I love finding odd facts. Her are a collection of fifteen interesting and somewhat puzzling tidbits.

• 60% of sports related injuries occur during practice.

• Golf may be considered a benign sport, but can carry a risk of injury and death, most often from lightning, power lines, heart attack, and heatstroke.

• Experts estimate that more than 21 billion diapers are dumped into US landfills each year.

• Adolf Hitler suffered from chronic flatulence.

• Omorashi is a fetish subculture in Japan dedicated to arousal from the feeling of having a full bladder.

• The average human will spend three years on the toilet during his lifetime.

• The most germ laden place on the toilet isn’t the seat or even the bowl: it’s the handle.

• Feces in the water supply causes 10% of the world’s communicable diseases.

• Women are up to five times more likely than men to have urinary incontinence problems, primarily due to the trauma the body experiences during pregnancy and childbirth.

• More Americans choke on toothpicks than any other object. Toothpicks injure approximately 9000 people every year.

• Thanks to the technology like TV screens in grocery stores and airports, cell phone videos, and digital movie libraries, the average American sees 61 minutes of ads and promotions each day.

• A bezoar is a ball of swallowed fiber or hair that gathers in the stomach and get stuck in the intestines.

• Ancient Romans used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.

• A mummified hand has been on display in City Hall in Munster, Germany for 400 years. It belonged to a notary who falsely certified a document, and had his hand chopped off as punishment, then displayed as a warning. 

• The world’s oceans contain enough salt to cover every continent to a depth of approximately 500 feet.

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW EVERYTHING