If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you
would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

Porcupines float in water!

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!

Cat's urine glows under a black-light!

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!

5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough
gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an
hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
for pleasure.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every
day.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of
a calorie.

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by
a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their
bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30
times its own weight and always falls over on its right
side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the
catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is
like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head
is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by
ripping the males head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Starfishes haven`t got brains.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. Scientists at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada have discovered that the part of Einsteins's brain thought to be related to mathematical reasoning - the inferior parietal region - was 15 percent wider on both sides than a normal brain.

While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.

The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot

Adolf Hitler was fascinated by hands. In his library there was a well-thumbed book containing pictures and drawings of hands belonging to famous people throughout history. He liked particularly to show his guests how closely his own hands resembled those of Frederick the Great, one of his heroes.

Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the first three Star Wars movies, was a hospital porter in London before starring as the Wookie.

Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake -- she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.

Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his Eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.

Jim Morrison (of the 60's rock group The Doors) was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

Hawkeye on the tv series M*A*S*H had a TV name of Benjamin Franklin Pierce. The actor's name was Alan Alda
Captain Matthew Webb of England was the first to swim the English Channel using the breaststroke

Hans Christian Andersen, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected

Actor Keanu Reeve's first name means 'cool breeze over the mountains' in the Hawaiian language

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image

The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, made the group's TV debut performing Roy Orbison's 'Dream Baby' on the BBC show 'Teenager's Turn' in 1962

Peter Falk, who played 'columbo', has a glass eye

The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.

Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and Geoge Takei have all appeared at one time or another on The Twilight Zone

Barbie's full name is Babara Millicent Roberts

The original captain of Star Trek's starship 'Enterprise' was Jeffrey Hunter -not William Shatner-, as Christopher Pike, in the pilot episode 'The cage' (1964). The cast was quite different from that of the classic series except for Leonard Nimoy as Spock

The mother of Michael Nesbit of 'the Monkeys' invented liquid paper correction fluid

Screech, from Saved by the Bell, was the only one of the characters who played in all the episodes from the junior high, with Mrs. Bliss, to Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

The name of Jaba the Hutt's pet spider monkey is Salacious Crumb

The queen of england has two birthdays.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser

The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X

Papaphobia is the fear of Popes

Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.

Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'

Stressed is Desserts Spelt backwards

If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you get 12,345,678,987,654,321

The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol. It's from England.

The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.

'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish

Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.

Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.

In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'finger-lickin' good' came out as 'eat your fingers off.'

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'

There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing

Pogonophobia: The fear of beards


In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same

The infinity charecter on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate"

Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom

The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'

The pound sign is called a "octothorp"

Before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag

The words racecar and kayak are the same both ways

The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it
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