1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to
create the energy of an atomic bomb.
3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet in the air.
4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (also called the
lithium diet)
5. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight
and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
6. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to
death.
7. Butterflies taste with their feet.
8. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
9. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
10. Starfish don't have brains.
11. Polar bears are left handed.
12. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
13. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
14. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorised
all 158 verses.
15. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
16. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
17. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
18. There are more chickens than people in the world.
19. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
20. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
21. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
22. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
23. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
24. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
25. There are only four words in the English language which end in"dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
26. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula"-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
27. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
28. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
29. Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
30. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch
is 10:10.
31. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
32. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
33. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
34. 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."
35. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
36. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
37. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
38. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
39. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser
himself.
40. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
41. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank
Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
42. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
43. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
44. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
45. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
46. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
47. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
48. If you were born in January, your flower is the snowdrop.
49. Scent is the most powerful trigger of memory we have.
50. People who eat breakfast are less likely to get depressed.
51. A passion for avocados suggests a need to escape from stress.
52. Every time you link a postage stamp you consume one tenth of a calorie.
53. You will walk about 185,000 kilometres in a lifetime.
54. Pink was considered a perfectly suitable color for boys up until the 1920's.
55. If you crave butter, you apparently dread the start of the day.
56. In 1,000 BC hair dye was made from crushed tadpoles in warm oil.
57. During your lifetime you will eat about 27,000 kilos of food.
58. Until the 1400's, married Japanese couples didn't live together, they only
met at night.
59. A giraffe has a 21 inch long tongue.
60. 34% of men are active with sport compared to 27% of women.
61. A pillow can contain up to 300,000 dust mites, your quilt 700,000 and your
matress two million.
62. In Egypt and Rome in 1,000 BC women and men used rouge, lipstick and
nailpolish.
63. We are at our most active between the ages of 15 and 19.
64. Jelly beans were sent to soldiers during the American Civil War in 1861.
65. Barista is the name given to someone who makes coffee as a profession.
66. A lump of gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size
of a tennis court.
67. An old love super stition states that if you want to dream of what your next
boyfriend will look like, you should sleep with a mirror under your pillow.
68. Piercing the ears was once thought to release demons from the body.
69. Over 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year from using products made
for right-handed people.
70. 19,000 people were surveyed as to whether they preferred beauty or brains.
42% chose beauty and 58% chose brains.
71. Bandaids were first introduced in 1940.
72. In one century of motor vehicles, about 25 million people have been killed
on the roads of the world.
73. Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the body.
74. You blink over 10 million times a year.
75. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
76. A wedding ring is worn on the third finger of the left hand because it was
believed that a vein or nerve ran directly from that finger to the heart.
77. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster that toenails.
78. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
79. Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
80. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
81. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their
finals.
82. Elizabeth I of England suffered from anthophobia, a fear of roses.
83. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
84. Dennett D'Angelo set a world record for eating 3 pounds, 6 ounces of ice
cream in 90 seconds.
85. An average of 13 boxes of Jell-o are purchased every second in the United
States.
86. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle
the company once had.
87. Coca-Cola was originally green. :-/
88. Ice cream was invented in China about 2000 BC.
89. 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
90. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
91. In Paris, the McDonalds big 'M' is the only one in the world that is white,
rather than yellow, it was thought that yellow was too tacky.
92. 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and right
side-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be
6009!
93. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
94. There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.
95. 50% of teenage boys say that they would rather be rich than smart.
96. A can of Diet Coke will float in water while a can of regular Coke sinks.
97. A klazomaniac is someone who feels like shouting.
98. About 5% of Americans claim to have talked to the devil personally.
99. About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
100. According to Elvis' autopsy, he had 10 different drugs in his body at the
time of his death.
101. Coca-cola was originally green.
102. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
103. Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever.
104. Dumbest dog: Afghan
105. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
106. Men can read smaller printbetter than women; women can hear better.
107. Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in
2
108. Amount American Airlines saved in '87 by taking out 1 olive from each salad
served in first class: $40,000
109. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
110. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
111. Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
112. Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
113. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
114. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
115. Estimated % of American adults who go on diet each year: 44%
116. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
117. Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
118. Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%
119. Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
120. City with highest per capita viewership of TV evangelists: Washington DC
121. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they
had it to do all over again: 80%
122. % of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
123. % of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%
124. % of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%
125. Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards:
105
126. Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
127. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
128. Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%
129. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
130. Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
131. Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3
132. Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonald's each day: 7
133. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%
134. Percentage of mammal species that are: 3%
135. Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are
above national average: 50%
136. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
137. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
138. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
139. Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon
140. Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt
141. Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage"
142. Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying
vessels over shoals
143. Only food that does not spoil: honey
144. Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce
Brothers (subject is boxing)
145. Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
146. Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
147. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
148. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
149. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
150. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
151. Polar bears are left-handed.
152. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
153. Eskimos never gamble.
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