An ostrichs pupil is rectangular.
Yo-yo means ‘come-come’.
The worlds largest fruit, the double coconut, takes ten years to ripen.
By the time you are 70, your heart will have rested for 40 years - Not all at once though. Just a little bit between heartbeats.
There are 639 muscles in your body.
There are approximately 65 alphabets in use throughout the world today.
It would take 17 days for a snail to travel one mile.
A lion’s roar can be heard as far as five miles away.
The letter E is the most-used letter in the English language.
There is a new star in our galaxy about every 18 days.
If one would claim that the shade of the stop light had changed from red to green due to the Doppler effect, he/she would have been going fast enough to earn a $140 million fine.
Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
On an average, a house wife walks 10 miles a day doing housework.
Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high.
The country with the most post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.
Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
A womans threshold of pain is 9 times stronger than a mans.
You will get fewer cavities if you eat a bag of candy in one sitting and then brush your teeth than if you slowly eat the candy a piece at a time all day.
The first toy product ever advertised on television was MR. POTATO HEAD. Introduced in 1952, MR. POTATO HEAD took advantage of TVs explosive growth to gain access to tens of millions of newly "plugged-in" households.
The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
No black quarterback has ever won the Super Bowl.
In the movie "Aladdin" when Aladdin goes up to Jasmines room, he whispers to Rajah (the tiger), "Good kitty, take off your clothes".
The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.
It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
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.
The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than any other part of the body.
Alfred Butts, the inventor of Scrabble, decided on the frequency and distribution of letters by analyzing the front page of the New York Times. He used a penknife to cut his first set of wooden Scrabble tiles.
There is no one who does not dream. Those who claim to have no dreams, laboratory tests have determined, simply forget their dreams more easily than others.
No one truly has double joints. Contortionists are actually able to stretch the fibrous tissues known as ligaments. Ligaments hold organs in place and fasten bones together. Ligaments normally restrict the movements of certain joints, but some folks find that their ligaments are more flexible than others.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
Pinocchio is Italian for pine head.
The fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made (in tables of four).
Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music.
There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain.
The length of the finger dictates how fast the finger-nail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your finger-nails.
10 percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed.
Barbie sold more Corvettes in 1984 than General Motors.
Every 8 seconds one acre of U.S trees disappears.
If you find that your eyes are puffy in the mornings, it could be that your head isn't high enough when you sleep. If your head is below or at the same level as your heart, the blood is going to pool and cause puffiness. Raise your pillow.
The largest city in the U.S. that has never had a recorded temperature of 100 degrees or more is Miami, Florida.
Soap Operas are so called because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.
No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
Hanukkah can be spelled in 17 different ways: Channuka, Channukah, Chanuka, Chanukah, Chanuko, Hannuka, Hannukah, Hanuka, Hanukah, Hanukkah, Kanukkah, Khannuka, Khannukah, Khanuka, Khanukah, and Khanukkah, and Chanuccah.
The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.
In 1903, driving his famous "999" built by Henry Ford, Berner Eli ("Barney") Oldfield became the first man to achieve 60 miles per hour, a speed many doctors of the day claimed would cause deafness.
If you stick your head in the freezer if you have a major cold, it will shrink the blood vessels in your nose and it will allow you to breathe.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Porcupines have 30,000 plus quills.
The snail only moves 0.000362005 MPH.
A hippo can run faster than a human can.
Its against the law to tickle a girl in Norton, Virginia.
Its against the law of Hawaii for a person to insert pennies in the ear.
Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.
In a ping pong match in 1936 Alex Ehrilichand and Paneth Farcas rallied for 2 hours and 12 minutes.
The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall and weighed 238 lbs.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only
been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
The Cairo Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1970. The Cairo fire
station was located inside the same building.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never
a recorded Wendy before.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
The condom - made originally of linen, was invented in the early
1500s.
Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons.
At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
Every swiss citizen is required to have access to a bomb shelter.
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born
with a crooked nose.
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians
in 2000 B.C.
The Utah State Bird is the California Seagull and the Utah State Tree is the Colorado Spruce.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean.
The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.
The dot above an "i" is called a tittle.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capras "Its A Wonderful Life".
Former president Ulysses S. Grants real name was Hiram.
More than one-fourth of the entire population of Memphis, Tennessee,
was wiped out by yellow fever in 1878.
More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state.
Before 1913, the U.S. had no income tax. The 16th Amendment was needed
so the government could do what they wanted to with the money.
The 30s gangster Machine Gun Kelly gave the FBI the nickname "G-Men."
All banks in the U.S. were closed during the week of March 5th - 12th, 1933.
This was to keep scared people from taking all their money out.
John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents.
Harry S. Truman was the only president in this century who didn't have a
college education.
Long before the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay became a prison,
it was used as a military fort. Shortly prior to this, the first light house located on the
West Coast was built here in 1854.
July 4, 1776, is the "official" date when our country was born, but
actually was not one country until 1788.
The 33rd president was Harry S. Truman. What is his
middle name? His parents were going to give him the name
Shippe or Solomon, the names of his grandfathers. They
could not agree, so they gave him just an initial, "S".
The Missouri River is 2,466 miles long and the Mississippi River
is 2,348 miles. Why is the Mississippi called our longest river?
The Missouri is not continuous. More correctly, the Mississippi
should be referred to as the longest continuous river.
They actually put rubber in gum, this helps you to make bubbles.
On average a pencil could draw a line 35 miles long.
The skin of a hippo is an inch and a half thick.
The bottle-nosed whale can reach a depth of 3,000 feet in a minute.
There is a naked man hidden in the camel on Camel Cigarette packages.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Your arm is stronger when you relax it.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.
Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share ones good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.
Goats eyes have rectangular pupils.
The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard
The average teenager uses the phrase "Its not fair" 86 times a day.
In some schools, youre given as many times as you want to get the answer right.
Scotophobia - a fear of the dark and also the fear of anything Scottish!
The worlds largest crossword-puzzle contained 82951 cells!
Cats eyes shine at night because of the light reflected by the tapetum, a layer of cells forming a large part of the inner eye.
In the US natural gas first came from a shallow well in New York, in 1821. Distributed through a small-bore lead pipe, it was used for lighting and cooking.
Did you know that Paul Revere never completed his journey? On the evening of 18 April 1775, Paul Revere was instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. Riding a horse that he borrowed from his friend Deacon John Larkin, he alarmed the countryside, stopping at each house, and reached Lexington at midnight.
By the age of 10, Ramesses II was captain in the army and had his own harem. He fathered 111 sons and 67 daughters.
In 1891, 2 Frenchman, René Panhard and Emile Levassor, were the first to put an engine in the front of the car, which gave better balance, and the weight on the front wheels made it easier to steer.
The worlds heaviest bell weighing 196 tons, is in the Kremlin and has never been rung.
The costliest dress ever made was priced at 1 million. It was a white royal-embroided muslin evening gown decorated with 516 diamonds.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elviss middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.
It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
Horses can sleep standing up.
Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
A jellyfish is 95% water.
Your brain is 80% water.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The billionth digit of pi is 9.
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.
Kermit the Frog is left handed.
The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn't end in an A is Afghanistan.
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Assuming Rudolph was in front there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.
All porcupines float in water.
Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable by death under church law.
There is a 1 in 685,000 chance that you will accidentally drown in your own bath.
Mickey Mouse was banned in Romania in 1935 because it was felt that he was too scary for children.
Mosquitos have forty-seven teeth.
There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
Queen Victoria was the first European monarch to use a telephone.
A pound of termites has more nutrients than a pound of beef or pork.
The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly.
If you started counting, and said one number every second, it would take you 33 years to get to 1 billion.
20 newborn opossums can fit into a tablespoon.
The Milky Way galaxy contains 5 billion stars larger than our sun.
The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.
Giraffes are unable to cough.
During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake packet itself than there are in the actual cornflake.
A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The Roman Emperor Nero used to eat Leeks to try to improve his singing voice.
After his first concert appearance Elvis presley was advised to consider becoming a lorry driver.
Children grow faster in springtime than they do the rest of the year.
A yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow, and grunts like a pig.
The measurement of a yard was instituted by Henry I, who decided it should be the distance from the end of his nose to his thumb.
It has been traditional to serve fish with a slice of lemon since the Middle Ages when people believed that the fruits juice would dissolve any bones accidentally swallowed.
Horses do not have collar bones.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.
The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
You know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.
The word "sophomore" means "sophisticated moron."
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs--it will let you go instantly.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
In Super Mario Bros., Mario's full name is Mario Mario, and Luigi's is Luigi Mario.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive -- so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
Americans will also produce enough gas to fly a fleet of 75 Hindenbergs from L.A. to New York in 24 hours.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
Rats cannot vomit.
John D. Rockefeller was actually the richest man ever. He was worth $900 million back when he lived, which would be equivalent to $189 billion dollars today.
In Meghalaya State, India, almost 39 feet of rain is poured down annually, causing flooding almost 75% of the year.
A guy from Ottawa, Canada did 3,416 push-ups in one hour before almost passing out after he was done.
