A massive list of random fun facts about people, animals, places and things. Odd, interesting, funny, surprising, amazing and useless tidbits of random info for easily impressed people!
- Ants do not sleep.
- Uranus has 27 moons.
- A leech has 32 brains.
- A slug has four noses.
- Mosquitoes have teeth.
- Slugs have four noses.
- A chicken is 75% water.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- An elephant cannot jump.
- Starfish have no brains.
- A jellyfish is 95% water.
- An owl has three eyelids.
- Earthworms have 5 hearts.
- Dumbest Dog: Afghan hound.
- A honey bee has four wings.
- Bubble gum contains rubber.
- Camel’s have three eyelids.
- Emus cannot walk backwards.
- An octopus has three hearts.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- Rats and horses can’t vomit.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.
- The garfish has green bones.
- 98% of Japanese are cremated.
- A myrmecologist studies ants.
- Fido means faithful in Latin.
- Most toilets flush in E flat.
- Platypuses mate in the water.
- Reindeer like to eat bananas.
- Snake is a delicacy in China.
- Women smile more than men do.
- A rabbit is not able to vomit.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- Armadillos can be housebroken.
- Fried spiders taste like nuts.
- The pancreas produces Insulin.
- There are coffee flavored PEZ.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
- Over 80% of the brain is water.
- The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.
- There is cyanide in apple pips.
- There is no tipping in Iceland.
- Walt Disney had a fear of mice.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- 11% of the world is left-handed.
- A human eyeball weighs an ounce.
- A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
- An oyster can change its gender.
- Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
- Thailand used to be called Siam.
- The Beetham Tower has 47 floors.
- A baby kangaroo is called a joey.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
- Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
- In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
- Rabbits can live up to ten years.
- Unlike a frog a toad cannot jump.
- A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes.
- Adolf Hitler loved chocolate cake.
- An armadillo can walk under water.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.
- Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
- In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
- Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day.
- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
- Rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
- The name for insect poop is frass.
- Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.
- Women hearts beat faster than men.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Apples are part of the rose family.
- Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
- Girls have more tastebud than boys.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Most snakes have six rows of teeth.
- Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
- One out of 200 women is colorblind.
- Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights.
- Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.
- The human brain is about 75% water.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- There are no snakes in New Zealand.
- Water expands 9% when it is frozen.
- A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
- A group of crows is called a murder.
- A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- About 55% of all movies are rated R.
- Flies jump backwards during takeoff.
- Goats do not have upper front teeth.
- Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
- India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- Most dinosaurs walked on their toes.
- On a ship a toilet is called a head.
- One in ten people live on an island.
- Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
- Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
- 31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
- A 2″ X 4″ is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
- A group of tigers is called a streak.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
- An ear of corn consists of 80% water.
- Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
- Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
- Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
- Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
- Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
- The country code for Russia is “007”.
- The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly.
- The sun shrinks five feet every hour.
- The word Karate means, “empty hand.”.
- Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A turtle can breathe through its butt.
- Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
- Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
- Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “soyce”.
- Fear of clowns is called coulrophobia.
- One billion seconds is about 32 years.
- One in every 9000 people is an albino.
- Snake venom is ninety percent protein.
- Some snails live on branches in trees.
- The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
- The human face is made up of 14 bones.
- 25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.
- A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
- All penguins live south of the equator.
- Back in 1796, dimes were called dismes.
- Children grow faster in the springtime.
- Every continent has a city called Rome.
- Every person has a unique tongue print.
- Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
- In America, 38% of doctors are Indians.
- In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10.
- Mosquitoes prefer children over adults.
- Most fleas do not live past a year old.
- One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.
- One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
- The favorite honeymoon place is Hawaii.
- The first TONKA truck was made in 1947.
- There are five years in a quinquennium.
- There is a city in Norway called “Hell”
- 38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday.
- A “hairbreadth away” is 1/48 of an inch.
- A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A newly hatched fish is called a “fry.”.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
- Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient.
- Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
- Emus and kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
- Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
- Greece’s national anthem has 158 verses.
- Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year
- Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
- Spain leads the world in cork production
- The most common rock on Earth is basalt.
- The most popular grown bulbs are tulips.
- The name of the Taco Bell dog is Gidget.
- The Nile river is 6,690 kilometers long.
- The Olympic torch weighs about 3 pounds.
- The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
- The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
- There are over 58 million dogs in the US
- There is a town in Norway called “Hell”.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- A group of larks is called an exaltation.
- A group of whales is called a pod or gam.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- Another word for hiccups is “singultus.”.
- Blue Jays can imitate the calls of hawks.
- On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year.
- On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
- One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
- Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A.
- Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
- Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY.
- Ten radishes only contain eight calories.
- The #1 peanut producing state is Georgia.
- The average person laughs 10 times a day!
- The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
- The human body is comprised of 80% water.
- The human heart weighs less than a pound.
- There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
- “Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo.
- 1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian.
- A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day.
- After being picked an orange cannot ripen.
- Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
- Every 40,000 children are killed by fires.
- Every second, 630 steel cans are recycled.
- Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
- George Washington grew hemp in his garden.
- Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth.
- Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.
- In the U.S. 7 out of 10 homes use candles.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- Montreal is actually located on an island.
- Peaches were once known as Persian apples.
- Telephonophobia is the fear of telephones.
- The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
- The body of the average baby is 75% water.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
- The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
- The Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901.
- The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii.
- There are about 34,000 species of spiders.
- There are over 600 different pasta shapes.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- A cow has four compartments in its stomach.
- A lion feeds once every three to four days.
- A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger that it’s brain.
- Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
- Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.
- Hippos can live up to 40 years in the wild.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
- Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
- King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
- Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
- The average Super Bowl party has 18 people.
- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
- The Boeing 737 is nicknamed the Fat Albert.
- The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou.
- The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
- The meaning of Siberia is “sleeping land.”.
- The most popular pickle is the Dill pickle.
- The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.
- The study of twins is known as gemellology.
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
- There are 40 official jelly belly flavours.
- There are more pigs than humans in Denmark.
- There are some ice creams that are 75% air.
- While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate 85.
- Witchcraft means “Craft of the Wise Ones.”.
- You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
- “You” is the second most spoken English word
- A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.
- A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- Caterpillar means “hairy cat” in Old French.
- Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.
- Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
- Eating dandelions can make you urinate more.
- Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
- Every day 2,700 people die of heart disease.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
- Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.
- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
- Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
- One in five Americans move homes every year.
- Over 90% of poison exposures occur in homes.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
- The Australian box-jellyfish has eight eyes.
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
- The city of Tokyo was originally called Edo.
- The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.
- The human liver performs over 500 functions.
- The only state to grow pineapples is Hawaii.
- The state of Florida is bigger than England.
- The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.
- The word Spain means “the land of rabbits.”.
- The word Thailand means “land of the free.”.
- There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game
- There are over 1,800 known species of fleas.
- Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
- A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
- An individual coral animal is called a polyp.
- Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
- Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
- Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.
- Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.
- Elephants can’t jump. Every other mammal can.
- Greenland is the largest island in the world.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- In Las Vegas, casinos do not have any clocks.
- India has the most post offices in the world.
- Mickey Mouse is known as “Topolino” in Italy.
- Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky.
- Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
- On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it.
- Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL.
- Spiders have claws at the ends of their legs.
- Stalks of sugar cane can reach up to 30 feet.
- Strawberries are a member of the rose family.
- The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
- The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.
- The most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
- The patent number of the telephone is 174465.
- The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.
- The word Himalayas means the “home of snow.”.
- There are 315 species of parrot in the world.
- There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
- There is a dog museum in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Tina Turner’s real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
- Two million red blood cells die every second.
- US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”.
- Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
- “Pomology” is the science of growing an apple.
- 215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- American President John Tyler had 15 children.
- An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
- Brazil produces the most oranges in the world.
- Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible.
- Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
- Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
- Finland has 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands.
- Heavier lemons contain more and tastier juice.
- Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Krispy Kreme make five million doughnut a day.
- Mice will nurse babies that are not their own.
- More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.
- No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
- On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.
- On average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving.
- One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
- One out of four American households own a cat.
- Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away.
- Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
- Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.
- Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.
- The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands.
- The first fruit eaten on the moon was a peach.
- The food that people crave the most is cheese.
- The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting.
- The head of a jellyfish is called the “Bell.”.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The national sport of Japan is sumo wrestling.
- The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.
- The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
- The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
- The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.
- There are over 500 different types of bananas.
- Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.
- You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
- 1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight.
- 7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.
- 70% of the poor people in the world are female.
- 96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
- A fall of 30 feet can be survived my most cats.
- A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches.
- All babies are colour blind when they are born.
- An estimated 690 million people live in Africa.
- Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.
- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- Four out of five brides in the U.S. have a job.
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs.
- Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.
- In Colorado, there are about 83,000 dairy cows.
- Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.
- One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- Peladophobia refers to the fear of bald people.
- Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
- Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight.
- Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
- The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
- The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933.
- The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
- The fear of Halloween is called Samhainophobia.
- The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes.
- The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941.
- The tallest mammal in the world is the giraffe.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are approximately 60 muscles in the face.
- There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
- There is a city called Rome on every continent.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- To make an espresso 42 coffee beans are needed.
- Tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900-1920.
- Twit is the name given for a pregnant goldfish.
- You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- 66% of home based businesses are owned by women.
- A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day.
- A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.
- A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
- Another way to say “every 9 years” is Novennial.
- Another word to refer to old age is senectitude.
- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
- Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
- Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
- God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
- Heavier lemons produce more, and tastier, juice.
- In England, a cigarette is referred to as a fag.
- Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
- Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
- One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds.
- People still cut the cheese shortly after death.
- Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food.
- Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
- Some species of dolphin sleep with one eye open.
- Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
- The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
- The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
- The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
- The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937.
- The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000.
- The odds of having quadruplets are 1 in 729,000.
- The Snickers chocolate bar was invented in 1930.
- The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
- The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
- There are over 200 parts in a typical telephone.
- There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
- Twelve men have landed on and explored the moon.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- “Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
- 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of for to seven weeks.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
- Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R.
- Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.
- Barbie’s full name is “Babara Millicent Roberts.”
- Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13.
- Bugs Bunny was originally called “Happy Rabbit.”.
- Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers.
- Cubic Zirconia is 55% heavier than real diamonds.
- Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?.
- Each Jelly Belly jelly belly bean has 4 calories.
- Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
- Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older.
- Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe.
- In China, September 20 is “Love Your Teeth Day.”.
- In one trip, a honey bee visits about 75 flowers.
- It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy.
- Lake Ontario was originally named Lake St. Louis.
- Laredo, Texas is the U.S.’s farthest inland port.
- Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the USA.
- Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
- Mules have one horse and one donkey for a parent.
- Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
- Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened.
- The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon.
- The average human head weighs about eight pounds.
- The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks.
- The average office document gets copied 19 times.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands.
- The first ice hotel was built in Swedish Lapland.
- The hump of a camel can weigh up to 35 kilograms.
- The life expectancy of a $100 bill is nine years.
- The most expensive spice in the world is saffron.
- The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.
- The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume.
- The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years.
- There are 691 drinking fountains in the Pentagon.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987.
- US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
- 66% of wedding cards are hand delivered by people.
- 85% of weddings are held in a synagogue or church.
- A “gelotologist” is a person who studies laughter.
- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
- All of Chrysler’s PT Cruisers are built in Mexico.
- Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
- Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms.
- Copper is the second most used metal in the world.
- Crayola is a French word that means “Oily chalk.”.
- Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
- Indonesia consists only of islands – 13,667 total.
- It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate.
- Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
- New Mexico is known as the “Land of Enchantment.”.
- Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg.
- On average a business document is copied 19 times.
- On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
- One ton of grapes can produce 720 bottles of wine.
- Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath.
- Pearls are rarely found in North American oysters.
- Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
- Peter Falk, who played “Columbo,” has a glass eye.
- Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away.
- Roughly 42% of people in the United Kingdom snore.
- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from a mile away.
- Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
- The American Kestrel hawk weighs only four ounces.
- The Beetham Tower cost over £150 million to build.
- The blackberry bush is also called the “bramble.”.
- The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.
- The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds.
- The first lighthouse was in Alexandria in 290 B.C.
- The formula for Coca-cola has never been patented.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
- The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
- The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters.
- The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis.
- The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
- The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma.
- The word “sophomore” means “sophisticated moron.”.
- The word housekeeping was invented by Shakespeare.
- The world camel population is close to 19 million.
- There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.
- There are more than 640 muscles in the human body.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.
- There is an automobile model called Stutz Bearcat.
- They NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.
- Turkeys have a wingspan of approximately 4.5 feet.
- “I” is the most spoken word in the English language
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
- 500,000 kids in the US live in same sex households.
- A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel.
- A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
- A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
- A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
- About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
- Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.
- Each honeycomb in Honeycomb cereal has seven holes.
- Elvis Presley was obsessed with brushing his teeth.
- Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.
- Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.
- For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
- Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
- Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
- Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states.
- Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour.
- Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
- The act of sneezing is referred to as sternutation.
- The Eiffel Tower weight is approximately 9441 tons.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- The largest member of the dolphin family are orcas.
- The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years.
- The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
- The only predator that polar bears have are humans.
- The Taj Mahal was actually built for use as a tomb.
- There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.
- There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
- There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
- Two-thirds of Canadians live in Quebec and Ontario.
- Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
- A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
- A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
- Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours.
- An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
- Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.
- Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.
- Earl Dean developed the bottle design for Coca-Cola.
- Eating a banana at night can help in falling asleep.
- Every year, 100 million sharks are killed by people.
- France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
- Frozen food can be just as nutritious as fresh food.
- Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
- Half of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descent.
- If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one.
- In 1783, the hot air balloon was invented in France.
- In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water.
- In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch.
- In Australia, a dust-devil is called a “willy-willy.
- In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries.
- In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets.
- It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey.
- James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
- Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
- Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.
- Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.
- No president of the United States was an only child.
- No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”.
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
- Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date.
- Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
- Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
- Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility.
- Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
- Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds.
- Termites work 24 hours per day — they do not sleep.
- The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
- The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
- The average medium size piano has about 230 strings.
- The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash.
- The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound.
- The name of the squiggly line “~” is called a tilde.
- The name Reebok was named after the African Gazelle.
- The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo.
- The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”
- The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
- There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world.
- “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
- 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.
- 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
- 75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.
- A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
- A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands.
- Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.
- Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA.
- Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- Elephants have been known to learn up to 60 commands.
- Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of pollution.
- Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
- Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
- Humpback whales are capable of living up to 95 years.
- In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers.
- In France, the Big Dipper is called the “casserole.”.
- In Ireland, a prime minister is a called a Taoiseach.
- It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
- Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”.
- Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.
- Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world.
- One female mouse can produce up to 100 babies a year.
- Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
- Research on pigs led to the development of CAT scans.
- Termites have been around for over 250 million years.
- The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
- The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
- The Dead Sea has been sinking for last several years.
- The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
- The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.
- The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”.
- The official state tree of Illinois is The White Oak.
- The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
- The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
- The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
- The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867.
- There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon.
- There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas.
- Women on average live seven years longer than men do.
- 18% of an Americans income is spent on transportation.
- 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
- 99% of pumpkins that are sold are sold for decoration.
- A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow.
- A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.
- A housefly will regurgitate its food and eat it again.
- A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood.
- Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.
- An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver
- Baby donkeys or baby mules are also known as “Foals.”.
- Being lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulence.
- Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of french fries a week.
- Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do.
- Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds.
- For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
- From all the vegetables, beets contain the most sugar.
- Iguanas can stay under water for up to thirty minutes.
- In 1894, the carnival made its debut in North America.
- In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
- In an year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls.
- In the U.S. peanuts account for 66% of all snack nuts.
- In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats.
- It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows’ milk.
- Male owls weigh less and are smaller than female owls.
- Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight.
- Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
- More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
- Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
- Respiratory Disease is China’s leading cause of death.
- Teflon is the most slipperiest substance in the world.
- The average lifespan of a human taste bud is ten days.
- The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.
- The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
- The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
- The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars.
- The longest punt return for a touchdown was 103 yards.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
- The most popular Twizzler candy flavour is strawberry.
- The Olympic Flame was introduced in 1928 in Amsterdam.
- The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.
- The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).
- The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
- The word tulip comes from the Turkish word for turban.
- There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.
- There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow.
- There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
- Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
- Water that is safe to drink is referred to as POTABLE.
- 90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
- A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour.
- A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
- An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
- An orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutes.
- Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
- Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
- Hockey pucks were originally made from frozen cow dung.
- In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
- Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
- On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
- On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
- On average, Americans spend 33% of their life sleeping.
- Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S.
- Passion fruits have a tranquilizing effect on the body.
- Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”
- Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
- The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin.
- The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year.
- The average life expectancy of an ant is about 90 days.
- The average number of bridesmaids at a wedding is four.
- The average person changes their career every 13 years.
- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The average temperature on Earth is 15 degrees celcius.
- The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
- The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- The markings that are found on dice are called “pips.”.
- The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
- The total number of steps in the Eiffel Tower are 1665.
- The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.
- There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.
- There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.
- There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland.
- Traditionally, wild cabbage was used as an aphrodisiac.
- Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
- TWIX Caramel Cookie Bars were first introduced in 1979.
- Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
- A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
- Brazil is the largest producers of oranges in the world.
- Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
- Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day.
- Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
- Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
- Ever year, Americans spend close to $25 billion on beer.
- Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
- Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
- Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.
- For every human in the world there are one million ants.
- Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
- In Australia, a common “Boxing day” activity is surfing.
- In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale.
- In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
- In some parts of the Atacama Desert it has never rained.
- In the U.S., 75% of the pencils sold are painted yellow.
- Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.
- It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
- Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
- Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
- Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- Milk and cheese can aid in the reduction of tooth decay.
- Montreal was named after a local mountain “Mont Royal.”.
- Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine.
- Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
- Pretzel that have no salt on them are called “baldies.”.
- The “Mexican Hat Dance” is the official dance of Mexico.
- The age of a saguaro cactus is calculated by its height.
- The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
- The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats.
- The most popular show amongst baby boomers is Star Trek.
- The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is “Salarymen.”.
- The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material.
- The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
- There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
- There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin.
- Three consecutive strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
- To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed.
- Two out of five people end up marrying their first love.
- Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.
- Whale oil was used in some car transmissions until 1973.
- When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened.
- “dous”:tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- 3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.
- 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
- 55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
- A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
- A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
- A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
- Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.
- Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day.
- An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
- Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.
- Asparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purple.
- Cattle can produce up to 180 litres of saliva in one day.
- Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.
- Construction on the White House began in October of 1792.
- Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day.
- Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
- Eskimos have over 15 words for the English word of ‘Snow’
- Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
- In 1864, A Quebec farmer found a frog inside a hailstone.
- In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.
- In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built.
- In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents.
- In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- It took eleven years to built the Taj Mahal, (1632-1643).
- Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different.
- Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- On average, an American relocates 11 times in their life.
- One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it.
- Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
- Reptiles do not perspire, and do not have any oil glands.
- Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”
- Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
- The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
- The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
- The best selling chocolate syrup in the world is Hershey.
- The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.
- The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
- The first Olympic games only had one event – a foot race.
- The giant squid is the largest animal without a backbone.
- The largest cultivated crop in the United States is corn.
- The most popular Hot Wheels vehicle sold is the Corvette.
- The most recycled product in the world is the automobile.
- The Olympics were originally held for the Greek god Zeus.
- The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
- The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.
- The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can’t fly.
- The state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796.
- The word Cotton originates from the Arabic word “Qutun.”.
- The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.
- Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer.
- Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
- $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
- 1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.
- 1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.
- 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
- A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.
- A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.
- A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.
- Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
- An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.
- Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.
- Annually, British people eat more than 15 pounds of beans.
- Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
- Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.
- Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct.
- Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
- Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.
- Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
- Georgia’s state motto is “Wisdom, Justice and Moderation.”
- Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
- In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas.
- In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles.
- In one day, 230 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas.
- In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
- It’s illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.
- Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the world.
- More people speak English in China than the United States.
- More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- On average it takes a shark seven days to replace a tooth.
- On average men spend 51 minutes a day grooming themselves.
- On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.
- Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.
- Owen Falls Lake is the largest man-made lake in the world.
- People who studies laughter are called a “gelotologists.”.
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks.
- Seven percent of a humans body wieght is made up of blood.
- Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”.
- Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
- Sharks have survived on earth for about 400 million years.
- Taipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snake.
- The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a year.
- The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
- The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes.
- The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
- The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
- The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
- The first World Series baseball playoffs occurred in 1903.
- The heart of an adult giraffe weighs on average 26 pounds.
- The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
- The hottest chili in the world is the Tezpur chili pepper.
- The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days.
- The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
- The ocean sunfish can produce thirty million eggs at once.
- The oil that is found in poison ivy is called “urushiol.”.
- The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe.
- The Sanskrit word for “war” means “desire for more cows.”.
- The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.
- The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.
- The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass.
- The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
- The Xerox company was initially called the Haloid Company.
- There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
- There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
- Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- Badminton originates from a sport in India called “poona.”.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- Basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain holds 56 NBA records.
- Basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891.
- Bats emit ultrasonic sounds to communicate with each other.
- Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.
- Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.
- General William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army.
- George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory.
- In 1825, the first toilet was installed in the White House.
- In 1971, the postal code was introduced in Ottawa, Ontario.
- In Britain, The Red Lion is the most common name for a pub.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.
- In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it.
- In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- It takes a sloth up to six days to digest the food it eats.
- It takes seven to ten days to make a jelly belly jellybean.
- Japan uses the most energy per year than any other country.
- Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935.
- More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
- Ninety percent of the population has an innie belly button.
- Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania.
- On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.
- On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day.
- Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers.
- Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon.
- Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas.
- Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink.
- Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
- The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel.
- The chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylzantihine.
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
- The labels for Crayola crayons come in 18 different colors.
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 58.36 metres above the ground.
- The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries.
- The word assassination was invented by William Shakespeare.
- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
- Thirteen percent of the human population reside in deserts.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
- 97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
- After 8 months, babies are more likely to get a diaper rash.
- An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year.
- An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- An ant can detect a movement through 5 centimeters of earth.
- An artificial Christmas tree last up to six years in a home.
- An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.
- Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.
- By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
- Canada is an Indian word meaning “village” or “settlement.”.
- Central Park located in New York has 125 drinking fountains.
- Chameleon is derived from the Greek, meaning “little lion.”.
- Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
- Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years.
- Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure.
- Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.
- EPCOT stands for “Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow.”.
- Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
- Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
- Grapes are grown around the world more than any other fruit.
- In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty.
- In an year, an average American kid eats 46 slices of pizza.
- In ancient Greece “idiot” meant a private citizen or layman.
- In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
- It is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Male goats will pee on each other in order to attract mates.
- Males account for 60% of toy injuries that occur in the U.S.
- Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
- Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
- On average, Americans spend $1300 on utility bills annually.
- One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.
- Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Pluto was discovered on February 10, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
- Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
- Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa.
- The “pound” key on your keyboard () is called an octotroph.
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
- The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
- The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
- The coliseum in Rome was used regularly for about 400 years.
- The cost to build the Empire State Building was $40,948,900.
- The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate.
- The decomposition point of Olive Oil is 220 degrees Celsius.
- The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- The most popular name for a pet in the United States is Max.
- The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel.
- The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.
- The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.
- There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.
- There are over 2,000 different types of cheese in the world.
- Thirty percent of all bingo players are under the age of 35.
- 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
- Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.
- An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.
- Annually a thousand people are killed by scorpions in Mexico.
- Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compound.
- At one time, pumpkins were recommended for removing freckles.
- At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour.
- Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
- Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
- Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.
- Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.
- Every year, 50,000,000 automobiles are produced in the world.
- Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
- Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize.
- Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate.
- Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca
- If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
- In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.
- In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands.
- In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- In North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters.
- In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
- In the United States, ice cream is sold the most on a Sunday.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- It takes approximately 12 years for Jupiter to orbit the sun.
- Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
- Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled “Lie.”.
- Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
- Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout.
- On September 7, 1997, the first flight of the F-22a occurred.
- Only 23% of New Zealand families have more than two children.
- Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
- People who have eaten beetles say that it tastes like apples.
- The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles.
- The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online.
- The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.
- The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.
- The best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayons.
- The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr.
- The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin.
- The first flavour of a cheese ball was called “Cheddy Blue.”.
- The food that is digested in your stomach is called “chyme.”.
- The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
- The most disliked vegetable by Americans is Brussels sprouts.
- The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The trunk of an elephant can hold up to two gallons of water.
- The watch was invented by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg in 1510.
- Touching and stroking a plant will aid in it growing healthy.
- Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
- Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet.
- “Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
- 850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.
- A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
- A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
- About 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
- About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
- About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
- Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- Amtrak is the combination of the words “American” and “Track”.
- Another name for licorice is “Sweet Wood” or “Spanish Juice.”.
- Before the 17th century, carrots used to be the colour purple.
- California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
- Canada has more donut shops per capita than the United States.
- Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.
- DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
- Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth.
- Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world.
- Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States.
- Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet.
- In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was “The Pause That Refreshes.”.
- In 1980, Saddam Hussein received a key to the city of Detroit.
- In America, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce.
- In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.
- In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.
- In the United States, turkeys are mostly raised in California.
- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
- On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for “Very Special Old Pale.”.
- On average, the rainfall across the Amazon is 7 feet annually.
- People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing.
- Some Chinese chopsticks contain gold as on of their materials.
- Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
- The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
- The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
- The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional baseball team.
- The country of Bolivia is named after a fighter Simon Bolivar.
- The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.
- The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.
- The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
- The real name of Toto the dog in “The Wizard Of Oz” was Terry.
- The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.
- There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.
- There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand.
- There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.
- 1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.
- Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner.
- Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
- Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have ran a red light.
- Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first “flushable” toilet.
- At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.
- Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve.
- Central air conditioners use 98% more energy than ceiling fans.
- Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago.
- Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
- Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.
- Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
- Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
- Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 – 70 days.
- Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.
- Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
- In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food.
- In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar.
- In 1963, Mister Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister.
- In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year.
- In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
- In China, there is a species of yam that is used to make a dye.
- In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present.
- In twins, there is a great chance that one will be left handed.
- Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
- Mangos are known throughout the world as the “King of Fruits.”.
- Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag.
- Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum.
- On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.
- On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day.
- President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.
- Russians generally answer the phone by saying, “I’m listening”.
- Sports Illustrated has the largest sports magazine circulation.
- Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.
- The “Dull Men’s Hall of Fame” is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.
- The average cow produces about 2,305 gallons of milk each year.
- The average North American car contains 300 pounds of plastics.
- The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages.
- The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming.
- The highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl week.
- The highest point in France is Mont Blanc, located in the Alps.
- The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
- The largest stamp was issued by China and measured 210 x 65 mm.
- The last land battle of the U.S. Civil War was fought in Texas.
- The least likely day to eat out in the United States is Monday.
- The makers of Crayola produce over 2 billion crayons in a year.
- The state of Alaska has almost twice as many caribou as people.
- The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth.
- The Super Bowl is broadcast to over 182 countries in the world.
- There are 122 pebbles per square inch on a Spalding basketball.
- There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in.
- There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.
- Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?).
- Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out.
- “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
- “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- 2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States.
- A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef
- Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life.
- Ancient Egyptians used the spice Thyme to help preserve mummies.
- Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.
- Approximately three jars of peanut butter are sold every second.
- Approximately two gallons of water are used to brush your teeth.
- Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water.
- Barney, the famous dinosaur that entertains kids is from Dallas.
- Crayola Crayons currently has over 120 different crayon colours.
- Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute.
- DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for “Douglas Commercial.”.
- Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
- In 1905, the first pizzeria in the U.S. opened in New York City.
- In 2002, the most popular car color in North America was silver.
- In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.
- Lake Malawi has the largest number of fish species in the world.
- Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris.
- On February 10, 1964 the first self-adhesive stamps were issued.
- Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.
- Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
- Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold.
- Taco Bell serves over 35 million consumers each week in the USA.
- Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
- The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head.
- The first lighthouse built in the USA was in Boston, MA in 1716.
- The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
- The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet.
- The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles.
- The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
- There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
- When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
- Women are four times more likely to have foot problems than men.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
- “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks.
- A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.
- A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
- All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
- Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners.
- An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
- Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.
- Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.
- Ballroom dancing is a course at Brigham Young University in Utah.
- Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
- Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.
- Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
- Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.
- Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
- From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
- In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England.
- In the Great Fire of London in 1666, only six people were killed.
- In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time.
- Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
- Minimum wage was 0.25 per hour when it was first enacted in 1938.
- NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
- On average Americans spend 18% of their income on transportation.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
- One pound of maple syrup can make eight pounds of candy or sugar.
- Pancakes are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Australia.
- Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.
- Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- Roses generally need around 6 hours of sunlight to grow properly.
- The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
- The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour.
- The life expectancy of a garbage disposal is about 5 to 10 years.
- The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
- The mother of Michael Nesmith of “The Monkees” invented whiteout.
- The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
- The real name of actress Whoopi Goldberg is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
- The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
- The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
- The word “toy” comes from an old English word that means “tool.”.
- There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.
- When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
- A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building.
- A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.
- Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
- Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually.
- Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
- At one time the group “Grateful Dead” were called “The Warlocks.”.
- Boxing champion Gene Tunney taught Shakespeare at Yale University.
- Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
- Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
- Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
- Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
- Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
- Eating 11 pounds of apples will make you gain one pound of weight.
- Elvis Presley used to be a truck driver before he started singing.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- If a lobster loses an eye or a claw it can usually grow a new one.
- In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
- In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
- In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.
- In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
- In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
- In the United Kingdom, three million people play bingo every year.
- Louisiana’s capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.
- Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
- Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
- Mexican jumping beans jump because of moth larvae inside the bean.
- Milk chocolate was invented in Switzerland by David Peter in 1876.
- Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.
- One grape vine produce can produce about 20 to 30 glasses of wine.
- Over 500 million gallons of Kool-Aid drink are consumed each year.
- Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell.
- Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963.
- The act of stretching and yawning is referred to as pandiculation.
- The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness.
- The average height of an NBA basketball player is 6 feet 7 inches.
- The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
- The first president to have a picture taken was John Quincy Adams.
- The first president to ride in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt.
- The Great Wall stretches for about 4,500 miles across North China.
- The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales.
- The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food.
- The most popular recipient of Valentine cards are school teachers.
- The only desert in Canada is located in Osoyoos, British Columbia.
- The revolving door was invented in 1888, by Theophilus Van Kannel.
- The total number of episodes for the sitcom “I Love Lucy” was 180.
- The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.
- The word “vamp” is used to describe the upper front top of a shoe.
- There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.
- There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA.
- Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
- When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns.
- A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
- A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
- Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins
- All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.
- An adult “Gold Frog” measures to be 9.8 millimeters in body length.
- Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.
- Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
- Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages.
- Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice.
- Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978.
- Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.
- Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth.
- From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas.
- Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.
- It can take up to a month for a rattlesnake to re-supply its venom.
- Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
- Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
- More twins are born in the Western world than in the Eastern world.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
- On average, 35 meters of hair fibre is produced on the adult scalp.
- On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.
- Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison.
- Over half the textile fibers that are used in the world are cotton.
- Parrots cannot eat chocolate because it is poisonous to their body.
- Stinging insects kills approximately 25 people annually in the U.S.
- The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion.
- The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon.
- The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses.
- The MGM lion, whose name was Leo, lived in Memphis until his death.
- The most popular jelly belly jellybean flavour is buttered popcorn.
- The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed.
- The projection light used for IMAX theaters can be seen from space.
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
- The stringy thing that is seen in egg whites is called “chalazae.”.
- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same.
- There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
- U.S. Postal Service processes 38 million address changes each year.
- “Venus observa” is the technical term for the “missionary position.”
- 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
- 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.
- A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist.
- Americans eat approximately 20 pounds of pasta per person each year.
- Ancient Egyptians believed that onions would keep evil spirits away.
- At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
- Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.
- Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke.
- Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries.
- Construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9th, 1173.
- During the era of Louis XIV, women used lemons to redden their lips.
- Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.
- George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
- Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840.
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
- In 1391, China began producing toliet paper for use by its Emperors.
- In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a bar
- In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- In one minute, the heart of a giraffe can pump 160 gallons of blood.
- In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year.
- In the United States, every year about 15 people die from dog bites.
- Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years.
- It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese.
- Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke-tsiap.
- Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites.
- Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
- Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator.
- Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
- Next to man, the porpoise is the most intelligent creature on earth.
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
- Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946.
- Popeye is 34 years old, weighs 158 lbs, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall.
- Queen Victoria used marijuana, to help relieve menstrual cramp pain.
- Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
- Some desert snails have been known to sleep for three to four years.
- The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
- The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
- The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.
- The United States Mint once considered producing donut-shaped coins.
- The word “diastema” is the word for having a gap between your teeth.
- There is a town named Dildo in the province of Newfoundland, Canada.
- To produce a dozen eggs, a hen has to eat about four pounds of feed.
- Watermelons are a popular gift to bring to a host in China or Japan.
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
- Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
- 27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
- 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
- A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
- Ancient Egyptians kissed with their noses instead of with their lips.
- Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I’s mother, had six fingers on one hand.
- Arnold Palmer was the first player to win $1 million on the PGA Tour.
- Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
- Canada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championships. new.
- Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.
- Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
- Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. – probably the world.
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then
- Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.
- It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
- James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.
- Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
- On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
- On average, an American home has 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials.
- Pineapples were first introduced into Europe by Christopher Columbus.
- Quality standards for pasta were set in the 13th century by the Pope.
- Sex acts like a natural antihistamine, in can clear up a stuffy nose.
- Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well.
- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
- Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.
- The Amazon is the world’s largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.
- The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.
- The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82.
- The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years.
- The first spacecraft to visit the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.
- The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It to Beaver.”
- The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.
- The largest hamburger cooked in the world weighed in at 6,040 pounds.
- The only popcorn museum in the world is lcoated in Marion, Ohio, USA.
- The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
- The theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters is “Sweet Georgia Brown.”.
- The TV show “Saturday Night Live” made its debut on October 11, 1975.
- The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald’s Big Mac bun.
- There are more than 2,000 different varieties of cheese in the world.
- There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
- Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark.
- A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.
- A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.
- A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.
- Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
- Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
- Before 1928, yo-yos used to be called bandalores in the United States.
- Blueberries have more antioxidents than any other fruit or vegetables.
- Charlie Chaplin once lost a contest for a Charlie Chaplin look a like.
- Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.
- Close to 50% of the water used in a home originates from the bathroom.
- Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.
- Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.
- Every continent begins and ends in the same letter. eg AfricA, EuropE.
- Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.
- Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is made.
- Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the scientific name for the animal gorilla.
- Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear.
- In 1565 In St. Augustine, Florida the first orange trees were planted.
- In a day the blue whale calf drinks approximately 130 gallons of milk.
- In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
- In a year, there are 60,000 trampoline injuries that occur in the U.S.
- In gangster slang, a boxing match that is fixed is called a “barney.”.
- In Japan, watermelons are squared. It’s easier to stack them that way.
- In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops.
- In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.
- In the United States, 80% of households have oatmeal in their kitchen.
- Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
- Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
- Lightning strikes the Empire States Building about seven times a year.
- Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
- Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%.
- Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.
- Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C.
- The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
- The first British ship to use the SOS distress signal was the Titanic.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”.
- The music band UB40 got its name from an unemployment form in England.
- The only animal, besides humans that can get leprosy is the Armadillo.
- The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
- The word “America” comes from the European explorer “Amerigo Vespucci.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
- There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose.
- True spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinnerets.
- Washing machines use anywhere from 40 to 200 litres of water per load.
- When sharks take a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.
- While digging, an Armadillo can hold its breath for up to six minutes.
- 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
- A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature.
- A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.
- A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
- A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight.
- A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
- A tree in metropolitan area will survive for approximately eight years.
- Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.
- Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world.
- Elmer Smith was the first player to hit a grand slam in a World Series.
- From all the states, Montana has the most different species of animals.
- Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.
- Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.
- IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee.
- In 1933, Mickey Mouse is believed to have received 800,000 fan letters.
- In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned.
- In 1952, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head.
- In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
- In a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of water.
- In their lifetime, house cats spend approximately 10,950 hours purring.
- JELL-O was declared The “Official State Snack” of Utah in January 2001.
- Majority of brides plan their wedding for approximately 7 to 12 months.
- Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years.
- Most American women have their first baby when they are 24.3 years old.
- Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
- Of all the golfers in Canada, 71.4% golfers are male, 28.6% are female.
- On average, an ear of a corn has 16 rows and approximately 800 kernels.
- Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.
- Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting.
- President Lyndon Johnson used to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day.
- Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
- Singer Paula Abdul used to be a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers.
- Stewardesses is one of the longest words typed with only the left hand.
- Teenage suicide is the second cause of death in the state of Wisconsin.
- The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
- The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man.
- The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
- The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.
- The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.
- The most popular place to burn candles in the house is the living room.
- The Pacific island of Tonga once issued a stamp that was banana shaped.
- The pectin that is found in apples aids in lowering cholesterol levels.
- The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism.
- The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
- There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
- There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.
- There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.
- There are places in Saskatchewan called Elbow, Eyebrow, and Drinkwater.
- Tiger Woods was introduced to golf at nine months of age by his father.
- Tripolini pasta was named for the Italian conquest of Tripoli in Libya.
- Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in Japan and China.
- “Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
- 41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
- A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.
- A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
- Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually.
- Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
- Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
- Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer. new.
- California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named “Jesus Christ.”
- Chili Powder was invented in the 19th century in the American Southwest.
- Every second, 8000 Coca-Cola Company products are consumed in the world.
- Hippos drink as much as 250 litres of water in any given 24 hour period.
- Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds.
- Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has.
- In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
- In a year, the average Americans eats approximately 18 pounds of Turkey.
- In approximately 18 months, the papaya tree can grow to be 20 feet tall.
- In Belgium, 94% of children under the age of fourteen own LEGO products.
- In Cleveland, Ohio, it’s illegal to catch mice without a huntinglicense.
- In the UK, one third of accidental deaths that happen occur in the home.
- In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.
- Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
- Lipogram refers to writing that does not have certain letter or letters.
- Melba toast is named after an Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
- On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
- Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series.
- Robert Southey wrote the story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” in 1834.
- Smiling releases endorphins in the body, which makes people feel better.
- Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers.
- The appliance that uses the most use of water in the home is the toilet.
- The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin.
- The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
- The first company to mass produce teddy bears was the Ideal Toy Company.
- The first female guest host of “Saturday Night Live” was Candace Bergen.
- The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair.
- The first jet engine was invented by Frank Whittleof of England in 1930.
- The first toilet tank ever seen on television was on Leave it to Beaver.
- The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women.
- The name for the sign “&” which represents the world “and” is ampersand.
- The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
- There are about 125 million multiples (twins, triplets, etc.) worldwide.
- There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
- There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
- There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
- Uranus? winter and summer seasons last the equivalent of 21 Earth years.
- “I am.” is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
- A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
- A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar.
- About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate.
- Actor Charlie Chaplin made 81 movies over a career that spanned 50 years.
- Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
- Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin.
- Each day Americans 15 and over spend an average of 55 minutes of driving.
- Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide.
- Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid.
- Goat meat contains up to 45 percent less saturated fat than chicken meat.
- Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
- It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
- John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
- Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
- Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second – 86 million each day.
- More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year.
- Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.
- On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime.
- Sales of antacids increase by as much as 20% the day after the Superbowl.
- Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever.
- Some silkworms can spin cocoons that contain more than two miles of silk.
- The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
- The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
- The average number of people that go to a party for the Super Bowl is 17.
- The Earth is 4.56 billion years old the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
- The first American celebration of St. Patricks Day was at Boston in 1737.
- The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
- The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
- The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3.
- The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
- The Montreal Canadians hockey team has won the most Stanley Cups with 24.
- The most deadly fires that occur in the home happen between 6pm and 10pm.
- The most popular American city for Kool-Aid sales is St. Louis, Missouri.
- The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
- The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was “Spud.”.
- The origin of apples traces back to the Middle East over 4,000 years ago.
- The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.
- The planet Venus spins opposite to the other planets in the solar system.
- The Shroud of Turin is the single most studied artifact in human history.
- The word “walkman” was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.
- There are about 61,300 pizza restaurants in the United States of America.
- There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
- To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed.
- 500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris.
- A British term for slot machine is “fruit machine” or “one-armed bandit.”.
- A ripe cranberry will bounce. Another name for a cranberry is bounceberry.
- About 25 percent of all the energy consumed in the US is from natural gas.
- Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.
- An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more.
- Baseball games between college teams have been played since the Civil War.
- Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
- Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999.
- In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
- In 1924, Kleenex tissues were originally designed as a cold cream remover.
- In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.
- In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
- In the 20th century, over three million people have died from earthquakes.
- Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized.
- Kellogg?s started selling their most famous product, Corn Flakes, in 1906.
- LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus.
- Many of the stars that were in the Poltergeist Trilogy had strange deaths.
- More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
- More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
- Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body.
- Of all the countries, Brazil has the most plant species, with over 56,000.
- One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples.
- People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
- Pound for pound, leopards are said to be seven times stronger than humans.
- Singer Chaka Khan came out with a line of chocolates called “Chakalates.”.
- Singer Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
- Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
- The blind cavefish is born with eyes, but they fall off as the fish grows.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
- The idea of Christmas cards was invented by Englishman Henry Cole in 1843.
- The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
- The most popular meal ordered at restaurants in the U.S. is fried chicken.
- The only species of turtle that lives in the open ocean is the sea turtle.
- There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.
- There are dolphins that live in the Amazon River that are the colour pink.
- To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
- To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
- When the body is resting, it takes in about 10 litres of air every minute.
- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
- A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
- A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
- Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
- Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
- Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit.
- Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
- Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times.
- Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste.
- Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836.
- Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months.
- If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.
- In 1945, a seven ounce bathroom cup was the first item Tupperware marketed.
- In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.
- In one night, an adult hippopotamus eats approximately 150 pounds of grass.
- In the 13th century, quality standards for paste were assigned by the Pope.
- In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
- Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie.
- It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach.
- Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
- Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour.
- Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.
- Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale ofvodka.
- The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.
- The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds.
- The Chihuahua was named after the Mexican state where they were discovered.
- The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
- The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
- The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
- The tridacna clam can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.
- The turkey was once nominated to be the official bird of the United States.
- There are over 100 styles of BluBlocker sunglasses available on the market.
- Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble.
- When in danger, kangaroos will beat the ground loudly with their hind feet.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.
- Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.
- Approximately 71% of American chocolate eaters prefer to eat milk chocolate.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- Bobby Carpenter was the first American player to score 50 goals in a season.
- Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world.
- Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
- Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings.
- Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don’t have eyes.
- Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate.
- From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
- In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin.
- In Albania, nodding your head means “no” and shaking your head means “yes.”.
- In Britain, there are approximately 50,000 pubs with 17,000 different names.
- In Ontario, an average household income of a golfer is greater than $60,000.
- In the United States there are about three million honey producing colonies.
- It has been medically been proven that laughter is an effective pain killer.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.
- Olives, which grow on trees, were first cultivated 5,000 years ago in Syria.
- One tree can filter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
- Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for “Profiles in Courage”.
- Psychokinesis refers to the ability of moving objects through psychic power.
- Reserves from the Irish army were used as extras in the movie “Braveheart.”.
- Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States.
- Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
- Skippy Peanut Butter is sold more in the world than any other peanut butter.
- The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
- The citric acid found in lemon juice is said to be able to dissolve a pearl.
- The early occurrence of a fetus yawning is at eleven weeks after conception.
- The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
- The first McDonald’s restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.
- The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896.
- The first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945.
- The first Valentine candy box was invented by Richard Cadbury in the 1800’s.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point inColorado.
- The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.
- The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.
- The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat.
- The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.
- There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands.
- There are more than 3000 documented caves located in the state of Tennessee.
- There are over one billion people that are actively involved in rice growth.
- To lose one pound of fat, a person has to burn approximately 3,500 calories.
- Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels.
- Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four.
- 14% of all facts and statistics are made up and 27% of people know that fact.
- 570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House.
- A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.
- A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
- A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
- A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
- A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
- Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.
- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
- Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
- Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet.
- Detroit, Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other city in the USA.
- Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of onion breath.
- Elvis Presley had a twin brother named Jesse Garon Presley who died at birth.
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
- Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state.
- Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.
- In 1845, inventor Thomas Adams started the world’s first chewing gum factory.
- In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones – Bhutan.
- In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
- In America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magaznie subscription.
- Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie.
- May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
- More than 260,000 people have been killed by volcanic activity since 1700 AD.
- Movies approximately make five times more from video sales than ticket sales.
- Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse.
- On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day.
- On average, a whole chicken from the grocery store weighs 3 pounds 12 ounces.
- On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced.
- Over 170,000 Indians from 210 tribes live in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
- People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
- Police detectives have used snapping turtles to help them locate dead bodies.
- Shark cartilage has been used to make artificial skin for human burn victims.
- Some African tribes refer to themselves as “motherhoods” instead of families.
- Surveys indicate that the number one reason people play BINGO is for leisure.
- The city of Seoul has been the capital city of Korea for more than 600 years.
- The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
- The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults.
- The laundry detergent Tide, has a market share of about forty percent market.
- The majority of burglaries occur during the daytime when people are not home.
- The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch.
- The name “Lego” came from the Danish word LEg Godt, which means “play well.”.
- The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
- The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles.
- The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel.
- The smallest frog is the “Brazilian baby frog”, which is smaller than a dime.
- The USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.
- The water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homes.
- Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar.
- Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
- 40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.
- A group of people that are hired to clap at a performance are called a claque.
- A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
- A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
- A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.
- About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
- Actor John Ritter was the voice of Clifford, from “Clifford The Big Red Dog.”.
- Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
- Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
- Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
- Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team.
- Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange.
- Honolulu, Hawaii boasts the only royal palace in the United States of America.
- In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States.
- In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour.
- In the first century, people used to drink goats milk to sweeten their breath.
- In the U.S., the milk production per dairy cow is approximately 12,000 pounds.
- Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates.
- On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime.
- People in France own more pets in the world per person than any other country.
- Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million in 1961 from the McDonald brothers.
- Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
- Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system.
- The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones.
- The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.
- The cardigan was originally made to be a military jacket made of knitted wool.
- The caterpillars of some Snout Moths (Pyralididae) live in or on water-plants.
- The fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour.
- The females of some moth species lack wings, all they can do to move is crawl.
- The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress Candace Bergen.
- The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.
- The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897.
- The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
- The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie “Psycho.”.
- The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers.
- The sloth moves so slowly that green algae grows in the grooves of their hair.
- The tallest woman in the world is American Sandy Allen who is 7 feet 7 inches.
- The thing that hangs from the top of the beak of a turkey is called the snood.
- The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.
- The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.
- The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
- There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
- 7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world. Click Here For More Details.
- 75% of all raisins eaten by people in the United States are eaten at breakfast.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
- Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
- Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.
- Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
- Burger King restaurants serve over 400 million ounces of orange juice annually.
- Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.
- Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”).
- Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- Half of a cup of figs will give you just as much calcium as half a cup of milk.
- In 1890, Scott Paper produced the first toilet paper to be available on a roll.
- In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring.
- In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
- In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.
- In-vitro babies are born in Australia more than any other country in the world.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
- Lighthouse keepers were nicknamed “wickies” because they tended the lamps wick.
- Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
- New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.
- On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk.
- On average, an American family sends and receives 28 Christmas cards each year.
- One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day.
- People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.
- Pepsi originally contained pepsin, (the same stuff in pepcid AC) thus the name.
- Pigs have no sweat glands, which is why they stay in water or mud to keep cool.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
- Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
- Talc was used by cavemen 15,000 years ago as an ingredient added to make paint.
- The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
- The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.
- The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
- The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
- The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
- The most popular vacation destinations for Americans in 1956 was Niagara Falls.
- The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
- The only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha Washington.
- The volume of the earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
- The word witch comes from the word “wicca” which translates to the “wise one.”.
- There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk.
- There are bananas called “Red banana” that are maroon to dark purple when ripe.
- There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia.
- There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
- There is a species of bird, Antpitta avis canis Ridgley, that barks like a dog.
- There was once a fish caught in Delaware Bay with a watch still ticking inside.
- To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets.
- When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 milesper year.
- Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century.
- A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
- A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
- A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
- Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.
- Alaska got its name from the Aluet word “Alyeska” which means “The Great Land.”.
- Bananas trees are not really trees. They are considered to be giant herb plants.
- Boeing completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing on the first 747.
- Canadian researchers have found that Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
- Close to fifty percent of Internet shoppers spend over five hours a week online.
- Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
- Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
- Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
- German immigrant, Louis Prang was the first to bring Christmas cards to America.
- Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.
- Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.
- Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms oftheir hands.
- If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
- In 1946, the New York Yankees became the first baseball team to travel by plane.
- In a pack of Skittles candy, there is an equal 20% distribution of each flavour.
- In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries.
- In Czechhoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made of human bones.
- In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
- Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak.
- Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
- Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system.
- Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking.
- On average, you would need 12.5 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
- Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage.
- Painting a house yellow or having a yellow trim helps in selling a house faster.
- Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes.
- Pineapples were first called “anana”, which is Caribbean for “excellent fruit.”.
- Pixie, a Siberian Husky, gave birth to 7 puppies, one of which was bright green.
- Printed on the tablet being held by the Statue of Liberty is July IV, MDCCLXXVI.
- Research indicates that people prefer the colour blue for their casual clothing.
- Snails eat with a rasping mouth called a “radula,” which has thousands of teeth.
- St. Louis, Missouri was the first U.S. city to host the summer Olympics in 1904.
- The “naked recreation and travel” industry has grown by 233% in the past decade.
- The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
- The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.
- The fat from sheep, which is called tallow can be used to make soap and candles.
- The first ever “World Summit on Toilets” was held in Singapore in November 2001.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
- The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
- The Sea of Tranquility on the moon is deeper than the highest mountain on Earth.
- The stage were the television sitcom “Friends” is shot on is said to be haunted.
- There are approximately 1300 species of scorpion but only 25 of them are deadly.
- There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants.
- There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America.
- There is a Harley-Davidson that was designed as an exact replica of a hamburger.
- Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain.
- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- 13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese.
- 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet
- 95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona.
- Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.