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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
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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 people without killing them
use to burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big
Village".
There are two credit cards for every person
in the United States.
Only two people signed the Declaration of
Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and
Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on
August 2, but the last signature wasn't
added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in
the English language.
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."
The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels
together."
The international telephone dialing code for
Antarctica is 672.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is
certified kosher.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was
allergic to carrots.
Until 1965, driving was done on the
left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The
conversion to right-hand was done on a
weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as
people switched sides. This time and day
were chosen to prevent accidents where
drivers would have gotten up in the morning
and been too sleepy to realize that this was
the day of the changeover.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on
Berlin during World War II killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it
rhymed with "rejoice."
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said
"Play it again, Sam."
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my
dear Watson."
More people are killed annually by donkeys
than die in air crashes.
The term, "It's all fun and games until
someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.
The only rule during wrestling matches was,
"No eye gouging." Everything else was
allowed, but the only way to be disqualified
was to poke someone's eye out.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
machine that makes them looks like it's
kissing the conveyor belt.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out
of cotton.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from
and old English law which stated that you
couldn't beat your wife with anything wider
than your thumb.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
thirteen seconds.
The first television show to show a flushing
toilet was Leave It to Beaver.
The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is
the only McDonald’s™ location that sells hot
dogs.
A can of SPAM™ is opened every 4 seconds.
Plastic lawn flamingos are more numerous in
the United States than real flamingos.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stored per
capita than any other place on earth.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed
1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever
produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard
boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28
minutes.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
13 seconds.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are
upside-down.
There are more chickens in the world than
people.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender
than the right one.
The U.S. Patent Office received over one
hundred patent entries for ‘Perpetual Motion
Machines’ each year.
The British Patent Office will not except
patents for ‘Perpetual Motion Machines’.
A novel with 50,000 words, non of which
contained the letter ‘E’ was written by
Ernest Wright.
Mark Twain’s book ‘Tom Sawyer’ (1876) was
the first novel to ever be written on a
typewriter.
Isaac Asimovis is the only author to have a
book in every major category of the
Dewey-decimal system.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only kind that
contains real fruit.
The Paramount™ logo contains 22 stars.
After the Mayflower was no longer needed, it
was dismantled, and rebuilt as a barn.
The letters of the alphabet in order of
frequency of use are:
ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGVBKJQXZ
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you
lick a stamp.
Laughter is a proven way to loose weight.
The pound sign ( # ) is called an
anoctothorpe.
There was once a town named ‘6’ in West
Virginia.
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a
mule will not.
Every year more people are killed by
donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
Eating lots of carrots will turn the pigment
in your skin orange. (Carotene is the same
substance that makes leaves turn orange in
the fall)
The earth weighs about
6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Every day the sun loses about 360 million
tons.
The first word spoken on the moon was
‘Okay’.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his
left foot.
Popeye was five feet, six inches.
The average speed of Heinz™ ketchup leaving
the bottle is 25 miles per year.
The most common name for a gold fish is
‘Jaws’.
The most common (human) name in the world
is, ‘Mohammed’.
The longest name is the Hebrew Scriptures
(Old Testament) is Malhershalahashbaz.
The shortest verse in the bible is ‘Jesus
Wept’. (John 11:35)
The word ‘and’ appears 46,277 times in the
bible.
There are 17 steps to the apartment of
Sherlock Holmes.
In an average day, a four year old child
will ask 437 questions.
The Eifel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.
The Eifel Tower has 1792 steps.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that
alternates hands!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one
billion grains of pollen!
The first product to have a bar code was
Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded
in half more than 7 times!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle,
a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are
killed from using products made for right
handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the
Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take
31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried
alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to
replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the
earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog." uses every letter of the
alphabet!
The average life span of a major league
baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that
green algae can grow undisturbed on it's
fur!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's
humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a
dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its'
heads enables it to see all four feet at all
times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of
stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to
fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a
dime has one less groove!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United
States called Franklin. Today it's known as
Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around
6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its
head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a
year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on
television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about
11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a
certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get
to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words
of the American anthem, but know the first 7
of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words
of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9
of the American anthem!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing
into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It was once against the law to have a pet
dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was
afraid of the dark!
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!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is
over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because
there is no gravity, so the tears can't
flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S,
than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by
the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes than red
ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over
100mph!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year,
every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives,
forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy
to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per
minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see
the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about
600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car
door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony
Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be
jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its
hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of
wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year,
than real money printed throughout the
world!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't
jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim,
but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that
does not appear in the name of any of the
United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are
in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a
lifetime! Wow!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print
is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that
rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap
to keep him cool! He changed it every 2
innings!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in
America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups
for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its
21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep
you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that
can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth
of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than
toenails!
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every
day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was
considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made
from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is
almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you can't!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by
lighting than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in
the world are accidentally planted by
squirrels who bury nuts and then forget
where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel,
"Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words
-- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language,
the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked
on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in
the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the
earth!
The most used letter in the English alphabet
is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes
throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was
'flutterby'!
When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in
1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
The average caterpillar has 16 legs.
How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20
Times a second.
When the shell oil companyfirst opened it's
doors it was a seashell novelty shop.
Laugh and you'll burn up three and a half
calories, no joke.
In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years
old, the average groom is 23.
Most people don't know that I am currently
making an "Average" of $115.00 dollars a
monthfrom the two companies listed on this
page, click their banners to learn more.
There are 293 ways to make changefor a
dollar.
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5
people will say red.
Talk is cheap compared to what it used to
be, in 1915 a telephone call from New York
to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first
three minutes.
At 90' below zero your breath willfreeze in
mid-air andfall to the ground.
Most people take an average of seven minutes
tofall asleep.
Englands Queen Anne (1665-1714) outlived all
17 of her children.
The tallest man in the world was 8'11"
Robert Wadlow. He was just 22 when he died
in 1949from an infectioncaused by leg braces
he needed to keep him on hisfeet.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S.
but technically it's number 47. Until August
7, 1953, congressforgot to vote on a
resolution to admit Ohio to the union.
A squirrel lives about 9 years.
In 1885 the Home Insurance Company of
Chicago was the tallest building in the
world. It was only 9 stories tall.
Thefemale preying mantis devours her partner
while their mating! Yikes!
Aflies tastebuds are on itsfeet.
"Wanted: Young, skinny, wiryfellows not over
18. Must be excellent riders, willing to
risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages
are $25.00 a week." This is a mid 1800's
help wanted signfor the Pony Express.
An alligator can supposedly wolf down an
eight pound chicken in one gulp.
The comic known as Peanuts was originally
known as Li'lfolks.
In 1944,fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best
schoolboy athlete. A lefthanded pitcher,
Castro was later given a tryout by the
Washington Senators but was turned down by
the baseball club.
Official studies havefound that right handed
people tend to scratch with their left hand
and visa-versa.
A cat has a normal body temperature of
101.5. A dog's is 101.
Bee'sflap their wings 300 times a second.
Reykjavik, Iceland is warmer than Chicago,
Illinois in the winter.
John Wayne had an 18 inch neck.
According to an old Massachusettes law, your
not allowed to shave while driving.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A parrot's vocabulary is generally no more
than 20 words.
The dogfeatured on a box of Cracker Jacks
name is Bingo, the little boy is Jack.
A U.S. backed government studyfound that
pigs can become alcoholics.
An eyelash lives about 5 months.
The word taxi is spelled the same in
English, German,french, Swedish and
Portuguese.
The circumference of the Earth at the
equator is 24,896 miles.
There's 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire
State Building.
There's 31,622,400 seconds in a leap year.
The 100 years war lasted 116 years.
There are 225 squares on a scrabble board.
53310761 was Elvis Presleys dog tag number.
A cows sweat glands are in it's nose.
The national anthem of Greece is 158 verses.
The World Trade Center towers in New York
City have two zip codes, 10047-10048, onefor
each building.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits
of living persons to appear on stamps.
Mozart never went to school.
Smokey The Bear's original name was Hotfoot
Teddy.
Queen Elizabeth was an 18 year old mechanic
in the English military.
The actual playing time in a Major League
Baseball game which lasts two and a half
hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55
seconds.
In ancient China doctors would only
receivefees if the patient stayed in good
health. Sometimes if the patients health
became to bad, the doctor had to pay them.
Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for
breakfast.
We don't know if there's a Heaven on earth,
but there is a Hell, it's a town in Norway.
After Custer's Last Stand, Sioux indian
leader Chief Sitting Bull became an
entertainer and toured the country with
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Dirty snow meltsfaster than white snow
because it's darker and absorbs more heat.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in
Dynamite.
A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles
per second.
An Elephant is not afraid of a mouse.
U.S. Patent number 3,593,345 was grantedfor
the "Whisper Seat", a toilet seat with a
soundproof lining so that noise won't be
heard by others.
The honey bee is the only bee that dies
after stinging.
The only person who's birthday is a legal
holiday all across the U.S. is George
Washington.
Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
Eli Whitney didn't do to great with the
Cotton Gin but made out pretty good as a gun
manuFacturer.
The Rollar Coaster was invented in the 17th
century in Russia.
The human brain is 80% water.
Know what Mafia means? Morte Allafrancia
Italia Anela "Death to the french is Italy's
cry!"
An average pair offeet will sweat a pint of
perspiration a day.
The peacock is a male and thefemale a
peahen.
Flamingo's can only eat with their head
upside down.
Theres no single word to say "yes" or "no"
in japanese.
Check this out, look at your keyboard, the
only ten letter word that you can spell with
the top row of letters is "typewriter".
The Chinese only celebrate birthdays every
ten years.
Theres more sweat glands on yourfeet than
any other part of your body.
Did you know that African Elephants stay on
theirfeetfor 30 to 40 years.
Goodyear rubber company researched and
concluded that shoes wear outfaster on the
rightfoot than the left.
In one day an average person will take about
18,000 steps.
In an average lifetime a person will walk
the equivilant of three times around the
world.
George Washington wore a size 13 shoe.
A hummingbird cant stand on it's ownfeet,
they aren't strong enough. Hummingbirds can
and often do stand on thierfeet. I have
several hummingbirdfeeders and have wathced
them land and stand while eating on a
regular basis. for the longest time people
only usedfeeders without perches because of
this myth.
Yourfeet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent
larger at the end of the day.
In Pacific Grove, California City Ordinance
No. 352 says it is a misdemeanor to kill or
threaten a butterfly.
The most popular namefor a male cat is
"Tiger" afemale "Samantha".
folding money was invented by the Chinese,
it was made of deerskin.
There are ten times as many sheep as people
in Australia.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their
eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Did you know that clinophobia is thefear of
beds.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in
the English language.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
Unless the windmills in Ireland.
The longest recordedflight of a chicken is
13 seconds.
Poundfor pound, your tongue is the strongest
muscle in your body.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't
jump.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Donald Duck's middle name isfauntleroy.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150
calories an hour.
It was once against the law to slam your car
door in a city in Switzerland.
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add
up to seven.
The first product to have a bar code was
Wrigleys gum!
Theflea can jump 350 times its body length,
that is like human jumping the length of
about 7footballfields.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
Isn't this crazy, on average peoplefear
spiders more than they do death.
If you countedfor 24 hours a day, it would
take over 31,000 years to reach one
trillion.
3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the
time they were 30.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
Most lipsticks containfish scales.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with
enough leatherfor a year's supply
offootballs.
Starfish do not have brains.
Most dust particles in your house are made
of dead skin.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim,
but cannotfly.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was
considered a dirty word.
If you yelledfor over 8 and a half years,
you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.
The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5feet every
hour.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its
tongue.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of
pizza every day.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a
Superman somewhere.
Right handed people live, on average, nine
years longer than left handed people do.
fortune cookies were actually invented in
America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
Polar bears are left handed.
Other than humans, pigs are the only animals
who can get a sunburn.
Did you know that you are more likely to be
killed by a champagne cork than a by a
poisonous spider?
Baby robins eat 14feet of earthworms every
day.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's
head before it starves to death.
The starfish is one of the only animals who
can turn it's stomach inside-out.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of timefor
1/100th of a second.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes
open.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant.
Only one person in two billion will live to
be 116 or older.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that
makes the catfish rank #1for animal having
the most taste buds.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
on average.
There is a city called Rome on every
Continent.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on
television.
On male shirts the buttons are on the right
side, onfemale shirts the left side.
Butterflies use theirfeet to taste things.
A shrimp's heart is located in it's head.
You use up 1/10th of a calorie when you lick
a stamp.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Starfish have no brain.
The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811
times in their life.
In Bangladesh, people as young as 15 can be
jailedfor cheating on theirfinals.
Thefemale preying mantis initiates sex by
ripping the males head off.
A piece of dry paper can befolded no more
than 7 times in half.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the
earth.
The world's termites outweigh the world's
humans 10 to 1.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300feet long in just
one night.
Over 1000 birds a year diefrom smashing into
windows.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per
minute on this planet.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a
lifetime.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep
youfrom crying.
You cannot kill yourself by holding your
breath.
No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, and purple.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the
United States.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per
hour.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle,
a group of geese in the air is a skein.
A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.
A dog's heart beats 40 times a minutefaster
than yours.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to
show that they were unarmed.
In your lifetime your body will produce more
thatn 25,000 quarts of saliva.
Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly,
they never stop moving.
Alaska's coastline is longer than all the
U.S. states coasts combined.
The tip of a whip makes a cracking noise
becasue it movesfaster than the speed of
sound.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
Julius Caeser's autograph is worth 2 million
dollars, but one has not beenfound yet.
The only domestic animal that wasn't
mentioned in the bible is a cat.
George Custar was the youngest man to ever
become a general in the U.S. Army. He was 23
years old.
The average person will swallow 295 times
while eating.
The only president to hold a Ph.D. was
Woodrow Wilson.
The left bank of a river is the left side as
you look downstream.
In the 1800's anyone in England who
unsucessfully attempted suicidefaced the
death penalty.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees
tofall down.
Greenland is the largest island in the
world.
The only word with all the vowels in reverse
order is subcontinental.
The cigarette lighter was invented before
the match.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY
hairfrom their bodies, including their
eyebrows and eyelashes.
56,000,000 people go to Major League
baseball each year.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its
hind legs.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas
a year.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is
over 9000 years old.
The state offlorida is bigger than England.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get
to be an adult, you only have 206.
The Earth weighs around
6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United
States calledfranklin. Today it's known as
Tennessee.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Over 2,500 left handed people a year are
killedfrom using products madefor right
handed people.
Porcupinesfloat in water.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of
stone.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a
dime has one less groove.
The average American will eat about 11.9
pounds of cereal per year.
Human thigh bones are stronger than
concrete.
It was once against the law to have a pet
dog in a city in Iceland.
There are more plasticflamingos in the U.S,
than real ones.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of
wheat, so you can eat your plate.
In Tokyo, they sell toupeesfor dogs.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight,
and can pull 30 times its own weight.
Did you know the webmaster of this site is
broke and you can help him by visiting one
of his sponsors.
Thefirst toilet ever seen on television was
on "Leave It To Beaver".
The only word with all the vowels listed in
order isfacetiously.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one
billion grains of pollen.
Donald Duck comics were bannedfromfinland
because he doesn't wear pants.
Pinocchio is Italianfor "pine head".
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselvesfrom blowing sand.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about
60,000 pounds offood.
Likefingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
different.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered
each year in the U.S.
The only nation who's name begins with an
"A", but doesn't end in an "A" is
Afghanastan.
The only word in the English language that
has 4 sets of double letters in a row is
balloonneer.
In the Christmas carol 'Twelve Days of
Christmas,' the total number of gifts that
'my true love gave to me' is 364.
Wilmaflinstone's maiden name was Wilma
Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble's maiden name
was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
The words ''stewardesses'' and
''reverberated'' are the longest words (12
letters) typed with only the left hand. The
longest word that can be typed using only
the right hand is, ''lollipop.''
There are more than 10 million bricks in the
Empire State Building.
A crocodile always grows new teeth to
replace the old teeth.
The average life span of a major league
baseball is 5-7 pitches.
Skepticism is the longest word that
alternates hands when your typing.
Taphephobia is thefear of being buried
alive.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its'
heads enables it to see allfourfeet at all
times.
Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was
afraid of the dark.
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on
a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
In a deck of cards, allfour Kings have
beards, but only three of them also have
mustaches. The one without a mustache is the
King of Hearts.
The elephant is the only animal withfour
knees.
If Barbie (the doll) was life size, her
measurements would be 39-23-33.
Barbie’s (the doll)full name is Barbara
Millicent Roberts.
The only U.S. city whose name can be spelled
completely with vowels is Aiea, located
approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu,
Hawaii.
The sentence "The quick brownfox jumps over
the lazy dog." uses every letter of the
alphabet.
The electric chair was invented by a
dentist.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough tofit
a 4foot tall child inside.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if
they cantfind anyfood.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy
to watch T.Vfor 3 hours.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see
the color blue.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are
strung across the U.S.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is
almost the same color as grapejuice.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal
can.
You gain less caloriesfrom eating celery
than you use up chewing it.
If you take one pound of cob webs and spread
them out in one straight line, it will go
around the earth 2 times.
Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3
sports teams that wear the same colors.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that
green algae can grow undisturbed on it'sfur.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're
consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a
certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because
there is no gravity, so the tears can'tflow.
There are no words in the dictionary that
rhyme with: orange, purple, silver, and
month.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the
U.S's highways.
If you were to lay every vein, artery and
capillary in a humans body end to end, that
person would probably die! hehehe, smile,
your almost half way through all theFacts.
Aforfeited game in baseball is recorded as
9-0.
In 1921 76 inches of snowfell over Silver
Lake, Colorodo, the heaviest snowfall ever
recorded.
Only thefemale misquito bites, the male does
not.
U.S. Patent # 3,477,070. The Toilet Lid
Lock, to prevent unauthorized access to the
toilet.
Golfballs can reach speeds of 170 miles an
hour.
A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
A secretary's left hand does 56% of the
typing.
Pluto (the dogfrom Disney) was originally
called "Rover".
"Dixie" which was a popular song among the
Confederates during the Civil War, was
written by a Northerner named Dam Emmett.
Afemale African Elephant can be pregnantfor
almost 2 years.
Thefirt person to be born in the U.S. and
become president was Martin Van Buren
One cord of wood can make 7 and a half
million toothpicks.
Right now, this very second, 70% of the
people driving on U.S. highways are
speeding.
It takes light 8 minutes to travelfrom the
sun.
M&M's standsfor the names offorrest Mars,
Sr., the candymaker and his associate Bruce
Murrie.
In China, the bride wears red.
A cow can give 100 quarts of milk per week.
The veryfirst dictionary "The American" took
Noah Webster 20 years to put together.
Theres only one mobile U.S. national
monument, thats the cable cars in
Sanfransisco.
The only three words in the English language
to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum,
residuum, and continuum.
Elvis Presley had a reading chair in his
bathroom.
Until 1936 in New York, it was against the
law to wear topless baithing suits,for women
and men.
The world's biggest clam weighs almost 500
pounds.
East Chicago is a town in India.
The odds of a mother having twins are 90 to
1.
In the English language there are only three
words that have a letter that repeats six
times. Degenerescence (six e's),
Indivisibility (six i's), and
nonannouncement (six n's)
In the 1800's an Eggplant was known as a
"mad apple" and believed to be poisonous.
"Jack" is the most common name in nursery
rhymes.
An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has
300.
Thefirst minimum wage to be established in
America was 25 cents an hour, it was in
1938.
More than 50% of time spent in U.S
courtrooms is over automobile cases.
The Tokyo Zoo, located in Japan, closes
downfor two months every year to give the
animals a little breakfrom the people.
Alaska doesn't have any counties.
Abraham Lincoln had no middle name.
On July 4, 1826, John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson passed away.
Calvin Coolidge is the only president born
on July 4th, in 1872.
Macaroni was the name of the pony that
Caroline Kennedy used to ride on teh grounds
of the White House.
The only man to ever be President and
Vice-President but never be elected to
either was Geraldford.
George Washington's salary as President was
$25,000 a year.
You must be a natural born citizen of the
U.S. and a citizenfor at least 14 years and
be 35 years of age before you can runfor
President.
In 1841, the 8th 9th and 10th presidents
served in office they were Martin Van Buren,
William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a
year.
7% of Americans don't know thefirst 9 words
of the American anthem, but know thefirst 7
of the Canadian anthem.
5% of Canadians don't know thefirst 7 words
of the Canadian anthem, but know thefirst 9
of the American anthem.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red
ones.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap
to keep him cool! He changed it every 2
innings.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year
in the U.S!
Only male turkeys (Toms) gobble,females make
a clicking noise.
The longest word in the English language is
'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'
- which describes a lung disease caused by
breathing in particles of volcanic matter or
a similarfine dust.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten
off by an alligator while he was host of
''Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom."
A man named Charles Osborne had the
hiccupsfor 69 years.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100
m.p.h.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year,
every time you breathe.
In the White House, there are 13,092
knives,forks and spoons.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony
Express, just horses.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use
personal adsfor dating are already married.
People use 200 muscles when they walk.
Scientists have identified and described
about 1.4 million species of an estimated
ten to 100 million on earth.
Turkeys will peck to death members of
theflock that are physically inferior or
different.
In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr.
Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is
also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a
psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an
anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to
music.
An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose
their virginity every day.
By the age of 75, the average American has
created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.
The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly
twofeet wide.
female mosquitoesflap their wings nearly 500
times per second.
Sharks have no air bladders, so they must
swim constantly or they'll sink.
Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their
brain cells.
The energy given off by a hurricane in one
day would power the entire U.Sfor three
years.
There was a person that paid $14,000for the
bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
Poundfor pound (kilofor kilo), hamburgers
cost more than new cars.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in
the ocean.
The world's longest-named lake has 45
letters (Lake
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg)
On average, each american ate 4.4 pounds of
jelly last year.
A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is
over 9000 years old.
Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of
gold, dissolved in the water.
Cats can make over 1,000 different vocal
sounds, and dogs can make only about 10.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute
on average.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The average American will eat about 11.9
pounds of cereal per year.
Over 1000 birds a year diefrom smashing into
windows.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
55,700 people in the US are injured by
jewelry each year.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over
100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number
had jumped to 55,000.
for thefirst time, the number of pet cats in
the US now outnumbers the number of dogs, 60
million vs. 50 million.
There are more collect calls onfather's Day
than any other day of the year.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion
worth of petfood a year.
There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the
U.S.
Men can read smaller print than women; women
can hear better.
? Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by
eliminating one olivefrom each salad served
infirst class: $40,000.
Pennsylvania was the first colony to
legalize witchcraft.
A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb
was still sharp enough to be used.
Ten percent of the Russian government's
income comesfrom the sale of vodka.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most
commonly used to clean elephants.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to
lookfor water.
A newborn kangaroo is small enough tofit
into a teaspoon.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the
periodic table of the elements. Why are
there interstate highways in Hawaii? Why are
thereflotation devices under plane seats
instead of parachutes? If 7-11 is open 24
hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there
locks on the doors? If nothing ever sticks
to TEFLON, how do they get TEFLON to stick
to the pan? Why do all boxes say "open
here", why can't you open it when your
somewhere else? Why do we drive on parkways
and park on driveways? Why is it that when
you transport something by car, it's called
a shipment, but when you transport something
by ship, it's called cargo? You know that
little indestructible black box that is used
on planes, why can't they make the whole
plane out of the same substance? Why is it
that when you're driving and lookingfor an
address, you turn down the volume on the
radio? If you're in a vehicle going the
speed of light, what happens when you turn
on the headlights?
Captain Kangaroo wonfive Emmy awards.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San
Diego.
An estimated one infive Americans - some 38
million - don't like sex.
In Miami,florida, roosting vultures have
taken to snatching poodlesfrom rooftop
patios.
A living tree never stops growing.
On average, people spend more thanfive years
of their lives dreaming.
An anteater sticks its tongue in and out 100
times per minute to slurp up itsfood.
The world'sfastest-growing plant is the
giant water lily, which grows almost afoot a
day.
A banana is about 75 percent water.
The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph-10
timesfaster than a strong Earth hurricane.
Bird droppings are the chief export of
Nauru, an island nation in the western
Pacific.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they
spray.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it
travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Giraffes have the same number of neck bones
as humans: seven.
The average American eats about seven pounds
of potato chips a year.
More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the
Olympics.
Gold is the only metal that doesn't
rust-even if it's buried in the groundfor
thousands of years.
The word electricity derivesfrom the Greek
word 'elektron' meaning amber. The Greeks
noted that rubbing amber produced a static
charge.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup
of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been
tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
A leech can drink up to eight time its
weight in blood at one sitting.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day
due tofalling space dust.
Chances that an American lives within 50
miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
The three best-known western names in China:
Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis
Presley.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an
auctionfor $6,600 in 1992.
When snakes are born with two heads,
theyfight each otherforfood.
The world's termites outweigh the world's
humans 10 to 1.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more
energy than all the world's nuclear weapons
combined.
If you unfolded your brain, it would cover
an ironing board.
There is a canyon on Mars that would
stretchfrom New York to Sanfrancisco.
footprints astronauts make on the moon will
remainfor millions of years: there's no wind
to blow them away.
Some yak's milk is pink.
When baby giraffes are born, they drop
sixfeet to the ground and land on their
heads.
White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000
miles across.
Each day, 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped
intofresh Kills, NY-the largest landfill in
the world.
Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no
bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10
micrometers long, has six strummable
strings.
Pain signals travel along hour nerves at
50feet per second.
Scientists estimate up to 20 percent of the
world's plant and animal species may be
extinct by the year 2000.
Everything weighs one percent less at the
equator.
Most stars shinefor at least 10 billion
years.
Thefastest moving muscle in the human body
is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
The Pentium II chip can make more than
half-a-billion calculations per second.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in
keeping people awake in the mornings.
The poison-arrowfrog has enough poison to
kill about 2,200 people.
The United States National Anthem is the
only anthem in the world that doesn't have
the name of the country in it.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer
than the Wright Brothers'firstflight.
The waste produced by one chicken in its
lifetime can supply enough electricity to
run a 100 watt bulbforfive hours.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Quebec is the world's leading exporter of
asbestos.
An eagle can kill a young deer andfly away
with it.
Certainfrogs can befrozen solid then thawed,
and continue living.
Thefirst product to have a UPC bar code on
its packaging was Wrigley's gum.
State with the highest percentage of people
who walk to work: Alaska.
Coca-cola was originally green.
On average, 100 people choke to death on
ballpoint pens every year.
Average lifespan of a major league baseball:
5 pitches.
Sunglasses became popular in the 1920's when
movie stars began wearing them to cut the
camera's bright lights.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended
workersfor betting on when patients would
die.
five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery,
coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
Scientists think the universe is 15 billion
years old.
If you weighed all the earthworms in the
U.S, they'd be about 55 times heavier than
the combined weight of all Americans.
An elephant's trunk can hold two gallons of
water.
Saturn isn't the only planet with rings:
Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
Track athletes are most likely to break
records later in the day, when their body
temperatures are highest.
The pouch under a pelican's bill holds up to
25 pounds offish and water.
According to the World Heath Organization,
there are approximately 100 million acts of
sexual intercourse each day.
Giraffes have no vocal chords.
The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than
most elephants.
"I do." and "I am." are the shortest
complete sentences in the English language.
Your body has over 40 miles of nerves.
A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one
time.
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18
inches per year as a result of draining the
water tablefor human consumption.
In 1995, Toys R Us sold more than $9 billion
of goods in the U.S. alone.
Bubonic plague killed millions of people
throughout Europe in the Dark Ages. In
1996,five cases of plague were reported in
the U.S.
More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested
each yearforfolk medicinal purposes. The
world seahorse population has dropped 70% in
the past 10 years.
Some kids in Texas have the longest school
bus ride in the U.S.-179 miles round trip.
Europe is the only continent without a
desert.
One million people now have lap top
computers.
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1
in 4.
The distance between an alligator's eyes, in
inches, is directly proportional to the
length of the alligator infeet.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the
world.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of
each leg.
Dogs sweat through their paw pads.
Sigmundfreud had a largefear offerns.
A hummingbird's heart beats 1,260 times per
minute.
The two most commonly sold items in grocery
stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
The rings of Saturn are made of ice
chunks-some as small as an ice cube and some
are as big as a house.
Cows can smell odors six miles away.
Babies start dreaming even before they're
born.
The clouds on Venus are made of deadly
sulfuric acid.
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