If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you will have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of atomic bomb.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average, more people fear spiders than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza per 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 a poisonous spider.
Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
In Ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their body.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its let side when intoxicated.
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 it's head is attatched to it's body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
An ostrich;s eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish don't have brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingrediants in dynamite.
There are 239 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink both eyes.
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 and American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language 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 a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' bathroom during a dance.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language that "dous"-- tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A cat has thirty-two muscles in each ear.
Los Angeles's full nale is "El Pueblo do Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"--and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of it's original size: LA.
Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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 second largest city.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 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.
In England, the Speaker of the House isn't allowed to speak.
Mr. Rodgers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The venom in a Daddy Longlegs spider is more poisonous than a BlackWidow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jawswon't open wide enough.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, butmore like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on thebottom.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble ofgas bursting.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents who are present and don't die throughout the movie.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30minutes after eating garlic.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white but, actually clear.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in planecrashes.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1,000 and a size 108.7 acres.
The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No president of the United States was an only child.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every fivemust be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated,dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating aletter is uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase"Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead".
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Camel's milk does not curdle.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
All porcupines float in water.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshiretown hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end inan "A" is Afghanistan.
When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.
The longest word in the English language, according to the OxfordEnglish Dictionary, ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other wordwith the same amount of letters ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosteronesare the largest anagrams.
Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pigfarmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh RamsesII who fathered over 160 children.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English lawwhich stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name is Jonas Grumby. It wasmentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast aboutthe wreck.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside, they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,and purple.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted peoplewithout killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."