There's some information out there that is really useless. I don't even know if all of these are true. But I decided to make a page about it anyway. Information will always be updated. BTW I decided to take out the fact about Napoleon ^_-
In the Inuit language, there is no word for hello.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Cat urine glows under a blacklight.
The record for the most number of breasts on a woman is ten.
There are more chickens in the world than humans.
Cow farts contain methane, which contributes to global warming.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Peanuts are used in dynamite.
The world's biggest Barbie Doll collection grew so large its owner had to move to a bigger house to make room for it.
The world's most expensive jeans were $25,000.
The orignal Tin Man in Wizard of OZ almost died. The make-up that they used caused him to get deathly sick. They had to call in a second actor and change the make-up.
A dwarf male anglerfish is seen permanently attached to the female. The dwarf anglerfish is one out of four of the 210 anglerfish species in which the male is unusually small. The male attaches himself, by biting, to the female. The male's mouth fuses to the skin of his mate, and the bloodstreams of the two fish become connected. The male is then totally dependent upon teh female for nourishment.
No piece of paper can be folded 7 times if folded in half repeatedly.
No!! I take that back! Nick has just proven me (or the chain letter I got) wrong! IT'S AMAZING!!~~~~~~~~
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's "Born in the USA."
The three most valuable brand names on earth are Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser.. In that order.
The citrus soda "7-up" was created in 1929. "7" was selected because the original containers were seven ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellants don't repel - they block the mosquitos' sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended keeping your toothbrush at least 6 feet away from your toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
American car horns beep in the tone of F. (LOL my microwave beeps B)
You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are at least 50 years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffiene, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz Ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
Those plastic thingies on the end of your shoelaces? They're called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Betsy Ross is the only real person to have her head on a PEZ dispenser.
Michael Jordan makes more money off of Nike than all the Nike workers in Malaysia combined. ::GRR!!::
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion, but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on each foot.
All US presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like to be seen in them in public.
LOL- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by a foley artist squishing their hands in jelly.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It took 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs ::sniff::
Thirty-five percent of the people who use ads for personal dating are already married.
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first president to contain all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle. (what about j?)
A raisin dropped in a bottle of champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. (lmao! i wanna see that)
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. (that's so sad!)
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. (rotflmao!)
a 2X4 is 1½x3½
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Another 7-Up fact - The "spot" on 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
315 entries in the 1996 Webster's Dictionary are misspelled.
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur" a small red car can be seen in the background.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the live of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system - a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Daniel Boon detested coonskin caps.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water to reveal a map for escape.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales)kill sharks by torpedoing (spelling?) up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. (I'd love to see that..)
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. (Neither does the Pillsbury Dough Boy but do we care? No...)
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name such that it sounded like sue-ice.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. (ketchup advisory board... lol have some ketchup "Life is flowing like ketchup on a bun..." ::regains sanity::)
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other. (He was also gay. So was Tchaikovsky.)
During the California Gold Rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to
the extremely high costs in California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
Because metal was scarce, the oscars given out during WWII 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.
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.
The numbers 172 can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
The name "Wendy" was made up for the book "Peter Pan" - there was no recorded "Wendy" before!
The first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. (rotflmao!!!)
There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 bill.
Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors... it also took him 10 years to paint the Mona Lisa's lips. (that sounds like me when I'm drawing...)
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (rotflmao again!! I want to get a scorpion, just to do that... give it some of Washu's sake, it won't even have time to go mad it'll just die)
Bruce Lee is so fast they actually had to slow a film down to see his moves. (lol meg and brian bwuce wee!)
IF you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original halloween was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The original name for butterfly was "flutterby". (They should have kept it that way, it makes more sense. I mean what does it have to do with butter???)
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. (how about not at all!!)
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses MAY be red, but violets are indeed violet. (no... really?)
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has to begin with. (What if you got a reaaaally loong piece of celery and had it pureed and fed to you through a tube while you were in a coma? Something to ponder...)
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize at a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. (what was he doing there!? oh wait maybe the galaxy police was searching for him and he had to have a secret identity so he decided to enter the contest as a look-alike so they wouldn't find him... I watch too much of this stuff, and so do you if you just understood what the hell I was talking about.)
In "Gulliver's Travels," Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." (I'm not sure if I believe that)
An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. (so much for "Maria" by Ricky Martin... if ya know Spanish ya know what I'm talkin about.)
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified Kosher. (what do they use pork in american ones or something? or shellfish? or meat and dairy?)
The Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because farting damages a spacesuit.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Britney Spears' favorite rides at Disneyworld are Splash Mountain and Rockin' Roller Coaster.
Contrary to common belief, Beethoven didn't die of syphillis, he died of lead poisoning.
Leonardo da Vinci's homosexuality was probably due to the fact that he was molested as a child - he used to insist that when he was little a blackbird landed on his head and forced its tail into his mouth .... take from it what you will..... (Thank you, Nick, for that lovely piece of information)
It is thought that there are more combinations of moves in a game of 100 moves each or so than there are atoms in the known universe. (That one is less strange don't you agree? Thank you again..)
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a
single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do
so -- apart from Bones ).
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two
weeks kissing in their lifetime.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue
twister.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million
descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by
700 times.
If the US government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14,
Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,
1969, make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with
extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
assorted insects and 10 spiders.
