A window into my googling...

Hi everyone,

I've already admitted I'm a terrible blogger. I bet if I blogged more regularly, I'd have gotten a full stimulus check (hey, look who's manning the helm of the country, who knows what logic, if any, they base their decisions on).

Anywho, I can't sleep again, so what I normally do is find funny interesting facts to entertain myself while I wait for my mind power down. (I used to read medical journals or engineering research reports, but I'm too medicated for that now...) Some of the stuff I threw in there to give back to the statistics/trivia googling community. Happy Boredom my brethren!


A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms.

Karl Benz invented the automobile.

The Camaro was introduced in 1967 in reaction to Ford's Mustang. Camaro is said to be French slang for 'friend'

90% of the population have innie rather than outtie belly buttons.

30% of men on online dating services are married.

Women buy 85% of all Valentines day cards. (1% are purchased by nice guys, 4% are bought by married men on online dating services, and the other 10% are bought by Kyle Vogt.)

India has 50 million monkeys.

I was born on Friday the 13th, in the middle of a hospital strike, under a full moon.

There are at least 100 lightening strikes on Earth every second.

The average lightning flash would light a 100 watt light bulb for 3 months.

Men are struck by lightning four times more often than women. (phew, thanks for the X chromosome dad!)

The world's fastest production car is the Ultimate Aero TT, produced by Shelby Supercars. The Ultimate Aero is powered by a 6.3-liter twin-turbo V8 engine, does 0-60 in 2.78 seconds and costs $485k.

William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, held that office for the briefest period in history (30 days). He was the first president to die while in office, was the oldest before Ronald Regan came around, and is the only president I really don't think I've ever heard of.

1/2 a percent of all the Earth's population are directly related to Genghis Khan (he got around).

America's first automobile race occurred in 1895 (13 years before the Model T). The 54 mile course stretched from Chicago to Evanston, Il and back again. The winner, Frank Duryea, the first American automobile producer, averaged 7.3 miles per hour.

The first computer start up company was founded in 1946.

In 1947, the first computer bug was logged. The fault was a moth stuck between two relay points. The log note stated: "First actual case of bug being found." The moth is on display at the Smithsonian.

As of 2008, Warren Buffet is the richest person in the world. He added $10 billion dollars this past year to his $62 billion dollar net worth, while the average American income dropped by $1,000 dollars/year.

75% of the entire world's population earns an average of $1,487 per year.