245 FACTS
1) The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
2) The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
3) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
4) No president of the United States was an only child.
5) Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
6) A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
7) A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
8) A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
9) A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
10) A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
11) A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
12) A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
13) A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
14) A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
15) After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
16) Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is
17) Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
18) Cat urine glows under a black-light!
19) Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
20) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
21) Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
22) Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
23) If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
24) Most lipstick contains fish scales!
25) Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
26) One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
27) Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
28) Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
29) Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
30) The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
31) The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
32) The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
33) The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
34) The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
35) The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
36) The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
37) The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
38) The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
39) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
40) The state of
41) The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
42) There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
43) Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
44) Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
45) Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
46) You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
47) 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
48) 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
49) A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours. .
50) A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
51) A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
52) A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
53) A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
54) A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
55) A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
56) According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
57) Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
58) After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came head to toe.
59) Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
60) Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
61) Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
62) Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
63) Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
64) Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
65) Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
66) Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
67) Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
68) Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
69) Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
70) Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
71) Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
72) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves.
73) By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
74) Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
75) Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in
76) Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
77) Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down hence the statement "to get fired."
78) Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
79) Crickets hear through their knees.
80) Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
81) Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
82) Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
83) During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.
84) Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
85) Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
86) Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
87) Flying from London to
88) Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname 'Useless'.
89) Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
90) From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
91) George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
92) 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 on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
93) Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield,
94) Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
95) Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
96) Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
97) Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
98) Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
99) Hummingbirds can't walk.
100) 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.
101) If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
102) If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
103) If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
104) If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
105) If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
106) If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!
107) If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
108) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
109) In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is
110) It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia. .
111) It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
112) It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
113) It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
114) Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing 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.
115) Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
116) Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
117) John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
118) Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."
119) Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
120) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
121) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
122) More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
123) More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
124) Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
125) Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
126) Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
127) Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
128) No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
129) Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
130) On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is
131) One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
132) Only female mosquitoes bite.
133) Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
134) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
135) Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
136) Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
137) Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
138) Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
139) Russians generally answer the phone by saying, 'I'm listening.'
140) Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
141) Soda water does not contain soda.
142) Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
143) The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
144) The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
145) The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
146) The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
147) The Boston University Bridge (on
148) The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
149) The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
150) The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
151) The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
152) The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
153) The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
154) The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
155) The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner.
156) The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here", spoken by William Shatner.
157) The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
158) The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
159) The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
160) The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
161) The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
162) The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
163) The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
164) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
165) The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
166) The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
167) The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
168) The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
169) The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
170) The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington
171) The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
172) The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
173) The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
174) There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
175) There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
176) There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in:
177) There is a city called Rome on every continent.
178) There is a town in
179) There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
180) U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
181) Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.
182) When possums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
183) A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
184) A shrimp's heart is in its head.
185) It is physically impossible
for pigs to look up into the sky.
186) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
187) More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.
188) Horses can't vomit.
189) If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze,
you can rupture a blood vessel
in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force,
they can pop out.
190) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million descendants.
191) If the government has no knowledge of aliens,
then why does Title 14, Section 1211
of the Code of Federal Regulations,
implemented on
make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact
with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
192) In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.
193) 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
are caused by people sitting on them
and photocopying their butts.
194) Like fingerprints,
everyone's tongue print is different.
195) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
196) The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
197) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
198) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
199) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
200) A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
201) The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
202) All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
203) Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
204) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
205) It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
206) The reason firehouses have 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.
207) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
208) On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
209) On average people fear spiders more than death.
210) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
211) It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
212) 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.
213) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
214) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
215) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
216) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
217) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
218) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
219) The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
220) The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
221) The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.
222) Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
223) Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
224) Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
225) Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
226) Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
227) If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
228) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
229) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out
to the body to squirt blood 30 feet...
230) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
231) The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
232) The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
233) Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
234) Butterflies taste with their feet.
235) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
236) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.
237) Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
238) Starfish have no brains.
239) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
240) Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
241) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
242) The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
243) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
244) Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
245) And the best for last Turtles can breathe through there buts.
