Really Strange Funny Weird True Stuff

This page is just filled with useless information that should expand your knowledge. There are too many people who know only useful things. These are good for helping boring conversations.

An oyster can change its gender once every seven days.

Polar bear kidneys are poisonous.

Adolf Hitler was addicted to speed.

The largest discovered prime number in equal to 2 to the power of 859433 minus 1.

A camel does not sweat until its body is at 40 degrees C.

The most common name for a pub in England is 'The Red Lion'.

The longest banana split was 7.32km.

To produce a pound of honey , a bee must tap into two million flowers.

Honey bees must fly over 55,000 miles to produce one pound of honey.

A worker honey bee makes only 1/12 teaspoon of honey in her life time.

Honey bee wings flap 11,400 / sec. and fly at 15 miles per hour.

Honey bees have been producing honey for 10 to 20 million years.

Modern science says it is aerodynamically impossible for bees to fly.

Honey bees dance to communicate direction and distance of flowers.

It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

U.S.D.A. estimates about 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.

An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.

The longest flight ever by a chicken was 630 feet and 2 inches.

Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Tylenol is poisonous to cats.

Dairy cows can produce 125 lbs of saliva a day.

Bill Gates has enough money to send every 18 year old in the US to a 4 year college.

Hummingbirds can fly forward, backward, sideways, and stop in mid-air.

The average lightning bolt is 6 miles long.

Lightning moves about 30,000 times faster than a bullet.

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

The sperm whale is the size of four elephants.

A Southern Right whale calf can drink up to 200 liters of milk per day.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Babies are born without knee caps.

Apple pips contain cyanide.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The average size of a star is about 150,000 times bigger than the earth.

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.

The one-hundred eleventh element is known as "Unnilenilenium".

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Armadillos can walk underwater.

The strawberry is technically not a fruit.

Penguins can jump 6 feet into the air.

Blue and white stars are much hotter than red, orange, or yellow stars.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

Emus lay emerald/forest green eggs.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

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

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.

Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.

The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest stripes.

The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.

The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

The Honey Badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel hair.

Fleas have changed history. More human deaths have been attributed to fleas than all the wars ever fought. As carriers of the bubonic plague, fleas were responsible for killing one-third of the population of Europe in the 14th century.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact.

Ninety-nine percent of all lobsters die a few weeks after hatching.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Rabbits love licorice.

The eye of the giant squid is fifteen inches in diameter -- the size of a basketball.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.

Big Ben was slowed five minutes one day when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.

Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.

Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Octopi have gardens.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size.

All porcupines float in water.

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