Twitter Quick Facts – Twacts Part 3

18 Feb

Well, it has been a quiet week. For those of you that follow us on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve had to make some serious decision about my career in the last week and now it’s all sorted I can say that as of tomorrow, I’m officially jobless!

So apologies for things being a bit quiet for a while but we’re well and truly back on it now so let’s get straight back on the train with last weeks twacts!

What the Fact?

The average driver spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Human hair is almost indestructible, only fire can destroy it.
There have only been 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers, most people assume they have seen more than that!
An adult giraffe’s kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour.
Adolf Hitler was chosen as Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 1938 and Joseph Stalin in 1939.
By age 20 we lose 20% of our sense of smell. By age 60 it is 60%.
Nowhere in the state of Michigan is a person more than six miles from water.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.