Little Known Facts
I got this list from another website, which I forgot to write down the address of. I've reduced the amount of things on the list and removed some "questionable" facts that I didn't think were accurate. I'm not sure all of these are accurate, but I'm just passing along the info.
Little Known Facts
1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
2. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
4. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
5. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
6. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
7. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
8. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
11. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
12. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
13. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
I14. f the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
15. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
16. Thirty five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
17. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
18. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
19. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
20. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
21. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee
22. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
23. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
24. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
25. Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
26. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
27. All the 50 states of America are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
28. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
29. Porcupines float in water
30. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
31. The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
32. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
33. The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
34. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
35. Windmills always turn counterclockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
36. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
37. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
38. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
39. Coca Cola was originally green.
40. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
41. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
42. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year
43. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
44. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
45. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used
46. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
47. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women
48. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206
49. They have square watermelons in Japan... they stack better.
50. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
51. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
52. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
53. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
54. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
55. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight
56. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
57. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet
58. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them
59. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
60. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
61. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet
62. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur
63. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
64. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
65. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
66. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
67. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
68. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
69. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
70. Camel's milk does not curdle.
71. Slugs have 4 noses
72. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth
73. When European explorers first saw kangaroos they asked an aboriginal what they were called. He replied "kangaroo" meaning "I don't understand your question". The explorers thought this was the animal's name.
74. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
75. There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.
76. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
77. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
78. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
79. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
80. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
81. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
82. During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
83. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow
84. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.
85. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
86. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
87. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
88. Humans, dolphins, and pygmy monkeys are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
89. Polar bears are left handed.
90. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
91. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
92. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
93. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
94. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
95. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
96. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
97. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
98. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
99. Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
100. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
101. Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other nation.
102. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
103. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
104. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
105. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
106. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
107. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
108. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
109. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire Town Hall, you are entitled to receive $0.10 from the town.
110. Non-dairy creamer is flammable
111. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
112. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
113. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
114. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
115. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
116. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.
117. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
118. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
119. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
120. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
121. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
122. It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs
123. Pearls melt in vinegar
124. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
125. Snails can sleep for three years without eating
126. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
127. The Fingerprints of Koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
128. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands
129. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
130. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
131. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles
132. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
133. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
134. American car horns beep in the tone of F.
135. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
136. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
137. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
138. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
139. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
140. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
141. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
142. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
143. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
144. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
145. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
146. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
147. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
148. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
149. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
150. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. And Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
151. Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
152. To call every telephone on the planet would take you until the year 3620.
153. If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33
154. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
155. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
156. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
157. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
158. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
159. Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000.
160. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
161. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
162. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
163. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
164. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
165. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
166. A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
167. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
168. Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
169. Croatia was the first country to recognize the United States in 1776.
170. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
171. The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers.
172. Because of the immense pressure, Jupiter's core is metal. This metal is hydrogen.
173. A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
174. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
175. The Chinese words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
176. The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
177. There are only 14 blimps in the world, and 10 of them are in the U.S.
178. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
179. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
180. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S
181. A bee has 5,000 nostrils. It can smell apple trees 2 miles away
182. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
183. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though
184. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
185. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside
186. A jellyfish is 95 percent water
187. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
188. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
189. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
190. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again
191. America once issued a 5-cent bill
192. Armadillos can be housebroken
193. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool He changed it every 2 innings
194. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
195. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
196. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
197. Denver's International Airport is larger than the entire city of Boston
198. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
199. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he didn't wear pants
200. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants
201. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E *
202. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, nor creamy
203. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
204. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
205. Florida's Disney world is larger than the entire city of Buffalo, New York
206. Force exerted by the human jaw: 175 pounds. By the jaw of an African lion: 937 pounds
207. Hot water is heavier than cold water
208. Human beings have 46 chromosomes. Goldfish have 96
209. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
210. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego
211. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom
212. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
213. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals
214. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
215. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
216. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs
217. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'
218. J, the youngest letter in the English alphabet, was not added until the 1600's
219. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
220. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton
221. Most mentioned woman in the Bible: Sarah, 56 times
222. Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart
223. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox
224. Nose prints are used to identify dogs just like humans use fingerprints
225. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag
226. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours
227. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson”
228. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
229. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice
230. The filaments for the first electric lamp were made of bamboo
231. The Indian hero "Geronimo" was once kicked out of church for gambling
232. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs
233. The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days
234. The Malay apple, which has red flowers growing directly from its stem, is the only Hawaiian fruit that was not introduced to the islands by Europeans
235. The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire
236. The mysterious vanishing lake of Amaraoti, India, Bairam Ghat, is alternately full of water for one year and dry for exactly 2 years
237. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
238. The Netherlands used to be known as the United States
239. The only animal besides the human which can get sunburn is the pig
240. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven
241. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
242. The original Tin Man in Wizard of OZ almost died. The make-up that they used caused him to get deathly sick. They had to call in a second actor and change the make-up
243. The state song of Illinois, 'Illinois', is sung to the tune of 'Baby Mine', the lullaby from the Disney movie, DUMBO
244. The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view
245. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
246. The word "hussy" originally meant "housekeeper"
247. The word mattress originally meant "place to throw things
248. The world's first recorded tonsillectomy was performed in the year 1,000BC
249. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old
250. There are more collect calls made on Fathers Day than on any other day of the year
251. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones
252. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year
253. When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source
254. Your nose and ears never stop growing
255. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers --they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine
256. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
257. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament
258. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Little Known Facts
1. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
2. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
3. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
4. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
5. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
6. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
7. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
8. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
9. Rats and horses can't vomit.
10. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
11. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
12. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
13. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
I14. f the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
15. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
16. Thirty five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
17. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
18. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
19. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
20. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
21. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee
22. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
23. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
24. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
25. Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
26. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
27. All the 50 states of America are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
28. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
29. Porcupines float in water
30. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
31. The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
32. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum
33. The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
34. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
35. Windmills always turn counterclockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland
36. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
37. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
38. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
39. Coca Cola was originally green.
40. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
41. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
42. The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year
43. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
44. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
45. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used
46. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
47. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women
48. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206
49. They have square watermelons in Japan... they stack better.
50. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.
51. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet
52. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
53. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
54. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
55. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight
56. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
57. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet
58. It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them
59. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
60. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
61. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet
62. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur
63. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
64. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
65. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
66. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
67. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
68. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
69. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
70. Camel's milk does not curdle.
71. Slugs have 4 noses
72. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth
73. When European explorers first saw kangaroos they asked an aboriginal what they were called. He replied "kangaroo" meaning "I don't understand your question". The explorers thought this was the animal's name.
74. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
75. There are 293 ways to make a change for a dollar.
76. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
77. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
78. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
79. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
80. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
81. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
82. During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.
83. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow
84. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.
85. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
86. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
87. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
88. Humans, dolphins, and pygmy monkeys are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
89. Polar bears are left handed.
90. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
91. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
92. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
93. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
94. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
95. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
96. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
97. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
98. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
99. Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
100. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
101. Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other nation.
102. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
103. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
104. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
105. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
106. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
107. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
108. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
109. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire Town Hall, you are entitled to receive $0.10 from the town.
110. Non-dairy creamer is flammable
111. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
112. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
113. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
114. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
115. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
116. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super Bowl.
117. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
118. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
119. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
120. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
121. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
122. It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs
123. Pearls melt in vinegar
124. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
125. Snails can sleep for three years without eating
126. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
127. The Fingerprints of Koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
128. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands
129. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
130. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
131. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles
132. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
133. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
134. American car horns beep in the tone of F.
135. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
136. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
137. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
138. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
139. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
140. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
141. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
142. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
143. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
144. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
145. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
146. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
147. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
148. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
149. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
150. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. And Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
151. Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
152. To call every telephone on the planet would take you until the year 3620.
153. If she were life size, Barbie's measurements are: 39-23-33
154. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
155. The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
156. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
157. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
158. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
159. Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000.
160. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
161. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
162. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
163. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
164. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
165. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
166. A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
167. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
168. Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
169. Croatia was the first country to recognize the United States in 1776.
170. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
171. The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers.
172. Because of the immense pressure, Jupiter's core is metal. This metal is hydrogen.
173. A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
174. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
175. The Chinese words for crisis and opportunity are the same.
176. The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
177. There are only 14 blimps in the world, and 10 of them are in the U.S.
178. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
179. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
180. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S
181. A bee has 5,000 nostrils. It can smell apple trees 2 miles away
182. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
183. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though
184. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
185. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside
186. A jellyfish is 95 percent water
187. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
188. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
189. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
190. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again
191. America once issued a 5-cent bill
192. Armadillos can be housebroken
193. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool He changed it every 2 innings
194. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
195. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
196. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
197. Denver's International Airport is larger than the entire city of Boston
198. Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
199. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he didn't wear pants
200. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants
201. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E *
202. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, nor creamy
203. Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
204. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
205. Florida's Disney world is larger than the entire city of Buffalo, New York
206. Force exerted by the human jaw: 175 pounds. By the jaw of an African lion: 937 pounds
207. Hot water is heavier than cold water
208. Human beings have 46 chromosomes. Goldfish have 96
209. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
210. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego
211. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom
212. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
213. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals
214. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word
215. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
216. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs
217. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is 'shake' and the 46th word from the last word is 'spear'
218. J, the youngest letter in the English alphabet, was not added until the 1600's
219. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
220. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton
221. Most mentioned woman in the Bible: Sarah, 56 times
222. Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart
223. Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox
224. Nose prints are used to identify dogs just like humans use fingerprints
225. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag
226. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours
227. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson”
228. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
229. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice
230. The filaments for the first electric lamp were made of bamboo
231. The Indian hero "Geronimo" was once kicked out of church for gambling
232. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs
233. The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days
234. The Malay apple, which has red flowers growing directly from its stem, is the only Hawaiian fruit that was not introduced to the islands by Europeans
235. The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire
236. The mysterious vanishing lake of Amaraoti, India, Bairam Ghat, is alternately full of water for one year and dry for exactly 2 years
237. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
238. The Netherlands used to be known as the United States
239. The only animal besides the human which can get sunburn is the pig
240. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven
241. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
242. The original Tin Man in Wizard of OZ almost died. The make-up that they used caused him to get deathly sick. They had to call in a second actor and change the make-up
243. The state song of Illinois, 'Illinois', is sung to the tune of 'Baby Mine', the lullaby from the Disney movie, DUMBO
244. The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view
245. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
246. The word "hussy" originally meant "housekeeper"
247. The word mattress originally meant "place to throw things
248. The world's first recorded tonsillectomy was performed in the year 1,000BC
249. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old
250. There are more collect calls made on Fathers Day than on any other day of the year
251. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones
252. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year
253. When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source
254. Your nose and ears never stop growing
255. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers --they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine
256. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
257. A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a murder. A group of larks is called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament
258. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
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