Strange Facts

The name Oz, in The Wizard of Oz, was thought up when the creator, L. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz".

The average hamster, if provided a wheel, will run up to eight miles per night!

A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years!

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Have you noticed that there is always a Bob?

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny and many other characters) was allergic to carrots!

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!



Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting while he was alive, Red Vineyard at Arles.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).

Porcupines float in water!

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

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 only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

Cat's urine glows under a black-light!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?



A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!



Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

The highest scoring word in Scrabble is 'Quartzy'. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!



The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from.

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

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 elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee,cola, apple, and chocolate.



A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!

The average person laughs 13 times a day!