Jim Green > Quotes

“bags were invented accidentally in 1908 by a New York tea merchant. Thomas Sullivan sent samples of tea leaves in small silk bags, which some recipients mistakenly placed directly into teapots, rather than just the tea leaf contents as intended”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“333 Texas has the highest speed limit of any US state – you can drive down the Texas State Highway 130 at 85mph”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“The Wolf of Wall Street”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“J. Edgar Hoover became head of the FBI at age 29. He immediately fired all female FBI agents”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Listening to music is one of the few activities that engages the entire brain”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Vending machines kill more people each year than sharks. Statistically, you are twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Gum is illegal in Singapore. You can be fined and even face jail time for chewing, importing or selling gum”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Human bodies contain small traces of gold”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Adolf Hitler and J.R.R. Tolkien fought on opposing sides in the Battle of the Somme in World War 1”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“The original patent for toilet roll showed that it was intended to hang over the holder”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“There are more billionaires in the United States than in any other country in the world”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“There is a park ranger living in the US who has been struck by lightning seven times”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“SPY Magazine once sent some of the world’s richest people checks of just 13 cents to see who if any would cash them. Only two people ever did – one was an arms dealer, the other was Donald Trump”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Florida”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“In a survey, it was found that 7% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Multitasking is not actually possible. What we think is multitasking is what scientists refer to as ‘context-switching’, which means you are very quickly switching between tasks rather than doing two things at once”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“Pizza Hut was the first company to ever deliver to outer space; they delivered pizza to the International Space Station in 2001”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History

“It is estimated that on average, the British drink 165 million cups of tea every day 511 John Quincy Adams was gifted a pet alligator by a French general, which he kept in a bathtub in the White House 512 Cows have been proven to produce more milk when they are listening to music 513 If you were to play the world’s longest musical piece, it would take around 630 years”
― Jim Green, 3001 Unusual Facts, Funny True Stories & Odd Trivia: Amazing Book of Odd & Unusual Trivia Interesting Facts about Famous People, Odd Trivia from Science ... Unusual Facts from US & World History