1.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
2.
A snail can sleep for three years.
3.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear
until
the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
4.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
5.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only
have
about 10.
6.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not
to have a full moon.
7.
If the population of China walked past you in
single
file, the line would never end because of the
rate
of reproduction.
8.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
9.
Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
10.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
11.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but
our
nose and ears never stop growing.
12.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and
'bump'.
13!
. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only
the
left hand, lollipop with your right.
14.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for
each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
15.
The name of all the continents end with the same
letter
that they start with.
16.
The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether
they
are read left to right or right to left. Another piece of
trivia
is: This is called a PALENDROME.
17.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made
using
the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
18.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
19.
If you are an average American, in your whole
life,
you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at
a
red light.
20.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the
time
displayed on a watch face is 10:10.
21.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze
completely solid.
22.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus
every
two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
23.
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
24.
There are two words in the English language that
have
all five vowels in order: abstemious and
facetious.
25.
There is a word in the English language with only
one
vowel, which occurs five times: indivisibility.
26.
The Bible does not say there were three wise men;
it
only says there were three gifts.
27.
Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the
pool
in which they live? That means that if you put a
baby
croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the
rest
of its life.
28.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a
group
of geese in the air is a skein
29.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a
second.
30.
Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye.
31.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy
dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
32.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled
without
repeating is uncopyrightable.
33.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts.
34.
It's impossible to lick your elbow.
35.
On average, a human being will have sex more than
3,000
times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
36.
More than 50% of the people in the world have
never
made or received a telephone call.
37.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
38.
The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep's sick is said
to
be the toughest tongue twister in the English
language...try
it!
39.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase
the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
40.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman
somewhere.
41.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
42.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads
for dating are already married.
43.
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one
knows
why.
44.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused
by
people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
45.
In the course of an average lifetime you will,
while
sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
46.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
47.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
48.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
NOW
DON'T YOU FEEL SMARTER?
