What are some random gross facts?

What are some really random facts or statistics that most people don't know?

• i'm writing a story and it has a character that knows a ton of rtandom facts. i need to know some random facts.

• Answer:

  A dragonfly can fly as fast as 30 miles per hour and lift up to 15 times its own weight. Mars was a mere 34.65 million miles from Earth on August 27, 2003, at 9:51 a.m. (the fourth planet from the Sun was closer to the third planet from the Sun than it had been in 59,619 years.) In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo." and there are many more at : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/