People Trivia

Trivia about Humanity

 

A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.

Based on a US Justice Department study conducted between 1992 and 1996, workplace violence troubles 1.7 million Americans a year. Number of workers attacked or threatened per thousand: Police officers: 306, Private security guards: 218, Taxi drivers: 184, Prison guards: 117, Bartenders: 91, Mental health professionals: 80, Gas station attendants: 79.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Fourteen percent of the one million citizens of Nairobi, Kenya carry the AIDS virus. Some 20% of the Kenyan military is infected. (1997)

Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal-sized children, even if both parents are midgets or dwarfs.

The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after.

Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.

In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

Isaac Newton, Peter Tchaikovsky and Annie Lennox were all born on Christmas.

Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.

Number of people who will starve to death this year --20,000,000.

Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.