Crazy Facts About Averages

Interesting and Crazy Facts About Averages

• The average American annually consumes 47.3 gallons of soda, 26.5 gallons of coffee, and 23.1 gallons of beer.
  
  
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  
  
• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
  
  
• The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil.
  
  
• The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
  
  
• The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
  
  
• The average erect penis is 5,2" long - and 4,2" circumcised.
  
  
• A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
  
  
• An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
  
  
• 35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
  
  
• The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
  
  
• Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
  
  
• Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
  
  
• Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
  
  
• The average person can live 11 days without water.
  
  
• The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
  
  
• In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
  
  
• On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
  
  
• On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
  
  
• The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
  
  
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
  
  
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
  
  
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
  
  
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
  
• The average person laughs 15 times a day.
  
  
• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
  
  
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
  
  
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  
  
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
  
  
• The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
  
  
• The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.