| 11/30/2006 |
In about 100 million years, a day will be 25 hours long. |
11/29/2006 |
An elephant can smell water 3 miles away. |
11/28/2006 |
Hamsters can wink. |
11/27/2006 |
Garden snails travel at a speed of roughly 0.03 mph. |
11/26/2006 |
In North America, bananas are eaten more often than any other fruit. |
11/25/2006 |
The largest radish in the world weighs more than 100 pounds. |
11/24/2006 |
Richard Simmons' license plate is "YRUFAT." |
11/23/2006 |
Sound travels 5 times faster underwater than it does in the air. |
11/22/2006 |
Cheerios cereal used to be called Cheerioats. |
11/21/2006 |
Dale Earnhardt won more than $41 million throughout his racing career. |
11/20/2006 |
The odds of being attacked by a shark are 1 in 11.5 million. |
11/19/2006 |
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. |
11/18/2006 |
The average baby weighs about 7 pounds. |
11/17/2006 |
The Medal of Honor has been awarded to 3,460 people. |
11/16/2006 |
Haiku is the world's shortest form of poetry. |
11/15/2006 |
The most expensive violin ever sold in the world costed $2.03 million. |
11/14/2006 |
Cheddar cheese is the most purchased and consumed cheese in the world. |
11/13/2006 |
94% of welfare recipients rely on public transportation when they're starting a new job. |
11/12/2006 |
Elvis Presley was a serious gun collector; he collected 40 weapons. |
11/11/2006 |
Eggs explode when you put them in the microwave. |
11/10/2006 |
The people who are usually killed in a bank robbery are the robbers themselves. |
11/9/2006 |
Flamingos sleep while standing up. |
11/8/2006 |
You have a higher chance of dying from a dog bite than from a shark bite. |
11/7/2006 |
Great White Sharks have about 3,000 teeth. |
11/6/2006 |
105 million pounds of pecan are produced in the state of Georgia every year. |
11/5/2006 |
Only 5 out of 100 people in the world will earn a college degree. |
11/4/2006 |
Mice prefer peanut butter over cheese. |
11/3/2006 |
Pigs are the 4th most intelligent animals in the world. |
11/2/2006 |
One ounce of platinum can be stretched up to 10,000 feet. |
11/1/2006 |
Albert Einstein never learned how to tie his shoe laces. |
10/31/2006 |
Yoohoo chocolate drinks don't have an expiration date and can last forever if stored correctly. |
10/30/2006 |
Fish are able to feel pain. |
10/29/2006 |
Potatoes explode when you put them in the microwave. |
10/28/2006 |
The average eagle has about 7,000 feathers. |
10/27/2006 |
The inventor of 7-up soda had red eyes. |
10/26/2006 |
October is National Liver Awareness month. |
10/25/2006 |
More than 2 billion Pop Tarts are sold every year. |
10/24/2006 |
Pigs are able to become alcoholics. |
10/23/2006 |
More than 500 types of bananas exist in the world. |
10/22/2006 |
Albert Einstein never learned how to drive a car. |
10/21/2006 |
From 1940 to 1975, the average height of Americans increased by more than 3 inches. |
10/20/2006 |
Jack in the Box has given away more than 22 million antenna balls. |
10/19/2006 |
The original Twinkie had banana cream filling. |
10/18/2006 |
Snoring can destroy brain cells. |
10/17/2006 |
About 50 million people in the United States alone engage themselves in crossword puzzles every week. |
10/16/2006 |
Burger King Whoppers costed as little as 37 cents when they were first introduced in 1957. |
10/15/2006 |
Salt is the only type of rock that humans eat. |
10/14/2006 |
More than 800 million gallons of gas are saved every year because of public transportation. |
10/13/2006 |
On average, people forget 80% of what they learn in one day. |
10/12/2006 |
The average fashion model is 5'10" and weighs 110 pounds, but the average woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 pounds. |
10/11/2006 |
The Statue of Liberty was shipped to the United States in 350 pieces. |
10/10/2006 |
The average 14-year old knows 20,000 words. |
10/9/2006 |
500,000 people came to California to search for gold during the gold rush. |
10/8/2006 |
Horses sleep while standing up. |
10/7/2006 |
AT&T was the first corporation in the world to have more than 1 million stockholders. |
10/6/2006 |
Women are more likely than men are to reject heart transplants. |
10/5/2006 |
Cats can see in the dark. |
10/4/2006 |
25 years is the approximate lifespan of a penny. |
10/3/2006 |
Lollipop is the longest word that's typed using only the right hand. |
10/2/2006 |
A false floor was added to Hitler's car to make him look taller when he stood up from the car. |
10/1/2006 |
It takes 4 to 6 hours for the food in your refridgerator to spoil if your refridgerator stops working. |
9/30/2006 |
The largest glacier in the world is 120 miles long. |
9/29/2006 |
A maze in a Pacman video game has exactly 240 dots. |
9/28/2006 |
Cats can see clearly with only 1/6 of the light that humans need to see. |
9/27/2006 |
26 items are sold on Ebay every minute. |
9/26/2006 |
The clavicle (collar bone) is the most commonly broken bone in the human body. |
9/25/2006 |
The largest zipper factory in the world produces more than 7 million zippers every day. |
9/24/2006 |
Dolphins can hear 14 times better than humans can. |
9/23/2006 |
The average person in the United States consumes 2,700 calories every day. |
9/22/2006 |
Richard Simmons used to weigh as much as 268 pounds. |
9/21/2006 |
Beagle dogs have 220 million scent receptors; humans only have 5 million scent receptors. |
9/20/2006 |
More than 700,000 people in the United States will celebrate their birthday today. |
9/19/2006 |
The largest jigsaw puzzle in the world has more than 18,000 pieces. |
9/18/2006 |
Snakes are color blind. |
9/17/2006 |
Abraham Lincoln's portrait on the penny is the only U.S. coin that's faced to the right. |
9/16/2006 |
Since 1950, Bic has sold more than 100 billion ballpoint pens. |
9/15/2006 |
The vault door at Fort Knox's gold reserve weighs more than 20 tons. |
9/14/2006 |
Kim Jong-il, the dictator of North Korea, wears platform shoes to appear taller. |
9/13/2006 |
A hamburger used to cost 18 cents when Burger King first opened. |
9/12/2006 |
In 2005, the highest paid supermodel in the world earned $15.2 million. |
9/11/2006 |
Women are more likely to reject heart transplants than men are. |
9/10/2006 |
Killing a cat was once punishable by death in Egypt. |
9/9/2006 |
If refridgerated well, a carton of milk is good for 7 more days than the printed sell-by date. |
9/8/2006 |
The average person in the United States eats 5.63 gallons of ice cream every year. |
9/7/2006 |
The largest manufacturer of marbles in the world produces more than 12 million marbles every day. |
9/6/2006 |
Boys are allowed to join certain Girl Scout organizations. |
9/5/2006 |
Coral plants can die if the water temperature varies by one or two degrees from its normal range. |
9/4/2006 |
Blood flow to the brain increases when you think. |
9/3/2006 |
Charles Schulz, the author of the Peanuts comic strip, had his drawings rejected for the high school yearbook. |
9/2/2006 |
It takes 2 days for the food in your freezer to spoil if your refridgerator stops working. |
9/1/2006 |
Pennies manufactured before 1982 contain 95% copper. |
8/31/2006 |
-40 degrees fahrenheit is equivalent to -40 degrees celsius. |
8/30/2006 |
Crocodiles are color blind. |
8/29/2006 |
A starfish doesn't have a brain. |
8/28/2006 |
There are 240 dots in a Pacman game. |
8/27/2006 |
Driving a dirty car in Russia is illegal. |
8/26/2006 |
A caterpillar has more muscles than a human does. |
8/25/2006 |
The average human body contains enough carbon to make 900 lead pencils. |
8/24/2006 |
The reproductive organs of a snail are located in the head. |
8/23/2006 |
80% of a human's brain is made out of water. |
8/22/2006 |
Earthworms have 10 hearts. |
8/21/2006 |
The Eiffel Tower has 1,665 steps. |
8/20/2006 |
A scallop has more than 100 eyes. |
8/19/2006 |
The average person in the United States eats 263 eggs a year. |
8/18/2006 |
The horned toad squirts blood from its eyes when it gets angry. |
8/17/2006 |
About 550 hairs are contained in the average human eyebrow. |
8/16/2006 |
About 20 billion hot dogs are consumed every year in the United States. |
8/15/2006 |
The average person produces 10,000 gallons of saliva during his/her lifetime. |
8/14/2006 |
The trillionth digit of pi is 8. |
8/13/2006 |
A can of SPAM food is opened every 3.8 seconds. |
8/12/2006 |
A stretched out Slinky measures 65 feet long. |
8/11/2006 |
During a hockey game, a puck can reach speeds of up to 118 mph. |
8/10/2006 |
An iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes. |
8/9/2006 |
The heaviest cabbage in the world weighs 124 pounds. |
8/8/2006 |
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. |
8/7/2006 |
The lifetime of a taste bud is between 10 days and 2 weeks. |
8/6/2006 |
The longest time that a person has been in a coma is 37 years. |
8/5/2006 |
Cranberry-flavored Jello is the only flavor that contains real fruit. |
8/4/2006 |
Between 8,000 and 11,000 new publishing companies are created each year. |
8/3/2006 |
600,000 laptops are stolen every year. |
8/2/2006 |
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. |
8/1/2006 |
Outside of the United States, between 200 and 300 tornadoes occur every year. |
7/31/2006 |
The funny bone is a nerve, not a bone. |
7/30/2006 |
Men have more blood than women do. |
7/29/2006 |
New York used to be called New Amsterdam. |
7/28/2006 |
England is smaller than New England. |
7/27/2006 |
The average electric eel can produce up to 650 volts of electricity. |
7/26/2006 |
The most milk that a cow has ever produced in one year was 55,660 pounds. |
7/25/2006 |
Not a single disease has ever been eradicated completely. |
7/24/2006 |
Producing a wedding ring generates 20 tons of mining waste. |
7/23/2006 |
Fruit Cakes are banned in many airports because its large density makes it difficult to scan. |
7/22/2006 |
97% of stolen laptops are never recovered. |
7/21/2006 |
Ostriches can run faster than horses. |
7/20/2006 |
The exact center of the United States is located in Lebanon, Kansas. |
7/19/2006 |
It would cost you $8,325 to take a taxi from New York City to Los Angeles. |
7/18/2006 |
The heart of an adult human weighs 10 ounces. |
7/17/2006 |
Squirrels cannot contract or carry rabies. |
7/16/2006 |
Peanut butter can be used to make diamonds. |
7/15/2006 |
Hawaii is the only state that produces coffee. |
7/14/2006 |
The maximum weight of a golf ball is 1.62 ounces. |
7/13/2006 |
A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds. |
7/12/2006 |
No war has ever been fought between two countries that had a McDonalds. |
7/11/2006 |
Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants. |
7/10/2006 |
The short-term memory capacity for most people is between 5 and 9 digits or items. |
7/9/2006 |
The C in J.C. Penney stands for Cash. |
7/8/2006 |
Oceans make up 99% of the living space in the world. |
7/7/2006 |
Women blink twice as often as men. |
7/6/2006 |
About 1,200 tornadoes occur in the United States every year. |
7/5/2006 |
It is possible to start a fire with ice. |
7/4/2006 |
All continents end with the same letter with which they start. |
7/3/2006 |
Golf courses take up more land than farms do. |
7/2/2006 |
A baby is born to a teenage mother every 75 seconds. |
7/1/2006 |
Snow leopards can't roar. |
6/30/2006 |
Alfred Nobel, the person behind the Nobel Peace Prize, invented dynamite. |
6/29/2006 |
The heaviest blue whale ever discovered weighed more than 190 tons. |
6/28/2006 |
Your skin will turn orange if you eat too many carrots. |
6/27/2006 |
A beaver can cut down as many as 200 trees in one year. |
6/26/2006 |
There is an average of 32 million bacteria in a square inch of the human body. |
6/25/2006 |
Phobophobia is the fear of developing a phobia. |
6/24/2006 |
Only about 20% of Americans have a passport. |
6/23/2006 |
Arabic numerals originated from India. |
6/22/2006 |
The exact speed of light is 186,287.49 miles per second. |
6/21/2006 |
One in every ten people live on an island. |
6/20/2006 |
A giraffe sleeps for only 20 minutes a day. |
6/19/2006 |
About 90% of people who die from hurricanes die from drowning, not the wind. |
6/18/2006 |
A hippo can run a mile in about 2 to 3 minutes. |
6/17/2006 |
It takes about 6 months for a fingernail to grow from base to tip. |
6/16/2006 |
There are 6 billion dust mites in a typical bed. |
6/15/2006 |
A rhino's horn is made out of hair. |
6/14/2006 |
Bill Gates was once an employee for Apple. |
6/13/2006 |
There has never been a U.S. president with a last name beginning with S. |
6/12/2006 |
About 1,000 people die from lightning strikes every year. |
6/11/2006 |
An average of 345 squirts is required to yield a gallon of milk from a cow. |
6/10/2006 |
An elephant can swim up to 20 miles in a day. |
6/9/2006 |
Baby carrots are carved from regular carrots. |
6/8/2006 |
Snails have as many as 25,000 teeth. |
6/7/2006 |
In the United States, about 50,000 people die from air pollution every year. |
6/6/2006 |
There are at least 600 million cars in the world. |
6/5/2006 |
More than one million earthquakes occur every year. |
6/4/2006 |
The longest case of hiccups lasted for 69 years. |
6/3/2006 |
There are no ants in Antarctica. |
6/2/2006 |
A bean cell has more DNA than a human cell. |
6/1/2006 |
In the United States, about 50 billion checks are written every year. |
5/31/2006 |
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse. |
5/30/2006 |
More than 1.6 million people work for a McDonalds restaurant. |
5/29/2006 |
In the United States, about 630 steel cans are recycled every second. |
5/28/2006 |
Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in one day. |
5/27/2006 |
The largest diamond ever found in the world was 3,106 carats. |
5/26/2006 |
In the United States, about 14 people die from asthma attacks every day. |
5/25/2006 |
The sun shrinks about five feet every second. |
5/24/2006 |
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet. |
5/23/2006 |
It is possible for brain damage to occur from a fever if it is over 107.6 degrees. |
5/22/2006 |
More than 45 billion sandwiches are eaten by people in the United States every year. |
5/21/2006 |
A blink lasts about 0.3 seconds. |
5/20/2006 |
Ten years ago, one of John F. Kennedy's rocking chairs was auctioned off for $453,000. |
5/19/2006 |
More than 20 billion pickles are eaten every year in the United States. |
5/18/2006 |
Eight years ago, Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that could be used to see through people's clothes. |
5/17/2006 |
It takes about 500 years for a disposable diaper to decompose. |
5/16/2006 |
The average house contributes more to air pollution than the average car. |
5/15/2006 |
More than 500 million twinkies are baked every year. |
5/14/2006 |
The average person in the United States uses about 57 sheets of toilet paper every day. |
5/13/2006 |
The odds of being electrocuted are 1 in 350,000. |
5/12/2006 |
There are more than 3 trillion craters on the moon. |
5/11/2006 |
There are more than 2000 species of cactus in the world. |
5/10/2006 |
In the United States, 96 billion pounds of food are wasted every year. |
5/9/2006 |
The sun causes one trillion tons of water to evaporate every day. |
5/8/2006 |
An olive tree can live for more than 1,500 years. |
5/7/2006 |
600 million Marshmallow Peeps are bought and eaten by Americans during Easter season. |
5/6/2006 |
More than 400 million ounces of orange juice are served in Burger King restaurants every year. |
5/5/2006 |
The most expensive bottle of perfume in the world costs $215,000. |
5/4/2006 |
A slug has four noses. |
5/3/2006 |
About three jars of peanut butter are sold every second. |
5/2/2006 |
Dolphins sleep with one eye open. |
5/1/2006 |
Mel Blanc, the person who did the voice work for Bugs Bunny, was allergic to raw carrots. |
4/30/2006 |
There is no lead in pencil lead. |
4/29/2006 |
The heart of a giraffe weighs more than 24 pounds. |
4/28/2006 |
The first owner of Marlboro died of lung cancer. |
4/27/2006 |
The first Ford cars used Dodge engines. |
4/26/2006 |
The average porcupine has at least 30,000 quills. |
4/25/2006 |
The color of a grasshopper's blood is green. |
4/24/2006 |
The longest mountain range in the world is underneath the Atlantic Ocean. |
4/23/2006 |
It was once against the law to own a dog in Iceland. |
4/22/2006 |
In the United States, the government owns one third of the land. |
4/21/2006 |
The fingerprint of a koala can't be distinguished from a human fingerprint. |
4/20/2006 |
All living things are mostly comprised of water. |
4/19/2006 |
A house in the United States will catch on fire every 45 seconds. |
4/18/2006 |
The tail of a comet is always pointing away from the Sun. |
4/17/2006 |
The color of a lobster's blood is blue. |
4/16/2006 |
A hurricane releases more energy than all the nuclear weapons in the world combined. |
4/15/2006 |
Happy Meals account for 40% of McDonald's profits. |
4/14/2006 |
A cucumber is not a vegetable; it is a fruit. |
4/13/2006 |
Men are about six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. |
4/12/2006 |
Snails can sleep for three years without eating. |
4/11/2006 |
Most pencils in Europe are sold without erasers. |
4/10/2006 |
The largest eggs in the world are laid by whale sharks. |
4/9/2006 |
After 49.7 days of straight usage, a Windows 95 or 98 machine will stop responding. |
4/8/2006 |
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighs 1,469 pounds. |
4/7/2006 |
Rats can live longer without water than camels. |
4/6/2006 |
George Washington used his garden to grow marijuana. |
4/5/2006 |
The largest flower in the world weighs 15 pounds. |
4/4/2006 |
300 cups of tea can be made from one pound of tea. |
4/3/2006 |
The spine of a camel is actually straight. |
4/2/2006 |
An oak tree doesn't produce acorns until it is at least 50 years old. |
4/1/2006 |
The two highest IQs ever recorded in history belong to women. |
3/31/2006 |
Ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find food. |
3/30/2006 |
The first telephone book ever issued had only 50 names in it. |
3/29/2006 |
The queen of England has two birthdays. |
3/28/2006 |
Male mosquitoes don't bite. |
3/27/2006 |
The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons. |
3/26/2006 |
The average human head weighs about 8 pounds. |
3/25/2006 |
Only 9 countries participated in the first Olympics. |
3/24/2006 |
Cigarette lighters were invented before matches. |
3/23/2006 |
Wrigley's bubble gum was the first product to have a bar code. |
3/22/2006 |
Cow farts are a major cause of global warming. |
3/21/2006 |
There are an average of 27 peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. |
3/20/2006 |
Catfish have as many as 100,000 taste buds. |
3/19/2006 |
A milk chocolate bar contains more protein than a banana does. |
3/18/2006 |
Only one in every 2,000 babies is born with a tooth. |
3/17/2006 |
Cows give more milk when they listen to music. |
3/16/2006 |
A 75-watt light bulb will give off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs. |
3/15/2006 |
9 presidents in the United States never went to college. |
3/14/2006 |
Bulls are not attracted by the color red. |
3/13/2006 |
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries do. |
3/12/2006 |
A single breath from an adult blue whale can inflate 2,000 balloons. |
3/11/2006 |
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes. |
3/10/2006 |
The average human breathes 26,000 times in one day. |
3/9/2006 |
If each count was one second long, it would take 31,709 years to count to one trillion. |
3/8/2006 |
A goldfish will turn white if you leave it in a dark room for many years. |
3/7/2006 |
About 7% of Americans will eat at McDonalds today. |
3/6/2006 |
$6,400 is the average cost of raising a dog to the age of 11. |
3/5/2006 |
A piece of cabbage is 91% water. |
3/4/2006 |
A beaver's teeth never stops growing. |
3/3/2006 |
A sea hare can lay 40,000 eggs in one minute. |
3/2/2006 |
315 words were misspelled in the 1996 Webster's dictionary. |
3/1/2006 |
Every year, more people are killed by falling coconuts than sharks. |
2/28/2006 |
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. |
2/27/2006 |
The ink on U.S. currency has magnetic properties. |
2/26/2006 |
About 4,000 people move to Las Vegas every month. |
2/25/2006 |
You will burn about 7% more calories by walking on hard dirt instead of pavement. |
2/24/2006 |
35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married. |
2/23/2006 |
No one has ever died from a tarantula bite. |
2/22/2006 |
About 450 million cups of coffee are consumed every day in the United States. |
2/21/2006 |
About 3,000 people die every day from malaria. |
2/20/2006 |
A bicycle helmet reduces the risk of head injury by 85%. |
2/19/2006 |
There are 318,979,564,000 ways of playing the first four moves in chess. |
2/18/2006 |
If each count was one second long, it would take 31.7 years to count to one billion. |
2/17/2006 |
Each of the letters of the Hollywood sign are 45 feet tall. |
2/16/2006 |
Banging your head against a wall burns about 150 calories per hour. |
2/15/2006 |
The average person will drink about 15,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. |
2/14/2006 |
61% of men actually want to receive flowers as a Valentine gift from women. |
2/13/2006 |
The average roll of toilet paper has 333 squares. |
2/12/2006 |
More Monopoly money is printed every year than real money is. |
2/11/2006 |
89% of the weight of the ocean is made up of oxygen. |
2/10/2006 |
The average person loses 40-100 strands of hair every day. |
2/9/2006 |
Chewing gum while peeling an onion will prevent you from crying. |
2/8/2006 |
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. |
2/7/2006 |
"Almost" is the longest English word with all the letters in alphabetical order. |
2/6/2006 |
It is estimated that 200,000,000 M&M's are sold every day. |
2/5/2006 |
China has more English speakers than the United States. |
2/4/2006 |
Bacteria production increases by as much as 200% in space. |
2/3/2006 |
The Dead Sea is not a sea. It is a lake. |
2/2/2006 |
Europe is the only continent without a desert. |
2/1/2006 |
Throughout its life, an oyster will change its gender several times. |
1/31/2006 |
The average audio cassette tape has 562.5 feet of tape in it. |
1/30/2006 |
A lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away. |
1/29/2006 |
49.6% of people in the United States live in the Eastern Time Zone. |
1/28/2006 |
There are only 14 blimps in the world. |
1/27/2006 |
A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is on the ground. |
1/26/2006 |
Only 1 in 700 identity theives are convicted. |
1/25/2006 |
The temperature of a lightning bolt is four times as hot as the surface of the Sun. |
1/24/2006 |
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients do. |
1/23/2006 |
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States. |
1/22/2006 |
You are more likely to have a bad dream if you sleep in a cold room. |
1/21/2006 |
More than 40 years ago, men with long hair weren't allowed to enter Disneyland. |
1/20/2006 |
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges do. |
1/19/2006 |
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. |
1/18/2006 |
You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider. |
1/17/2006 |
Pocahontas is depicted on the back of the 1875 20-dollar bill. |
1/16/2006 |
Microwaves were invented after a researcher walked by a radar system and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. |
1/15/2006 |
Dragonflies have a lifespan of 24 hours. |
1/14/2006 |
An Oreo cookie is 29% creme and 71% cookie. |
1/13/2006 |
Underground is the only English word that begins and ends with the letters und. |
1/12/2006 |
The first Apple hard drive only had a capacity of 5 MB. |
1/11/2006 |
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. |
1/10/2006 |
More than 345 billion Oreo cookies have been consumed. |
1/9/2006 |
75% of children prefer purple over all other colors. |
1/8/2006 |
Every year, more than 10,000 forest fires are caused by lightning. |
1/7/2006 |
Nearly 70% of small businesses don't have a website. |
1/6/2006 |
70% of lightning injuries occur in the afternoon. |
1/5/2006 |
In the United States, 14 million people use public transportation services every day. |
1/4/2006 |
20% of people struck by lightning will die from the strike. |
1/3/2006 |
Eating cheese helps prevent tooth decay. |
1/2/2006 |
In the United States, there are 100,000 thunderstorms every year. |
1/1/2006 |
A 12-year old girl was once arrested for eating a french fry in front of a police officer. |
12/31/2005 |
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year. |
12/30/2005 |
24 miles is the world record for carrying a milk bottle on your head. |
12/29/2005 |
The Empire State Building was built with more than 10 million bricks. |
12/28/2005 |
In the United States, your chances of being struck by lightning is 1 in 600,000. |
12/27/2005 |
It takes 6 minutes to make a marshmallow peep. |
12/26/2005 |
In a normal population, 1 in 200 people are psychopaths. |
12/25/2005 |
Peanuts are one of the ingredients for making dynamite. |
12/24/2005 |
A computer becomes infected by a virus every 5 seconds. |
12/23/2005 |
Wearing headphones for one hour increases the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. |
12/22/2005 |
A tiger has striped skin as well as striped fur. |
12/21/2005 |
A rubber band will last longer if it is kept refrigerated. |
12/20/2005 |
There are 100 lightning strikes every second. |
12/19/2005 |
There are more than 300 million ants in the world's largest ant colony. |
12/18/2005 |
47 bibles are sold every minute. |
12/17/2005 |
About 13% of people are left-handed. |
12/16/2005 |
There are no penguins in the North Pole or in the Arctic. |
12/15/2005 |
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. |
12/14/2005 |
About one-third of Earth's land surface is desert. |
12/13/2005 |
Millions of meteors collide with the Earth's atmosphere every 24 hours. |
12/12/2005 |
A college student knows 20,000 to 30,000 words when he/she graduates. |
12/11/2005 |
The English language has more than 2 million words. |
12/10/2005 |
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body. |
12/9/2005 |
10% of people witness rude behavior at work every day. |
12/8/2005 |
A strand of human hair is 80,000 nanometers thick. |
12/7/2005 |
5 billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets in the United States every day. |
12/6/2005 |
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year. |
12/5/2005 |
24 miles is the world record for carrying a milk bottle on your head. |
12/4/2005 |
A car is stolen every 20 seconds in the United States. |
12/3/2005 |
95% of food poisoning cases are never reported. |
12/2/2005 |
60% of electrocutions occur when talking on the phone during a thunderstorm. |
12/1/2005 |
Every year, 13 people are killed by vending machines falling on them. |
11/30/2005 |
The biggest rubber band in the world is 1,203,840 inches long. |
11/29/2005 |
July 2nd is halfway through the year on a non-leap year. |
11/28/2005 |
There are 31,557,600 seconds in one year. |
11/27/2005 |
Months that begin on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th. |
11/26/2005 |
In 1952, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel. |
11/25/2005 |
If it gets really hungry, an octopus will eat its own arms. |
11/24/2005 |
There is a city called Rome in every continent. |
11/23/2005 |
1 out of 2 billion people will live to be 116 or older. |
11/22/2005 |
Smelling a banana or a green apple can help you lose weight. |
11/21/2005 |
Bulls are color blind. |
11/20/2005 |
More than 10,000 birds die every year from smashing into windows. |
11/19/2005 |
Q is the least used letter in the English alphabet. |
11/18/2005 |
A hummingbird weighs less than one penny. |
11/17/2005 |
The average person blinks about 84 million times in one year. |
11/16/2005 |
Fingernails grow almost 4 times as fast as toenails. |
11/15/2005 |
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb because he was scared of the dark. |
11/14/2005 |
A toothpick is supposedly the object most often choked on by Americans. |
11/13/2005 |
In the United States, $203 million is spent on barbed wire every year. |
11/12/2005 |
A forest fire will move faster uphill than downhill. |
11/11/2005 |
In the United States, it costs 3 cents to make a $1 bill. |
11/10/2005 |
The average person eats as many as 35,000 cookies during their lifetime. |
11/9/2005 |
The billionth digit of pi is 9. |
11/8/2005 |
85 million tons of paper are used every year in the United States. |
11/7/2005 |
During the first week of Daylight Savings Time, car accidents rise 10%. |
11/6/2005 |
The odds of a mother giving birth to twins is 1 in 90. |
11/5/2005 |
The average person has more than 1,460 dreams in one year. |
11/4/2005 |
You will eat about 60,000 pounds of food during your lifetime. |
11/3/2005 |
A 5-cent bill was once issued in America. |
11/2/2005 |
There are 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year. |
11/1/2005 |
The Mayan calendar ends in 2012. |
10/31/2005 |
50% of people have kissed before turning 14 years old. |
10/30/2005 |
The time displayed on a watch ad is usually 10:10. |
10/29/2005 |
An octopus has 3 hearts. |
10/28/2005 |
Elephants can't jump. |
10/27/2005 |
About 75% of pencils are painted yellow. |
10/26/2005 |
2.8 billion pencils are manufactured every year in the United States. |
10/25/2005 |
The average lifespan of a hermit crab in the wild is 75 years. |
10/24/2005 |
Astronauts can't burp in space. |
10/23/2005 |
Hair doesn't grow back darker or thicker after it's been shaved. |
10/22/2005 |
One gallon of motor oil is enough to ruin one million gallons of water. |
10/21/2005 |
Tuesday is the most productive work day of the week. |
10/20/2005 |
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team when he was a sophomore. |
10/19/2005 |
A watermelon is not a fruit. It's a vegetable. |
10/18/2005 |
Nintendo began as a manufacturer of playing cards. |
10/17/2005 |
The opposite sides of a dice cube will always add up to 7. |
10/16/2005 |
In golf, the odds of getting a hole-in-one is estimated to be 18,000 to 1. |
10/15/2005 |
It is legal to marry a dead person in France. |
10/14/2005 |
One in three women owns at least one gun. |
10/13/2005 |
Children are more allergic to cockroaches than cats. |
10/12/2005 |
The most common last name in the United States is Smith. |
10/11/2005 |
Russia is the largest country in the world in terms of area. |
10/10/2005 |
A million dollars worth of $1 bills would weigh 2,040 pounds. |
10/9/2005 |
A hydrogen bomb was accidentally dropped in New Mexico on May 22, 1957. |
10/8/2005 |
It takes 517,578 dollar bills to cover an entire football field. |
10/7/2005 |
A 1,400 year old cheese was found on August 23, 1987. |
10/6/2005 |
The Yellow pages listed a funeral home in Texas under the frozen foods section in 1980. |
10/5/2005 |
Christopher Columbus had blonde hair. |
10/4/2005 |
A hockey puck can travel up to 100mph. |
10/3/2005 |
The average speed of a sneeze is 600mph. |
10/2/2005 |
A pig can run a mile in seven minutes. |
10/1/2005 |
George W. Bush's college GPA was 2.35. |
9/30/2005 |
Sharks have up to 3000 teeth. |
9/29/2005 |
More than 500 people are killed every year by elephants. |
9/28/2005 |
There are 330,000 species of beetles. |
9/27/2005 |
Dragonflies have 30,000 lenses in each eye. |
9/26/2005 |
Termites eat more paper money than dogs, horses, and pigs do. |
9/25/2005 |
All polar bears are left-handed. |
9/24/2005 |
Butterflies taste with their feet. |
9/23/2005 |
Cows can't vomit. |
9/22/2005 |
Watching television burns more calories than sleeping does. |
9/21/2005 |
Apples are more efficient than coffee in keeping people awake in the morning. |
9/20/2005 |
In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. |
9/19/2005 |
Walt Disney was afraid of mice. |
9/18/2005 |
The average life span of a major league baseball is six pitches. |
9/17/2005 |
3,000 cows are required to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. |
9/16/2005 |
A baseball goes further in hot temperature than in cold temperature. |
9/15/2005 |
When straightened, a coat hanger is 44 inches in length. |
9/14/2005 |
The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body. |
9/13/2005 |
The longest word with one syllable in the English language is "screeched". |
9/12/2005 |
Heat and drought have killed more people in the United States than any other natural disaster. |
9/11/2005 |
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. |
9/10/2005 |
An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain. |
9/9/2005 |
There are more plastic flamingos in the United States than real flamingos. |
9/8/2005 |
Bugs Bunny was originally called "Happy Rabbit". |
9/7/2005 |
Mosquitos have teeth. |
9/6/2005 |
Every person has a unique tongue print. |
9/5/2005 |
Women are twice as likely as men to order vegetable toppings on a pizza. |
9/4/2005 |
A shrimp's heart is in its head. |
9/3/2005 |
Horses can't vomit. |
9/2/2005 |
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. |
9/1/2005 |
There are 200 million insects for every human on this planet. |
8/31/2005 |
The U.S. Government doesn't allow portraits of living people to appear on stamps. |
8/30/2005 |
The average person can fall asleep in seven minutes. |
8/29/2005 |
A car traveling at 100mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star. |
8/28/2005 |
The highest wind velocity ever recorded on Earth is 231mph. |
8/27/2005 |
Women are 2½ times more likely to fear a visit to dentists than men are. |
8/26/2005 |
The heart of a blue whale only beats 9 times per minute. |
8/25/2005 |
Bats are the only mammals that have the ability to fly. |
8/24/2005 |
Babies born at night are 12% more likely to die during their first month. |
8/23/2005 |
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. |
8/22/2005 |
Frogs do not drink water. They absorb it through their skin. |
8/21/2005 |
R, S, T, L, N, and E are the most common letters in the English language. |
8/20/2005 |
An ant can survive for up to 2 weeks underwater. |
8/19/2005 |
Ostriches can run faster than horses. |
8/18/2005 |
The oldest goldfish in the world lived up to 41 years of age. |
8/17/2005 |
25% to 33% of people sneeze when they are exposed to light. |
8/16/2005 |
It takes more than 500 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. |
8/15/2005 |
Dunkin' Donuts serves about 112,500 doughnuts each day. |
8/14/2005 |
Human birth control pills work on gorillas. |
8/13/2005 |
In 1994, lawsuits filed by California inmates costed taxpayers more than $25 million. |
8/12/2005 |
Iowa has more telephone companies than any other state. |
8/11/2005 |
46% percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. |
8/10/2005 |
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food. |
8/9/2005 |
The English alphabet originally had 24 letters. |
8/8/2005 |
Over 15 billion prizes have been given away in Cracker Jacks boxes. |
8/7/2005 |
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine. |
8/6/2005 |
There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice. |
8/5/2005 |
It is impossible for a pig to look up at the sky. |
8/4/2005 |
There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996! |
