Did You Know?

1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and right side-up and appear the same.
3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the population.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
43% of all statistics are worthless.
50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
7’1” Basketball star Wilt Chamberlain’s parents were 5’8′
A Blue Shark is capable of eating 3 tonnes of food in a day
A bonnet is the cap on the fire hydrant.
A cockroach can live how long without its head? (several weeks)
A community of ants is called a colony.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
A crocodile cannot move its tongue
A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. (Eat your veggies, Timmy, there are hungry hippos out there!)
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. (And is just as difficult to spend)
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A Polar bears skin is black and its fur is clear
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove. (So the dime is less groovy?)
A rare spider in Leicester, England, is able to secrete a web onto a wall, pull itself in and catapult out for distances of up to 0.6m.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes at the same time!
A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid 772,500 USD for President John F.Kennedy’s golf clubs at a 1996 auction
Adolf Hitler only had ONE what? (testicle)
Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density..
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
All babies are color blind when they are born.
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn’t like to be seen wearing them in public.
American Airlines saved 40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.
Amish men shave until they marry; then they grow a beard
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
An eagle’s nest can weigh as much as two tons.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
An elephant’s tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
An elephant’s trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. (They also invented chiropractors)
Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Antarctica is the only continent without what kind of critters? (reptiles and snakes)
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Arbitrator: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
Armadillos can be housebroken. (State pet of Texas)
Armadillos can walk underwater.
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day (just like me).
As you sip soda through a straw, it is not your suction but the weight of the air outside the straw that pumps the soda into your mouth.
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
At President Andrew Jackson’s funeral in 1845 his pet parrot was removed for swearing
Attila the Hun was a dwarf.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
Because of the rotation of the earth, you can throw a ball farther to the west then to the east
Beer is less fattening than milk
Before she became an established film actress, Sharon Stone was one of the top ten models at the famous Ford Agency between 1977 and 1980.
Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
Benjamin Franklin was the inventor of the rocking chair.
Blue jeans were invented by Levi Strauss, the person not the company, in the 1850′s
Bones; there are 206 in the human body. No need for dismay, however: two bones of the middle ear have never been broken in a skiing accident
Bruce Willis’s real first name is Walter
Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘Big Village’.
Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
Cats cradle is one of the most universal games in the world and is played in almost every culture.
Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.
Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a Person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
Chickens: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Clinphobia is the fear of beds
Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn’t stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the pores on their feet.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Cuba’s humming bird is 5.7cm long, weighs 14.2 g, lays eggs which are 0.6cm long and will fight birds 4 to 5 times bigger than itself.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Did you know if u line up China’s population in a straight line and started counting you wouln’t finish because of their reproduction rate
Did you know the opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
Did you know the word ”set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
Did you know the word ”set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language..
Did you know there are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
Did you know there are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
Did you know there are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
Did you know There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Did you know There wasn”t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Did you know they changed the alphabet? They put U and I together.
Did you know U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
Did you know Until the 1960′s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Did you know Until the 1960”s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Did you know Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Did you know When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
Did you know your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
Did you know?… A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight.
Did you know?… All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately $13USD
Did you know?… Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Did you know?… American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Did you know?… An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Did you know?… Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Did you know?… During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Did you know?… Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus
Did you know?… In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)
Did you know?… On average,100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
Did you know?… The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Did you know?… The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (coincidence? )
Did you know?… The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Did you know?… The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Did you know?… TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Did you know?… You are most likely to get murdered at Christmas time due to more alcohol being drunk.
Did you know?…”Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Did you know?…1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else……
Did you know?…13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese…yummy
Did you know?…14% of all facts and statisticts are made up and 27% of people know that fact.
Did you know?…14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once.
Did you know?…23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
Did you know?…A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Did you know?…A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head before it starves to death
Did you know?…A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.
Did you know?…A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won’t.
Did you know?…A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
Did you know?…A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Did you know?…A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
Did you know?…A snail can sleep for three years.
Did you know?…A study conducted in Germany appears to show listening to loud rock music causes homosexuality in rats.
Did you know?…According to a U.S. market research firm, the most popular American bra size is currently 36C, up from 1991 when it was 34B.
Did you know?…All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
Did you know?…All polar bears are left-handed.
Did you know?…All porcupines float in water.
Did you know?…Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
Did you know?…An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
Did you know?…An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
Did you know?…Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Did you know?…Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Did you know?…Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Did you know?…Bill “Four eyes” Gates has enough money to buy every house in Alaska.
Did you know?…Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
Did you know?…Butterflies taste with their feet.
Did you know?…By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Did you know?…Cats and dogs can only see the colors blue and yellow.
Did you know?…Cats urine glows under UV light.
Did you know?…Chickens can’t burp.
Did you know?…Coca-Cola originally contain cocaine.
Did you know?…Contray to the phrase “sweating like a pig”, pigs cant actually sweat
Did you know?…December is the most popular time for Conception. It’s a great way to keep warm through the chilly festive season.
Did you know?…Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Did you know?…Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Did you know?…Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
Did you know?…Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of ‘Snow’
Did you know?…Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Did you know?…Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don’t have eyes. Eeewwwwww
Did you know?…For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages. And heres my porn page.
Did you know?…Goats and octopus’ eyes have rectangular pupils.
Did you know?…Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then
Did you know?…Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Did you know?…Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Did you know?…If someone places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Did you know?…In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
Did you know?…In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.
Did you know?…In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Did you know?…In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Did you know?…In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Did you know?…In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar
Did you know?…In the Aztec culture avocados were considered so sexually powerful, virgins were restricted from contact with them.
Did you know?…In the state of Minnesota, citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head
Did you know?…In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.
Did you know?…Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Did you know?…It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged. Try it!
Did you know?…It is impossible to lick your elbow. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
Did you know?…It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Next time you feel a sneeze coming try it!
Did you know?…It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs … but not downstairs.
Did you know?…Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
Did you know?…Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
Did you know?…Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year
Did you know?…More people fear spiders more than they do death.
Did you know?…More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Did you know?…No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
Did you know?…On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.
Did you know?…Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Did you know?…Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Did you know?…Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Did you know?…Polar bear livers are poisonous because they contain too much vitamin C
Did you know?…Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Did you know?…Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Did you know?…Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
Did you know?…Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.
Did you know?…Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Did you know?…Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
Did you know?…Starfish have no brains.
Did you know?…The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Did you know?…The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
Did you know?…The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
Did you know?…The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Did you know?…The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants.
Did you know?…The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Did you know?…The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
Did you know?…The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Did you know?…The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Did you know?…The groundhog is only accurate in predicting the weather 28% of the time.
Did you know?…The heaviest domestic cat is a tabby called ‘Himmy’ who weighed 21.3kg (46lb 15oz) at his death in 1984.
Did you know?…The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Did you know?…The people who make school kitchens, also make electric chairs.
Did you know?…The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Did you know?…The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people !
Did you know?…The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
Did you know?…The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
Did you know?…The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Did you know?…The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Did you know?…The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Did you know?…Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Did you know?…To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Did you know?…To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day.
Did you know?…Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Did you know?…Walt Disney’s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Did you know?…Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Did you know?…You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friends nose.
Did you know?…Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
Donald Duck comics were nearly banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Donald Duck never wore pants but always wore a towel when he came out of the shower!
Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.
Earth first! (We’ll strip-mine the other planets later).
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Eat your spinach and you’ll grow up big and strong like Popeye. You’ll also end up with a girlfriend that looks like Olive Oyl.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.
Electricity doesn’t move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, nor creamy.
Every continent has a city called Rome
Everyone’s tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
For his role in Pulp Fiction, actor John Travolta was paid only 140-thousand. He was not in great demand at the time
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at what speed? (25 miles per YEAR)
Herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Horatio Nelson, one of England’s most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for what? (his sea-sickness)
Horses lift their heads up high to look at something far into the distance. To see things that are closer, they lower their heads.
How long of a tunnel can a mole dig in just one night? (300 feet)
How old was the youngest pope? (11 years old)
How old were the world’s youngest parents? (8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910)
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
Ice Cube’s real name is O’Shea Jackson.
If you are in an automobile when lightning strikes, you are safe. The rubber in the tires, makes you grounded
If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
If you cut off a cockroach’s head, it can live for several weeks
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep…you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace…you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
If you put one drop of blood in 999,999 drops of water it can still be traced.
If you spread out all the sand in North Africa, it would cover the Sahara Desert.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
In 1386 in France, what was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child? (a pig)
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones – Bhutan.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people’s clothes.
In French, the title of the movie City Slickers translates to ‘Life, Love, Cows’
In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton, and a cottage cheese like substance are popular pizza toppings.
In Johannesburg, the average car will be involved in an accident once every four years.
In medieval England beer was often served with breakfast
In the Caribbean, what kind of sea critter can climb trees? (oysters)
In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues
In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.
India has the most post offices in the world.
Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. (Who tried this??)
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
It takes a ton of ore to produce one gold wedding ring.
It takes more money to amuse todays children than it took to educate their parents.
It would take 100 million ants to kidnap 1 hybernating grizly bear
It’s against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
Kermit the Frog is left handed.
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
Leonardo De Vinci wrote plans outlining the construction of a helicopter
Lightning is five times hotter than the Sun
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different
Lima beans contain cyanide!
Louis XIV owned 413 beds.
M and M’s were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky
Male lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Man releases over a billion tons of pollutants into the Earth’s atmosphere every year.
Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so that they could afford a proper burial when they died.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Mark Twain didn’t even make it through elementary school.
McDonald’s is the world”s largest distributor of toys!
McDonald”s salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots!
Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the United States.
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
Months that begin with a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes
More than 10% of the world’s salt is used to de-ice American roads.
More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never placed nor received a telephone call
More women wash their hands in the bathroom than men. 80 percent of women and 55 percent of men do it.
Most dust particles in your house are made from what? (dead skin)
Most toilets flush in E flat
Mr. Snuffleupagas’ first name was Alyoisus.
Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Of all the words in the English language, which word has the most definitions? (Set)
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world’s first billionaire.
On average, an American household gives out and receives 28 Christmas cards.
One in five of the world’s 2.5 million medical doctors are Russian.
One of the ingredients in ice cream is seaweed.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are where? (in your feet)
One sneeze can shoot 20 000 droplets of moisture four metres away.
Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry..
Paper money was first used in China
Paul McCartney’s middle name is Paul
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. (Careful with the Planters!)
Polar bears are left handed
President John F. Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute
Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the ark.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than what large animal? (horses)
Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before being eaten.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Roman emperors ate flamingo tongues which were considered a delicacy. Also parrotfish livers, and pheasant brains were feasted on.
Ronald Reagan appeared in more then 50 movies before becoming president
Sailors on board a ship, even when out at sea, can feel earthquakes.
Sharks do not get cancer.
Sheep theft is still legally a hangable offense in Scotland
Sheryl Crow’s front two teeth are fake — she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.
Skippy Peanut Butter is sold more in the world than any other peanut butter.
Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers
Sterilise: what you do to your first baby’s pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby’s pacifier by blowing on it.
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Studies show that divorced women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men.
Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year. And we wonder why we’re getting fat?
The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock 3 times each morning.
The average person’s field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
The Beatles song ‘Because’ is Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’ backwards
The business card of Al Capone said he was a used furniture dealer.
The Chinese word for “crisis” contains two characters. One of them means “opportunity”.
The coldest place in our solar system is not Pluto, it’s Triton, one of Neptune’s moons
The fattest lady in the world was eight feet wide
The Fear of Alcohol- Potophobia
The Fear of Animals- Zoophobia
The Fear of Auroral Lights- Auroraphobia
The Fear of Bacteria- Bacteriophobia
The Fear of Bees- Apiphobia
The Fear of Being Alone- Monophobia
The Fear of Being Beaten- Rhabdophobia
The Fear of Being Bound- Merinthophobia
The Fear of Being Buried Alive- Taphophobia
The Fear of Being Cold- Frigophobia
The Fear of Being Dirty- Automysophobia
The Fear of Being Looked at- Scopophobia
The Fear of Being Scratched- Amychophobia
The Fear of Being Touched- Hphephobia
The Fear of Birds- Ornithophobia
The Fear of Blushing- Ereuthrophobia
The Fear of Books- Biblophobia
The Fear of Cats- Ailurophobia
The Fear of Chickens- Alektorophobia
The Fear of Children- Paediphobia
The Fear of Churches- Ecclesiaphobia
The Fear of Clouds- Nephophobia
The Fear of Clowns- Joeyphobia
The Fear of Cold- Cheimatophobia
The Fear of Colour- Chromatophobia
The Fear of Crabs- Kabourophobia
The Fear of Crossing Bridges- Gephyrophobia
The Fear of Crossing Streets- Dromophobia
The Fear of Crowds- Demophobia, Ochlophobia
The Fear of Crystals- Crystallophobia
The Fear of Dampness, moisture- Hygrophobia
The Fear of Darkness- Nyctophobia
The Fear of Dawn- Eosophobia
The Fear of Daylight- Phengophobia
The Fear of Death, corpses- Necrophobia
The Fear of Deformity- Dysmorphophobia
The Fear of Demons- Demonnophobia
The Fear of Depth- Bathophobia
The Fear of Dirt- Mysophobia
The Fear of Disease- Nosophobia
The Fear of Disorder- Ataxiophobia
The Fear of Dogs- Cynophobia
The Fear of Draugts- Anemophobia
The Fear of Dreams- Oneirophobia
The Fear of Drinking- Dipsophobia
The Fear of Drugs- Pharmacopophobia
The Fear of Dust- Amathophobia
The Fear of Eating- Phagophobia
The Fear of Electricity- Electrophobia
The Fear of Enclosed Spaces- Claustrophobia
The Fear of Everything- Pantophobia
The Fear of Eyes- Ommatophobia
The Fear of Faeces- Coprophobia
The Fear of Failure- Kakorraphiaphobia
The Fear of Fatigue- Kopophobia
The Fear of Feathers- Pteronophobia
The Fear of Fire- Pyrophobia
The Fear of Fish- Ichthyophobia
The Fear of Flashing- Selaphobia
The Fear of Flogging- Mastigophobia
The Fear of Flood- Antlophobia
The Fear of Flowers- Anthophobia
The Fear of Flying- Aerophobia
The Fear of Fog- Homichlophobia
The Fear of Food- Sitophobia
The Fear of Fur- Doraphobia
The Fear of Germs- Spermophobia
The Fear of Ghosts- Phasmophobia
The Fear of Glass- Nelophobia
The Fear of God- Theophobia
The Fear of Going to Bed- Clinophobia
The Fear of Graves- Taphophobia
The Fear of Gravity- Barophobia
The Fear of Hair- Chaetophobia
The Fear of Heart Conditions- Cardiophobia
The Fear of Heat- Thermophobia
The Fear of Heaven- Ouranophobia
The Fear of Heights- Acrophobia, Altophobia
The Fear of Hell- Hadephobia
The Fear of Heredity- Patroiophobia
The Fear of High Places- Hypsophobia
The Fear of Home- Domatophobia, Oikophobia
The Fear of Home Surroundings- Apeirophobia
The Fear of Homosexuals – Homophobia
The Fear of Horses- Hippophobia
The Fear of Human Beings- Anthrophobia
The Fear of Ice, Frost- Cryophobia
The Fear of Ideas- Ideophobia
The Fear of Illness- Nosemaphobia
The Fear of Imperfection- Atelophobia
The Fear of Infection- Mysophobia
The Fear of Injections- Tryanophobia
The Fear of Insanity- Maniaphobia
The Fear of Insects- Entomophobia
The Fear of Itching- Acarophobia
The Fear of Jealousy- Zelophobia
The Fear of Justice- Dikephobia
The Fear of Knees- Genuphobia
The Fear of Lakes- Imnophobia
The Fear of Lawyers- Attorneyphobia
The Fear of Leaves- Phyllophobia
The Fear of Leprosy- Leprophobia
The Fear of Lice- Pediculophobia
The Fear of Lightning- Astraphobia
The Fear of Machinery- Mechanophobia
The Fear of Marriage- Gamophobia
The Fear of Meat- Carnophobia
The Fear of Men- Androphobia
The Fear of Metals- Metallophobia
The Fear of Meteors- Meteorophobia
The Fear of Mice- Musophobia
The Fear of Microbes- Bacilliphobia
The Fear of Mind- Psychophobia
The Fear of Mirrors- Eisoptrophobia
The Fear of Missiles- Ballistophobia
The Fear of Money- Chrometophobia
The Fear of Monsters- Teratophobia
The Fear of Motion- Kinesophobia
The Fear of Music- Musicophobia
The Fear of Names- Nomatophobia
The Fear of Narrowness- Anginaphobia
The Fear of Needles- Belonophobia
The Fear of Neglect of Duty-Paralipophobia
The Fear of New Things- Neophobia
The Fear of Night- Achluophobia
The Fear of Noise- Phonophobia
The Fear of Novelty- Cainophobia
The Fear of Nudity- Gymnophobia
The Fear of Number 13-Triskaidekaphobia
The Fear of Odours (body)- Osphresiophobia
The Fear of Odours- Osmophobia
The Fear of One Thing- Monophobia
The Fear of Pain- Algrophobia
The Fear of Parasites- Parasitophobia
The Fear of Passing High Objects- Batophobia
The Fear of Physical Love- Erotophobia
The Fear of Pins- Eneteophobia
The Fear of Places- Topphobia
The Fear of Pleasure- Hedonophobia
The Fear of Points- Aichurophobia
The Fear of Poison- toxiphobia
The Fear of Poverty- Peniaphobia
The Fear of Precipices- Cremnophobia
The Fear of Pregnancy- Maieusiophobia
The Fear of Public Places- Agoraphobia
The Fear of Punishment- Peniaphobia
The Fear of Rain- Ombrophobia
The Fear of Reptiles- Batrachophobia
The Fear of Responsibility- Hypegiaphobia
The Fear of Ridicule- Kategelophobia
The Fear of Rivers- Potamophobia
The Fear of Robbers- Harpaxophobia
The Fear of Ruin- Atephobia
The Fear of Rust- Iophobia
The Fear of Sacred Things- Hierophobia
The Fear of Satan- Satanophobia
The Fear of satellites- Keraunothnetophobia
The Fear of School- Scholiophobia
The Fear of Sea Swell- Cymophobia
The Fear of Sea- Thalassophobia
The Fear of Semen- Spermatophobia
The Fear of Sex- Genophobia
The Fear of Sexual Intercourse- Coitophobia
The Fear of Shadows- Sciophobia
The Fear of Shock- Hormephobia
The Fear of Sinning- Peccatophobia
The Fear of Sitting Idle- Thaadophobia
The Fear of Skin- Dermatophobia
The Fear of Skin Disease- Dermatosiophobia
The Fear of Sleep- Hypnophobia
The Fear of Slime- blennophobia
The Fear of Smells- Olfactophobia
The Fear of Smothering, choking- Pnigerophobia
The Fear of Snakes- Ophidophobia
The Fear of Snow- Chionophobia
The Fear of Soiling- Rypophobia
The Fear of Solitude- Eremitophobia, Eremophobia
The Fear of Sounds- Akoustiophobia
The Fear of Sourness- Acerophobia
The Fear of Speaking Aloud- Phonophobia
The Fear of Speaking- Halophobia
The Fear of Speech- Alophobia
The Fear of Speed- Tachophobia
The Fear of Spiders- Arachnophobia
The Fear of Standing- Stasophobia
The Fear of Standing Upright- Stasiphobia
The Fear of Stars- Siderophobia
The Fear of Stealing- Kleptophobia
The Fear of Stooping- Kyphophobia
The Fear of String- Linonophobia
The Fear of Strings- Cnidophobia
The Fear of Strong Light- Photophobia
The Fear of Sun- Heliophobia
The Fear of Surgical Operations- Ergasiophobia
The Fear of Syphilis- Sypilophobia
The Fear of Taste- Geumatophobia
The Fear of Teeth- Odontophobia
The Fear of The Fear of Certain Names-Onomatophobia
The Fear of The Fears- Phobophobia
The Fear of Thinking- Phronemophobia
The Fear of Thunder- Brontophobia,
The Fear of Touch- Haptophobia
The Fear of Touching- Thixophobia
The Fear of Travelling by Train- Siderodromophobia
The Fear of Trees- Dendrophobia
The Fear of Trembling- Tremophobia
The Fear of Tuberculosis- Phthisiophobia
The Fear of Vehicles- Amaxophobia
The Fear of Venereal Disease- Cypridophobia
The Fear of Void- Kenophobia
The Fear of Vomiting- Emetophobia
The Fear of Walking- Basiphobia
The Fear of Wasps- Spheksophobia
The Fear of Water- Hydrophobia
The Fear of Weakness- Asthenophobia
The Fear of Wind- Ancraophobia
The Fear of Women- Gynophobia
The Fear of Words- Logophobia
The Fear of Work- Ergophobia
The Fear of Worms- Helminthophobia
The Fear of Wounds- Traumatophobia
The Fear of Writing- Graphophobia
The Fear of Young Girls- Parthenophobia
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’
The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.
The hippopotamus gives birth under water.
The housefly hums in the middle octave key of F.
The Inca tribe in Peru created the decimal system hundreds of years before it was introduced in Europe
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi
The name “Armadillo” comes from the Spanish explorers word meaning “Little Armored Thing”
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the ‘General Purpose’ vehicle, G.P
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
The nose of a dog is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in it.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and parrot.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The original name of the San Antonio River was Yanaguana. In the Payaya Indian dialect it means place of clear and restful waters.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
The pineapple was originally called a spiky pear.
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota.
The Fear of Beards-Pogonophobia
The Fear of Blood- Haematophobia
The Fear of Cancer- Cancerophobia
The Fear of Childbirth- Tocophobia
The Fear of Cholera- Choleraphobia
The Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth- Arachibutyrophobia
The Time Magazine Man of the Year for 1952 was a woman! It was Queen Elizabeth II — 1952 was her coronation year
The top causes of stress related illness- Death of Spouse, Divorce, Separation, Imprisonment, Death of a close Family Member
The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.
The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used
The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.
The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world’s mail volume.
The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers’ first flight
The word ‘Checkmate’ in chess comes from the Persian phrase ‘Shah Mat,’ which means ‘the king is dead’
The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.
The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
There are 63,360 inches in a mile
There are more people alive today, than have EVER died!
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘-dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are over 50 million armadillos in the US
There are six hundred and fify muscles in human body
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
There are twenty five vitamins discovered so far-
There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There is a giant fungus (mushroom) in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!.
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
There is a sea squirt that digests its own brain. When mature it attaches to a rock. Not needing to move anymore, a brain is not needed.
There is a Tupperware party somewhere in the world every 2 seconds
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.’
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow Then it is ripe.
Toads are the only animal species that never have cancer
Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever written on a typewriter
True or false? An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. (True)
True or false? Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school. (True)
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
‘Vodka’ is Russian for ‘little water’.
Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit.
What are the only birds who can see the color blue? Owls
What do beetles taste like? (apples)
What do intelligent people have more of in their hair? (zinc and copper)
What do they have in Japan that is edible, red and green and square? (square watermelons – they stack better)
What do wasps taste like? (pine nuts)
What do worms taste like? (fried bacon)
What is called a French kiss in the English speaking world is known as an English kiss in France.
What is the longest English word without a vowel? (Rhythm)
What is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order? (Almost)
What is the most common name in the world? Mohammed
What is the only mammal that can’t jump? Elephant
What nation consumes more Coca-Cola per capital than any other country? (Iceland)
What snack did pilgrims eat at the first Thanksgiving dinner? (popcorn)
Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.
When a giraffe’s baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt
When a snake is born with two heads the heads fight each other for food
When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart
Who made the first engines for Fords? (Dodge)
Women do what nearly twice as much as men? (blink)
Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
Wriggly’s chewing gum was the fist product to ever a have a bar code
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.