Interesting Facts
One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Did you know that mustard is a poison in larger amounts?
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
And nutmeg gets you high... Strangely enough it has been proven, it is a high similar to a cannabis high but slightly hallucinogenic.
What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All invented by WOMEN!
An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception.
Coca-Cola was originally green, due to the fact that it was produced using cocaine extracts. This highly addictive carbonated drink was a huge success until cocaine was later outlawed by the U.S. government and Coca-Cola was forced to re-invent their beverage.
Carrots originally appeared in a variety of hues ranging from purple to white, pale yellow, red, green and black but never orange, until the Europeans orange-ized them in the early 17th century.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
If a statue in a park of a person on a horse has both front legs in he 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.
Kellogg's Corn Flakes were invented by a Dr. Kellogg in hopes that they would reduce masturbation.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more than any other animal.
In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden. And thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A roach will live nine days without it's head. The only reason it doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.
7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark.
More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
The human brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight, but takes up more than 20% of your blood flow.
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.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Did you know that the original Cinderella story had her wearing a fur shoe? A French writer made a mistake when he wrote the story down in 1697, confusing two homonyms--vair, an Old French word for fur, and verre, which is French for glass.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Cows sleep only 3 hours a day.
Cat night vision is 6 times better than human night vision
Dogs’ mouths are 200 times cleaner then human mouths.
“Jaws” is the most common name for Goldfish in the U.K.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that ever had a king.
The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
Venus's day is longer then its year.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
"Duct Tape" was originally named "Duck Tape" because of its ability to repel water.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V
Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus.
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
Odds of being killed in a tornado- 1 in 2 million.
The average bra size today is 36 C. 10 years ago it was 34 B.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
The name Oz in "The Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide then people who don't.
Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
Approximately 55% of movies are rated R.
Most elephants weigh less then the tongue of the blue whale.
The collecting of beer coasters is called “Tegestology”.
Mexico City has more taxicabs then any other city in the world.
The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War.
The earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes a year.
The word "racecar", "kayak", and "radar" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
"a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama"
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
All polar bears are left handed.
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
A turkey can run 20 M.P.H.
Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
The tallest A.D. man was 8ft. 11 in.
Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater into fresh water.
In the United States alone, someone checks their email every 3 seconds.
If all the hotdogs consumed by Americans in 1 year were lined up end to end, they would form a “bridge” two times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
The Sun lets out more energy in one second than all humanity has consumed in its entire existence.
When you go to McDonald’s, pay attention to the way the cashier places your food on the tray: the “M” will always be facing towards you.
Horses and rats cannot throw up.
Napoleon Bonaparte calculated that the stones used in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids would be sufficient enough to build an enormous wall around France.
“J” is the only letter that does not appear on the periodic table.
Dolly the sheep was named in tribute to Dolly Parton’s large breasts, due to the fact that she was created from one of her mother’s mammary cells.
The Incredible Hulk was originally gray until Marvel decided that green was a more appealing color, not to mention an easier one for the printers to produce.
At this very moment there are over 100,000,000 microorganisms feeding themselves, reproducing, swimming, and leaving their excrements in the area all around you lips
In some cases, eating asparagus can make a person’s urine smell differently.
You blink approximately 25 thousand times per day.
CDs were created to capacitate 72 minutes of music because that’s the length of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
It’s a proven fact that the cigarette is the largest statistics study source.
Lightning bolts kill more people than volcanoes, tornadoes and earthquakes do.
Chimpanzees are the only animal capable of recognizing their reflection in a mirror.
The microwave oven was invented when a microwaves researcher discovered that the waves had melted a chocolate bar in his pocket.
In France, it is illegal to sell dolls that do not have human faces, such as aliens.
Astronauts cannot eat beans before their space voyages, because the gases may damage their spacesuits.
Boys with unusual names generally suffer from more mental problems than girls do.
Russians answer the phone by saying “I’m listening”.
Until 1967, the use of LSD was permitted in the state of California.
15 % of American women send flowers to themselves on Valentine’s Day.
Before World War 2, the NY telephone list had 22 “Hitler’s. After the war there were none.
The scientific name for a gorilla is “Gorilla gorilla gorilla”.
The worldwide bestseller is the Bible.
7% of Americans believe Elvis is still alive. 25% believe that Sherlock Holmes was a real person. 25% also believe in ghosts and 10% claim to have seen one.
Alexander Graham Bell answered the phone with “Ahoy!”
Women buy more men’s clothing than men do.
Women are the largest consumers of men’s underwear and electric razors.
Barbie has sold more cars than General Motors. She is the most successful doll in the history of toys. Some collectors own over 7000 dolls.
Shigechio Isumi, a Japanese fisherman lived to be 121 years old.
110,000 people will have been over 100 in the year 2004.
Crossword puzzles were invented on April 10th, 1924.
Shaquille O’Neil wears a new pair of shoes every game.
A woman named “Mum-Zi” was a grandmother at 17. She had a daughter at 8 years and 4 months of age, and her daughter also became a mother at 8 years old.
Shakespeare’s daughter was illiterate.
Until the 1800’s, shoes were made identically for both left and right feet.
Americans consume 16,000 tons of aspirin per year.
A female flea consumes 15 times her own weight in blood every day.
There are over 2400 known flea species.
When Siamese Snakes are born, the two heads fight for food.
Einstein never was a good student, and could barely speak until he was 9 years old. His parents believed he was mentally retarded.
The Atlantic Ocean is more salty than the Pacific.
The elephant is the only living creature with 4 knees.
One billion seconds is equivalent to 31.7 years.
Luke Skywalker’s original name was “Luke Starkiller”.
Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
16% of women are born blonde. 33% of women are blonde.
The 2000 world population will have doubled by 2050.
10,000 new chemical products are created every day.
One drop of oil makes 25 liters of water unsuitable for consumption.
It’s possible to see 500,000 of the Moon’s craters from Earth.
Every year, 98% of your body’s atoms are substituted.
98% of Japanese corpses are cremated due to lack of burial ground.
A mosquito’s wings beat 1000 times per second.
Sheep will not drink from moving water.
Before World War 2, negro soldiers we not admitted to the American Army.
A rabbit can see behind itself without moving it’s neck, thanks to its eyes which are positioned on either side of its head.
The only rocks in Antarctica are fragments of meteorites.
The human brain contains 29 bones.
Microsoft spends more money answering users’ phone calls with problems than fabricating it’s programs.
One person dies from cancer every hour.
Americans spend more money on dog food than on baby food.
Koalas don’t drink water. They absorb liquids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
Your hair grows faster at night, and you loose an average of 100 hairs per day.
Astronauts are taller in space than on Earth, due to the lack of gravity.
A hamsters eyes may fall out if you hang it upside down.
The more you laugh during the day, the better you’ll sleep at night.
The word “VIP” means “Very Important Person”.
A hot glass of water will freeze sooner than a cold one.
If the Enterprise aircraft carrier wasn’t fueled on nuclear energy and instead on diesel oil, it would need burn 18 liters to move 1cm.
Pigeons carry a crystal located in their brains.
A bee can reach up to 60 kph.
After death, a person’s hair and nails will keep growing.
