60 happy facts from the happy folks at Ink Tank!

1. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

2. If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard.

3. The book cover to the prize winning short story collection,Spellbound, was chosen because author, Joel Willans, bought his wife’s engagement ring with poker winnings.

4. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout their career.

5. The chances of you (as opposed to someone else) being born is about 1 in 40 million.

6. Every year, millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels forgetting where they buried their nuts.

7. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow-fight in his motel room.

8. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star dust.

9. Cancer death rates are down 20% in past 20 years.

10. The miles travelled by the Apollo 11 crew to the moon were greater than every single exploration mission to the New World combined.

11. Penguins only have one mate their entire life and “propose” by giving their mate a pebble.

12. Cows have best friends.

13. Despite high infant mortality rates and lower life expectancies, not one of your direct ancestors died childless.

14. Cuddling releases Oxytocin which helps speed healing and recovery from physical wounds.

15. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.

16. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.

17. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever.

18. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real life.

19. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer life expectancy than at any other time in human history.

20. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis, and is the only organ in the body, which has evolved purely for pleasure.

21. Butterflies can taste with their feet.

22. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.

23. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms that contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used again.

24. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War.

25. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so high-pitched you need special equipment to hear them, but when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.

26. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and travel together by holding on to each others tails.

27. The guy at the end of this video exists.

28. If you say “my cocaine” you sound like Michael Caine saying his own name.

29. Male puppies, when playing with female puppies, will intentionally let the female win.

30. The next Star Wars will not be directed by George Lucas.

31. It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

32.The kingdom of Bhutan use ‘gross national happiness’ as a key national indicator.

33. The majority of European children born in 2013 will live to see the year 2100.

34. There’s an animal called a Dik Dik. And it’s the cutest antelope you’ll ever see.

35. Neurologically speaking, seeing somebody else smile actually makes you happier.

36. Every human being spent about half an hour as a single cell.

37. There are people, ombrophiles, who have a passionate love for rain.
38. Once your brain realizes that you’re dying, it releases DMT, one of the most powerful known psychedelics. This dilates your perception of time and allowing you to live inside your own mind for hours or even days.

39. No matter how long you live there will always be an amazing new food for you try.

40. A group of porcupines is called a prickle.

41. Aside from a sample in a lab, Smallpox is completely extinct. No one else will ever die from it again.

42. A pig’s orgasms last thirty minutes.

43. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

44. Sloths only leave their tree once a week, to pee and poo.

45. Spinner dolphins sleep in pairs, one with the left hemisphere asleep, the other with the right. They each keep watch with one eye and half a brain. They are known to sleep-mate for life.

46. At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.

47. Cows produce the most milk when listening to the song Everybody Hurts by REM.

48. Somewhere, someone is losing their virginity right now.

49. If you spell out numbers in order, the first time you get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.

50. We’ve all been here forever. Every bit of matter we see has been here since the beginning of time and it always will be.

51. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

52. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.

53. Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in flight. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing

54. Baby rabbits are called kittens.

55. Baby puffins are called pufflings.

56. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.

57. Worms communicate by snuggling.

58. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists for four different digits.

59. With our horseless carriages, flying robots, space travel, long-distance communication at the speed of light, cloning, lasers, connection to people all over the world, we are living inthe future people dreamed of.

60. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a sea sponge.

You learn something new every day on the Internet. If your power has been off I'll catch you up!

   A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. 
 
   A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 
 
   A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. 
 
   A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 
 
   A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 
 
   A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 
 
   A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 
 
   A snail can sleep for three years. 
 
   Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 
 
   All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the 
 back of the $5 bill. 
 
   Almonds are a member of the peach family. 
 
   An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 
 
   Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child 
 reaches 2 to 6 years of age. 
 
   Butterflies taste with their feet. 
 
   Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. 
 
   Dogs only have about 10. 
 
   "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." 
 
   February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full 
 moon. 
 
   In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 
 
   If the population of China walked past you, in single file the line 
 would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 
 
   If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an 
 average of 6 months waiting at red lights. 
 
   It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 
 
   Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 
 
   Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable 
 
   No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or 
 purple. 
 
   On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament 
 building is an American flag. 
 
   Our eyes are always the same size from birth, 
 but our nose and ears never stop growing. 
 
   Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. 
 
   Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 
 
   "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; 
 "lollipop" with your right. 
 
   The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
 
   The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there 
 were three gifts. 
 
   The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel 
 that it burns. 
 
   The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube 
 and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 
 
   The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every 
 letter of the alphabet. 
 
   The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely 
 solid. 
 
   The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are 
 read left to right or right to left (palindromes). 
 
   There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 
 
   There are more chickens than people in the world. 
 
   There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": 
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 
 
   There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels 
 in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." 
 
   There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. 
 
   Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 
 
   TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only 
 on one row of the keyboard. 
 
   Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. 
 
   Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 
 
   Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; 
 otherwise it will digest itself. 

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