(About) 500 Useless Facts
We don't know why you would want these facts, but here goes!
The white half moon under your finger nail is an air pocket. No one knows why its there
More shoplifters are arrested on Wednesdays in January than any other time of the year
The stirrup, the tiniest bone in your body (it's in your ear), is smaller than an ant
Vampire bats use rivers to navigate. They smell the animal blood in the water and follow it
There are 3 Taco Bell resturants in downtown Mexico City
Mark Twain once tried to convince children that Santa Clause lived on the moon
A pound of houseflies containes more protein than a pound of beef
The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay their taxes
William Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words
40% of M&M's are brown
Americans travel 1,144,721,000 miles by air every day
The the U.S. you dial '911'. In Stockholm, Sweden you dial 90000
38% of American men say they love their cars more than women
The U.S. military operates 234 golf courses
Rubber bands last longer when refridgerated
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Two thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in new jersey
The longest word without a vowel is "rhythm"
Maine is the only state whose name is only one syllable
All 50 states are listed across the top of the lincon memorial on the back of an american five dollar bill
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city
The human head weighs 8 pounds
Half of all americans live within fifty miles of their birthplace
100% of lottery winners do gain weight
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and lazer printers were all invented by women
Mel Blanc, voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots
40% of all people who come to a party in your home do this stoop in your medicine cabinet
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours and so does a fruitfly.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All porcupines float in water.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in
the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
If it were possible to sneeze with your eyes open, they would pop out of thier sockets
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains
them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorised all 158 verses.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
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.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
When possums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
2000 teenagers take up smoking everyday!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Every fact above ends with a "!"!
2 out of 6 people will actually check on the above fact!
Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
The stop-motion puppet for King Kong was covered with rabbit fur
Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating
"Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet
There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and
Independence Day
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates
There is a statuette of R2-D2 attached to the model of the mother-ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and on the Borg ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation
The eye pieces on the borg in Star Trek: First Contact, flash in Morse code, spelling out the names of several members of the production team
James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger
Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don't die by the end of the movie
Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty"
The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales
It used to be illegal to swim by daylight
William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays
The words "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatossilphioparaomelitoatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolatoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", "Taumatawhakatangihangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapiikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and "Nordosterjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningmaerielunderhallsuppfoljknintssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" are all in the spell checker, but not in any dictionary, yet the words ""Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and "Floccipaucinihilipilification" are in the English Dictionary, but not in the spell checker!
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
"I" is the most spoken word in the English language
"You" is the second most spoken English word
"O" is considered to be the oldest vowel in the English language
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area
A Canadian invented the paint roller
A Canadian was the creator of "Superman"
Canada is home to the International Federation of Bodybuilders
New Brunswick is the lobster capital of the world
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails
The only two bald Presidents were Martin Van Buren and Dwight D. Eisenhower
In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history
John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in twenty minutes
David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for only one day
The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
The bikini bathing suit was so named because it was created the same year the atomic bomb was tested on Bikini Isalnd
Benjamin Franklin was considered to be America's first cartoonist, he was also the first to suggest that clocks may be moved forward or backward to extend the daylight hours
South Dakota is the only U.S state which shares no letters with the name of it's capital
Pierre Maine produces more toothpicks than any other U.S state
The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu
The full name for Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprast
You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers
There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces
The KGB is headquartered at No. 2 Felix Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow
The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983
Spain leads the world in cork production
There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the worlds widest road
There is a city in Norway called "Hell"
The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
In the first century AD, Roman doctors endorsed the brushing of teeth with urine
Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy
The only animal which was allowed into an ancient Roman temple was a cat
In ancient Egypt, you could be put to death for killing a cat
An Egyptian has to say "I divorce thee" three times to be legally divorced
Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, she was Greek, not Egyptian
In ancient Greece, "idiot" meant private citizen or layman
Vincent Van Goh sold only one painting in his lifetime, Red Vineyard at Arles
Vincent Van Goh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows
Salvador Dali once arrived at an exhibition with flies glued to his face
Michelangelo's sculpture Pieta is the only work of his to bear his signature, it is on Mary's mantle strap
Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other
Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror
After studying it for 47 days, the New York Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down
If an equestrian statue has two legs the air, the person on the horses back died in battle, if the horse has only one 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
Most peoples hair stops growing at 3 ft 91 cm
One human hair can support 3kg
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people
The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb
The human brain is 85% water
Children grow faster in the springtime
People speak at a rate of about 120 words per minute
the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet can not tan
The resolving power of the human eye is 0.0003 of a radian or an arc of one minute (1/60th of a degree), which corresponds to 100 microns at 10 in. (confused yet?) A micron is a thousandth of a millimeter, hence 100 microns is 0.00397, or less than four thousandths of an inch, the human eye can detect a bright light shining through an aperture of only three or four microns
Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
Your fingers can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 of a micron
The loudest snore ever recorded is 87.5 decibels
The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
More people are killed annually by donkeys than are killed in airplane crashes
The smelliest animal in the world is the Zorilla, it can discharge a nauseous fluid from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile
Crickets hear through their knees
A female ferrit is known as a "jill"
Butterflies taste through their feet
The donkey gets its name from "key" meaning color, and "dung"
It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky
The average flight speed of a house fly is five miles an hour
Stan, the first Spanish dog ever fitted with contact lenses, was hit by a car the day after he was fitted with them
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
A frog's favorite color is blue
Butterflies can fly at 20 mph
The hummingbird is the only bird which can fly backwards
Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of any animal, they require from 6,000 to 12,400 calories per day (depending on the species)
An electric eel will short circuit if put into salt water
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground
Reindeer milk has three times the protein of cow milk
Starfish have no brains
Porcupines masturbate (I'm not kidding)
It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have been only 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world
An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver
Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 a gram
There is an odd number of steps in every staircase in Thailand
There are five holes in a bagpipe bag
The Wright brothers airplane boasted a whopping twelve horsepower engine
Tarzan means "white skin"
There is 1/8 of a tea spoon in a dash
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans towards the south
Harvey Kennedy invented the shoelace
Louis the XIV took only three baths in his lifetime
Adolf Hitler parted his hair on the right
Prince Charles collects toilet seats
The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines
There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
The largest existing blimp is the Fuji Film blimp
In the 656 BC Olympics, Chionis registered a distance of 23 feet 1 1/2 inches in the long jump
Ghosts tend to deteriorate after about 400 years, the most outstanding exception to the rule being a troop of Roman soldiers marching trough the cellar of the Treasurer's House, York Minster, they are still marching through the cellar after nearly 19 centuries
No piece of paper can be folded more than twenty times
Pope Stephen II reigned for only one day
There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game
The next year which will read the same way upside down as rightside up is the year 6009, the last was 1961
The sandwich was created in 1762 by the Earl of Sandwich. He was playi ng non-stop poker. His wife insisted that he must eat. So he told her to put a piece of meat between two pieces of bread, so that he could eat with one hand, and hold his cards with the other.
In 1904, the head of the patent office said that the office should be closed down because everything that could possibly be invented had already been invented.
A cat is 9% skeleton, for an elephant to be as flexible as a cat, it would have to be nearly 85% skeleton, leaving almost no room for internal organs
The only person, male or female, to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting is Emma Thompson
In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle.
Katherine Hepburn and Barbera Streisand are the only two actresses to ever tie for the best actress Oscar
The word "diploma" is Greek for "folded paper"
"Caterpillar" is Roman for "hairy cat"
A large man can prespire 19 litres of water a day
King Tut is the only Egyptian pharoah to remain buried in his tomb
James Buchanan was the only unmarried President of the United States
Rejkjavik, Iceland is the northernmost national capital in the world
A furlong is an eighth of a mile.
A dog's sense of smell is so powerful that it can actually sniff out potential cancer in a person
When the Ku Klux Klan first started the original idea was for them to wear a white sheep. But a clerical error was made and the supplies department ordered 500 white sheets by mistake
In Tennesse, it's illegal for a female to drive a motor vehicle, unless there's a man on the hood of the car, with a shot gun which is used to shoot off rounds of ammunition to alert oncoming drivers that there is a women at the wheel.
Anytime you come to a cross road, you have to shoot your gun, wave a lantern, and blow the horn. It's to warn anyone approaching that you have an automobile so that you don't scare their horse. I guess if you don't have a gun, you shouldn't be driving.
Miss Piggy's measurements are 27-20-32
Starburst candy had to change it's slogan from "The Juice is Loose" to "Turn up the Juice" becaue of the OJ Simpson fiasco
In 1917, the Montreal Warriors of the National Hockey league had what is probably the worst run of bad luck in the history of hockey. After winning their opening game, they proceeded to lose games 2 thru 6, then their stadium burned down, ending the teams existence.
In medeival times, a primitive form of biological warfare was used, called trebuchet. A catapult would fling a dead, rotting animal carcass into enemy territory, spreading disease.
Abraham Lincon signed the legislation to create the Secret Service on April 14, 1865, the same day he was shot
The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken
The phrase "See you next monday" appears in one form or another in every film directed by John Landis
The longest section in the "American Dictionary of Slang" is devoted to vomit.
Every Israeli woman must serve 2 years in th army before attending university
Jack Simplot has provided potatoes to McDonalds since the chain began. he is now the richest man in Idaho
In 1980, Mr. Scott Fahlman invented the smiley face emoticon :-)
The Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce, claimed that baldness could be cured by washing your hair with three day old coffee grinds, followed by a dousing of crude oil.
Shakespeare stole the line "Love is blind" from Geoffrey Chaucer
Despite what is seen in cheesy 70s monster bug movies insects don't see one image for each facet. It's more like a highly pixelated single image. This helps in detecting motion.
About 54% of americans consider themselves fans of Star Trek. Not trekkies, just fans.
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Australia has more types of mosquitos than any other country
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation. Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
In the state of Washington there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances. (including the wedding night)
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers
The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was "Rock the Casba" by the Clash.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot of a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.
During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about US $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
One interesting thing about Coca-Cola is that it contains neither coca nor cola. Infact, when it first came out, it was advertised as containing "the delicious cocaine leaf" guess that's why people liked it so much, Of course, they don't use cocaine in it any more
Another interesting fact is that Coca-Cola used to be colored green (probably from the cocaine leaf)
Like it or not, every U.S. Citizen has to pay income taxes, but only one group can do so without using U.S. currency. The Internal Revenue Service has granted the Inuit people of Little Diomede, Alaska the right to pay their taxes in ivory collected during seal hunts.
In Kingsville, Texas, there is a law against two pigs having sex on the city's airport property.
In the state of New Mexico, women are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public.
Of all of the substances you can find on Earth, only water occurs naturally in a solid, gas and liquid form. It is also the only liquid that expands.
As a safety precaution, it is clearly illegal to make faces at a dog while in the state of Oklahoma. Violators can be fined, arrested or even jailed.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it would digest itself.
Ramses brand condoms: Ramses is named after the great Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II who in his lifetime fathered over 160 children. Maybe they have a different reason for calling them Ramses.
When a frog throws up, it throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
One country has finally achieved a 100% literacy rate, and that country is Iceland. To get a job, every citizen must be able to read, and speak at least 3 different languages.
Canada is the country with the highest doughnut consumption, and the most doughnuts consumed per capita than any other nation.
You may think of Al Capone as a famous Chicago gangster and a bootlegger, but his business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
If you told a wine connoisseur that French wines are made with American grapes, they would say you were sadly mistaken. But they would be wrong. Many years ago, the French vineyards were infected by grape rot. The situation became so dire that if something was not done quickly, the rot would kill nearly all of the vines in France. By pure chance it was discovered that American grape vines were immune to the same rot. The French imported the vines to be grafted on to the French vines and saved the wine industry.
Currently, the most common name in the world is Mohammed
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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 occurring, relax and correct itself.
Scorpions are easier to find in the dark. Just bring a black light with you. They become quite visible under the glow.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
The Harp belongs in the percussion section of the orchestra
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over-mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles
If you threw a stick of dynamite into a fire, most people would scamper like a madman for cover before the dynamite explodes. There is no need to run though, dynamite needs a detonation by a spark or a percussion. The fire alone will not do the trick. However, warming up the dynamite in a fire will make it more responsive to detonation, but it will not cause it to explode. In fact, long ago miners would heat up dynamite in a frying pan when it was especially cold.
In Sanskrit, the word, "war" means, "desire for more cows."
In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.
In Florida the law clearly states that if an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle. Horses however, are exempt.
You would think that as the ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the defender of the faith, Queen Elizabeth II could go anywhere in her country she darn well pleases. However, she is not permitted to set foot in the House of Commons. It is reserved for commoners.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs it will let you go instantly
Most paper currency is not made out of paper, but cotton. Paper is simply too fragile.
If we sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
If Atheism was organized into a religion, it would be the 10th largest religious organization in the world.
Iodine has no liquid form. It goes directly from a solid to a gas form. What you buy in the store is the solid particulates suspended in a liquid.
I guess some consumers didn't find the thought of cooking with rape seed oil very appealing. So the growers of rape seed oil decided to market that particular can of oil as Canola.
Queen Elizabeth II has some pretty unique talents. If her Bentley were to develop a mechanical problem, she should be able to fix it herself. After all, she trained in World War II to be a automobile mechanic. She is the only reigning monarch that can completely strip a Jeep of all parts, then rebuild it. Of course, being the Queen of England, I suppose she would just call the auto club to have them come out and fix it for her. The car shouldn't be too difficult to find, it will be the only car in the United Kingdom that has no license plate. As the reining Monarch, She is the only person in the UK allowed to drive without a license plate on the car.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
The only two syllable word with no natural vowels is rhythm
It is always helpful to have a law that clearly defines when a person is legally intoxicated. In Kentucky, anyone who has been drinking is considered sober until he or she cannot hold onto the ground.
In the state of Washington there is a law designed to reduce crime that clearly states: 'It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.' For those of you planning a crime in the city of Seattle, that police chief is currently Norm Stamper. Also, don't bring any lollipops with you. For some very good reason I am unaware of, lollipops are not allowed in the city of Seattle.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
What is the difference between a wharf and a pier you ask? A pier runs perpendicular to the shoreline, while a wharf runs parallel to the shoreline
Australia is home to the koala bear, the platypus, and the kangaroo, but not one active volcano or glacier. It is the only continent that lacks either one.
Wild horses in America are not really wild, they are feral. The first horses were first brought to America in 1518 by Hernando Cortez. He brought 17 horses with him. Before Cortez, an ancestor of the horse migrated to the Americas 10,000 years ago, but they died out long before anyone thought about using them as we do the modern horse.
That stuff you find on the keyboard and covering your mouse ball is not called gunk, the technical name is candy.
There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.
In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
The only person they could find to first model the bikini was a stripper
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight eachother for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
Aztec emperor Mont ezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Donkey's earwax was once used as birth control
The longest interruption of a tv program in history was when the BBC interrupted a Mickey Mouse cartoon to announce that WWII had started: over 6 years later, the cartoon was resumed, in the exact same spot it had been cut
In French, the title of the movie City Slickers translates to "Life, Love, Cows"
Pharoah Khufu sent his own daughter into prostitution, charging her customers a block of stone to be used to build a pyramid for herself. Her pyramid contains over 20,000 blocks...
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