hydrants."
~You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
~Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
~A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
~No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
~55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
~The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
~La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world at over 17,000 feet (5,181 m).
~The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
~No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
~Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
~A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus, anyone saying "I'll be back in a jiffy" is lying to you.
~Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.
~Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

That's enough for now. Hope you enjoyed this very random collection of very random facts. I'll get back to writing something original next week.