Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The reason firehouses had circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
The common vulgar expression, "Son of a bitch" was first used in Disney's Lady and the Tramp.
The Earth's revolution upon it's axis slows down just a tad every year.
Quantas Australia is the only International Airline that has never lost a life...
Coco Leaves used to be an ingredient of Coca-Cola, until it was banned just before World War One.
If you add all the numbers together on a Roulette table (i.e 1+2+3+4 etc) it adds to 666...
Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size 39-23-33.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
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.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
2 x 4 is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II 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.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before then.
The very first bomb dropped by the allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known playeron the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, makes it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of 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 passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to farting in such a confined space.....
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!!
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