~32% of singles polled said they think they'll meet their future mate online
~An adult crocodile can go two years w/o eating
~State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
~Rules of the road: Men are more likely than women to run stop lights, but women are more likely to switch lanes without signaling
~Queen bees only sting other queen bees
~American's consume 16,000 tons of aspirin every year
~Louis XIV owned 413 beds
~When medieval Europeans burned witches, the witches' families had to pay for the firewood
~Four most dangerous steps on most staircases: the two at the top and the two at the bottom
~At last count, Minnesota had 99 lakes named Mud Lake
~World's largest restaurant: The Royal Dragon, in Bangkok, which serves 5,000 diners at a time. All 541 waiters are on roller skates
~Bottle-nosed whale can dive 3,000 feet in two minutes
~If a grass hopper is hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house.
~Snails have teeth
~The average American uses 730 crayon's by the age of 10
~Hawaii's state fish is the humuhumunukunukuapua'a
~An ergasiophobe is someone who's afraid of work
~Average cost of a movie ticket in 1940: 24 cents
~The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 over it's lifetime
~Drunk ants always fall over on their right side
~Each year, American's use enough foam peanuts to fill ten 85-story skyscrapers
~Ketchup was once sold as a medicine
~If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long on the day he died.
~It's impossible to lick your elbow
~The men who served as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages were often born on the wall, grew up there, married there, died there, and were buried within it. Many of these guards never left the wall in their entire lives.
~Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tic's, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a 5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
~Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
~Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
~From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on more than 264 computers per day.
~In the famous Parker Brothers game Monopoly, the space on which a player has the greatest statistical chance of landing is Illinois Avenue. This is followed by the B&O Railroad, Free Parking, Tennessee Avenue, New York Avenue, and the Reading Railroad.
~It is estimated that the average person living in North America opens the 'fridge 22 times daily.
~46% of all violence on TV occurs in cartoons
~In web site addresses on the Internet, "http" stands for "hypertext transfer protocol."
~The telephone area code for a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is 871.
~In 1981, a tornado lifted a baby from its pram in the Italian city of Ancona. The baby was carried 50 feet into the air and set down safely 300 feet away — without waking.
~Of the 206 bones in the average adult human body, 106 are found in the hands and feet (54 are in the hands; 52 are in the feet).
~When you're looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. When you're looking at someone you hate, they do the same thing.
~52% of American's say they'd "rather spend a week in jail" than be president.
~Not one adult has ever appeared in a Peanuts cartoon strip
~25% of American's think Sherlock Holmes was a real person
~Most popular Popsicle flavor- Cherry!
~Only 2% of Americans say they're in a good mood every day.
~53% of high school grads and 27% of college grads "get most of their information from TV"
~The average kid eats 15 pounds of cereal a year
~Full-grown grizzly bears can bite through 1/2-inch steel.
~Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories
~There's a town in Texas called "Ding Dong"
~21% of U.S. Children say that if they were president, they'd "eat ice-cream for every meal"
~A New York man carried a milk bottle on his head continuously for 24 miles
~Americans consume more than 20 pounds of candy per person per year
~The average American develops their first phobia at age 13 1/2
~Cab fare from NYC to LA (not including tip) $8,325
~A cubic yard of air weight about two pounds
~28% of household injuries in the summer are caused by yard work
~If a frog keeps its mouth open too long, it will suffocate
~57% of U.S. households have 3 or more telephones
~King George I of England couldn't speak a word of English. (He spoke german)
~The NY phone book has 22 Hitler's listed before WWII... and none after
~The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $0.02 an acre
~95% of food-poisoning cases are never reported
~King Henry VI banned kissing in England in 1439
~The average American eats at McDonald's 1,811 times in your life
~There are about three hundred $10,000 bills in circulation in the U.S.
~There are an estimated 10 trillion cells in your body
~One billion seconds is about 31.7 years
~It's estimated that you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects
~Snakes are immune to their own poisons
~Schoolhouses were traditionally painted red because red was the cheapest color available
~Toads don't have teeth, frogs do
~Singer Wayne Newton is a descendant of Pocahontas
~America's first minimum wage, in 1938, was $0.25 an hour
~The elephant is the only animal with four knees
~Before 1850, most golf balls were stuffed with feathers
~51% or U.S. men say TV remote controls have "significantly" increased their quality of life, 39% of women agree
~Coca-cola was originally green
~It's illegal to ship live mice through the U.S. mail.
~85% if 18 to 24-year-old's say that every person has a "perfect match"
~Termite's eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
~It's estimated that you'll walk more then 65,000 miles in your lifetime
~You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
~According to the founder of Children of Deaf Adults, 90 percent of the children of deaf parents have no hearing loss, and it is not unusual for a hearing child to suspect that his/her parents are faking deafness.
~Some species of earthworms in Australia can measure more than ten feet in length.
~In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
~A NUKE InterNETWORK poll found that 52 percent of Internet users have cut back on watching TV in order to spend more time online; 12 percent have cut back on seeing friends.
~Male sea lion may have more than 100 wives and sometimes go three months without eating.
~The Netherlands are the lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent of the land is below sea level.
~Nineteen countries around the world are producing their own versions of Sesame Street. Chinese children also tune in to the American children's classic TV show Sesame Street. But there it's called "Zhima Jie." Da Niao, Big Bird's Chinese cousin, is played by a gentle young man who still works as a truck mechanic. The other characters are all Chinese: a lively three-year-old red monster called Little Plum; a furry blue pig; a kindly grandfather; a very sweet mother; and a little boy, An An.
~Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.
~The U.S. produces 19 percent of the world's trash. The annual contribution includes 20 billion disposable diapers, 2 billion razors, and 1.7 billion pens.
~Ice cream was invented in China around 2000 B.C. when the Chinese packed a soft milk-and-rice mixture in snow. About 62 A.D., the Roman Emperor Nero sent slaves to the tops of the Apennines Mountains to bring fresh snow down to the royal kitchens, where the snow was then flavored with fruits and honey.
~In New Mexico, it is against the law to ship horned toads out of the state.
~According to Nielson Media Research, the average person watches television about 4 hours per day – or, more precisely, 27 hours and 53 minutes a week.
~Breathing for most snakes is accomplished with one lung only. The left lung is either greatly reduced in size or missing completely.
~According to the Journal of American Medical Association, as of 1998, more than 100,000 Americans die annually from adverse reactions to prescription drugs.
~Kernels of popcorn were found in the graves of pre-Columbian Indians.
~More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City metropolitan area.
~Approximately 50% of the area of the earth is covered by the pacific ocean.
~240 of the world’s 450 different types of cheese come from France.
~Sixty thousand people attended South Carolina’s "World Grits Festival" in 1991.
~Only 55% of all American’s know that the sun is a star.
~FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Kept a collection of pornography locked in his desk.
~The glue on Israeli stamps is certified Kosher.
~It’s against the law to stare at the Mayor of Paris.
~It takes about 2 1/2 gallons of petroleum to make a car tire.
~You can draw a line about 35 miles long with an average pencil.
~In 1984, A New Jersey man opened a summer camp for cabbage patch dolls.
~Mosquitoes prefer biting you if you’decibel just eaten a banana..
~Loudest snore on record: 93 decibel's (noise level of a jack hammer: 95 decibel's).
~If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.
~Hawaii is the only U.S. State that was once a kingdom.
~In Washington D.C., no building can be taller than the Capitol.
~Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Great Britain are 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th cousins.
~Rough sketches for a pay toilet were discovered in the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II.
~Every year, about 12% of the U.S. population is arrested.
~Annually, Americans spend twice as much for kids’ athletic shoes as the do for kids’ books.
~A teaspoon holds 120 drops of water.
~Bela Lugosi was buried wearing his vampire cape.
~Every day, Americans eat an estimated 18 acres of pizza.
~In Alabama, A man was once tried and convicted for wearing a false mustache to Church.
~Franklin Roosevelt thought up the name "United Nations" in the shower.
~There are about 336 dimple's on a regulation golf ball.
~There are about 5000 languages in the world.
~There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
~Canada is the second largest country on Earth.
~If you shop for food while hungry, you’ll spend 3 times as much.
~The diameter of the wheel on TV’s "Wheel of Fortune" is 8’6’’.
~A beehive hairdo that stood 6 feet 6 inches is the tallest recorded hairdo in the world.
~A strong bolt of lightning can contain as much as 100 million volts of electricity.
~Bat’s always turn to the left when exiting a cave.
~More collect calls are made on Father’s Day then any other day of the year.
~"Aglet is the plastic of metal tip of a shoelace.
~According to one study: People who eat hot dogs are extroverts and burger-eaters are introverts.
~A leopon is a cross between a leopard and a lion. Such creatures really exist.
~18% of Americans say they would not remarry their spouses.
~In 1983, a Japanese Artist mad a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
~There are 44 million ways to make BINGO on a single Bingo card.
~Graves are normally 7’8’’ Long X 3’2’’ wide X 6’ Deep.
~It took Leonardo Da Vinci four years to paint the Mona Lisa.
~Men get more ulcers; Women get more Church headaches.
~Mother-In-Law Day was first celebrated on March 5, 1934, in Amarillio, Texas.
~80% of America’s say they believe in Miracles.
~President Zachary Taylor never voted in a Presidential Election.
~Bird Dropping are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
~Donald Duck Comics were banned from libraries in Finland because he Church’t wear any pants.
~In Omaha, Nebraska, It’s illegal to burp or sneeze in Church.
~Most tornadoes occur in May.
~Janis Joplin was nominated "Ugliest Man on Campus" while in college.
~In Italy, James Bond is known as "Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang".
~In 1800, there were 1 billion people on Earth, now there are more then 5 billion.
~13% of American Men say they call their mother’s every day; 32% of women do.
~A week-old Gazelle can outrun a full-grown horse.
~Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles California.
~At one time, Hawaiian women were forbidden by law to eat coconuts.
~Moose are very nearsighted (some try to mate with cars because of this).
~"Honolulu" is Hawaiian for Sheltered Harbor.
~In 1610, the population of the American Colonies was 350 people.
~Confederate General Robert E. Lee didn’t own slaves, he didn’t believe in it.
~Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in "Some Like It Hot".
~The average meteor is no larger than a grain of sand.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to made a Hole-In-One in Golf.
~Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
~There are more bagpipe bands in the U.S. then there is in Scotland.
~According to the Bible, there were two windows on Noah’s Ark.
~On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day, a child laughs 400 times.
~Spain gets its name from "Spania," the Carthaginian word that means "Land of Rabbits."
~The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. His name was Fred.
~The 100 years war lasted 116 years.
~In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under Frozen Foods.
~In ancient Egypt, only Pharaoh's were allowed to eat mushrooms.
~In Germany, a yuppie is known as a Schicki Micki.
~On Mother’s Day, American’s will spend $329 Million on candy, and $75 million on phone calls.
~IRS workers suffer fewer assaults on the job than workers in any other government agency.
~During the Middle Ages you could be accused of witch craft if your pets disobeyed you.
~21% of cat owners and 27% of dog owners include their pets in their wills.
~Tornadoes can last as long as nine hours.
~When Boxer dogs get excited, they stand on their hind legs and jab the air with their front paws.
~The U.S. is #1 in gun ownership per capita; Finland is #2
~Earthworms have five hearts.
~American table are set with salt and pepper; in Hungary it’s salt and paprika.
~Franklin Roosevelt referred to World War II as "The War For Survival." Harry Truman changed it to "World War II" in 1945.
~There have been at least 70 movies featuring the character Zorro.
~Gail Borden, inventor of condensed milk, also coined the phrase "Remember the Alamo!"
~According to research, you'll blow your nose about 250 times this year.
~A snail breathes through it's foot.
~Americans say microwave ovens are the best recent change in their lives, infomercials the worst.
~Technically speaking a female "Dude" is known as a "Dudine."
~Elvis's underpants are estimated to be worth $1,300.
~Short people have fewer back problems than tall people do.
~Pregnant goldfish are known as "twits".
~63% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
~Blue Canyon, , California is the snowiest city in the U.S.
~The Atlantic Ocean is saltier then then Pacific.
~The U.S. Treasury mins about 37 million pennies a day
~The word "tragedy" comes from Tragos and ode, Greek words for "Goat" and "Song".
~The holes in the Swiss Cheese come from air bubbles.
~Women in Switzerland did not win the right to vote until 1971.
~Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
~One study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would chuck about 700 lbs.
~The first american novel to sell more than a million copies: "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
~Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain.
~The heel of a sock is called the "Gore".
~Every year, 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats.
~The average age that kids begin to use the microwave is 7.
~The average stamp, when licked, has 1/10th of a calorie.
~People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
~Today as many people live in the U.S. (270 million) as lived in the entire world in 1000 A.D.
~75% of all American's live in cities.
~Horned toads like to be petted.
~In 71% of "baby boomer" households, both spouses work.
~Among his other hobbies, ex-Beatle Ringo Starr likes to design furniture.
~Alberta, Canada, is said to be completely free of rats.
~Twice as many people live in Shanghi, China as in NYC.
~Marilyn Monroe's dog was named Maf. It was a gift from Frank Sinatra.
~In virtually every language on earth, the word for "mother" begins with the letter m.
~President Grover Cleveland's nickname was "Uncle Jumbo."
~Mr. Potato head was the first toy advertised on TV.
~The state song of Florida is "Old Folks at Home."
~The average American eats 4 pounds of artificial flavorings, colorings, and preservatives each year.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower wore two watches on his left arm and one on his right. (Even to bed.)
~Walruses get bald as they get older.
~The average French person uses two bars of soap a year.
~Ex-President Gerald Ford's favorite food was cottage cheese with A-1 sauce.
~A full-grown hippo's lips are about two feet wide.
~President John Adams was so short and fat that his nickname was "His Rotundity."
~Oliver Pollock's claim to fame was that he invented the dollar sign in 1778.
~The average number of bathing suits sold in America every second is 4.
~The Chinese commonly drink donkey's milk.
~When George Washington died in 1799, Napoleon ordered 10 days of mourning in France.
~A year on the planet Jupiter is 12 times longer than a year on Earth.
~The wild turkey is the only bird with a beard.
~In the filming of the movie 1001 Dalmatians, 233 Dalmatians were used
~According to a German doctor who weighed patients at the moment of death... the human soul weighs 3/4 of an ounce.
~1% of Americans said they have no friends
~At the turn of the century, tobacco was illegal in 14 states.
~Bagpipes were invented in Iran and brought to Scotland by the Romans.
~#1 cause of depression in married people: begin married.
~#1 cause of depression in unmarried people: being single.
~Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school.
~Ducks can't get the flu.
~The most men to ever to ride on one motorcycle- 47 (Army cops of Brasilia Team, 1995).
~Legendary lawmaker Wyatt Earp was kicked out of California for horse-stealing.
~It takes a drop of ocean water more then 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
~In 1970, an Englishman named A.P. Herbert cashed a check written on the side of a cow.
~Lethologica is the inability to remember a word.
~Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
~A typical porcupine has about 30,000 quills.
~Zorro means 'fox' in Spanish.
~The tomato come in over 4,000 varieties.
~The Pacific Ocean is twice as large as the Atlantic... and larger then all the continents combined.
~The stirrup, the tiniest bone in your body (it's in your ear), is smaller than an ant.
~A typical raindrop falls at about 7 mph.
~It takes 345 squirts from a cow's udder to get a gallon of milk.
~There are one trillion atoms in a grain of salt.
~Iron weighs more after it rusts.
~It takes about 8/1000 of a second for a human's nerve impulse to reach the brain.
~Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds.
~Insects outnumber humans by one million to one.
~In the old days, freckles were called "moth-patches" and were considered an affliction.
~In general, frogs hop faster than toads.
~Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have indoor plumbing.
~61% of Americans like to hear music when put on hold; 22% prefer silence.
~Benjamin Franklin invented swim fins.
~The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.
~Virginia has more ghosts registered with the Ghost Research Society (69) then any other state.
~The typical cow lives about 30 years.
~In German, a partypooper is called a Partymuffel.
~Most crowded U.S. State: New Jersey, with an average 1,000 people per square mile.
~In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
~The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
~A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 45 mph in two seconds.
~Until 1867, ,Alaska was knows as Russian America.
~A rouleau is a roll of coins wrapped in paper.
~Your tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
~The world's actual oldest profession, according to anthropologists is a Witch Doctor.
~Two Dogs were hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials.
~The statue of liberty is patented.
~The sun weights about 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds.
~80% of U.S. men say they're the ones who take out the garbage.
~Cherophobe are people who are afraid to have fun.
~What do all of the characters in Shakespeare's plays have in common? They don't smoke.
~Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
~Before killing Lincoln, actor John Wilkes Booth was so popular he got 100 fan letters a week.
~The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.
~Lions are the only cats that live in packs (prides).
~#1 Holiday for telephone calls: Mothers Day. #1 Holiday for collect calls: Father's Day.
~The Indian hero Geronimo was once kicked out of church for gambling.
~Why a seventh-inning stretch instead of some other inning? Seven is considered a lucky number.
~What is the oldest letter in the alphabet? O. It's more then 3,000 years old.
~There are almost as many chickens in the world as there are people.
~A baby eel is called an elver.
~The average sleeper rolls over 12 times while in bed.
~Urdu is the most common language spoken by NYC cabdrivers.
~Neptune's summer is 40 years long.
~In one study, kids who'd been breast-fed scored eight IQ points higher then formula-fed kids.
~Catfish have 100,000 tastebuds.
~Texas is 268 times bigger then Rhode Island.
~Fetuses can hiccup.
~Some beaver dams are more then 1,000 years old.
~Alaska is bigger the Texas and California combined.
~Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons.
~Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
~Carrots come from Afghanistan.
~Normally you take about 17 breaths a minute.
~Only US President to head a labor union was Ronald Reagan.
~The five most popular garden veggies: tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumbers, beans.
~35% of people watching TV say they yell at it.
~The Aztecs restricted the smelling of certain flowers to the upper classes.
~The acid in your stomach is powerful enough to dissolve razor blades.
~The Swiss Army keeps 20,000 carrier pigeons for emergency communications.
~The word "million" was invented sometime around the year 1300 (A.D.).
~Soccer is the most popular sport on earth, played by 100 million people in over 50 countries.
~The average human sheds 40 pounds of dead skin in their lifetime.
~Laid end to end, the blood vessels in your body would wrap around the equator three times.
~Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant.
~The London Bridge has never fallen down.
~Snakes don't blink.
~Five hundred cubic feet of air pass through your nose everyday.
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