* According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
* Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
* The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"
* The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver"
* Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
* 15% of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day
* Do you think snowflakes appear out of thin air? They don't. They need something to form around. At the center of every snowflake is a single piece of dust
* The average American blows his or her nose 256 times a year
* "I Love Lucy" was banned for years in some Muslem countries because Lucy “dominated” Ricky
The world's record for rocking nonstop in a rocking chair is 440 hours
Your hair grows faster at night
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of ingredients in the sauce.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a title.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Some insects can live up to a year without their heads.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with Midnight Cowboy. Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. Before the 1950's it was made from hemp--the stem and leaves of a marijuana plant.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves.
That's the opposite of the norm.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.'
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
An elephant can smell water three miles away.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
* The United States Department of Agriculture reports that the average American eats eight and a half pounds of pickles a years. Dill pickles are twice as popular as sweet.
* The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty-five pounds, is two feet long, and has walls up to three inches thick.
* Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone. Whispering and shouting stretch the vocal cords.
* 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."
* Why is a wedding ring always worn on the third finger? It was once believed that a vein of blood ran directly from the third finger on the left hand to the heart. The vein was called "vena amoris", or the vein of love, and early writings on matrimonial procedure suggested that it would be appropriate for one's wedding finger to be worn on that special finger.
* Chaetophobia - Fear of hair
* The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello
* In Knoxville, Tennessee, it is illegal to lasso fish
* Scolionophobia- Fear of school
* Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school
* There are 18 doctors in the US called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
* Most people waste 30 minutes every day simply looking for papers lost on their desk tops
* During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times; exercise 7 million brain cells; and speak 4,800 words
* 'I Love Lucy', a 50s sitcom airs every hour of every day somewhere in the world
* Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love
* 52% of Americans say they'd 'rather spend a week in jail' that be President
* Hacky Sack was invented by a football player in the mid 1970’s who used it to strengthen tendons he had torn in his knee
* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
* Genuphobia- Fear of knees
* In Kentucky, it is illegal to marry your wife's grandmother
* It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces
* Polar bears are left handed
* It is illegal to walk your elephant without a leash in Wisconsin
* Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants
* Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark
* The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
* Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
* Reindeer like to eat bananas
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open
* The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON
* On average people fear spiders more than they do death
* You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning twice a year for the rest of your life than you do winning The Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes
* -40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
* The average person spends 40 years cleaning
* 5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992
* The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In England it is in the key of G
* In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow
* The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime
* The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span
* There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than there are real ones
* By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours. That equals to 708 & 1/3 full 24 hour days
* The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their lives
* Only about a third of 'Gilligan's Island' episodes are actually about getting off the island
* Barbie sold more Corvettes in 1984 than General Motors
* Odds of being killed by falling out of bed- 1 in 2 million
* Elizabeth 1st suffered fron anthophobia (a fear of roses)
* The average life of a tastebud is 10 days
* All the swans in England are property of the Queen
* The dot above the letter "i" is called a title
* A broken clock is right at least twice a day
* The most collect calls are made on father's day
* You blink about 84,000,000 times per year
* 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television
* Children grow faster in the springtime
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men
* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday
* 10% of all woman registered for computer dating are teachers
* 7 in 10 Americans have some kind of fear of the dark
* More people have a phobia of frogs than rats
* -Ducks have more bones in the neck than giraffes
* The parrots intelligence is comparable to a 5 year old child
* Scolionophobia means fear of school
* Didaskaleinophobia means fear of going to school
* Philophobia means fear of falling in love or being in love
* 52% of Americans say they'd 'rather spend a week in jail' than be President
* By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours. That equals to 708 & 1/3 full 24 hour days
* Each year, 5,000 tons of cream filling is injected into twinkies
* 51% of U.S. men say that TV remote controls have significantly improved their lives
* Humans blink 20,000 times a day
* Parrots play practical jokes on each other
* Octopuses can unscrew jar lids
* Elephants cry when they are lonely, hurt, or scared
* The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
* 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
* Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired"
* Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
* 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
* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined
* The word "samba" means "to rub navels together"
* Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
* In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
* Dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
* Goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* Dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
* 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie
* 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
* A duck's quack doesn't echo
* A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
A crocodile can't stick it's tounge out.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40.000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first class.
Americans on an average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
An ostriches eye is bigger than it's brain.
Babies are born without knee caps, they dont appear until ages 2-6.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
China has more English speakers than the US.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesnt wear any pants.
Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
February 1865 is th only month ever recorded not to have a full moon.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.