Random Facts …
1. If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees
Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
2. If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432
direct ancestors - assuming no incest was involved.
3. The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
4. It would take a modern spaceship 70,000 years to get to the nearest star to
earth.
5. An asteroid wiped out every single dinosaur in the world, but not a single
species of toad or salamander was affected. No one knows why, nor why the
crocodiles and tortoises survived.
6. If you dug a well to the centre of the Earth, and dropped a brick in it, it would
take 45 minutes to get to the bottom - 4,000 miles down.
7. Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
8. The Earth weighs 6,500 million million million tons.
9. Honey is the only food consumed by humans that doesn’t go off.
10. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
11. A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can’t.
12. Everytime you sneeze your heart stops a second.
13. There are 22 miles more canals in Birmingham UK than in Venice.
14. Potato crisps were invented by a Mr Crumm.
15. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.
16. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow but none for hello.
17. The word “set” has the most definitions in the English language.
18. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.
19. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
20. The “Sixth Sick Sheik’s Sixth Sheep’s Sick” is the hardest tongue-twister.
21. The longest English word without a vowel is twyndyllyngs which means
“twins”.
22. 1 x 8 + 1 = 9; 12 x 8 + 2 = 98; 123 x 8 + 3 = 987; 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876; 12345
x 8 + 5 = 98765; 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654; 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543;
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432; 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
23. The word “dreamt” is the only common word in the English language that
ends in “mt”.
24. Albert Einstein never wore any socks.
25. The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime.
26. In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.
27. Hummingbirds are the only creatures that can fly backwards.
28. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
29. Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads before they starve to death.
30. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
31. The lighter was invented before the match.
32. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
34. Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not
tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
35. The first Internet domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March
15, 1985.
36. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone back in 1876, only six
phones were sold in the first month.
37. Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
38. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5
million.
39. In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola,
Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
40. In Canada, the most productive day of the working week is Tuesday.
41. In a study by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the
easiest colour to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the
Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow.
42. It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday
edition of The New York Times.
43. On average a business document is copied 19 times.
44. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India,
employing over 1.6 million people.
45. 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.
46. All babies are colour-blind when they are born.
47. Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
48. Each nostril of a human being registers smells in a different way. Smells that
are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells
can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril.
49. Humans are born with 350 bones in their body, however when a person
reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them
join together to make a single bone.
50. May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other
months.
51. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
52. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
53. Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian
Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
54. Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy
Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman’s son was engaged to Mandy Smith’s
mother. If his son had married Smith’s mother, Wyman would have been the step
grandfather to his own wife.
55. There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
56. There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
57. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
58. Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15
times a day.
59. The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
60. There is cyanide in apple pips.
61. If you were to take 1 lb. of spiders web and stretch it out it would circle the
whole way around the world!
62. If every person in China stood on a chair and jumped off at the same time…it
would knock the earth off its axis!
63. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
64. The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just
38 minutes.
65. The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that
sold seashells.
66. The symbols + (addition) and - (subtraction) came into general use in 1489.
67. If you save one penny and double it every successive day, (day two you have
2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on), by the end of 30 days
you’ll have $5,368,708! (or ?’s or whatever currency).
68. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns
the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows
this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
69. 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.
70. The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty-five miles long.
71. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks, K2 is taller than Mt. Everest.
72. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
73. There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions
of stars.
74. The surface area of the lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
75. A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds
that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10
feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.
76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change the colouring of
its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The sole takes about 4 minutes
to make the change.
77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of
more people than any other animal.
78. In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a bible,
men swore to the truth on their statements while holding their genitals. Hence the
word ‘testify’, from ‘testicles’.
79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and
Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.
80. If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be 57 Asians,
21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. Only 1 would own a
computer.
81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up
of all fat and no bone.
82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States.
84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood.
85. It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which
also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.
86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
87. An octopus has 3 hearts.
88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never
end because of the rate of reproduction.
89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they
appear white.
90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
91. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read this: “A
rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so
broad, that a person could swim through it.
93. A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed person
because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force than a righthanded person. However a right-handed person will find it easier to tighten the
jar up afterwards.
94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun.
95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the
keyboard.
97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than
to the east.
98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound).
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1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the
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101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two
Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in
Brazil, the world's widest road.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the
U.S.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A
meaningless existential hell."
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the
Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American
anthem.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the
American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian
anthem.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so
you can eat your plate.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a
least twenty minutes to stop.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of
the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
27. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall
child inside.
29. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to
7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.
Wow.
35. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
36. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a
cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband
doesn't give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less
groove.
42. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of
water.
43. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by
Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking
in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks
like they are actually talking.
47. A whale's penis is called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they
were 30.
49. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to
make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for
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According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to
commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be
hanged for trying.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore
were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on
4:20.
All porcupines float in water.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up
by automobiles.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3
men.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get
leprosy.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all
the same sex.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king. This custom has become the
modern military salute.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose
name meant "plenty of excrement."
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool.
He changed it every 2 innings.
70. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until
the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
71. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
72. Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer
wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it
could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
73. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
74. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
76. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to
local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for
one flavor: Mint Oreo.
77. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation
in the Western Pacific.
78. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald
Reagan.
79. Bubble gum contains rubber.
80. Camel's milk does not curdle.
81. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from
blowing sand.
82. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
83. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
84. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs
can only produce about ten.
85. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on
his famous transatlantic flight.
86. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from
crying.
87. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted
people without killing them use to burn their houses down hence the expression "to get fired."
88. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and
Sonny Bono.
89. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New
York City, after the Catholic Church.
90. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star
Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he
was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he
saw the screening of the movie.
91. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
92. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a
year.
93. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
94. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he
doesn't wear pants.
95. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of
Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame
created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
96. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with
"rejoice."
97. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
"mt."
98. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered blood donors.
99. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food,
that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
100. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His
parents thought he might be retarded.
101. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
102. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
103. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several
weeks.
104. Every person has a unique tongue print.
105. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice
water over his head.
106. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.
107. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the
correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing
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arsenic."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to
have a full moon.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918,
by Charles Jung.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only
used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was
Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas
Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their
radio's newscast about the wreck.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
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.
Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that
makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and
hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front
legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one
front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds
received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground,
the person died of natural causes.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need
gravity to swallow.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New
Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from
the town.
125. 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.
126. 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.
127. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the
horizon will be about three statute miles away.
128. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting
on when patients would die.
129. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no
telephones - Bhutan.
130. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa
completely out of toast.
131. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his
cows.
132. In 75% of American households, women manage the money
and pay the bills.
133. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating
on their finals.
134. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty
word.
135. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
136. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman
somewhere.
137. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for
the first time are teenagers.
138. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are
automobiles.
139. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10.
140. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity,
so the tears can't flow.
141. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to
mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but
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did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why
your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt
down but only 6 people were injured.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said
"Play it again, Sam."
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and
spoons.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every
Dewey-decimal category.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one
pound.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and
about a gallon to clean the pot.
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. Then the frog uses its forearms to
dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the
stomach back down again.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in
Iceland.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in
Switzerland.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in
Omaha, Nebraska.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in
Kansas.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this
at home!)
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been
overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that
made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved
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that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for
$6,600 in 1992.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator
while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
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 original size: "L.A."
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as
much as President Bush in 1991.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a
McDonalds.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money
printed throughout the world.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
182. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
183. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to
clean elephants.
184. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, and purple.
185. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
186. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
187. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament Building is an American flag.
188. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper
left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a
spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
189. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
190. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as
is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
191. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
192. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
193. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
194. 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.
195. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.
196. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
197. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
198. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the
first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's
independence.
199. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
200. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
201. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
202. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If
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captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to
reveal a map for escape.
Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes
cover up their black nose with their paws.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry
pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the
name of any of the United States.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V
for 3 hours.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people
who have recently eaten bananas.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only
Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any
food.
Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand.
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 and correct itself.
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated
for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted
only six minutes.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag
at the same height as the U.S. flag.
221. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."
(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
222. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
223. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal
per year.
224. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
225. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
226. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
227. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at
night.
228. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
229. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
230. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
231. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in
the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
232. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same
color as grapejuice.
233. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a
boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under
an airplane.
234. 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".
235. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different
ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A roughcoated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through
the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he
coughed and hiccoughed."
236. The company providing the liability insurance for the
Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same
firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
237. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the
early 1500s.
238. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches
for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
239. The Earth weighs around
6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
240. 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.
241. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
242. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
243. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
244. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by
Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
245. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To
Beaver."
246. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
247. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
248. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest
point in Colorado.
249. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
250. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is
672.
251. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
252. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
253. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."
254. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
255. 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.
256. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take
into account the weight of all the books that would occupy
the building.
257. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
258. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable
distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will
clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth
at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This
would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones,
anyway.
259. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
260. 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."
261. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army
for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
262. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
263. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in
Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
264. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
265. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name
was Fred.
266. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating
a letter is uncopyrightable.
267. The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't
end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
268. 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-Star
Game.
269. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
270. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many
bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s,
the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring
separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
271. The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an
eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling
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matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was
allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke
someone's eye out.
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.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to
see all four feet at all times.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh
Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the
days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how
to walk up straight staircases.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk,
with the shutter on backwards.
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.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing
her hands in Jello.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's
stomach inside-out.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots
in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the
ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured
exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the
pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9
yards."
284. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ,
Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
285. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at
the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
286. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were
used.
287. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two
synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and
separate.
288. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
289. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian
phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
290. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate,
demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
291. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
292. The world population of chickens is about equal to the
number of people.
293. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
294. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
295. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
296. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
297. There are more chickens than people in the world.
298. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
299. There are only four words in the English language which end
in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous.
300. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are
in the United States.
301. There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.
302. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
303. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
304. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
305. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
306. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs
into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
307. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
308. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called
Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
309. Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads
in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a
weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides.
This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where
drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too
sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
310. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing."
They actually pass out from sheer terror.
311. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other
for food.
312. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football
at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
313. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith
(formerly of the Monkees).
314. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You"
theme? Paul Reiser himself.
315. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and
Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
316. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the
windmills in Ireland.
317. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
318. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
319. You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
320. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
321. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
322. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult,
you only have 206.
323. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than
in any other weather.
324. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
325. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you
breathe.
326. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two
weeks otherwise it will digest itself