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40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
The ichneumon fly has a sense of smell so keen that it can locate a caterpillar deep inside a tree trunk.
agyiophobia is the fear of streets.
If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
Everyone's foot odor is different. Kind of like your own smelly fingerprint!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
Of the 250-plus known species of shark in the world, only about 18 are known to be dangerous to man.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Flamingoes feel safest when they are crowded together, hundreds in a group.
A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.
An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.
ablutophobia is the fear of bathing.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her partner and devours him. The female may dispatch as many as twenty-five suitors a day in this manner.
Dog owners in Turin, Italy can be fined up to $650 if they don't walk their dog at least three times a day!
85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!
Eskimos do not have a common written language.
Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
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Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.
Rabbits never walk or trot, but always hop or leap.
Shock treatment for epilepsy was once administered by electric catfish.
Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote.
Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.
Some spiders have as many as eight eyes.
Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The human brain is 80% water.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Singapore has only one train station.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The human brain is 80% water.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Singapore has only one train station.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
No president of the United States was an only child.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
Ignce Paderewski, one of the greatest concert pianists of all time, was also premier of Poland.
The kakapo is a nocturnal burrowing parrot of New Zealand that has a green body with brown and yellow markings. Its name is from Maori and means "night parrot."
The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding were the only United States presidents to be survived by their fathers.
Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.
On an average day, a queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs.
Shirley Temple made $1 million by the age of 10.
Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch conservationist, banned Christmas trees in his home, even when he lived in the White House. His children, however, smuggled them into their bedrooms.
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. That means one shark will go through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year.
As much as 40-percent of the entire world's varieties of freshwater fish are to be found in the Amazon River basin. There are about 8,600 species of birds in the entire world, and more than half of them are also represented in this area.
Rap artist Sean "Diddy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.
Einstein declined the presidency of the state of Israel when it was offered to him in 1952 by state leaders
When first constructed around 2500 BC the pyramids were paper white and as smooth as glass.
Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year since two tectonic plates which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other
The fear of number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia and it was derived from treiskaideka, the Greek word for thirteen and phobia.
Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.
Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics.
President Theodore Roosevelt wrote 37 books.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
Spiders have transparent blood.
Roosevelt was the most superstitious president—he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.
Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Beavers do not eat fish.
You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.
Fish can be susceptible to seasickness.
Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout.
A woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour, but it only breathes ten times an hour while it is hibernating.
The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.
There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.
In her entire lifetime, Spain's Queen Isabella (1451-1504) bathed twice.
Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few.
Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.
The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
Did you know that Goofy actually started life as 'Dippy Dawg,' a combination of both Goofy and Pluto.
James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
When asked to name his favorite among all his paintings, Pablo Picasso replied "the next one."
Reportedly, Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.
The band Foo Fighters got their name from a slang expression used in World War II by US pilots to describe the alien-looking fireballs they saw over Germany.
Laughing lowers your blood pressure and puts more oxygen into your blood.
Humans are the only species who laugh
Fifteen of your facial muscles contract when you laugh.
It's said that laughing 100 times is equal to 10 minutes on the rowing machine or 15 minutes on the exercise bike.
The Phoenicians in 600BC were the first people to sail around the world.
The cartoon character Mickey Mouse was created in 1928.
REM stands for a state of sleep called 'Rapid eye movement" - the time when you are dreaming
An average person consumes the equivalent of 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese.
When reflected from bright lights (head lights) deer's eyes are orange, whereas cats and dogs are green. Rabbits eyes remain black.
Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
Flamingoes live remarkably long lives: up to 80 years.
Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should. When they cut the fish, fishermen found a full of bottle of ale inside it.
Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory at age 12.
Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
The black bear is not always black. It can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes a bluish color.
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
Entertainers who worked in the pizza business before they became famous include Stephen Baldwin, who was a pizza parlor employee, Bill Murray, who was a pizza maker, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who delivered pizzas. Many years back, Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley both sold ice cream. Before she made it as a pop singer, Madonna sold doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts. And in the burger arena, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at a burger joint, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King, and Andie McDowell was employed by McDonald's.
The crocodile is a cannibal; it will occasionally eat other crocodiles.
Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.
The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
Fish travel in schools, whales travel in pods or gams.
Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.
According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.
Charles Dickens kept the head of his bed aligned with the North Pole. He believed that the earth's magnetic field would pass longitudinal through his body and ensure him a good night rest.
March 14 is "Save a spider day."
One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.
George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.
According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.
Charles Dickens kept the head of his bed aligned with the North Pole. He believed that the earth's magnetic field would pass longitudinal through his body and ensure him a good night rest.
March 14 is "Save a spider day."
One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.
George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.
There are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant's trunk. This makes it very strong and flexible, allowing an elephant to pluck a delicate flower or lift a huge log. The trunk is used for touching, grasping, sucking, spraying, smelling, and striking.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
Minnows have teeth in their throat.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go underwater in a submarine.
The "snood" is the fleshy projection just above the bill on a turkey.
Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.
Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
JFK was the first president born in the 20th century.
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
A bee has four wings.
Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London.
Warren Harding was the first US president who could drive a car.
George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
Moths have no stomach.
The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head.
Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.
An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet.
A large kangaroo would make a great long-distance jumper, covering more than thirty feet with a single jump.
Barbie got her first car in 1962.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be created from red grapes.
A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck.
The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators.
The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.
The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day.
Liquorice can raise your blood pressure.
Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".
A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
The Platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and corn.
The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months.
Research indicates that mosquitos are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.
Signmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
The kinkajou's tail is twice as long as its body. Every night, it wraps itself up in its tail and uses it as a pillow.
In Budapest, they control the pigeon population by mixing birth control chemicals with the birdseed.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
In 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County, Missouri.
After chocolate and vanilla, orange is considered the world's most favorite flavour.
Sharks never stop moving, even when they sleep or rest.
Lobsters are scared of octopuses. The sight of one makes a lobster freeze.
Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.
According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
Young birds such as ducks, geese, and shore birds are born with their eyes open.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
Finches love thistle seeds. But only goldfinches can eat upside-down. Goldfinch feeders have openings underneath perches so other birds can't elbow their way into that particular chow line.
An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.
The king crab walks diagonally.
The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.
Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.
Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.
Tennis pro Evonne Goolagong's last name means "kangaroo's nose" in Australia's aboriginal language.
Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.
It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 10 thousand years.
In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is 12 years.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes, and humans all have seven neck vertebra.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range, one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant's body.
The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.
A parrots beak can close with a force close to 350 pounds per square inch.
The golden tree frog has a croak that sounds like a mallet chipping rock, but in summer it sounds like a tinkling bell.
The Dalmatian dog is named for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where it is believed to have been originally bred.
The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
Chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
A pelican consumes about 33 and 1/3 percent of its body weight in a single meal.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
The sea lion can swim 6,000 miles, stopping only to sleep.
Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
The word "snorkel" comes from the German word "schnoerkel", which was a tube used by German submarine crews in WW2. The subs used an electric battery when traveling underwater, which had to be recharged using diesel engines, which needed air to run. To avoid the hazard of surfacing to run the engines, the Germans used the schnoerkel to feed air from the surface into the engines.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful plough man strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The average giraffe has a blood pressure two or three times that of the average human.
Some birds from the rain forests of South America actually breed in Canada in the summer, before returning south for the winter.
The giant Pacific octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.
More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.
Penguins generally mate once and produce one egg per year.
The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
Since housecats are clean and their coats are dry and glossy, their fur easily becomes charged with electricity. Sparks can be seen if their fur is rubbed in the dark.
The Portuguese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.
The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
The largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches.
A camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight.
Coconuts kill more people per year then sharks do.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.
Greyhound dogs can see better than any other breed of dog.
You can house break an armadillo.
Freckles are simply patches of skin that tan easier then others.
The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.
Bowling is one of the oldest known sports. It can be traced back to ancient Egypt
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world.
The character Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney in 1928
To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.
Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at.
In the movie "Speed" (1994) Twelve buses were used, including two which exploded; one for the freeway jump; one for high-speed scenes; and one used solely for 'under bus' shots.
Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.
Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.
The Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.
Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals, surprisingly. They come a close second only to primates. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like a dog.
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of Paris.
The whistling swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.
You can identify a grizzly bear's mark by the sign of five claws. A black bear will lacerate a tree trunk with four claws.
The white elephant is the sacred animal of Thailand.
There are 1,600 known species of starfishes in the world.
The Bateleur eagle of Africa hunts over a territory of 250 square miles a day.
More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City metropolitan area.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world.
The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
A cow's sweat glands are in the nose.
Gorillas beat their chests when they get nervous.
Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
Almost 1 million teenage girls will become pregnant each year.
Incredible means not believable. Incredulous means not believing. When someone's story is truly incredible, you ought to be incredulous.
Androphobia is a fear of men.
Mussels can thrive in polluted water because of an inborn ability to purify bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
4 in 10 girls will experience at least one pregnancy before reaching age 20.
The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans.
A skark's skeleton is made up of cartilage rather then bone.
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high.
The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
The world camel population is 19,627,000.
78% of cats never travel with their owner.
A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.
A crocodile really does produce tears, but they're not due to sadness. The tears are glandular secretions that work to expel excess salt from the eyes. Hence, "crocodile tears" are false tears.
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
Dooley Wilson appeared as Sam in the movie Casablanca. Dooley was a drummer - not a pianist in real life. The man who really played the piano in Casablanca was a Warner Brothers staff musician who was at a piano off camera during the filming.
The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
Australia has the largest sheep population.
The only place in Europe where monkeys live free is Gibraltar.
Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
The English word pajamas has it's origin in Persian. It is a combination of the Persian words pa (leg) and jamah (garment).
"60 Minutes" is the only show on CBS that doesn’t have a theme song.
Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
"Fan" is an abbreviation for the word "fanatic." Toward the turn of the 19th century, various media referred to football enthusiasts first as "football fanatics," and later as a "football fan."
The name "fez" is Turkish for "Hat".
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
Pnigophobia is the fear of choking on fish bones.
Augustus Caesar had achluophobia—the fear of sitting in the dark.
Punctuation was not invented until the 1500's.
The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
A "necropsy" is an autopsy on animals.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.
Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.
Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
The Portuguese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
A quarter of the horses in the U.S. died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
The most common telephone exchange number on television is 555.
The identification number of the Starship Enterprise is NCC-1701.
The movie Cleopatra cost $28 million to make in 1963.
Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food.
Giraffes can't cough.
Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the "Jaws" movies.
In the original "Star Wars: A New Hope", Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, called out the name of actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia, instead of actually calling out "Leia" in the scene near the end where he gets out of his X-wing after destroying the Death Star. The error was never caught.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.
Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Deer can't eat hay.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
Scooby Doo's first real name is Scoobert.
The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
The movie "Clue" has three different endings. Each ending was randomly chosen for different theaters. All three endings are present in the home video.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
Unlike most cats, tigers love the water and can easily swim three or four miles.
The person who performs the Muppets - Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Animal, and Grover is Frank Oz. Oz is also the voice of Star Wars Yoda.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in. There is a city called Springfield in every state in America.
The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The owl parrot can't fly, and builds its nest under tree roots.
Gorillas do not know how to swim.
A 4-inch-long abalone can grip a rock with a force of 400 pounds. Two grown men are incapable of prying it up.
A bird "chews" with its stomach. Since most birds do not have teeth, a bird routinely swallows small pebbles and gravel. These grits become vigorously agitated in the bird's stomach and serve to grind food as it passes through the digestive system.
A bird sees everything at once in total focus. Whereas the human eye is globular and must adjust to varying distances, the bird's eye is flat and can take in everything at once in a single glance.
There are about 40 different muscles in a birds wing.
A bison can jump 6 feet.
There are about 5,000 species of coral known. Only about half of them build reefs.
A skunk can be detected by a human over one kilometre away.
Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
the art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
All hurricanes form over water and last for about 10 days.
The mechanical shark in the movie "Jaws" was named Bruce.
Fish can get sick.
Rats can swim for a kilometre without resting. They can also tread water for thirty days straight.
Babies have tastebuds all over their mouths. Not just on their tongues.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, was home to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Muppets creator Jim Henson first created Kermit in 1955 - as a lizard. He was made from Henson's mother's coat and two halves of a Ping-Pong ball (no flipper feet or eleven-point collar).
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
According to the folks at Disney - there are 6,469,952 spots painted on dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.
The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
The jackrabbit is not a rabbit; it is a hare.
A house cat has 18 claws.
The concept of a countdown before a rocket launch originated as a tension-building device in the 1929 movie "The Woman on the Moon".
Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
As of 2006, 200 million internet blogs were left without updates
Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
Though it comprises of ice; Antarctica is actually technically a desert as it receives so little rainfall each year.
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
You burn more callories eating celery then the food actually contains.
In a Gallup Poll in 2006, Tom Hanks was ranked America's favorite actor and Reese Witherspoon their favorite actress.
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.
Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet
"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
Britney Spears has sold over seventy-six million records worldwide ranking her as the eighth best-selling female artist in American music history.
Spiders have transparent blood.
One of the best ways to clean pwter is to rub it with cabbage leaves.
About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.
The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drown the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
It takes on average 90 squirts from a cow's udder to make a litre of milk.'
Horseracing regulations require no racehorse's name to contain more then 18 letters
Sheep will not drink from running water.
Britney Spears was the first woman to have four albums go straight to number one on the American charts.
2 million people died of AIDS in Africa in 2005.
Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
Mosquitos have teeth.
In Elizabithean times, carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
Up until the age of six or seven months, children can breath and swallow at the same time.
Due to its eye placement a donkey can see all of its hooves at the same time.
Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
When the Eiffel tower was built in 1884m Parisians referred to it as "the unfortunate lamppost"
Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to function.
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
There is more then 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
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 leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. 'UP' indicated the direction of the bubbles
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13
Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
The Hawai'ian alphabet has 13 letters, A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, ' (which is called an okina).
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%.
Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury
There are 525,600 minutes in a year.
Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
The average person can live 11 days without water.
In 1221 Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.
There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
Whales die if their echo system fails.
Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
Nondairy creamer is flammable.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
Feet are one of the most frequently injured parts of the body.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
If you attempted to count all the stars in the galaxy at the rate of one every second it would take around 3000 years to count them all.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
Ever wonder where the Google search engines name comes from? Google is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
The microwave was invented after a scientis walked by a rada tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
In England, the speaker of the house is not allowed to speak.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
The average person walks 115,000 miles in their lifetime. That is more then four times the earth's circumference.
On average a four-year-old child askes 437 questions daily.
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The bones in the feet make up one fourth of the bones in the body.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
The guiness book of world records holds the record for the book most stolen from libraries.
Research indicated that mosquitos are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Swedish people drink more coffee then any other race in the world.
Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.
There are one million ants to every human in the world.
Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open
Teeth are the only part of the human body that can't repair themselves.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
Every year, the moon moves a further 3.82 cm from earth.
The Eiffel tower has 1792 steps.
The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.
Strawberries contain more vitamin C then oranges
There is more sugar in a lemon then a strawberry,.
A one day weather forecast required about 10 billion math calculations
The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the Kiwi.
The average person spends two years on the phone in his/her lifetime.
August has the highest percentage of births.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are more chickens in the world then people.
A shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
Animals that lay eggs don't have bellybutton
Slugs have four noses
More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
The password for the allied forces on D-Day was 'Mickey Mouse'
The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
The Simpsons is the longest-running prime-time entertainment series on television in the US.
The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written
first and the individual name written second
If you were to drive to the moon at 80km an hour you would arrive in 200 days: 3,080 km away.
Some skyscrapers are designed to sway up to 3 feet in strong winds.
China is home to almost a quarter of the worlds population.
A full moon is visible on the same night all around the world.
Australian's great barrier reef is the largest living thing in the world.
The average dinosaur was the size of a sheep.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
Dogs have been used as guards, hunters, draught animals, eyes for the blind, drug and explosive detectors, rodent controllers- and even weapons! In Roman times and the Middle Ages, mastiffs wearing light armour, carrying spikes and pots of flaming sulphur and resin ran into battle against mounted knights. In World War II the Russians trained dogs to run suicide missions between the tracks of German tanks with mines strapped on their backs.
Dogs" hearing is very acute. They can register sounds of 35,000 vibrations a second (compared to our 20,000 and a cat's 25,000).
Dogs naturally have a wonderful sense of smell. They have many more sensory 'smelling" cells than a man's 5,000,000. A Dachshund has 125,000,000, a Fox Terrier 147,000,000 and a German Shepherd (often used as a 'sniffer" dog) has 220,000,000. Truffle hounds can find the fungus delicacy even when it's a foot underground.
The oldest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years, 5 months for a Queensland "heeler" called Bluey in Victoria, Australia. The average dog lives to around 15 years of age.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.
Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Dogs (and wolves and foxes) are descended from a small, weasel-like mammal called Miacis which was a tree-dwelling creature and existed about 40 million years ago. Dogs, as we know them today, first appeared in Eurasia about 13,000 years ago, and were probably a direct descendant of a small, grey wolf (not from the type of jackal or jackal/wolf as previously thought). The dingo is not native to Australia but was introduced thousands of years ago by the first immigrants. Dogs were first domesticated by cavemen in the Palaeolithic age and gradually developed (or were bred) into the breeds known today.
The tallest dogs are the Great Dane and the Irish Wolfhound. The largest Great Dane stood at 103cm and an Irish Wolfhound 100cm.
The worlds heaviest as well as longest dog ever recorded is believed to be an Old English Mastiff named Zorba. In 1989, Zorba weighed 343 lbs and was 8 feet 3 inches long from nose to tail!
The smallest dogs are the Chihuahua, the Yorkshire Terrier and the Toy Poodle. A Yorkie once weighed in at only 283.5g.
The average human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon
More then 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a phone call
The average person is about a quarter inch taller at night.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of up to 100kph.
The Bible is the biggest selling non fiction book of all time; The Diary of Ann Frank is the second biggest.
A snail can sleep for up to 3 years
A cockroach can live for a week after you cut it's head off.
World Fact: New Zealand was the first country in the world to allow woman the right to vote.
Health Fact: 12 weeks into a pregnancy a babies facial features, shape, fingers, toes, arms and legs have all formed.
World Fact: There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
Animal Fact: A cat's ear has 30 muscles that control the outer ear (by comparison humans ears only have 6 muscles). These muscles rotate 160 degrees so that a cat can hear in all directions without moving it's head.
Music Fact: Kelly Clarkson's song 'Breakaway' was co-written by Kelly and punk princess Avril Lavigne.
Movie Fact: The Movies: Message in a bottle, A walk to remember and The Notebook were all based on novels by romance author Nicholas Sparks.
In Peter Jackson's 'King Kong' Kong's roar is a lions roar played backward at half speed.
Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".
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