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Fun Facts: People waste THIS MUCH TIME waiting at traffic lights?

By Bonny Chu

Published July 31, 2024

Fox News
  • The average person will spend about a total of 6 months waiting at red lights
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    People will waste six months of their lives waiting for traffic lights to turn green.

  • Humans are about 1-2 cm taller in the morning after getting out of bed
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    Humans will start the day just slightly taller.

  • Before the invention of the eraser, writers used to correct their graphite mistakes with wet bread
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    Writers used to use wet bread as erasers until the modern rubber tools were invented around 1770.

  • Beer wasn’t classified as alcohol in Russia until 2013!
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    Many Russians considered beer a soft drink until a decade ago.

  • Wombat feces are surprisingly cube-shaped, allowing the fecal matter to not roll away when the mammals mark their territory
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    The Australian marsupials are the only animals known in the world to produce cube-shaped feces.

  • A person typically produces enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools!
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    Salivary gland production varies between 2-6 cups per day.

  • The world’s deepest Postbox is in Susami Bay, Japan, where people can dive 10 meters underwater to send messages
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    The underwater mailbox was proposed to attract more tourists and divers to Susami Bay.

  • Cheese is considered one, if not, the most shoplifted food worldwide, with nearly 4% of total cheese inventory stolen each year
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    The addictive quality and small packaging of cheese makes the dairy product highly targeted among shoplifters.

  • Singapore, one of the cleanest countries in the world, made chewing gum illegal in 1992
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    The 1992 Singaporean law helps prevent people from spitting gum on the ground.

  • A jellyfish species, the Turritopsis dohrnii, has been deemed biologically immortal, due to its ability to reset its developmental stage after reaching maturity
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    The "immortal jellyfish" can also hit the reset button when it becomes injured or threatened.

  • The world’s largest cave, Son Doong in Vietnam, has its very own ecosystem, complete with a river, forest, sunlight and climate. It’s so big that it can fit an entire NYC city block inside!
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    Birds, monkeys and even snakes have been spotted inside the Vietnam cave.

  • In one lifetime, the average person will eat the weight equivalent of 6 elephants
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    An average person in the Western world eats about 70,000 pounds of food in a lifetime.

  • The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be a temporary exhibit until it became so popular that it was no longer in danger of demolition
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    The Eiffel Tower was originally scheduled to be demolished after 20 years.

  • The average lightning bolt runs at temperatures five times hotter than the surface of the sun!
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    Lightning also moves about 30,000 times faster than a bullet.

  • The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is more than twice the height of NYC’s Empire State Building
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    Dubai's Burj Khalifa set the record as the world's tallest building in 2010 when it first opened.

Bonny Chu is a Digital Production Assistant at Fox News Digital.

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