"60 Minutes" on CBS is the only TV show without a theme song
"All in the Family" was the #1 TV show in America from 1972-1976
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
"Duct Tape" was originally named "Duck Tape" because of its ability to repel water
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison
"Pennsylvania" is missing an "n" and thus misspelled on the Liberty Bell
"Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia" is the technical term for an ice cream headache
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue
1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks
3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population
3.5% of the oceans is dissolved salt
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled
40 degrees below zero is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
40% of all people at a party snoop in the medicine cabinet
50 million bacteria could be contained in single drop of liquid
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses
7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood
90 percent of the population has an "innie" belly button
90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants
97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
A & W root beer takes its name from the last names of business partners Roy Allen and Frank Wright
A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight
A Fortnight is a period of 14 days
A Funambulist is the proper term for a circus tight rope walker
A McDonald's drinking straw holds 7.7 ml (over 1.5 teaspoons) of fluid
A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible combinations
A Swiss scientist named A. E. Fick invented contact lenses in 1887
A Tyrannosaurus Rex can yield about 450 gallons of gasoline
A U.S. Quarter has 119 grooves on its circumference. A dime has 118 grooves
A baby kangaroo is only on inch long
A baby whale gains about 200 pounds a day
A bag of 1,000 quarters weighs 13.42 lbs
A boomerang will return to the thrower even in space
A butterfly lives for about 6 months
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
A catfish has approximately 100,000 taste buds
A coat hanger is 44 inches (111.76 cm) long when straightened
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
A cubic mile of seawater contains over 150 million tons of minerals
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
A dragonfly can fly backwards just as fast as it can forwards
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
A dragonfly, the fastest flying insect, can move up to 35 mph
A duck's quack doesn't echo
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
A fingernail or toenail takes about six months to a year to grow from base to tip
A full moon always rises at sunset
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
A gorilla lives to about 40 years of age
A gorilla will stick its tongue out when angry
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside
A honey bee dies after it stings
A human can not kiss his elbow with his lips
A human finger nail grows approximately 2 yards in a lifetime
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine
A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet. (The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.)
A person produces about half a liter of farts a day
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day
A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will (on average) lose two teeth every 10 years
A person's sense of smell is the first to go
A pidgeon produces about 25 lbs of droppings per year
A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of rocks
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove
A queen honeybee lives for about 7 years
A regular hen's egg has about 7,000 tiny pores in its shell
A regulation soccer game is 90 minutes
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
A shark lives for about 100 years
A shrimp's heart is in their head
A single molecule of human DNA could stretch to over 3 feet (.9 m) long
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away
A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle
A snail can sleep for three years
A sneeze leaves your mouth at over 600 mph
A submarine was used in the American Revolution
A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds
A ten-gallon hat holds about three-fourths of a gallon (2.85 liters)
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood
A wainwright is someone who fixes wagons
A wild turkey can fly at a speed of 35 mph
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30
About 90% of Americans view themselves as being shy
Abraham Lincoln appears on both sides of a US penny
According to Guiness, an Arkansas boy grew a 260-lb watermelon in 1985
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction
Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the Civil War
Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner
Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938
Afghanistan and Azerbaijan are the only two nations that begin with an "A" but don't end with an "A"
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, is the oldest university in the world, founded in 969 AD
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel
Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life
Alfred Hitchcock had no bellybutton
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
All plant life contains calcium, sulfur, magnesium, carbon dioxide, phosphorus, and other trace elements
All polar bears are left-handed
All porcupines float in water
All race horses become one year older on New Year's Day, no matter when they were born
Almonds are members of the peach family
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada
Although they won't admit it, women fart as much as men
America's first minimum wage began at 25 cents an hour back in 1938
America's first pizzeria opened in New York City in 1895
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
An African ostrich egg weighs about 30 pounds
An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic
An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet
An average ball point pen can write a line 2 miles (3.2 km) long
An average elephant lives for about 55 years
An average lion lives for 25 years
An average parrot lives for 120 years
An average person uses the bathroom six times per day
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards
An eyelash lasts 150 days
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
An item must contain 92.5% silver to be considered "sterling silver"
An octupus has 3 hearts
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
Anableps are four-eyed fish living in rivers in Central and South America
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world at 3,212 feet (979 meters)
Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving
Antarctica doubles in size every winter
Ants may live up to 16 years
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid
Approximately two gallons of water are used to brush your teeth
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
Armadillos jump straight up in the air when surprised, which is why so many die from being run over by cars
Arnold Palmer was the first player to win $1 million on the PGA Tour
Atomic bombs release 50% energy as blast, 35% as heat and 15% as nuclear radiation
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool, He changed it every 2 innings
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's
Basketball was invented in the United States in 1891
Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902
Beavers front teeth have a tough orange coating that protects them from being broken or chipped while cutting wood
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster
Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo
Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair
Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general and appeared on the first 5 cent stamp issued in 1847
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first
Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60
Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer
Black-eyed peas are seeds of the tropical vine Vigna Sinensis
Blood is six times thicker than water
Blue Laws, which regulate personal and public conduct on Sunday, got their name because they were originally printed on blue paper
Blueberries have more antioxidents than any other fruit or vegetables
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan
Bottled water costs about 1,000 times more than tap water
Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians
Broccoli has twice as much Vitamin C as an orange
Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves
Brussel sprouts were discovered in Brussels
Brylcreem, which was created in 1929, was the first man's hair product
Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, but was allergic to the silver body paint
Bugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit."
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women
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
Butterflies taste with their feet
By age 60, most people have lost half their taste buds
By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved
By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle
By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in a year
Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant
Camel's milk does not curdle
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal
Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world
Cat urine glows under a black-light
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight
Cats can hear ultrasound
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
Cats sleep between 14 and 16 hours a day
Centipedes don't have 100 legs
Charles Manson and Hitler were both vegetarians
Charlie Brown's father was a barber
Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
Chicago has the largest cookie factory, where Nabisco made over 4.6 billion "Oreo" cookies in 1997
Children grow faster in the springtime
China has more English speakers than the United States
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne
Cinnamon is the bark of the tree Cinnamomum
Cleopatra married her brother
Clinophobia is the fear of beds
Clouds fly higher during the day than at night
Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903
Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy"
Coca-Cola was originally green
Coca-cola was originally sold as a brain tonic
Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church
Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans
Conception occurs more often in December than any other month
Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne
Coral reefs constitute less than 1% of the oceans' space, but are home to about 25% of the oceans' fish
Correction fluid was created by the mother of Monkee, Mike Nesmith
Cows don't have upper front teeth
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA was discovered in 1869 by Johan Friederich Miescher
Dalmatians are born without spots
Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
Deolpur, India is the only place in the world where wooden polo balls are made
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow
Doctors in ancient China were paid when patients were healthy, not sick
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
Dolphins and Humans are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure
Dolphins live for about 25 years
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
Due to Plate Tectonics, Europe and North America are drifting apart at the same speed a human finger nail grows
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size
During pregnancy, the uterus can increase up to 200 times it normal volume
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants
Each honeycomb in Honeycomb cereal has seven holes
Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide
Eagles live for about 40 years
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all
Egyptian pyramid builders used to eat a lot of garlic because they thought it would increase their strength
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded
Einstein never learned how to drive a car
Electric eels are capable of emitting a discharge of 600 volts
Elephant trunks hold up to 1 1/2 gallons of liquid
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else
Emus cannot walk backwards
England is smaller than New England
Eric Clapton's given birth name was Patrick Clapp
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
Every major world cuisine has a form of crepe
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells
Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining
Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
Excess gas in the intestinal is medically termed "flatulence."
Exobiology is the study of extraterrestrial life
Farts are created mostly by E. coli
Farts are flammable
Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days
Female hyenas have a pseudo penis
Fingernails are made of a protein called Keratin
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down
Flashlights got their name because early batteries had such a short life, they were flashed on and off to conserve energy
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave
Food takes twenty-four hours to complete its 30-foot path through your body
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be appear on television. April 30, 1939
Fresh water weighs approximately 8.4 pounds per gallon
Frogs can breathe through their skin
Frogs don't drink water
Geckos don't have eyelids. They lick their eyes with their tongue to clean them
German chocolate cake isn't German
Giant tortoises live to be 200 years old
Giraffes have no vocal cords
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt
Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong
Holes in a golf course must be 4.25 inches in diameter, and at least 4 inches deep
Honey is used as a center for golf balls
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace
Howie Mandel was the voice of Gizmo in the movie Gremlins
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year
Hummingbirds can fly backwards
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny
Humpback whales are capable of living up to 95 years
Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" in the film Casablanca
Humpty Dumpty was a cannon
Ice is a mineral
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion
If you eat enough carrots, your skin will eventually turn orange
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar
If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
If your body temperature was 86 degrees, you could live to be 200
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money
In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar
In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago
In 1916, Charlie Chaplin was making $10,000 a week, making him the highest paid actor of his time
In 1929, a postage stamp was only 2 cents
In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was "The Pause That Refreshes."
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club
In 1952, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head
In 1980, Saddam Hussein received a key to the city of Detroit
In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds
In 1986, the program "Wheel of Fortune" earned of $100,000,000
In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland
In 1988, Michael Jackson earned an estimated $60,000,000
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds
In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals
In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license
In December 1961, it was discovered that a painting by Matisse in New York's Museum of Modern Art was hanging upside down
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs
In Iceland, sheep outnumber people three to one
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs
In Washington D.C., no building can be taller than the capitol
In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times
In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes
In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces
In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems
In the 1977 movie "Star Wars," actress Jodie Foster was George Lucas' second choice to play the part of Princess Leia
In the United States, six tubs of Cool Whip, a brand of whipping cream, are sold every second
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter"
In the year 2160, there will be two lunar eclipses and five solar eclipses
India has a Bill of Rights for cows
Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
Insects have six legs
Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have book in every Dewey-decimal category
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents
It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States
It is a myth that the hair and nails grow after death; the surrounding skin shrinks, giving the illusion of their growth
It is considered an insult to tip at a restaurant in Iceland
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
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
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona
It is illegal to lick toads in Arizona
It is impossible (for most people) to lick your elbow
It is not possible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
It is possible for hot water to freeze faster than cold water
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off
It takes 30 gallons of maple sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound
It takes about 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace"
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas
It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't let his drivers make left turns
James Knox Polk, the 11th U.S. President, died of chronic diarrhea
Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese
Kazakhstan is largest landlocked country in the world
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser
Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830's it was sold as Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
King Edward II and King Henry forbade football because it had become too popular
Koala means "no drink" in the Aborigine language
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages during World War I
Lachrymatory-factor synthase in onions is what makes you cry
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of Helen on the TV sitcom "The Jeffersons."
Leonard Da Vinci invented scissors
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his scientific notes backwards
Levi's were invented for the California gold miners in 1873
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
Like a cow, an elk has four stomachs
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son
Lloro, Colombia averages 523.6 inches (1,323 cm) of rainfall a year
Louis Pasteur was a germophobe
Lyme Disease is named after Lyme Connecticut where it was first recognized in 1975, NOT the fruit
M&M's were introduced in 1940 for U.S. soldiers, so their hands would not get sticky
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
Malcolm X's real name is Malcolm Little
Man is the only animal that sleeps on its back
Manhole covers are round so that they don't fall in the hole
Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years
Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time
Marilyn Monroe had six toes
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot
Mark Twain, born on a year Halley's Comet visited Earth, correctly predicted he would die the next time it came by
Martha Washington was the first American woman to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. (1902)
Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars
May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months
Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking
Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear and smell better
Mercaptan in asparagus is what causes urine to smell
Mercury is the only metal liquid at room temperature
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
Milk and cheese can aid in the reduction of tooth decay
Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", actually has 11,842 lakes
Minnows have teeth in their throat
Missouri and Tennessee are both bordered by 8 states
Monarch butterflies migrate over 2,000 miles for the Winter
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call
More than 75 different kinds of bacteria are found in human feces
Morphine is named after the Greek god of sleep
Mosquitoes have teeth
Mosquitos are responsible for the most human deaths due to the many diseases they carry
Most American's car horns beep in the key of "F"
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale
Most lipstick contains fish scales
Most soccer balls have 32 panels
Mount Everest in Nepal is the largest mountain at 29,035 feet (8,850 meters)
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister
Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador supports the only glacier on the equator
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants
Native Americans all have type O blood
Nearly 50% of the earth's surface is covered by the Pacific Ocean
Nearly 90% of American teens used the Internet in 2005
Nearly 90% of food's flavor comes from its smell
Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout
Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics
New Jersey and Oregon are the only two states where it is illegal to pump your own gas
New York was the last state to put photographs on driver's licenses in 1984
Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
No where in the state of Michigan is a person more than six miles from water
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
Non-dairy creamer is flammable
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints
Nurses and doctors wash their hands between patients less than one-third of the time
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older
Ocean water must reach a temperature of 82 degrees Fahrenheit for a hurricane to form
Odd-numbered highways generally run North/South, and even-numbered highways run East/West
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth
Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime
On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun
On average, there are about 100 lightning strikes every second worldwide
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year
One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television
One out of 20 people have an extra rib
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen
Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
Only the honey bee makes honey
Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission
Orchids are named from the Greek word for testicles (orchis) because of the resemblance of their bulbs to a man's testes
Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand
Ostriches measure up to nine feet from head to feet, and weigh as much as 350 pounds
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
Over 40% of the women in the U.S. have been a Girl Scout
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
Paper money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton
Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw
Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
Pearls melt in vinegar
Penguins can jump 6 feet high
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water
People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke
Pepperoni is America's favorite pizza topping
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
Peter the Great made shaving mandatory by law in 1705
Phrenology is the study of bumps on the head
Pigs can get a suntan
Pigs don't sweat
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
Pirates thought that wearing an earring in a pierced ear improved their eyesight
Plaque begins reforming 6 hours after brushing your teeth
Plastic surgery in one of the oldest types of surgery performed
Porcupines cannot shoot their quills
Porcupines float in water
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute
Pretzel snacks have been around for over 1300 years. A European monk invented the snack using used leftover bread dough
Pretzels without salt are called "baldies."
Prior to 1791, the U.S. Capitol was located in Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Annapolis, Princeton, Trenton, and New York City
Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour
Puffer fish can be poisonous to eat if not prepared properly
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
Queen Elizabeth I owned at least 100 wigs in her lifetime
Queen Isabella of Spain was the first woman to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. (1893)
Queen Victoria appeared on the very first postage stamp, known as the "Penny Black", issued in 1840 in the United Kingdom
Queen and worker ants of some species are known to live longer than 15 years
Rabbits are not rodents
Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lifshitz
Rapper Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson
Rats and horses can't vomit
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
Rattlesnakes live for about 19 years
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours
Red blood cells do not contain a nucleus
Regalation is the process that allows ice to refreeze
Reindeer like to eat bananas
Reno, Nevada is further West than Los Angeles, California
Rice paper does not have any rice in it
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
Russia is the largest country at 17,075,400 square miles
SCUBA is an acronym for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Saint Patrick was not Irish
Saint Patrick's birth and death dates are unknown
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969
Scooby Doo's first name is Scoobert
Sea scallops are hermaphroditic
Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee
Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'
Shark cartilage has been used to make artificial skin for human burn victims
Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink
Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents for her 8th birthday
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution
Shultz is the most common last name in Germany
Since 1886, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every games
Siphonapterology is the study of fleas
Sitting too close to the TV will not ruin your eyesight
Skunks eat bees
Slugs have 4 noses
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight
Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down
Some lions mate over 50 times a day
Some of the titles that were considered for the hit T.V. show "Friends" were Six Of One, Across the Hall, and Insomnia Cafe
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
Some species of penguins can dive 90 feet underwater, and hold their breath for 20 minutes
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air
Standard pencils write on average 250,000 English words or a 35 mile (56 km) long line
Starfish don't have brains
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards
Strudel comes from a German word for whirlpool
Studies indicate that epileptic patients that listen to Mozart's Piano Sonata can dramatically decrease their chance of a seizure
Summers on Uranus are 21 Earth-years long
Swallowed gum is not digested by the gastrointestinal system, it usually passes through within 24 hours
Swedish fish are neither
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only in one row of the keyboard
Tapeworms can grow to 80 feet long
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive
Tarantula spiders can live for over two years without eating
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka
Termites are the largest producers of farts
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag
The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange
The "f" word is used 246 times in the movie Goodfellas
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had
The Archer Fish spits at bugs up to 6 feet away to knock them into the water to eat
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth
The Basenji, an African dog, is the only dog that does not bark
The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world
The Chameleon's tongue is longer than its body
The Cleveland Indians baseball team used to be called the Cleveland Spiders
The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages
The Collared Lizard can run on its two hind legs
The Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper
The Dromedary camel has one hump, and the Bactrian camel has two
The ENIAC computer of 1945 is an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
The Eiffel tower can vary six inches in height depending on the temperature
The Empire State Building bas 6,400 windows
The Flamingo gets its pink color from food high in alpha and beta-carotene
The Frogfish can expand the volume of its mouth by 12 times in less than six-thousandths of a second, making it one of the fastest feeding vertebrates known to science
The Galapagos Islands are the only place on the equator where both penguins and fur seals can be found
The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting
The Great Lakes can be remembered using the acronym HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
The Hellbender salamander can achieve a length of 2 feet (.61 meters)
The Hippopotamus kills more people than any other African mammal
The LaCoste shirt is named after French tennis star Rene LaCoste, Davis Cup winner in 1927
The Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest part of the oceans at 11,033 meters (36,201 feet) below sea level
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day
The Pistol Shrimp "shoots" water and sound from its pincher to stun its prey
The Pitohui, a bird from New Guinea, has poisonous skin and feathers
The Popsicle was invented by 11 year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left his drink outside with a stir stick in it and he noticed that it had frozen. He applied for a patent in 1923 and named it "Epsicle." The name was later changed to Popsicle
The Portuguese Man-of-War, a jellyfish like creature, has tentacles that may be more than 30m (about 100 ft) long
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children
The Road Runner is a bird that can run up to 17 mph
The Roman emperor Caligula once made his horse a senator
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world at 3,500,000 square miles
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monuments
The Sand Swimmer snake swims through loose sand like water
The Skin is the largest organ of the body
The Soap Beetle washes itself with hydrogen peroxide which it secretes from glands behind it eyes
The TV dinner was introduced in 1954
The TV show Doctor Who, when it was popular, had an audience of 110 million people
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally entitled Headcheese, but was changed at the last minute
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps
The United States bought Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 in 1867. (about two cents an acre)
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used
The Velvet Worm fires lassos of glue up to 3 feet to ensnare insect prey
The West Edmonton Mall is the World's largest mall at 5.3 million square feet (493,000 sq. meters)
The White House was originally gray. The mansion was burned during the War of 1812. When it was rebuilt after the war, it was painted white to hide the smoke stains
The Yo-Yo was invented in ancient Greece over 3,000 years ago
The ZIP in the postal ZIP code stands for Zoning Improvement Program
The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child
The acid in a vulture's stomach can dissolve a nail
The age of a fish can be determined by the number of growth rings on its scales
The age of a horse can be determined by examining its teeth
The albatross can fly while sleeping
The amount of uranium in the A-bomb was only about the size of a baseball
The anaconda it the largest living snake
The ancient Egyptians invented bowling as far back as 5200 BC
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame."
The area between your nose and mouth with the two vertical lines is called the "philtrum."
The artist Michelangelo's full name in Italian is Michaelangelo di Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarroto Simoni
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds
The average American eats 23 quarts (21.8 liters) of ice cream a year
The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day
The average human eats eight bugs or spiders in their lifetime while sleeping
The average human eyelash lives about 150 days
The average human head weighs about eight pounds
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs
The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
The average lifespan of a human taste bud is ten days
The average married woman in seventeenth-century America gave birth to thirteen children
The average number of people airborne over the U.S. any given hour: 61,000
The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
The average person laughs 13 times a day
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
The average speed of a man's orgasm is 28 MPH
The average weight of a bunch of bananas is about 25 pounds
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
The bark of the Willow tree was the original source for making aspirin
The basket starfish has more than 80,000 arms
The biggest candy eaters are the Dutch, who average 65 pounds of candy per person in a year
The biggest clams in the world weigh 500 pounds and make pearls as big as golf balls
The biggest fish is the whale shark
The biggest known pumpkin in history weighed almost 700 pounds
The biggest recorded bubble ever blown with bubble gum was 22 inches in diameter
The black bulldog ant of Australia can kill a person
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice
The capybara is the largest living rodent
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
The city of Pittsburgh, USA is the world's leading center for organ transplantation
The condom is named for Dr. Charles Condom (1630-1685)
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The creosote bush can live for thousands of years
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
The diesel engine was named after German engineer Rudolf Diesel who invented it in the 1890s
The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is nearly 3,700 miles (5,955 kilometers)
The distance from the surface of the Earth to its core is 3,959 miles
The dot over the letter "i" is called a Tittle
The driest place on earth is Arica, Chile
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump
The elephant is the only animal that has 4 knees
The fastest animal on earth is the peregrine falcon clocked at over 180 mph (290 km/hr)
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines
The first beer can was used by Krueger Beer, and introduced in 1935
The first bra was created by a French designer in 1902
The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men
The first city in history to boast a million inhabitants was London, in 1811
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914
The first continental phone call occurred in 1915 between New York and San Francisco
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
The first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey, in June 1933
The first electronic computer was built in 1889 for the U.S. Census Bureau
The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress Candace Bergen
The first heart transplant took place on December 3, 1967
The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer
The first pay phone was installed in a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
The first scheduled TV broadcast, in 1931, featured George Gershwin and Kate Smith
The first shopping center was built in Baltimore, MD, in 1896
The first sound recording ever made was "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in 1877 by Tom Edison
The first sperm banks opened in 1964 in Tokyo and Iowa City
The first stereo record went on the market in 1958
The first stewardesses were on United Airlines in 1930, and had to be registered nurses
The first television broadcast of the Oscars took place in 1953, hosted by Bob Hope on NBC
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver"
The first transatlantic cable was laid in 1858 between Newfoundland and Ireland
The flower Rafflesia Arnoldi can measure up to three feet (.9 m) across and weigh as much as 15 pounds (6.8 kg)
The flu was first described by Hippocrates in 412 BC
The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash
The genes of any two people are 99.9% the same
The geographical center of the North American continent is Rugby, North Dakota
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
The giant squid has the largest eyes than any other creature
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
The greyhound has the best eyesight of all breeds of dogs
The hardest substance in the human body is the enamel of the teeth
The heaviest dog on record was a St. Bernard that weighed 310 pounds
The height of the Eiffel Tower can vary as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature
The highest NFL team score is 72, by the Washington Redskins against the New York Giants (41) at Washington, on November 27, 1966
The highest paid CEO in 2004 was Terry Semel of Yahoo. He earned $230 million, or approximately $630,000 per day
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
The horned lizard shoots blood 4 feet out of its eye for self defense
The hottest place in the world is El Azizia, Libya
The human body contains about 10 gallons for water making up 60% of body weight
The human body has 70,000 miles of blood vessels
The human body has over 200 bones
The human brain weighs about 3 pounds, but uses 20% of one's blood and oxygen
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year
The human foot has 26 bones
The human hand has 27 bones
The human head weighs eight pounds
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
The human nose can detect more than 10,000 different odors
The human stomach can stretch 50 times larger than its normal size and hold 4.5 quarts (4.25 L)
The hyena gives birth through its clitoris
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672
The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
The large intestine of a human is 5 feet long
The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet
The largest cucumber grown was 59 lbs
The largest hamburger cooked in the world weighed in at 6,040 pounds
The largest kidney stone weighed 14 pounds
The largest operational pipe organ in the world is located in a department store in Philadelphia
The largest pearl ever found weighed 14 pounds (6.4 kg)
The largest pyramid in the world is in Cholulu de Rivadahia, Mexico. (177 feet tall, covering 25 acres)
The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's
The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma
The little piece of cartilage that sticks out at the front side of your ear is called the Tragus
The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The longest recorded filibustering speech lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
The longest river is the Nile River in Africa at 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers) long
The longest-lived insects are queen termites, which live for up to 100 years
The lungfish can remain in suspended animation, without water, for 4 years
The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women
The male angler fish permanently attaches himself to the female and becomes absorbed by her body
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away
The male seahorse carries the developing young and gives birth
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white
The maximum prize one could earn on a single day of Jeopardy! is $566,400
The metal band that connects the pencil eraser to the end of the pencil is called a Ferrule
The metallic element gallium can melt in your hand
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
The month of July is named in honor of Julius Caesar
The most common bird in the world is the starling
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
The most expensive spice in the world is saffron
The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides
The most massive star known is the Pistol Star, which has a mass about 100-150 times that of the Sun
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million
The most popular Twizzler candy flavour is strawberry
The most popular boat name requested by boat owners is "Obsession"
The most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid
The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used
The most-grown crop in the world, in terms of output by weight, is bananas
The motto on one of the first U.S. coins was "Mind Your Business"
The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet."
The name Hippopotamus comes from Greek for "River Horse"
The name hippopotamus comes from the Greek words "hippos," meaning horse, and "potamus," meaning river
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
The name of the Taco Bell dog is Gidget
The name of the hotel on the popular children's T.V. show Sesame Street is "The Furry Arms."
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence
The nickname Limey was applied to the English sailors who were routinely supplied with limes to prevent scurvy
The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is "Salarymen."
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age
The oldest major soft drink in America is Dr. Pepper, which originated in Waco, Texas in 1885
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
The only areas of the human exterior that do not sweat are the nailbeds, eardrums, the bulbous end of the penis, and part of the lips
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J"
The only part of the human body that cannot develop cancer is the lens of the eye
The only real people to be depicted as PEZ dispensers were Betsy Ross, Daniel Boone, and Paul Revere
The only royal palace in the United States is in Honolulu
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven
The original London Bridge, built in 1831, now stands in Lake Havasu City, Arizona
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
The original name for the soft drink Pepsi was "Brad's Drink."
The pancreas produces Insulin
The part of the scallop eaten as food is the adductor muscle used to open and close their shell
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
The pin in a door hinge is called a pintle
The plasma in blood has the same percentage of salt as sea water
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
The points of light that you see behind your eyelids when you shut your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head
The pressure at the Earth's center is 27,000 tons per square inch
The properties in the board game Monopoly are named from streets in Atlantic City, NJ
The red kangaroo can produce two different types of milk at the same time from adjacent teats to feed both younger and older offspring
The rhinoceros is most closely related to the horse
The sandwich was invented in the 1700's. The Earl of Sandwich was gambling one day and did not want to get up to eat, so he ordered his food in between two slices of bread and that is how the sandwich was invented
The scientific term for nose-picking is rhinotillexonamia
The scientific term for the belly button, or navel, is the "umbilicus."
The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build."
The side of a hammer is called a cheek
The significance of the number 21 in a 21-gun salute is derived from adding the digits of 1776
The skeleton of an average 160-pound body weighs about 29 pounds
The skin of poison dart frogs contains a dangerous toxin
The small intestine of a human is 20 feet long
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly
The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella
The spice Coriander is the dried fruit of the cilantro plant
The state of Florida is bigger than England
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The stomach can break down goat's milk faster than the milk of a cow
The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth
The sun is about 330,000 time the mass of the Earth
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared
The surface of the human skin is 21.5 square feet (2 m2)
The surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees
The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
The term Radar is derived from the phrase "Radio Acquired Detection And Ranging."
The thing dangling in the back of your throat is called the uvula
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley
The three wise men were named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar
The thumbnail grows the slowest. The middle nail grows the fastest
The top of the Empire State building was built to anchor blimps
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows
The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long
The unemployment rate of Liberia was estimated at 85% in 2003
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "The king is dead"
The word "Cranky" comes from the fact that early automobiles were crank started. Someone having trouble starting their car was certainly cranky
The word "corduroy" comes from the French "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king."
The word "fart" comes from the Old English "feortan" (meaning "to break wind")
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed
The word "shrimp" comes from "shrimpe" meaning "pygmy"
The word "stat" used in hospitals is short for "statim", the Latin word for immediately
The word "toy" comes from an old English word that means "tool."
The word ALPHABET is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - ALPHA and BETA
The word Penis is Latin for tail
The word shark is derived from the Latin word meaning "sharp teeth."
The word typewriter can be typed using only the top row of keys
The word vaccine originates from the Latin word for cow - VACCA from which they were first derived from
The word yo-yo originated in the Philippines and means "come back."
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965
The world's fastest land animal is the cheetah, reaching speeds of 60-70 mph (110 km/hr)
The world's heaviest person weighed 629 kilos or 1,387 pounds
The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length
The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
The world's youngest mother is Lina Medina who gave birth at 5 years old
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old
The youngest pope was 11 years old
The zipper was invented in 1893 for use in shoes
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum)
There are 104 stitches on a baseball
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo
There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower
There are 230 joints in the human body
There are 250,000 rivers in the United States
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon
There are approximately 100,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world
There are more chickens than people in the world
There are more pigs than humans in Denmark
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year
There are more than one million animal species on Earth
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
There are no fish living in the Dead Sea
There are no venomous snakes in Maine
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S
There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400
There is a 55-foot high statue of the Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth, MN
There is a city called Rome on every continent
There is a glacier at the equator on Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo
There is enough phosphorous inside the human body to make about 250 match heads
There is methane in the atmosphere of Uranus
There is nearly 6 feet of DNA in every human cell
There is no salt water in salt water taffy
There was a false floor fitted in Adolf Hitler's Mercedes 770K to make him look taller when he stood up in the car
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses
There were 132,432,044 automobiles registered in the United States in 1999
Thermometers were once filled with brandy
Thirty percent of all bingo players are under the age of 35
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
Thomas Wedgewood took the world's first photograph in 1802
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
Time Square was originally called Long Acre Square
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles
To lose one pound of fat, a person has to burn approximately 3,500 calories
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult
Turkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feet
Turtles can breathe through their butts
Twelve cows are known as a "flink."
Twelve percent of lightning strikes occur at golf courses
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
Veal has less fat than boneless, skinless chicken breast
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
Venus rotates in the opposite direction from the other planets
Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii and Maine are the only states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards
Walt Disney was afraid of mice
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister
Wasp nests are made of paper
Water is heavier than ice
We are born with 350 bones, and die with 206
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second
When lightning strikes, it immediately heats the air around the bolt to 30,000 degrees
When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city
When the body is resting, it takes in about 10 litres of air every minute
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies bathroom
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Yams and sweet potatoes are actually unrelated vegetables
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
You can test positive for drug use after eating poppy seed bagels
You can't sneeze in your sleep
You cannot lose a contact lens in the back of your head
You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime
You're more likely to catch a cold from a person by shaking their hand than from their sneezes
Your body creates as much as two quarts of saliva daily
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second
Your brain is 80% water
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself
Zodiac is an ancient word for "Zoo" because of the many animals that make up the zodiac