Here you may find some interesting facts you may not know. There may also be a few facts you do know. And of course a few facts you might not want to know. :) Enjoy....
Over 2500 left handed people a year are
killed from using products made for right
handed people!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
The first city to be lit up entirely by electricity was Aurora, Illinois.
Prairie dogs identify each other by kissing.
There are over 9,000 taste buds in your tounge.
By the time you reach 70, you will have shed 40 pounds of skin.
A mouse has more bones than you do. The little critters have 225 bones. We just have 206.
So many people live in China that it takes six million census takers ten days to count them all.
If all the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles.
Milk is sold in sheets in Denmark-- to drink it, add hot water and refrigerate. Prairie dogs identify each other by kissing.
An empty Boeing 747 jumbo weighs as much as 67 elephants.
In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, guard lions are used to protect homes from burglars.
If everyone who was told about a midnight murder told two other people within 12 minutes, everybody on Earth would know about it before morning.
A hippoptamus has sweat that looks like blood, but it's really a kind of skin conditioner.
Hollywood, California was named after an English racehorse.
George Washington Carver, inventor of more then 300 uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans, was kidnapped as a baby and ransomed for a horse.
During the summer of 1947, it was so hot in Missouri that corn popped right off the stocks before it could be harvested.
Mozart could write down, note for note, symphonies he had heard just once.
The first phone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878 and contained only 50 names and addresses.
For a tossed coin to fall heads 50 times in a row, it would require one million people tossing ten coins a minute for 40 hours a week-- and then it would occur only once every nine centuries.
Pretzels were invented in southern France in a.d. 610 by French monks, who shaped them to look like a child's arms folded in prayer.
The koala bear of Australia rarely takes a drink. Except in times of drought, it gets all the fluid it needs from the eucalyptus leaves it eats. In the Aborigine language, koala means "no drink."
Charoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug, the local Native American name for a lake in Massachusetts, means "You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle."
Movie actor Mel Gibson won his leading role in the 1979 Australian film Mad Max because the director was searching for someone who looked weary, beaten, and scared. Gibson couldn't help look the part, since he'd been mugged by three drunks the night before his screen test.
Hotels in China rarely have fourth floors because the character for the number four is the same as the character for death.
Canada's coastline equals a distance of more than twice the circumference of Earth.
Could you arrange 15 books into all of their possiable combinations ? If you made one change per minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do it.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
***A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Starfish don't have brains
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are palindromes.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
I am. Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long, and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Hurts, too.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
Americans, on the average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Polar bears are left-handed.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in -dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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 it's size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
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".
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
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."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
"Typewriter" is the only ten letter word you can type on the top row of letters on your keyboard.
Did you know that the guy on the ten-dollar bill was shot and killed by a vice president?
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty 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 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds -Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
The man, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Deborah Winger and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) are sisters.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Pulp Fiction contains about 387 forms of profanity, shattering the previous record of 255.
All the existing gold in the world can fit into a cube 75 yards by 75 yards by 75 yards.
