Can someone please explain to me this obsession about the “25 Random Things” on Facebook?

I really don’t get it.

My friends have been clamoring me about writing my 25 random things, so here you go:

1. There’s a blue bird on my shoulder
2. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
3. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours a day
4. Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese.
5. Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump.
6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
7. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth.
8. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
9. A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
10. The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I Ran the Zoo.”
11. The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
12. “Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
13. In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues.
14. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
15. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
16. There is a law on the books of Detroit, Michigan that states “Alligators may not be tied to fire hydrants.”
17. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
18. The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology.
19. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
20. A tortoise can live up to 140 years old.
21. The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
22. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
23. Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
24. A snail can sleep for three years.
25. Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

Here are 25 random things from MSNBC.com.

…and if you need something random to do, click here.

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