The average human body contains enough:
There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
The longest recorded Monopoly game was 1,680 hours. That's over 70 days.
Ladies in Europe took to wearing lightning rods on their hats and trailing a ground wire- a fad that began after Benjamin Franklin published instructions on how to make them, in his almanac, Poor Richard Improved, in 1753.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
The average hamster, if provided a wheel, will run up to eight miles per night!
If they are swirled in a pail or kept on board a rolling ship, fish can become seasick.
At certain times of the year it is possible to hear corn grow.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gums is 9000 years old.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
Broccoli is a vegetable with a nervous system. Primitive though it may be, it CAN feel pain.
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
The movie "Halloween" took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
The scent of Crayola crayons is among the twenty most recognizable to American adults.
In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
In Florida it is illegal for single, divorced, or widowed women to parachute on Sunday afternoons.
In Ames Iowa a husband may not take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with his wife.
In California it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless it's a whale.
In California it is illegal to harm a butterfly.
Hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are required by law to furnish their rooms with twin beds only. There should be a minimum of two feet between the beds, and it is illegal for a couple to make love on the floor between the beds.
In Nebraska, It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
In Memphis, Tennesee, it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself, unless a man is walking or running infront of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists.
Lifesavers were invented by a candymaker to sell during the summertime when soft chocolate candies didn't do so well because they would melt.
Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830s it was sold as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....")
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. (From drinking little bottles of...? Did the government pay for this research?)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot of a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.
Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend, Indiana.
In Miami, Florida, it is illegal for a man to wear any kind of strapless gown.
A poodle fell from a balcony in Buenos Aires in October 1988. It killed three people. One was struck on the head, the second run over by a bus while watching, the third witnessed the event and died from a heart attack.
The heaviest burrito ever made weighed 2,237 lbs.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
If a frog's mouth is held open too long, it will sufficate.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
One pail of water can produce enough fog to cover 105 square miles to a depth of fifty feet.
Apollo 8 astronauts used a new adhesive to fasten down their tools during weightlessness- Silly Putty.
Rhode Island prison inmates have the legal right to change their underwear once a week.
It is illegal to attend the theature within four hours of eating garlic in Gary, Indiana.
A pigeon's feathers weigh more than its bones.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Charlie Brown''s father was a barber.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
The longest official city name in the world is: Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit. It is the official name of Bangkok, Thailand.
In the film, ''Titanic'', when Jack walks through the french doors for dinner with Rose and her family, a camera man''s reflection can be seen on the glass.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
"60 Minutes" on CBS is the only TV show without a theme song.
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That''s where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
The average American's vocabulary is around 10,000 words- 15,000 if you are REALLY smart. Shakespeare had a vocabuluary of over 29,000 words.
You can use pine cones to forecast the weather: The
scales will close when rain is on the way.
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically
the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking
water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
The term eavesdropper originated because in Middle English,
the water that falls from the eaves of a house was called
eavesdrop, and eavesdropper was first used to describe
someone who would stand close to a house in order to hear
what was going on inside.
A year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and
46 seconds long.
The average person will consume approximately 16,000
gallons of water in their lifetime.
The elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away. Also,
a dogs' nose is so sensitive that it can tell the
difference between a tub of water and a tub of water
with a teaspoon of salt in it.
Lightening travels 90,000 miles a second -almost half the
speed of light.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
In Arizona no more than six girls may live in any house.
In California:
-It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from
a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
-No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.
-You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you
already own at least two cows.
-It is illegal in for a man to beat his wife with a strap
wider than 2 inches without her consent.
Barbie and Ken are named after the children of
Ruth and Elliot Handler, founder of Mattel.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is
Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first
episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off
by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne
Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland
because he doesn't wear pants.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language.
If the population of China walked past you
in single file, the line would never end
because of the rate of reproduction.
No word in the English language rhymes
with "month".
An armadillo can walk under water.
Cats cannot taste sweets.
A baby in Florida was named
Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
His middle name is George James.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the
Wright brother's first flight.
America once used a five-cent bill.A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its
head enables it to see all four feet at
all times.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The sloth moves so slowly that green algae
can grow undisturbed on its fur.
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his
1950 "If I Ran the Zoo"
The average child wears out 730 crayons
by his or her 10th birthday
One of the first streetcars in San Francisco
was made to look like a horse, so its high
speed (8 mph) and noisy characteristics
would not frighten horses pulling carriages
and carts.
