An adult's shower takes an average of five-ten minutes.


"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made."            -Joan Rivers

There are more Walmarts in the United States then there are colleges.

"Never eat spinach before going on the air."  -Dan Ruther

Saturday May 19, 2012

The average grocery shopper stands in line for eight minutes.



"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."  - Oprah Winfrey

Thursday May 17, 2012

How much?  The average cost of a movie ticket in Havana, Cuba is... 10 cents.


"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."  - Mark Twain

Air Canada banned on-board smoking before any other North-American airline.


"A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory."  - Unknown

Wednesday May 16, 2012

A Brown Bat needs more sleep that any animal at 20 hours a day, while the Giraffe needs the least, at only 2 hours a day.

Well I have my own page as well:

"When I took office, only high energy physicists had heard of what is called the World Wide Web... now even my cat has its own page."  -Bill Clinton

Belgium once experimented with using cats to deliver mail.



"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."  -Phyllis Diller

Tuesday May 15, 2012

Tap water in New York City is considered non-kosher, as it has been found to contain microorganisms that qualify as shell fish.

This quote may be inappropriate for readers under 12:

"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework."  -Bill Cosby

If you need something super fast, ask for it in a yactosecond.  That's the smallest unit of time.

"There will never be a bigger plane built."  -A Boeing Engineer following the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane built to carry 10 people, 1933.

Quick facts: The Boeing 247 had an empty weight of 8,921lb and a loaded weight of 16,805 lb.  It was 12ft 5in high, was 51ft 5in long and had a wingspan of 74ft 1in.The worlds current largest airplane is the Antonov An-225.  It has an empty weight of 628,315 lb and a max takeoff weight of 1,410,000 lb.  It is 59ft 3in high, 275ft 6in long, and has a wingspan of 290ft 2in. 

1n 1871, five years before Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone, inventor Antonio Meucci filed a patent for a similar device, but could not afford the $10 fee.


"No two men can differ on a principle of trigonometry." -Thomas Jefferson

Monday May 14, 2012

The Eiffel Tower is repainted by hand every seven years.

What do you think?:

"What I want to do and what I do are two separate things.  If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos."  -Simon Birch

Sunday May 13, 2012 (Happy Mother's Day Moms)

Almost 500,000 women in the world will become mothers on Mother's Day, 2012.

A Quote for Mother's Day:

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." -Abraham Lincoln

Saturday May 10, 2012

Scientists say: Gesturing with your hands while speaking improves your memory.


Happy quote:

"I feel my best when I'm happy." -Winona Ryder

Remember this:

Twenty-Four hours from now, you'll have forgotten 80% of what you learned today.

Good Question:

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"                           -Vince Lombardi

Friday May 11, 2012

Cost of a cell phone in 1984: $4,195.

Quote of the day:

“I hated to bat against (Don) Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'” – Mickey Mantle

Thursday May 10, 2012

90% of all animal species in history are now extinct.

Quote of the day:

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  - Walter Bagehot

Have an interesting fact or a good quote?  E-Mail it to me at jaiden.vln@gmail.com and I will add it to the fact or quote page on my website and on this blog.  Don't worry, I will be sure to say it was from you.

She was what?:

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian.  She was Greek.

Tough truths:

"If you think you have it tough, read history books." -Bill Maher

A fact about laws:

The Sumerians were the first to write down official legal codes.  What was their first law?  A ban against witchcraft.

And of course here is a quote:

"Nobody in football should be called a genius.  A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein (sic)." -Joe Theismann

Wednesday May 9, 2012

The first McDonalds to open up outside of the US was in Richmond, BC in 1967.

Here is a good quote about Canada from Bill Clinton:

"Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace."  -Bill Clinton

Here is a smart fact:

Albert Einstein never learned how to drive.

A good quote from Mr. Einstein:

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."   -Albert Einstein 

Here is a new fact:

The first company to earn $1 billion in one year was General Motors in 1955!

Here is a quote for all you authors and authors to be out there:

"There is no such thing as writing.  Only re-writing."    

-Mr. P Anonymous 

Here is another fact that came to my attention:

Even though Helen Keller was blind and deaf, she learned three languages; English, French, and German.

Now here is a nice and kind of funny quote from Helen Keller:

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."  -Helen Keller

Well here is my first fact of this blog:

One in 10 Canadians say they would support a law that encouraged people in major cities to wear name tags.

Well here is my first quote of this blog:

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you are finished."  -Leslie Nielsen

Welcome

Hello all and welcome to my new blog.  You can also visit https://sites.google.com/site/myfactsdaily/ to check out my website on daily facts and quotes.

What is the blog?  Well everyday, I will update this site with new facts and quotes.  They will be about anything.  I would like to thank Uncle John from the Bathroom Readers Institute for providing most of these wonderful facts.  Feel free to use these quotes and facts to entertain family and friends.  The facts and quotes from previous days will also be on this blog.

(Just a little notice for everybody.  If you want help with some high school courses you can visit learningbc.com which was created by my favourite teacher of all time).

Have an interesting fact or a good quote?  E-Mail it to me at jaiden.vln@gmail.com and I will add it to the fact/quote page on my website and on this blog.  Don't worry, I will be sure to say it was from you.