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