If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The first television show to show a flushing toilet was Leave It to Beaver.
The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location that sells hot dogs.
A can of SPAM™ is opened every 4 seconds.
Plastic lawn flamingos are more numerous in the United States than real flamingos.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stored per capita than any other place on earth.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside-down.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
The U.S. Patent Office received over one hundred patent entries for ‘Perpetual Motion Machines’ each year.
The British Patent Office will not except patents for ‘Perpetual Motion Machines’.
A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter ‘E’ was written by Ernest Wright.
Mark Twain’s book ‘Tom Sawyer’ (1876) was the first novel to ever be written on a typewriter.
Isaac Asimovis is the only author to have a book in every major category of the Dewey-decimal system.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The Paramount™ logo contains 22 stars.
After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it was dismantled, and rebuilt as a barn.
The letters of the alphabet in order of frequency of use are: ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
Laughter is a proven way to loose weight.
The pound sign ( # ) is called an anoctothorpe.
There was once a town named ‘6’ in West Virginia.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment in your skin orange. (Carotene is the same substance that makes leaves turn orange in the fall)
The earth weighs about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Every day the sun loses about 360 million tons.
The first word spoken on the moon was ‘Okay’.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Popeye was five feet, six inches.
The average speed of Heinz™ ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
The most common name for a gold fish is ‘Jaws’.
The most common (human) name in the world is, ‘Mohammed’.
The longest name is the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is Malhershalahashbaz.
The shortest verse in the bible is ‘Jesus Wept’. (John 11:35)
The word ‘and’ appears 46,277 times in the bible.
There are 17 steps to the apartment of Sherlock Holmes.
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
The Eifel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
The Eifel Tower has 1792 steps.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100mph!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you can't!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
The average caterpillar has 16 legs.
How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 Times a second.
When the shell oil companyfirst opened it's doors it was a seashell novelty shop.
Laugh and you'll burn up three and a half calories, no joke.
In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23.
Most people don't know that I am currently making an "Average" of $115.00 dollars a monthfrom the two companies listed on this page, click their banners to learn more.
There are 293 ways to make changefor a dollar.
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
Talk is cheap compared to what it used to be, in 1915 a telephone call from New York to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes.
At 90' below zero your breath willfreeze in mid-air andfall to the ground.
Most people take an average of seven minutes tofall asleep.
Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all 17 of her children.
The tallest man in the world was 8'11" Robert Wadlow. He was just 22 when he died in 1949from an infectioncaused by leg braces he needed to keep him on hisfeet.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S. but technically it's number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congressforgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the union.
A squirrel lives about 9 years.
In 1885 the Home Insurance Company of Chicago was the tallest building in the world. It was only 9 stories tall.
Thefemale preying mantis devours her partner while their mating! Yikes!
Aflies tastebuds are on itsfeet.
"Wanted: Young, skinny, wiryfellows not over 18. Must be excellent riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages are $25.00 a week." This is a mid 1800's help wanted signfor the Pony Express.
An alligator can supposedly wolf down an eight pound chicken in one gulp.
The comic known as Peanuts was originally known as Li'lfolks.
In 1944,fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A lefthanded pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
Official studies havefound that right handed people tend to scratch with their left hand and visa-versa.
A cat has a normal body temperature of 101.5. A dog's is 101.
Bee'sflap their wings 300 times a second.
Reykjavik, Iceland is warmer than Chicago, Illinois in the winter.
John Wayne had an 18 inch neck.
According to an old Massachusettes law, your not allowed to shave while driving.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A parrot's vocabulary is generally no more than 20 words.
The dogfeatured on a box of Cracker Jacks name is Bingo, the little boy is Jack.
A U.S. backed government studyfound that pigs can become alcoholics.
An eyelash lives about 5 months.
The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German,french, Swedish and Portuguese.
The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,896 miles.
There's 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
There's 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year.
The 100 years war lasted 116 years.
There are 225 squares on a scrabble board.
53310761 was Elvis Presleys dog tag number.
A cows sweat glands are in it's nose.
The national anthem of Greece is 158 verses.
The World Trade Center towers in New York City have two zip codes, 10047-10048, onefor each building.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
Mozart never went to school.
Smokey The Bear's original name was Hotfoot Teddy.
Queen Elizabeth was an 18 year old mechanic in the English military.
The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.
In ancient China doctors would only receivefees if the patient stayed in good health. Sometimes if the patients health became to bad, the doctor had to pay them.
Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast.
We don't know if there's a Heaven on earth, but there is a Hell, it's a town in Norway.
After Custer's Last Stand, Sioux indian leader Chief Sitting Bull became an entertainer and toured the country with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Dirty snow meltsfaster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.
A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
An Elephant is not afraid of a mouse.
U.S. Patent number 3,593,345 was grantedfor the "Whisper Seat", a toilet seat with a soundproof lining so that noise won't be heard by others.
The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
The only person who's birthday is a legal holiday all across the U.S. is George Washington.
Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
Eli Whitney didn't do to great with the Cotton Gin but made out pretty good as a gun manuFacturer.
The Rollar Coaster was invented in the 17th century in Russia.
The human brain is 80% water.
Know what Mafia means? Morte Allafrancia Italia Anela "Death to the french is Italy's cry!"
An average pair offeet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.
The peacock is a male and thefemale a peahen.
Flamingo's can only eat with their head upside down.
Theres no single word to say "yes" or "no" in japanese.
Check this out, look at your keyboard, the only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters is "typewriter".
The Chinese only celebrate birthdays every ten years.
Theres more sweat glands on yourfeet than any other part of your body.
Did you know that African Elephants stay on theirfeetfor 30 to 40 years.
Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear outfaster on the rightfoot than the left.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivilant of three times around the world.
George Washington wore a size 13 shoe.
A hummingbird cant stand on it's ownfeet, they aren't strong enough. Hummingbirds can and often do stand on thierfeet. I have several hummingbirdfeeders and have wathced them land and stand while eating on a regular basis. for the longest time people only usedfeeders without perches because of this myth.
Yourfeet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.
In Pacific Grove, California City Ordinance No. 352 says it is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly.
The most popular namefor a male cat is "Tiger" afemale "Samantha".
folding money was invented by the Chinese, it was made of deerskin.
There are ten times as many sheep as people in Australia.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Did you know that clinophobia is thefear of beds.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Unless the windmills in Ireland.
The longest recordedflight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Poundfor pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Donald Duck's middle name isfauntleroy.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
Theflea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like human jumping the length of about 7footballfields.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
Isn't this crazy, on average peoplefear spiders more than they do death.
If you countedfor 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.
3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Most lipsticks containfish scales.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leatherfor a year's supply offootballs.
Starfish do not have brains.
Most dust particles in your house are made of dead skin.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but cannotfly.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
If you yelledfor over 8 and a half years, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5feet every hour.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
Polar bears are left handed.
Other than humans, pigs are the only animals who can get a sunburn.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider?
Baby robins eat 14feet of earthworms every day.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of timefor 1/100th of a second.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1for animal having the most taste buds.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
There is a city called Rome on every Continent.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
On male shirts the buttons are on the right side, onfemale shirts the left side.
Butterflies use theirfeet to taste things.
A shrimp's heart is located in it's head.
You use up 1/10th of a calorie when you lick a stamp.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Starfish have no brain.
The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.
In Bangladesh, people as young as 15 can be jailedfor cheating on theirfinals.
Thefemale preying mantis initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
A piece of dry paper can befolded no more than 7 times in half.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300feet long in just one night.
Over 1000 birds a year diefrom smashing into windows.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep youfrom crying.
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per hour.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.
A dog's heart beats 40 times a minutefaster than yours.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
In your lifetime your body will produce more thatn 25,000 quarts of saliva.
Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly, they never stop moving.
Alaska's coastline is longer than all the U.S. states coasts combined.
The tip of a whip makes a cracking noise becasue it movesfaster than the speed of sound.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
Julius Caeser's autograph is worth 2 million dollars, but one has not beenfound yet.
The only domestic animal that wasn't mentioned in the bible is a cat.
George Custar was the youngest man to ever become a general in the U.S. Army. He was 23 years old.
The average person will swallow 295 times while eating.
The only president to hold a Ph.D. was Woodrow Wilson.
The left bank of a river is the left side as you look downstream.
In the 1800's anyone in England who unsucessfully attempted suicidefaced the death penalty.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees tofall down.
Greenland is the largest island in the world.
The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hairfrom their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
The state offlorida is bigger than England.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States calledfranklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killedfrom using products madefor right handed people.
Porcupinesfloat in water.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
There are more plasticflamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
In Tokyo, they sell toupeesfor dogs.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.
Did you know the webmaster of this site is broke and you can help him by visiting one of his sponsors.
Thefirst toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The only word with all the vowels listed in order isfacetiously.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
Donald Duck comics were bannedfromfinland because he doesn't wear pants.
Pinocchio is Italianfor "pine head".
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselvesfrom blowing sand.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds offood.
Likefingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanastan.
The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.
In the Christmas carol 'Twelve Days of Christmas,' the total number of gifts that 'my true love gave to me' is 364.
Wilmaflinstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
The words ''stewardesses'' and ''reverberated'' are the longest words (12 letters) typed with only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is, ''lollipop.''
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
Skepticism is the longest word that alternates hands when your typing.
Taphephobia is thefear of being buried alive.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see allfourfeet at all times.
Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
In a deck of cards, allfour Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.
The elephant is the only animal withfour knees.
If Barbie (the doll) was life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
Barbie’s (the doll)full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The only U.S. city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu, Hawaii.
The sentence "The quick brownfox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough tofit a 4foot tall child inside.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cantfind anyfood.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.Vfor 3 hours.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the U.S.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
You gain less caloriesfrom eating celery than you use up chewing it.
If you take one pound of cob webs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.
Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it'sfur.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can'tflow.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, silver, and month.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
If you were to lay every vein, artery and capillary in a humans body end to end, that person would probably die! hehehe, smile, your almost half way through all theFacts.
Aforfeited game in baseball is recorded as 9-0.
In 1921 76 inches of snowfell over Silver Lake, Colorodo, the heaviest snowfall ever recorded.
Only thefemale misquito bites, the male does not.
U.S. Patent # 3,477,070. The Toilet Lid Lock, to prevent unauthorized access to the toilet.
Golfballs can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
A secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Pluto (the dogfrom Disney) was originally called "Rover".
"Dixie" which was a popular song among the Confederates during the Civil War, was written by a Northerner named Dam Emmett.
Afemale African Elephant can be pregnantfor almost 2 years.
Thefirt person to be born in the U.S. and become president was Martin Van Buren
One cord of wood can make 7 and a half million toothpicks.
Right now, this very second, 70% of the people driving on U.S. highways are speeding.
It takes light 8 minutes to travelfrom the sun.
M&M's standsfor the names offorrest Mars, Sr., the candymaker and his associate Bruce Murrie.
In China, the bride wears red.
A cow can give 100 quarts of milk per week.
The veryfirst dictionary "The American" took Noah Webster 20 years to put together.
Theres only one mobile U.S. national monument, thats the cable cars in Sanfransisco.
The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
Elvis Presley had a reading chair in his bathroom.
Until 1936 in New York, it was against the law to wear topless baithing suits,for women and men.
The world's biggest clam weighs almost 500 pounds.
East Chicago is a town in India.
The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to 1.
In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's), and nonannouncement (six n's)
In the 1800's an Eggplant was known as a "mad apple" and believed to be poisonous.
"Jack" is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has 300.
Thefirst minimum wage to be established in America was 25 cents an hour, it was in 1938.
More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases.
The Tokyo Zoo, located in Japan, closes downfor two months every year to give the animals a little breakfrom the people.
Alaska doesn't have any counties.
Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.
On July 4, 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson passed away.
Calvin Coolidge is the only president born on July 4th, in 1872.
Macaroni was the name of the pony that Caroline Kennedy used to ride on teh grounds of the White House.
The only man to ever be President and Vice-President but never be elected to either was Geraldford.
George Washington's salary as President was $25,000 a year.
You must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. and a citizenfor at least 14 years and be 35 years of age before you can runfor President.
In 1841, the 8th 9th and 10th presidents served in office they were Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
7% of Americans don't know thefirst 9 words of the American anthem, but know thefirst 7 of the Canadian anthem.
5% of Canadians don't know thefirst 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know thefirst 9 of the American anthem.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
Only male turkeys (Toms) gobble,females make a clicking noise.
The longest word in the English language is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' - which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similarfine dust.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of ''Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom."
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccupsfor 69 years.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives,forks and spoons.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal adsfor dating are already married.
People use 200 muscles when they walk.
Scientists have identified and described about 1.4 million species of an estimated ten to 100 million on earth.
Turkeys will peck to death members of theflock that are physically inferior or different.
In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.
By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.
The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly twofeet wide.
female mosquitoesflap their wings nearly 500 times per second.
Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they'll sink.
Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells.
The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.Sfor three years.
There was a person that paid $14,000for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
Poundfor pound (kilofor kilo), hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The world's longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg)
On average, each american ate 4.4 pounds of jelly last year.
A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
Cats can make over 1,000 different vocal sounds, and dogs can make only about 10.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
Over 1000 birds a year diefrom smashing into windows.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000.
for thefirst time, the number of pet cats in the US now outnumbers the number of dogs, 60 million vs. 50 million.
There are more collect calls onfather's Day than any other day of the year.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of petfood a year.
There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
? Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olivefrom each salad served infirst class: $40,000.
Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comesfrom the sale of vodka.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to lookfor water.
A newborn kangaroo is small enough tofit into a teaspoon.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements. Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? Why are thereflotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes? If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they get TEFLON to stick to the pan? Why do all boxes say "open here", why can't you open it when your somewhere else? Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo? You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance? Why is it that when you're driving and lookingfor an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
Captain Kangaroo wonfive Emmy awards.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
An estimated one infive Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
In Miami,florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodlesfrom rooftop patios.
A living tree never stops growing.
On average, people spend more thanfive years of their lives dreaming.
An anteater sticks its tongue in and out 100 times per minute to slurp up itsfood.
The world'sfastest-growing plant is the giant water lily, which grows almost afoot a day.
A banana is about 75 percent water.
The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph-10 timesfaster than a strong Earth hurricane.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans: seven.
The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.
More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust-even if it's buried in the groundfor thousands of years.
The word electricity derivesfrom the Greek word 'elektron' meaning amber. The Greeks noted that rubbing amber produced a static charge.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
A leech can drink up to eight time its weight in blood at one sitting.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due tofalling space dust.
Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auctionfor $6,600 in 1992.
When snakes are born with two heads, theyfight each otherforfood.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
There is a canyon on Mars that would stretchfrom New York to Sanfrancisco.
footprints astronauts make on the moon will remainfor millions of years: there's no wind to blow them away.
Some yak's milk is pink.
When baby giraffes are born, they drop sixfeet to the ground and land on their heads.
White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across.
Each day, 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped intofresh Kills, NY-the largest landfill in the world.
Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.
Pain signals travel along hour nerves at 50feet per second.
Scientists estimate up to 20 percent of the world's plant and animal species may be extinct by the year 2000.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
Most stars shinefor at least 10 billion years.
Thefastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
The poison-arrowfrog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The United States National Anthem is the only anthem in the world that doesn't have the name of the country in it.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers'firstflight.
The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulbforfive hours.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Quebec is the world's leading exporter of asbestos.
An eagle can kill a young deer andfly away with it.
Certainfrogs can befrozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Thefirst product to have a UPC bar code on its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Coca-cola was originally green.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.
Sunglasses became popular in the 1920's when movie stars began wearing them to cut the camera's bright lights.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workersfor betting on when patients would die.
five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old.
If you weighed all the earthworms in the U.S, they'd be about 55 times heavier than the combined weight of all Americans.
An elephant's trunk can hold two gallons of water.
Saturn isn't the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
Track athletes are most likely to break records later in the day, when their body temperatures are highest.
The pouch under a pelican's bill holds up to 25 pounds offish and water.
According to the World Heath Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
Giraffes have no vocal chords.
The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than most elephants.
"I do." and "I am." are the shortest complete sentences in the English language.
Your body has over 40 miles of nerves.
A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one time.
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water tablefor human consumption.
In 1995, Toys R Us sold more than $9 billion of goods in the U.S. alone.
Bubonic plague killed millions of people throughout Europe in the Dark Ages. In 1996,five cases of plague were reported in the U.S.
More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each yearforfolk medicinal purposes. The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.
Some kids in Texas have the longest school bus ride in the U.S.-179 miles round trip.
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
One million people now have lap top computers.
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.
The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator infeet.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
Dogs sweat through their paw pads.
Sigmundfreud had a largefear offerns.
A hummingbird's heart beats 1,260 times per minute.
The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks-some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
Cows can smell odors six miles away.
Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid.
The Galileo spacecraft traveled to Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 mph-fast enough to cross the U.S. in 85 seconds.
Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
The saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than one inch in it'sfirst 10 years.
flamingos lay their eggs on top of volcano-shaped nests made of mud.
The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day-that's about 2 1/2 years of your life down the drain.
Over 10 million Indonesians are boy scouts.
David Prouse (the man inside the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars) spoke all of his lines in thefirst movie. He did not know that his voice was being dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones until he saw thefinished movie.
In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.
Given sufficient amounts of chocolate candies, pigs can master video game skills, and performfar better than dogs.
Astronaut Shannon Lucis spent 188 days in a row in space-that's the American record.
Rafflesiaflowers attract pollinatingflies by looking and smelling like rotten meat.
Rockets werefirst made by the Chinese more than 750 years ago.
In Australia, a hurricane is called a willy-willy.
The eyes of a giant squid can be up to 15 inches across.
On average, humans have 9,000 taste buds in their mouths, tongues, and throats.
The digestive track in a person's body is about 30feet long.
Easily, More than one Thousand Earths couldfit inside the sun.
Gum on postage stamps havefrom two to eight calories.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds offood, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Alcoholics are twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor, say researchers in Wisconsin.
In Victorian times, estate gardeners never planted grape vines withoutfirst burying a dead donkey underneath the plot.
Desperate to increase veggie intake among children in Britain, researchers have developed chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and baked-beanflavored peas.
The Christmas holidays are the busiest time in plastic surgeons offices. The average "facelift" will set you back about $4156.00.
Horses can sleep standing up.
Spokane, WA, is the top soup-eating town in the U.S. On average, each household eats about 25 cans per year.
The world's largestflower is the Rafflesia arnoldi. It can grow to the size of an umbrella.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
The world recordfor passing gas was set on Japanese television, 3,000 times in a row.
Good newsfor skunk lovers- an Illinois company is now manuFacturing "Eau de Pew" a perfume createdfrom diluted skunk scent.
Americans spendfive BILLION dollars a year on giftsfor their pets. Asidefrom dogs and cats, some 40% of birds and 48% of hamsters are on gifts lists.
In a year, the average American walksfour miles making his or her bed.
Over 98 percent of Japanese are cremated after they die.
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and thenforget where they hid them.
Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever; Dumbest dog: Afghan
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselvesfrom blowing sand.
Penguins can jump as high as 6feet in the air.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virginfemale gypsy mothfrom 1.8 miles away.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripedfur.
Police in Hong Kong stopped a man because he seemed to be 'oddly shaped'. He wasfound to be wearing 18 bras and 45 pairs of ladies' panties.
Every three days, you body makes a new liningfor your stomach.
An actual sign in a Japanese hotel room: Please bathe inside the tub.
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
Kermit thefrog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The moon moves about two inches awayfrom the Earth each year.
During your lifetime, you will shed about 40 pounds of skin.
The longest recordedflight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Glasses have been wornfor about 700 years.
It's estimated that more than 6 billion copies of the bible have been printed.
The largest iceberg everfound was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That's bigger than Massachusetts.
The average one-dollar bill wears out in less than two years.
The human body produces more than a pint of sweat each day.
Ice-cream cones werefirst served in 1904 at the world'sfair in St. Louis, MO.
About 300 years ago, people used toothbrushes madefrom hog bristles.
The hurricane plant has holes in its leaves, which keep itfrom being destroyed by wind.
The canopy of a rainforest is so thick, only one percent of sunlight reaches the ground.
Cockroaches can survive underwaterfor up to 15 minutes.
People began surfing in Hawaii before Columbus sailed to America.
A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.
In most advertisements the time displayed on an analog watch is 10:10.
There are almost 2 billion Christians in the world, about a billion Muslims, 800 million Hindus, 300 million Buddhists, and 14 million Jews.
Since the successful launch of space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-90 there have been more crickets in space than humans.
Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year.
5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year.
On average, one heartbeat pumpsfive tablespoons of blood.
It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day-most are no bigger than a speck of dust.
Each day, about 40 million Americans eat peanut butter.
The Venusflytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to run your TVfor three hours.
California condors canfly 10 miles withoutflapping their wings.
Seventy-five percent of house dust is dead skin cells.
The average human brain weighs three pounds.
During the Middle Ages, people used spider webs to try to cure warts.
After bananas, a zoo gorilla'sfavoritefood is celery.
More types offish swim in Brazil's Amazon River than in the entire Alantic Ocean.
They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
The ostrich yolk is the largest single cell in the world.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because cow's knees can't bend properly to walk back down.
Rhinos are in the samefamily as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass outfrom sheer terror.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
Jupiter's core is inFact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter the core has become a metal. This metal is hydrogen.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed tofly its stateflag at the same height as the U.S.flag.
Pamela Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being thefirst baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two Canadian provinces which do not allow personalized license plates.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
Hong Kong has just taken overtaken Tokyo as the world's most expensive city. US cities don't even make the list till number 21 (New York).
Triton, a moon of Neptune, is the coldest known place in our solar system. Its surface is 391 degressf. below zero.
fingernails grow nearly 4 timesfaster than toenails.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkeyfromfoil packets at theirfirst meal on the moon.
Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
The liver performs more than 500 differentfunctions, including storing vitamins and removing harmful chemicalsfrom the blood.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.
Americans eat close to 10 billion donuts every year.
A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order tofall down.
Afullgrown bear can run asfast as a horse.
Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia, schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss.
Researchers recently sprouted a lotus seed known to be 1,288 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated.
There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a homefor two weeks.
Japanese lead the world in vending machines, selling $100 Armani ties, $30 bottles of whiskey, and $5 glasses of beer, right next to soft drink machines. It is possible because of low vandalism and petty theft.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with "rejoice."
In 1848, Niagarafalls stoppedflowingfor 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River.
National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lastedfor six months and caused schools to be closed.
HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, can survive and remain infectiousfor up tofour days in the lubricants of certain medical and dental devices.
The estimated value of services provided by the global ecosystem (water,food, materials etc.) runs between $16 and $54 trillion per year.
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo".
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
The sun is 90,000,000 miles from the earth.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
The first American to have indoor plumbing was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1840.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung used by ancient Egyptians in 2000 BC.
In 1980 the yellow pages listed a TX funeral Home under "frozen foods".
The first sound recording ever made: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1877
Genghis Khan's cavalry rode female horses so soldiers could drink their milk
On an average day 102 people visit the Dr. Pepper museum in Waco TX
In Cleveland OH it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license
The largest painting on earth is a 72437 sq.ft smiley face
There are 2 places on earth where white men outlive women: southern Asia and Iran.
The word 'condom' comes from Dr. Charles Condom (1630 - 1685)
Gorillas stick their tongues out when angry
The heaviest dog on record was a St. Bernard weighing 310 lbs
According to Playboy Magazine, 99% of all cat and dog owners talk to their pets
Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capital than any other nation
3000 of every 3001 calico kittens are female
Only 1/3 of all "Gilligan's Island" episodes are about getting off the island
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
According to tradition, it's bad luck to say 'Macbeth' in a theater
The average caterpillar has 2000 muscles. The average human has 700.
Russia's best selling candy bar: Snickers
Top Six reasons for being late for work: 1) traffic. 2) oversleeping. 3) procrastination. 4) Chores. 5) Car Trouble. 6) Having Sex.
Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not down
54% of Americansfold toilet paper neatly. 35% wad it.
Charles Dickens sleptfacing North. He thought it improved his writing.
Men get hiccups more often than women do.
The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.
The average American spends six months at red lights.
The average adult male shaves off 1 lb of beard per year.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that pawed?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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