1. The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11
a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
2. One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
3. Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
4. Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
5. Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
6. Milk is heavier than cream.
7. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
8. All polar bears are left-handed.
9. Elephants are the ONLY animals that can't jump.
10. A snail can sleep for three years.
11. A roach can live up to nine days without its head.
12. The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of
soap.
13. More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
14. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
15. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
16. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the
next hour.
17. There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
18. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
19. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 20. When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
21. Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
22. Female canaries cannot sing.
23. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
24. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
25. Pearls melt in vinegar.
26. WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
27. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
28. Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately
350 slices per second!.
29. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
30. Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
31. 35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
32. The first TV commercial: a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60
seconds.
33. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
34. Got gas? 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by
Americans.
35. Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph.
36. Poll results: Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be.
37. A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
38. Why do puppies lick your face? They're instinctively looking for scraps of
food. 39. Hard to believe: Apples are actually part of the rose family.
40. If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones go to the top.
41. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
42. Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
43. Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin
lasts.
44. The word Mrs. Cannot be written in full.
45. Dolphins nap with one eye open.
46. Babies are born without knee caps.
47. People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).
48. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people.
49. If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the
size of a tennis court.
50. Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is.
51. Cats' urine glows under a black light.
52. When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to
three times your body weight.
53. One in eight Americans is considered poor, but one home in six has at
least three cars or trucks.
54. Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
55. To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles&that's
where the word testimony comes from. 56. Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than
those who don't .
57. A moth has no stomach.
58. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
59. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
60. A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.
61. About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are
exposed to light.
62. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
63. All babies are color blind when they are born.
64. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to
eight weeks old.
65. Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some
toothpastes.
66. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he
declined.
67. Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
68. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
69. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
70. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
71. The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
72. The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture
element.' 73. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
74. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total
is 5050
75. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
76. Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's
Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into
view again.
77. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a
time.
78. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
79. Only humans and horses have hymens.
80. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
81. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronu
kupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
82. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,
"L.A."
83. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
84. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. 85. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
86. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
87. In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
88. The second longest word in the English language is
"antidisestablishmenterianism".
89. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
90. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
91. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
92. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
93. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II
who fathered over 160 children.
94. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
95. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
96. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
97. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
98. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
99. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
100. "Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
101. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
102. ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst
names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
103. It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against
selling dolls without human faces.
104. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
105. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon
there.
106. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the
bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
107. Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man
on the moon in 1969.)
108. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser
himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.
109. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
110. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for
The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .
111. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon
before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set
foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
112. The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks. 113. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles
away.
114. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
115. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
116. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
117. The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00
worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
118. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
119. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
120. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead
defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
121. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank
Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
122. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
123. Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a
Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc.
They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961
124. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The
cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it
got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
125. Horses cannot vomit. 126. Rabbits cannot vomit.
127. S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen
by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O
were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot
dot dot, O = dash dash dash..
128. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
129. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but
when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
130. The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
131. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
132. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
133. Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
134. The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
135. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
136. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
137. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used
as money.
138. TIME Magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
139. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium
becomes the state's third largest city.
140. Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
141. A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach
contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the s
142. During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a
sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.
143. In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot off a gun while his female partner is
having a sexual orgasm.
144. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll
booth.
145. In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her
husband's permission.
146. In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on
your wedding day.
147. In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
148. It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in
church.
149. You're subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making uglyfaces at
dogs in Oklahoma.
150. It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.
151. It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.
152. By law, in Bourbon, Miss., one small onion must be served with each glass of
water in a restaurant. 153. In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a
doctor's prescription.
154. 6% of men propose over the telephone!
155. On Sunday, it is illegal to sell cornflakes in Columbus, Ohio.
156. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
157. Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers
158. Tomatoes were originally though to be poisonous.
159. Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to
use as feed.
160. Unless you have a doctor's note, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6 p.m. in
Newark, New Jersey.
161. 85% of us will eat Spam this year.
162. In America in 1977, the punishment for smuggling marijiuana was 15
years less than the punishment for smuggling coffee!
163. There are 18 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!
164. Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
165. By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.
166. The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.
167. 85% of men don't use the slit in their underwear.
168. 91% of us lie regularly.
169. 29% of people admit they've intentionally stolen something from a
store.
170. Only 10% of the population believe in the 10 Commandments. 171. 10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
172. When nobody else is around, 47% of people drink straight from the carton.
173. 22% of us skip lunch daily.
174. 14% of us eat the watermelon seeds.
175. 22% of people leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
176. The typical shower is 101 degrees F.
177. 53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.
178. 45.2% of people pee in the shower.
179. 28.1% of people pee in the pool !
180. 55.2% of us will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're using the
toilet.
181. The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.
182. Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida!
183. Prior to the 1930's, diamond rings were rarely given as engagement rings!
184. New Jersey was originally called Albania!
185. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
186. The 2 most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.
187. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
188. This year, more than 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers!
189. At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a
rifle bullet.
190. Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
191. A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water. 192. In Idaho, it is illegal to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50
pounds!
193. Until 1834, it was illegal for any soldier of the U.S. Army to carry the
American flag into battle.
194. Dentists in medieval Japan extracted teeth by pulling them out with
their fingers.
195. Before 1933, the dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
196. There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
197. Tibetans drink tea made of salt and rancid yak butter.
198. When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they
urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.
199. The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols.
200. During the filming of 'Apocalypse Now', director Francis Ford Coppola threatened
suicide several times and lost 100 pounds.
201. No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only
the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
202. A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
203. A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
204. Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
205. Until 1893, lynching was legal in the United States.
206. Before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court.
207. In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the
loudest and longest! 208. The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.
209. A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
210. Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.
211. Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.
212. Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.
213. The eaarth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
214. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry
can be dribbled like a basketball.
215. St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called 'Pigs Eye'.
216. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, 'They'll put a man on the moon
before I hit a home run.' On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set
foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
217. The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.
218. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
219. The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
220. A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than
the doctor predicted.
221. Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but
half said they believed in space aliens.
222. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
223. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
224. One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the
set by a raging elephant! 225. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
226. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally
without being hurt.
227. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
228. The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
229. Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't
stick when smiling.
230. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
231. In India, Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel.
232. The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the
particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
233. A group of frogs is called an army.
234. A group of officers is called a mess.
235. The state with the longest coastline in the U.S. is Michigan.
236. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of
Guinness beer.
237. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but
more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the
bottom.
238. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so
much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
239. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
240. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 241. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
242. Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked
Lunch'.
243. Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen' on 'The Jeffersons'.
244. Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing
reasons!
245. A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
246. Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.
247. A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
248. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
249. It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls
without human faces.
250. If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.
251. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers
(Moe, Curly, and Shemp).
252. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
253. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
254. In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a
speaking role.
255. The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
256. It is possible to see a rainbow at night!
257. Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet. 258. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an
American flag.
259. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
260. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot
them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
261. The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
262. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
263. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
264. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
265. In the great fire of London, in 1666, half of London was burnt down but only 6
people were injured.
266. The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and
Portuguese.
267. If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
268. Europe is the only continent without a desert.
269. Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.
270. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows .
271. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
272. The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on
stamps.
273. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
274. Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
275. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance! 276. 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
277. Your brain is 80% water.
278. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that
you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
279. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have
been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
280. The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
281. Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
282. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
283. The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for
each building.
284. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the
nearest star.
285. In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the
world.
286. More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
287. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
288. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
289. In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
290. The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
291. Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines
towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.
292. A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse. 293. 20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
294. A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
295. Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!
296. Goodyear Rubber Company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster
on the right foot than the left.
297. You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
298. More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
299. The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.
300. 'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola, Inc.
301. Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
302. On average cows poop 16 times per day.
303. 5,840 people with pillow-related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in
1992!
304. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
305. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
306. Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year!
307. In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel's back.
308. In Nebraska, It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously
brewing a kettle of soup.
309. In Kentucky, It's illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana
Fishing License.
310. In Florida, It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
311. In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging. 312. In Massachusetts, It is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.
313. Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.
314. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
315. Drew Carey once worked at Denny's.
316. One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her
chase a chicken through town naked.
317. An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
318. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
319. In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is
deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.
320. The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
321. The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is
200,000,000.
322. 10% of Star Trek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether
they need to or not.
323. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
324. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
325. Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man
mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
326. Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.
327. Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national
income.
328. Giraffes are unable to cough. 329. There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
330. Cattle are the only mammals that are retro-mingent (they pee backwards).
331. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
332. The octopus' testicles are located in its head.
333. 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the
right.
334. A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
335. In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.
336. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
337. Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
338. The average person spends three years of his or her life on the toilet.
339. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
340. Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.
341. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's
widest road.
342. At Hancock Secondary School in Mississippi there is actually a McDonalds in the
high school.
343. The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a
motorcycle.
344. The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
345. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
346. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
347. In Tibet it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone. 348. The world's first McSki opened in Sweden with Ski-Thru service - allowing skiers to
ski up to the counter and order their McDonald's meal.
349. A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
350. The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its stars was
a pig.
351. In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock
in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people.
352. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
353. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
354. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million
descendants.
355. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and
photocopying their butts.
356. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
357. Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their
toothpaste.
358. 2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
359. 1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
360. The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
361. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.
362. Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris. 363. In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness Book of Records for
sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 12 seconds. Bob later became the Prime Minister of
Australia.
364. Iguanas have two penises!
365. Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the
16th century.
366. The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass
points - North, East, West, and South!
367. The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she
graduates from high school.
368. Panophobia is the fear of everything.
369. At age 70, an impressive 73 percent of men are still potent.
370. The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
371. The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.
372. You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
373. There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None
were Chinese!
374. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients
would die!
375. The bagpipe was first made from the liver of a sheep.
376. A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing .
377. The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.
378. Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda! 379. If you cut a 'V' shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown' toe nails.
380. Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
381. A broken clock is always right twice a day.
382. Your skin is actually an organ.
383. According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10
fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
384. An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
385. So that's how they cheat - A microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen
baseball.
386. The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.
387. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than
your chances of winning.
388. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of
footballs.
389. 10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
390. China has more English speakers than the United States.
391. In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
392. In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.
393. In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
394. Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each
second.
395. Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
396. Frogs cannot swallow without blinking. 397. Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
398. Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than
boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
399. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
400. A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
401. The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia,
Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
402. Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
403. No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
404. The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until
1956.
405. Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts
indefinitely.
406. The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients.
407. The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for
gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
408. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape
the earth's gravitational pull.
409. The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the
Yankees in 1929.
410. Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there
been for about a thousand years. 411. Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more
quickly than males.
412. Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.
413. According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than
women.
414. The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
415. Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the
United States.
416. In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.
417. If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side
showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
418. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture
automobile bodies.
419. A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
420. At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in
blood.
421. Spiders have transparent blood.
422. Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.
423. Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of
running water, such as a stream.
424. Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which
has been shredded and aged. 425. Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a
single strand of hair.
426. According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually
drinking beer.
427. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without
breaking.
428. Moist air holds heat better than dry air.
429. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth
century.
430. German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
431. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
432. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
433. Jumbo jets use 4000 gallons of fuel to take off .
434. On average, men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
435. In England, corn means wheat.
436. The parking meter was invented in Oklahoma City.
437. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
438. Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.
439. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
440. The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
441. The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
442. Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from
the sky downwards. 443. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own
paintings.
444. Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
445. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
446. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes
to stop.
447. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than
7 times.
448. According to Gaming Law, Casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the
chips on the 'floor'.
449. The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
450. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
451. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's
or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open
wide enough.
452. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
453. A small airplane can fly backwards.
454. In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
455. Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
456. Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
457. Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it
moves smoothly.
458. Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle. 459. In the U.S., for every dollar you spend on gasoline 27 cents of it is in taxes.
460. 2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.
461. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and
sting itself to death.
462. Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol
(disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.
463. Coca-Cola was originally green.
464. The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between
the Earth and a subatomic particle.
465. Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial
deposits from the Mississippi River).
466. Texas reserves the right to become 4 seperate states at a time of its chosing (a
condition of statehood 1845).
467. People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
468. Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe
their hands and faces after dinner.
469. The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a
gallon.
470. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
471. Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.
472. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
473. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
474. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill. 475. Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
476. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
477. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
478. 2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
479. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
480. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
481. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10.
482. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
483. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
484. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
485. Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
486. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
487. More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made
for right handed people.
488. Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.
489. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
490. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
491. The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
492. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
493. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
494. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
495. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food.
496. A jellyfish is 95 percent water. 497. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
498. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout
the world.
499. A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a
pipe 1 foot in diameter.
500. Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
501. No one knows who designed the first American Flag.
502. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
503. In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
504. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
505. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
506. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
507. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
508. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
509. Butterflies taste with their feet.
510. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
511. The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as
currency.
512. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft .
513. Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.
514. Albert Einstien never wore any socks.
515. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size
of a tennis court. 516. Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
517. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
518. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
519. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
520. Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.
521. Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors:
Black and gold.
522. Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
523. Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.
524. When intoxicated, an ant will always fall on its right side.
525. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.
526. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
527. The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in
the Berlin Zoo.
528. Snails breathe through their feet.
529. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
530. Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
531. For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam
more.
532. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
533. It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
534. In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks.
535. During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair. 536. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
537. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
538. The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.
539. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because
there's no air pressure.
540. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
541. Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of
mercury.
542. Rain contains vitamin B12.
543. Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
544. Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
545. An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
546. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
547. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
548. The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.
549. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
550. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese
immigrants.
551. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
552. Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
553. Linen is actually stronger when wet.
554. Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp! 555. To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football
field.
556. Nike Air Soles do not actually have 'air' in them.
557. Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people
exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .
558. If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would
increase by 80%.
559. A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35
miles per hour.
560. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
561. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
562. Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
563. If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
564. Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
565. In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials
needed for American pulp mills and paper.
566. India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the
early 17th Century.
567. Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
568. Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
569. Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
570. Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S.
flag. 571. The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
572. 27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
573. Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in
the world.
574. By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is
enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
575. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15
times a day.
576. Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
577. Families who turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier.
578. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in
the world.
579. More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.
580. Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
581. The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
582. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
583. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end
because of the rate of reproduction.
584. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
585. No president of the United States was an only child.
586. Coca-cola used to use the slogan 'Good to the last drop', in 1908. This slogan was
later used by Maxwell House. 587. If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive
country in the world.
588. Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people
are killed each year by coconuts.
589. Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
590. A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building
on July 28, 1945.
591. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
592. Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways
to scare birds away.
593. Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the
sun.
594. You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on
to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
595. Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe
that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not
connected to any circuitry.
596. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
597. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s 'Born in the USA'.
598. In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through
its leaves.
599. Only female bees work.
600. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. 601. Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
602. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
603. Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
604. The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
605. No one knows where Mozart is buried.
606. The official name of India is not India. It is Bharat.
607. Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
608. One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.
609. Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
610. If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his
hands were cut off.
611. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of
humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
612. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
613. It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
614. Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
615. An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
616. Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
617. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
618. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
619. Hot water weighs more than cold water.
620. Man is the only animal that cries.
621. Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women. 622. More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever
fought by the United States.
623. Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able
to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
624. If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can
shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
625. One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.
626. Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
627. The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average
temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.
628. Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot
thick.
629. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
630. A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
631. It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
632. Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.
633. The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.
634. The chow is the only dog that has a black tongue.
635. The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.
636. It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the
earth.
637. It takes a person 15 to 20 minutes to walk once around the Pentagon.
638. The only manmade structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China. 639. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
640. Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
641. Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this
water is drinkable.
642. Austria was the first country to use postcards.
643. In the United States in 1976, a pound of potato chips cost 200 times more than a
pound of potatoes.
644. There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human
beings in the world.
645. Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked
and beaten by their wives.
646. Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist.
647. Neither the saxophone, the tuba, the coronet, nor the valve trumpet existed
before 1800.
648. If the chemical sodium is dropped into water and a match is taken to the mixture,
it will immediately and violently ignite.
649. Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
650. Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
651. It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
652. In 1910 a football team was penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
653. No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one
second.
654. Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog. 655. A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.
656. A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
657. Cats have no ability to taste sweet things.
658. A male baboon can kill a leopard.
659. In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
660. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
661. About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
662. 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
663. One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light
bulbs!
664. In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.
665. If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15
people living there.
666. There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!
667. The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.
668. Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
669. Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits.
670. An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.
671. Sonny and Cher originally called themselves Cleo and Caesar.
672. The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.
673. 76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20.
674. None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught
himself.) 675. Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has
sharks.
676. An estimated 405,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.
677. City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
678. Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
679. 'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
680. Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!
681. A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is of the ground.
682. Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat
through the poors on their feet.
683. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
684. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
685. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear
weapons combined!
686. When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
687. The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
688. 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
689. The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
690. The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
691. The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150
people.
692. Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
693. A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment. 694. The famous aphrodisiac 'Spanish Fly' is made from dried beetle remains!
695. Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.
696. X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of
the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
697. Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
698. Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the
same time. An adult cannot do this.
699. An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.
700. A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.
701. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
702. It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
703. 25% of your bones are located in your feet.
704. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
705. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
706. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the
length of a football field.
707. The right lung takes in more air than the left.
708. The human brain is insensitive to pain.
709. Neanderthal man had a brain capcity 100cc larger than modern man's.
710. During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.
711. While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000
suffers from it. 712. Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
713. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
714. Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly
overhead.
715. The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could
throw a pickup truck over a mile.
716. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all
times.
717. Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.
718. In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was
executed.
719. The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
720. According to our experts, there was no punctuation until the 15th century.
721. 15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
722. More than 10% of the world's annual production of salt is used to de-ice American
roads.
723. Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg
develops determines gender.
724. The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
725. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
726. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed
with vaseline. 727. Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any
state.
728. Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.
729. The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new
one.
730. The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The
least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.
731. More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
732. Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.
733. A woman's sense of smell is most acute during ovulation.
734. China grows more pears than any other country in the world.
735. The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
736. Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.
737. Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.
738. It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
739. 10 of the tributaries flowing into the Amazon river are as big as the Mississippi
river.
740. Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
741. Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
742. In 1992, 55,142 people were injured by jewelry.
743. The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world
combined.
744. Richest country in the world: Switzerland. Poorest: Mozambique. 745. In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
746. Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft,
disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all
statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.
747. Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday.
748. 6 million tourists a year visit California. 58,000 visit Mississippi.
749. 3 most popular dogs in the U.S.: Labrador Retrievers, Rottweilers, and Cocker
Spaniels.
750. Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.
751. More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
752. One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.
753. The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.
754. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can was.
755. The creator of the Waffle Iron did not actually like waffles.
756. In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
757. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each
others shoulders.
758. A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
759. The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.
760. Diet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.
761. 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
762. No matter how cold it gets, gasoline won't freeze. Below -180 degrees F, it just
turns gummy. 763. In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
764. Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
765. Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately, Riddle.
766. Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
767. Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their
hair.
768. When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than
horses.
769. More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
770. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
771. Vultures fly without flapping their wings.
772. Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
773. At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.
774. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
775. On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
776. When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go.
777. Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
778. The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
779. The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
780. One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
781. The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average
person anywhere else in the world.
782. Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France. 783. Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
784. Minnows have teeth in their throat.
785. Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
786. The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended
animation.
787. A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
788. The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of
man.
789. Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
790. Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
791. Milk is heavier than cream.
792. Honey is the only food that will not spoil.
793. A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or softboiled egg will not.
794. At race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time.
795. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
796. Eskimos don't gamble.
797. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
798. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
799. No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.
800. More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
801. Israel is one quarter the size of the state of Maine.
802. A housefly lives only two weeks.
803. Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school. 804. Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
805. The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.
806. Armadillos can get leprosy.
807. There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
808. On average, Elizabeth Taylor remarries every 4 years, 5 months.
809. Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
810. Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
811. Terminator 2 cost $647,000 per minute of film to make.
812. It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.
813. What's the most-shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible.
814. In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United
States.
815. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
816. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
817. Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
818. All polar bears are left-handed.
819. Elephants are the ONLY animals that can't jump.
820. A snail can sleep for three years.
821. A roach can live up to nine days without its head.
822. The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
823. More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
824. Males sweat 40% more than females.
825. Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics. 826. Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.
827. More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
828. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
829. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a
Captain Kirk mask painted white.
830. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
831. A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
832. Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have
been known to drown as a result.
833. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next
hour.
834. There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
835. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide
poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
836. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
837. Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15:1.
838. Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
839. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
840. Penguins can change salt water into fresh water.
841. The speed of a typical raindrop is 7 miles per hour.
842. 99% of people cannot lick their elbow. 843. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.
844. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
845. The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.
846. In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First
Class salads.
847. Mussolini dodged the Italian draft.
848. Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
849. The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
850. The U.S. founding fathers' name for the American Revolution was 'The War with
Britain'.
851. An adult giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.
852. It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
853. All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody
knows why.
854. The average U.S. farm has 467 acres; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.
855. For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
856. The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and
other items.
857. 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
858. A female mackerel lays 500,000 eggs at a time.
859. The typical U.S. 18-year-old has spent 11,000 hours in school and 18,000 hours
watching TV. 860. When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
861. Elvis Presley got a 'C' in his eighth grade music class.
862. No wonder they grunt: Most of a hog's sweat glands are in its snout.
863. If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would
digest itself.
864. The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
865. In 39 of the 50 U.S. states, the travel industry is the largest single employer.
866. Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
867. The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.
868. Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
869. Female canaries cannot sing.
870. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
871. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
872. There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
873. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
874. Pearls melt in vinegar.
875. WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
876. At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
877. By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.
878. The most popular Campbell's Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck gizzard.
879. Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a
hit in 1931.
880. The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used. 881. Until the year 1920, Canada was planning on invading the United States.
882. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
883. Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350
slices per second!.
884. Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
885. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!
886. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
887. Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
888. 35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
889. C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
890. The first TV commercial: a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
891. In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.
892. Surveys say: only ? Americans eats 3 meals a day.
893. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!
894. The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!
895. Onions have no flavor, only a smell.
896. More people in China speak English than in the United States.
897. Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
898. Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
899. If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
900. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
901. Good news: there are NO hog lips or snouts in SPAM.
902. Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland. 903. Infant beavers are called kittens.
904. Ants don’t sleep.
905. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
906. Got gas? 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by
Americans.
907. Estimated cost for having your whole body tattooed: $30,000 - $50,000.
908. Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph.
909. Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the
President.
910. Poll results: Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be.
911. Surveys say: nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween
costumes.
912. A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
913. Why do puppies lick your face? They’re instinctively looking for scraps of food.
914. Hard to believe: Apples are actually part of the rose family.
915. 'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the
sixth!
916. According to legend, there’s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
917. Polar Bears can eat 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.
918. Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.
919. Yum-yum! The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every
year.
920. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed. 921. Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
922. The Pacific island of Nauru’s economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.
923. If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones go to the top.
924. Iron weighs more after it rusts.
925. It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
926. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
927. The ‘Big Dipper’ is known as ‘The Casserole’ in France.
928. Black Whales are born white.
929. If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.
930. Wettest city in the U.S.; Quillayute, Wahington. Driest: Yuma, Arizona.
931. On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
932. All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet
wide.
933. Insects outnumber humans by 1 million to one.
934. Driest inhabited place on earth: Aswan, Egypt, which receives .02 inches of rain
per year.
935. A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
936. J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking
hands.
937. Can you think of an English word that rhymes with “month”? You can’t because
there is none.
938. World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs. 939. Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the United
States.
940. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
941. About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.
942. Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
943. A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the
owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
944. Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.
945. There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000
astrologers.
946. The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.
947. Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.
948. Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December
949. The top 3 products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and deodorant.
950. Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
951. Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and
Leichtenstein (1984).
952. If you put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of Coca - Cola, it will dissolve in 2 to 3 days.
953. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
954. Hummingbirds can't walk.
955. Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
956. Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its
laundry! 957. More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!
958. Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
959. In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British
households had one!
960. The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
961. There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the
actual cornflakes.
962. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
963. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
964. Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
965. Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to
remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
966. Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
967. First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
968. More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer
in the world.
969. Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.
970. Makes sense: Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third.
971. Identity crisis? About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.
972. Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California.
973. The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
974. Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.
975. In what country will you find the most Universities? India. 976. Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
977. Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.
978. Even Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.
979. The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
980. The word “Mrs.” Cannot be written in full.
981. Dolphins nap with one eye open.
982. If it isn’t moving a frog can’t see it. If the frog can’t see it, he won’t eat it.
983. When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being
hit.
984. The 2 people most admired by teenagers in 1983: Eddie Murphy and Ronald
Reagan, in that order.
985. It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
986. Babies are born without knee caps.
987. People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).
988. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
989. It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister’s
daughter.
990. If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a
tennis court.
991. Take your height and divide by eight. That’s how “tall” your head is.
992. 50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.
993. Levi Strauss didn’t call them jeans. He called them “waist overalls”.
994. 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May. 995. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
996. Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
997. Florida has more tornados per square mile than any other state.
998. Do you talk to your car? According to polls, more women do than men.
999. State sport of Maryland: Jousting.
1000. A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a
minute on the surface.
1001. If you put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of Coca - Cola, it will dissolve in 2 to 3
days.
1002. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
1003. Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
1004. Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
1005. Slow food: The average French citizen eats 500 snails a year.
1006. When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to
three times your body weight.
1007. One in eight Americans is considered poor, but one home in six has at least
three cars or trucks.
1008. Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
1009. The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
1010. If you’re typical, you can guess someone’s sex with 95% accuracy just by
smelling their breath.
1011. Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
1012. Only male fireflies can fly. 1013. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention,
you still have a 50% chance of survival.
1014. 30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse.
1015. Most popular soap opera in the world: Mexico’s “The Rich Also Cry”.
1016. The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
1017. Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans!
1018. During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.
1019. 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any
magazine subscriptions!
1020. Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!
1021. Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
1022. Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend
check of about $1000 per year!
1023. What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
1024. The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first
class meal: $50.
1025. 15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake.
1026. The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna
salad mix for troops in Europe.
1027. Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting
water. 1028. Fattest newspaper ever printed: New York Times, October 17, 1965 at 946
pages. It weighed 7 ? lbs.
1029. About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.
1030. Mammal rule of thumb: in just about every species, the female lives longer
than the male.
1031. Whoopi Golberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
1032. Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana. No word on which
they like the most.
1033. Nearly 50% of the world’s scientists are assigned to military projects.
1034. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.
1035. Are you one of the 33% of the population who can’t snap their fingers?
1036. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 3 favorite foods: frog legs, pig knuckles, and
scrambled eggs.
1037. Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in
wet marshes.
1038. The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.
1039. Hollywood fashion tip: wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera;
green, smaller.
1040. It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the
world.
1041. If you put a T-Bone steak in a bowl of Coca - Cola, it will dissolve in 2 to 3
days.
1042. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed. 1043. To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles…that’s where
the word “testimony” comes from.
1044. Attics were invented in Attica.
1045. Woof! If your dog lives to age 11, you’ll have spent more than $13,000 on
him/her.
1046. The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
1047. Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those
who don't .
1048. 35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually .
1049. A moth has no stomach.
1050. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
1051. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
1052. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a
nuclear war.
1053. The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab
Fisherman.
1054. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5
million.
1055. A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.
1056. A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
1057. About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed
to light.
1058. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic. 1059. All babies are color blind when they are born.
1060. Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal,
and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
1061. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight
weeks old.
1062. Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than
children who are not.
1063. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
1064. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
1065. About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
1066. Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
1067. An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts
and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
1068. Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with
fine linen.
1069. By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a
room, you can eliminate odors.
1070. Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found
in the bodies of majority of Americans.
1071. In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology
to see through people's clothes.
1072. It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States. 1073. Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is
actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
1074. Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
1075. Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air
density.
1076. In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans
every year.
1077. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of
fresh water.
1078. Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it
will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
1079. A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the
atmosphere.
1080. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow
backwards.
1081. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
1082. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
1083. Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
1084. Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
1085. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
1086. Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you
could see his moves. That is the opposite of the norm.
1087. Cleopatra married two of her brothers. 1088. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
1089. Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were
made of plaster.
1090. King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
1091. Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands
together approximately 140,000 times to clap.
1092. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
1093. Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
1094. Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
1095. Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in
antifreeze.
1096. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because
the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
1097. The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
1098. The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack
Johnson in 1922.
1099. The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home
is liquid dish soap.
1100. The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
1101. The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give
to soldiers.
1102. The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
1103. There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996. 1104. Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters
using materials from its own waste.
1105. There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter
population of two hundred people.
1106. U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
1107. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They
make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song.
1108. When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did
not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
1109. In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
1110. Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy
bones.
1111. Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
1112. Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment
and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
1113. Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down
tumor growth.
1114. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday
edition of The New York Times.
1115. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
1116. Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire. 1117. The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that
comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator
sports combined.
1118. The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’, which refers
to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
1119. Reno, Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles, California.
1120. New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of
Monaco.
1121. Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
1122. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
1123. There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every
day of the year.
1124. Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
1125. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
1126. The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
1127. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
1128. Malcolm X's real name is Malcolm Little.
1129. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of
radiation poisoning.
1130. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
1131. Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for ‘Ladies Love Cool James’.
1132. The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow
because it took him a long time to learn how to speak. 1133. To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
1134. Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
1135. Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
1136. One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their
livelihood !
1137. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
1138. Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
1139. Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
1140. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing
tears.
1141. Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
1142. Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
1143. Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
1144. For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest
easier.
1145. Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf
balls.
1146. Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made
from recycled tin.
1147. During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.
1148. Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as
President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later
dropped. 1149. At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that
it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
1150. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
1151. Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
1152. Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
1153. The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67
million.
1154. The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
1155. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
1156. Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
1157. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh
Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
1158. Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
1159. A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared
to pavement.
1160. Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
1161. Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
1162. Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
1163. Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
1164. The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size!
1165. With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
1166. It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to
travel from the core of the sun to it's surface. 1167. One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
1168. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood
clot in the brain.
1169. A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
1170. A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will
be there in a jiffy.
1171. Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
1172. It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
1173. 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
1174. It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of
pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
1175. Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
1176. The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow
branches until it is 75 years old.
1177. In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.
1178. New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
1179. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine
years.
1180. A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to
pay a special tax.
1181. An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day,
resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
1182. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year. 1183. During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately
2.5 billion times.
1184. Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that
are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
1185. A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1
in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having
twins is 1 in 9.
1186. Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is
three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
1187. In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
1188. The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
1189. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire
population of Australia.
1190. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the
combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
1191. Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more
often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
1192. In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the
Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
1193. In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week,
while Judy Garland was $500 a week.
1194. James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
1195. Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly. 1196. Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton
College located in the state of New York in 1996.
1197. A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help
you live longer!
1198. President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the
same Italian shoemaker!
1199. Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East
than the Atlantic entrance.
1200. Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!
1201. The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
1202. Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!
1203. First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or
older!
1204. The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than
16,000 Native Americans live there.
1205. In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
1206. Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.
1207. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!
1208. Apple seeds are poisonous!
1209. In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery
store!
1210. In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and
cook it for dinner! 1211. Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
1212. In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato
research!
1213. Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
1214. Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!
1215. Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!
1216. McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
1217. The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!
1218. Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!
1219. You can start a fire with ice.
1220. It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in
which it is produced!
1221. Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
1222. A caesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second!.
1223. A starfish doesn't have a brain.
1224. The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.
1225. If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get
pi to the fifteenth digit!
1226. A piece of paper can be folded no more than 9 times.
1227. The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount
needed aboard the space shuttle.
1228. Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping. 1229. Whitby has more doughnut shops per capita than any other place in the
world.
1230. The billionth digit of pi is 9.
1231. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
1232. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
1233. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
1234. Alligators cannot move backwards
1235. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down
1236. Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes
1237. A gold fish's memory span is three seconds
1238. The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span
1239. Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day
1240. The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts
1241. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton
1242. Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendix removed when not
required everyday
1243. 97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to
pack their own
1244. Your brain is 80% water
1245. 400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow
1246. The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet
1247. If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge
hidden in the background 1248. 10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years
whether they need to or not.
1249. 5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawl
symptoms if they miss an episode.
1250. At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in
the White House bathtub
1251. Taft also had a special re-enforced steel dining chair.
1252. The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye
1253. The end of a hammer, oppostie the striking end, is called a peen
1254. Spat-out food is called chanking
1255. Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox
1256. Eosophobia is the fear of dawn
1257. Groaking is the art of watching people eating food, hoping they'll offer you
some.
1258. Dibble means to drink like a duck
1259. Lee Harvey Osawald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600
1260. Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of
quarters crushed him.
1261. Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella
1262. Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large
cockroaches
1263. A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years
1264. National pi day is March 14 1265. Those things on the end of shoelaces called Aglets
1266. Zarf is the holder of a handleless coffee cup
1267. Niel Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot
1268. Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to
light.
1269. The sun is NOT the biggest star in the universe.
1270. Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was
thought to indicate laziness
1271. Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr.
1272. Peope DO NOT get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
1273. The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cm?
1274. Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philidelphia, PA
1275. The revolving door was invented in 1888
1276. Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first
ever underground school
1277. The first recorded occurance of a Tornado was June 10, 1682
1278. The first umbrellas were used in Windsor, Connecticut, 1740
1279. The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984
1280. The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in
The USA'
1281. Their are only two types of pig: American and European
1282. Cows have four stomachs
1283. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart. 1284. A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp
1285. A Dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps
1286. Your skin is the heaviest organ
1287. Those stars and colours you see when you close and rub your eyes are called
phosphenes
1288. The human brain stops growing at the age of 18
1289. Sneezes can travel over 100 mph
1290. 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube
1291. Only 7% of the population are lefties.
1292. A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
1293. Gavin, from the band Bush, has an innie belly button (
1294. Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments
1295. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
1296. There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space
Oddessy
1297. The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes
1298. The Monoliths all have proportional sizes of 1x4x9
1299. Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital in the USA without a mcdonalds
1300. There are 13 blimps in the world, nine are in the USA
1301. Most car horns beep in the key of 'F'
1302. Emus can't walk backwards
1303. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have 10
1304. Our eyes never grow, our nose and ears never stop growing 1305. Camels' milk can't curdle
1306. Most hamsters blink one eye at a time
1307. It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound
1308. No word in the English language rhymes with month
1309. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6
years old
1310. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenoulsly. (who would try to
inject nutmeg?)
1311. Most common name in the world is Mohammed
1312. Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older
1313. The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan
1314. Uma Thurman doesn't have a innie or an outie bellybutton, but a 'stretch'.
1315. The guy in the Darth Vader suit didn't know that James Earl Jones was doing
the voice until the screenplay.
1316. It takes a half a gallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to
clean the pot.
1317. The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines
1318. A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body
1319. Brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pickup truck
1320. Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart
was the center of thought.
1321. Queen Elizabeth was good friends with William Shakespeare
1322. The most popular ice cream flavour is vanilla 1323. The world sheep population is approx. 1,202,920,000
1324. The world cattle population is approx. 1,294,604,000
1325. The world goat population is approx. 94,266,000
1326. The world pig population is approx. 857,099,000
1327. The world camel population is 19,627,000
1328. The longest recorded lifespan of a camel was 35 years, 5 months
1329. The longest recorded lifespan of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
1330. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines
1331. The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items.
1332. In honour of Johan Vaaler, inventor of the paper clip, a proportional 221/2
paper clip was erected in Oslo, Norway
1333. Yasir Arafat is addicted to watching television cartoons
1334. Augustus Caeser had achluophobia -- the fear of sitting in the dark
1335. Queen Elizabeth I had anthophobia -- the fear of roses
1336. Tonsurphobia is the fear of haircuts
1337. Lee Harvey Oswald was dyslexic
1338. Beaver Cleaver graduated in 1953
1339. 78% of cats never travel with their owners
1340. 44% of hotels allow pets into the rooms
1341. September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awarness week
1342. November 29 is National Sinky day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship
it
1343. The toothbrush was invented in 1498 1344. The term 'The Real McCoy' was coined in the 1880's
1345. The term 'Rock N' Roll' was coined in 1951
1346. Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate
1347. Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90°
1348. The opening day of the Montreal summer Olypics was only 21° celsius
1349. A sysygy occures when all the planets of our Solar System line up
1350. The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second
1351. The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles
1352. Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines
which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
1353. The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven
1354. The most common letters in english are R S T L N E
1355. 'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon
1356. 'A man a plan a canal Panama' is also a palindrome
1357. Mount Olympus Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest
1358. Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey
1359. The number one most popular cat name is kitty
1360. The number one most popular dog name is Brandy
1361. A golf ball has 360 dimples
1362. The waffle was invented on August 24, 1869
1363. Most toilets flush in E flat
1364. 2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every
day 1365. Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of
Canada
1366. The average person will drink 8,000 gallons of water during their lifetime.
1367. The average housefly lives for one month
1368. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
1369. To keep cool, Ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat
1370. Approx. 25,200 umbrellas are lost each year on the London transit system
1371. Aprrox. 5,600 umbrellas are lost each year on the Toronto transit system
1372. The perefect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch
1373. August 8th is the start of 'National Pickle Week'
1374. December 17th is Wright Brother's day
1375. The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10 3/4 inches tall
1376. 5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans
1377. 1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it
1378. There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
1379. In 1977, a 13-year-old kid found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
1380. Penguins can jump 6 feet.
1381. There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.
1382. Houseflies hum in the middle octave key of F
1383. A necropsy is an autopsy on animals
1384. EEG stands Electroencephalogram
1385. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightend 1386. By the time they reach grade 12, an American will have been in school for
about 17,000 hours
1387. 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day
1388. When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony
without socks
1389. The average acre of corn contains 7.2 million kernals
1390. It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
1391. The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001
1392. The average web page contains 500 words
1393. It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
1394. The 7th most common word used on the ineternet is 'HTML'
1395. The 42nd most common word used on the internet is 'INFORMATION'
1396. Cows poop 16 times per day.
1397. Cows produce around 30 kg of manure per day
1398. There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple
1399. There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'orange'
1400. It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a rubix cube puzzle
1401. If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns
1402. The holes in fly swatters are used to lower air resistance
1403. The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam
1404. 'Party Party Day' is occurs when the day equals the month. Oct. is the 10th
month so Oct. 10 would be Party Party Day
1405. Party Party Day is just an excuse to have a party 1406. It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan
1407. 51% of turns are right turns
1408. A group of goats is called a trip
1409. A group of hares is called a Husk
1410. A group of finches is called a Charm
1411. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
1412. acrophobia is the fear of heights
1413. nycrophobia is the fear of dakness
1414. zoophobia is the fear of animals
1415. claustrophobia is the fear of small spaces
1416. pyrophobia is the fear of fire
1417. entomophobia is the fear of insects
1418. xenophoia is the fear of strangers
1419. agaraphobia is the fear of open spaces
1420. An ostriche's eye is bigger than its brain
1421. In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a
private home
1422. The average American has $104 in their wallet
1423. 64% of the population can roll their tongue
1424. The averge womens' handbag weighs between 3 and 5 pounds
1425. Most people button thier shirt upwards
1426. The averagae American butt is 14.9 in. long
1427. Hamsters do bot blink 1428. There are only 4 flavours of plain M&Ms
1429. More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever
made
1430. There are 450 hairs in an average eyebrow.
1431. 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a
thunderstorm.
1432. The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member
1433. The average person spends 40 years cleainging.
1434. The record distance for cherry pit spitting is 95 feet, 7 inches.
1435. The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.
1436. March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day.
1437. Neil Armstrong's full name is Neil Alden Armstrong
1438. Cats have 5 pads on thier front feet, four on their back feet.
1439. Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays, and Fridays (
1440. Smart people have more zinc in their hair.
1441. The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot
1442. The name of the girl on the Statue of Liberty is Mother of Exiles
1443. A signature is called a John Hancock because he signed the Declaration of
Independce.
1444. Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last
person signed 2 years later.
1445. A duck's quack has no echo.
1446. Lemons have more sugar than oranges. 1447. 3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.
1448. There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.
1449. The lining of your digestive system is shed every 3 days.
1450. The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat.
1451. In England it is in the key of G.
1452. Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat.
1453. The sound of knuckles cracking is generated by imploding synovial fluid.
1454. A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees farenheit.
1455. Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number
13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.
1456. In 1946, the first TV toy commericial aired. It was for Mr. Potato head.
1457. 63 years ago (as of 2001) the Bugs Bunny prototype appeared in Porky's Hair
Hunt.
1458. April 30 is National Honesty Day.
1459. The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains
1460. Mozart wrote the nusery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.
1461. Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs.
1462. Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
1463. There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State
building.
1464. The world record for keeping a Polo in the mouth with the hole intact is 7
hours and 10 minutes. 1465. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
1466. Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.
1467. A duck has three eyelids.
1468. 70% of dust of house dust is dead skin cells.
1469. the only animal with four knees is the elephant.
1470. Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoes.
1471. the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches .
1472. A rat can go longer without water than a camel.
1473. the human tooth has about 55 miles of canals in it.
1474. in the Phillippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.
1475. a chicken is the only animal that is eaten before it is born and after it is dead.
1476. weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald Mcdonald
1477. your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
1478. every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in
Syria in 1930.
1479. a pig always sleeps on its right side.
1480. there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten
opening moves in a chess game.
1481. one year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
1482. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
1483. When opossums are hanging upside-down, they are not playing. It is from
shear terror. 1484. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, the New Hampshire town hall,
you are entitled to receive $10 from the town.
1485. The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.
1486. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
1487. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
1488. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box
1489. All porcupines float in water.
1490. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
1491. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
1492. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
1493. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when
the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
1494. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several
times a year with new growth.
1495. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
1496. Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg. (
1497. Polar bears are left-handed.
1498. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
1499. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
1500. The only bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird.
1501. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. 1502. Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.
1503. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
1504. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
1505. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.
1506. The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis.
1507. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
1508. St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.
1509. In his book 'The Insects', naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid
reproductive cycle is so rapid that the females are born pregnant.
1510. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
1511. You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females
hiss.
1512. Cat's urine glows under a black light
1513. the starfish is the only animal that can turn it's stomach inside out.
1514. The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump. (So...whales can?
So why are they beached if they can just jump back in the sea? Weird...)
1515. Only only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
1516. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then
the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then
swallows the stomach back 1517. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a
skein.
1518. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
1519. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
1520. A group of whales is called a pod.
1521. A group of ravens is called a murder.
1522. A group of officers is called a mess.
1523. A group of larks is called an exaltation.
1524. A group of owls is called a parliament.
1525. A group of frogs is called an army.
1526. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
1527. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
1528. Armadillos can be housebroken.
1529. Some Dolphin species sleep with one eye open.
1530. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about
thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor.
It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring,
relax
1531. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
1532. Mosquitoes have teeth.
1533. The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly.
1534. Slugs have 4 noses. 1535. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have
recently eaten bananas.
1536. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
1537. Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
1538. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
1539. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern
of whiskers.
1540. A jellyfish is 95% water.
1541. Horses and rabbits cannot vomit.
1542. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
1543. Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) border collie 2)poodle 3)golden retriever.
1544. Dumbest dog: Afghan Hound
1545. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
1546. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandpit.
1547. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
1548. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the "American Pie.", hence the
song.
1549. Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz
Picasso.
1550. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real
brothers. (Moe, Curly and Shemp) 1551. Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents
thought he was mentally retarded.
1552. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
1553. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
1554. 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.'
1555. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
1556. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
1557. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's
Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
1558. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was
host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.'
1559. Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
1560. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
1561. Paul Reiser is playing the piano in the 'Mad About You' theme.
1562. Charles de Gaulle's final words were, 'It hurts.'
1563. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
1564. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
1565. Dr. Seuss pronounced 'Seuss' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice.'
1566. Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
1567. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.' 1568. Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.' (Thats right: he
painted his door yellow, and the phrase was corrupted of "Lemonentry, my dear
Watson")
1569. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
1570. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant
'plenty of excrement.'
1571. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
1572. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
1573. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce
Brothers
1574. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
1575. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool.
1576. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
1577. Hugh 'Ward Cleaver' Beaumont was an ordained minister.
1578. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
1579. Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
1580. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
1581. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
1582. Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and
Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less
than eighty miles apart.
1583. The state of Florida is bigger than England. 1584. Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches
per year.
1585. Many people think that the clock in the Houses Of Parliment is called 'Big
Ben.' Actually, the nickname 'Big Ben' originally applied to the huge bell in the
clock, not to the clock itself.
1586. Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
1587. The only nation whose name begins with an 'A', but doesn't end in an 'A' is
Afghanistan.
1588. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
1589. 'Three dog night' (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because
on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs to keep from
freezing.
1590. The Speaker of the House of Commons is not allowed to speak opinion.
1591. The Prime Minister cannot speak in Th House of Commons without
permission
1592. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same
height as the U.S. flag.
1593. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
1594. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon,
and Elvis Presley.
1595. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more
like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. 1596. In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the
tears won't flow.
1597. Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the
accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for
each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for
example, is 510-520 cycles
1598. "Evaluation and Parameterisation of Stability and Safety Performance
Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a
$230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, to study the variou
1599. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
1600. Several varieties of lightning have been identified by meteorologists. In the
so-called "Positive Giant" type, the temperature of the lightning bolt reaches
30,000 degrees Celsius, over five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
1601. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.
1602. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The
"crack" of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.
1603. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on
backwards.
1604. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
1605. The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer
foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons. 1606. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will
digest itself.
1607. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
1608. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other
weather.
1609. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
1610. Every person has a unique tongue print.
1611. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
1612. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
1613. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
1614. Men get hiccups more often than women.
1615. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
1616. Hot water is heavier than cold.
1617. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
1618. You are born with 300 bones but only have 206 after reaching adulthood.
1619. Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.
1620. 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.
1621. The Battle of New Orleans, in which Andrew Jackson's U.S. forces routed "the
bloody british", was fought on Janurary 8, 1815, two weeks after the War of 1812
was officially ended by the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 1622. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6
people were injured.
1623. The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield
was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.
1624. John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000
1625. Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time
1626. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
1627. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when
patients would die.
1628. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
1629. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
1630. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska
1631. Elephant trunks can hold 4 gallons of water.
1632. More people die annually from donkeys than plane crashes
1633. The best working light-bulb a LONG time ago was a thread of sheep's wool
coated with carbon
1634. The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid
1635. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because
there's no air pressure
1636. Mike Neismith (the guitarist of The Monkeys)'s mom invented White Out.
1637. On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of
dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds! 1638. The largest crossword puzzle ever contained 82,951 squares. It had 12,489
clues across, and 13,125 down. It was created by Robert Turcot, from Quebec.
1639. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
1640. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
1641. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
1642. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
1643. The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be
straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other
emergencies.
1644. The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can
sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
1645. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have only about ten.
1646. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
1647. In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a superman somewhere.
1648. February 1965 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
1649. The cruise liner, Queen Elisabeth II, moves only six inches for every gallon of
diesel fuel that it burns.
1650. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every major
Dewey Decimal category.
1651. Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City, after
the Catholic Church. 1652. Cat urine glows under a black light.
1653. Back in the mid-80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100%
compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
1654. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
1655. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
1656. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child is 2-6
years of age.
1657. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
1658. 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.
1659. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
1660. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually that all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1661. No NFL team which plays its home games in a dome has ever won a
Superbowl.
1662. The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver".
1663. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of the city was burned down but only
6 people were injured.
1664. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw them as competitors.
1665. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
1666. The name Wendy was made up for the book -"Peter Pan". 1667. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
1668. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog
then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows
the stomach back d
1669. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode
past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
1670. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar, in
"Midnight Cowboy". Her entire role lasted only 6 minutes.
1671. Charles Lindburgh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous
transatlantic flight.
1672. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he
had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
1673. Stewardesses is the longest word that is formally typed with only the left
hand.
1674. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always the same sex.
1675. To escape the jaws of a crocodile, push your thumbs into its eyes - it will
release you instantly.
1676. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will come up heads approximately 4950
times because the heads picture weighs more than the tails side, so it ends up on
the bottom more often. 1677. Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones is the longest anagram in the English
language.
1678. Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles
de Pornciuncula.
1679. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
1680. Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
1681. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
1682. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubbles'
maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
1683. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
1684. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
1685. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharoh Ramses II, who
fathered over 160 children.
1686. If NASA send birds into space, they would soon die because birds need
gravity to swallow.
1687. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
1688. The computer term "byte" is a contraction of "by eight".
1689. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
1690. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the
first letter ("shin", pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom". As a boy, Leonard
Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; he was
eventually able 1691. The idea that "the Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,
who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today, and
attack passing ships.
1692. Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends
with the letters "und"
1693. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was
Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
1694. Coca-Cola was originally green.
1695. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
1696. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
1697. City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
1698. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
1699. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
1700. ercentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
1701. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
1702. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
1703. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
1704. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
1705. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
1706. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
1707. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
1708. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments 1709. 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.
1710. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air,
the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died
as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the
ground, th
1711. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last
signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
1712. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
1713. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun
ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If
the pilots fired all t
1714. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
1715. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated
that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 1716. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must
be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other
emergencies.
1717. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General
Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
1718. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.
1719. The first NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium to win a
Superbowl was the St. Louis Rams in 1999.
1720. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major
League all-stars Game
1721. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague.
Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the
rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers
on their bodies somewhere (i
1722. Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? A. No
theme song.
1723. Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace.
1724. Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name
requested? A. Obsession 1725. Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand
1726. Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common? A. All invented by women.
1727. Q. This is the only food that doesn't spoil. A. Honey
1728. Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year. A.
Father's Day
1729. Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
1730. 40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
1731. An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor
are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite
from each. They will all taste sweet.
1732. The estimated number of M & M's sold each day in the United States is
200,000,000.
1733. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
1734. Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
1735. A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. (I'm
going home to boil an egg tonight)
1736. Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
1737. Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a
year. 1738. Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in
one year. (which is more than real money printed in a year)
1739. 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1740. No word in the English language rhymes with "month".
1741. If you put a raisin in a champagne bottle, it will rise and fall continuously.
1742. The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.
1743. In Canada, if a debt is higher than 25 cents, it is illegal to pay it with pennies.
1744. Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the United States.
1745. Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States
1746. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You
also have the largest amount of money in U.S. coins without being able to make
change for a dollar
1747. If you are hedenophobic, you have a fear of pleasure.
1748. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in
alphabetical order.
1749. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more
like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more
often.
1750. The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess
1751. There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE
SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper
1752. Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C." 1753. The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its
actual name is an octothorpe
1754. The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one
syllable – it has three.
1755. The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term
meaning "for example."
1756. Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
1757. This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR
HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
1758. For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are
killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to
Lefties
1759. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter
of the alphabet!
1760. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable"!
1761. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from
starvation.
1762. The state of Florida is bigger than England!
1763. The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of
course)
1764. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
1765. Kangaroos can't walk backwards. 1766. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
1767. An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain.
1768. There are more chickens than people in the world.
1769. Dolphins sleep with 1 eye open.
1770. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
1771. All polar bears are left handed.
1772. Elephants can't jump.
1773. Butterflies taste with their feet.
1774. A sperm whale produces 60 litres of sperm and has a 12ft penis.
1775. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
1776. Bats use ultrasounds to pick up vibrations from their prey.
1777. Dolphins and humans are the only animals on the planet that have sex for
pleasure.
1778. Cows can't vomit.
1779. It is impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.
1780. On average everyone farts once per hour.
1781. Farts are highly flammable.
1782. Adults produce between 200mls - 2 litres of fart per day.
1783. The amount you fart is increased by stress, onions, cabbage and beans.
1784. Vegetarians fart more, but their's smell less.
1785. Two thirds of 17 year olds have at least one wet dream per month.
1786. 95 % of men & 60% of women admit to having masturbated at some point. 1787. The average male ejaculation is 3-4 mls worth and contains 300 million
sperm.
1788. Adult male wild boar produce 0.5 litres per ejaculate.
1789. 20% of men experience premature ejaculation.
1790. Sperm have to swim 100,000 times their length to get a woman pregnant.
That's the equivalent of man swimming over 100 miles in one go.
1791. 10% of straight British couples have regular anal sex.
1792. 62% of men aged 80-102 have regular sex.
1793. All these have been used to make condoms through history:
1794. Linen, tortoiseshell, leather, silk, sheep gut.
1795. 68% of 16-19 year old men always use condoms during sex, 18% usually and
3% sometimes.
1796. Left testicles usually hang lower than the right.
1797. 21.9% of UK men's penises are circumcised.
1798. Average penis size is 5 - 9.5cm flaccid and 12.5 - 17.5cm erect.
1799. On average, you produce 200g of poo per day.
1800. UK boy's voices normally break between the ages of 13-15.
1801. An average head has between 100,000 - 150,000 hairs.
1802. Hair on your head grows at 10 - 13mm per month.
1803. Nails grow at 3mm per month.
1804. Even a long human life only adds up to about 650,000 hours.
1805. Life on Earth dates back 3.8 billion years. 1806. If the Earth was the size of a golf ball, the Sun would be the size of a washing
machine.
1807. Happy Birthday was the first song to be played in outer-space.
1808. Some astronomers believe there may be a tenth planet (Planet X) in our
solar system, perhaps as much as ten times the size of Jupiter, but so far away as
to be invisible to us.
1809. An object weighing 100 pounds on Earth would weight just 38 pounds on
Mars.
1810. Nobody is quite sure how big Pluto is, what kind of atmosphere it has, or
what it is made of!
1811. Space is a vacuum which means sound can't travel. Hence, "Nobody can
hear you scream in space"!
1812. A manned mission to Mars (called for by the first President Bush) was quietly
dropped when someone worked out it would cost $450 billion and would probably
kill all the crew.
1813. About 4.4 billion years ago, an object about the size of Mars crashed into the
Earth, blowing off enough material to form a companion sphere - the Moon.
1814. Based on what we know and can reasonably imagine, there is no chance of
any human travelling beyond the edge of our solar system, ever. It is just too far.
1815. If you were randomly inserted into the universe, the chances that you would
be on or near a planet are less then one in a billion trillion trillion. (The is a lot of
space in Space!) 1816. When we see stars in the sky, we are not seeing them as they currently are,
but how they were the number of light years they are away from Earth.
1817. 99.9 % of the mass in our solar system went to make up the Sun.
1818. Edmond Halley did not discover the comet that bears his name, he merely
recognized that it was the same one that had been seen before.
1819. The Earth spins beneath you at between 1,000 - 1,600 kilometres an hour,
depending on where you are.
1820. Isaac Newton understood the laws of gravity some 40 years before he made
his findings public.
1821. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 150 million kilometres.
1822. The Milky Way's nearest neighbour is 4.3 million light years away - a hundred
million times further then the Moon. It is a three-star cluster known as Alpha
Centauri.
1823. 98% of all matter that exists was created by the Big Bang.
1824. The Earth weighs roughly 6 billion trillion metric tonnes.
1825. 1 in 10 Americans don't know that the Sun is a star.
1826. If all the people in China stood on a chair and jumped off at exactly the same
time, they could knock the earth out of orbit.
1827. When Coca-Cola first appeared in China, they used characters that sounded
like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, they translated as "Bite the wax
tadpole". It did not sell well.
1828. No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or
purple. 1829. Mel Blanc (the original voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
1830. The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
1831. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, hence the name.
1832. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike every year than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
1833. If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person
died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the
person die
1834. A whale's penis is called a dork.
1835. If you live in Michigan its illegal to place a skunk in your bosses desk.
1836. The last dodo bird died in 1681.
1837. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, whereas dogs only have about 10.
1838. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
countries because Colgate translates as, "Go hang yourself."
1839. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada!