Fun & Games

Fun facts

The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

Baby rattlesnakes are born without rattles.

The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous line in The Terminator, “‘I’ll be back,” was originally scripted as, “I’ll come back.”

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo in The Matrix. Will Smith was approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West (1999).

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6.

142857 x 2 = 285714; 142857 x 3 = 428571; 142857 x 4 = 571428; 142857 x 5 = 714285; 142857 x 6 = 857142.

A person weighing 150 pounds on Earth would weigh two tons on the sun.

A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

Tom Arnold, Sandra Bullock, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby, Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Willis are all former bartenders.