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Fun Facts

June 9, 2011

At Orange, we pride ourselves on our intelligence and knowledge of culture. So today, we thought it would be nice to share some bits of mindless trivia we have picked up over time…

Listed below and for your entertainment is a plethora of random facts, useless knowledge and arbitrary trivia straight from the Orange Legal office.

• 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
  
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
  
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
  
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

• Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the president.

• If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

• You are more likely to be killed by a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.

• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

• On average, 13 people die every year from falling vending machines.

• Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.

• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

• Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.

• Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.

• Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

• On Father’s Day, there are more collect calls than any other day of the year.

• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

• Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.