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There Are no copyright laws against this ------------------------------------------------------------- Some Facts ARE listed twice ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Cookies are better than muffins. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A barnacle has the biggest p***s relevant to it's size. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ants don't sleep. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No english word rhymes with orange, silver or month. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flush toilets date back to 2000 B.C -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are male you have 6 times more chance to get hit by a lightning than women. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About 5% of Americans claim to have talked to the devil personally. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Physcrophilia is the s*xual arousal by cold. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Approximately, 1 out of 25 people suffer from asthma. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mozart's real name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S*x burns 360 calories per hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Male Dolphins ejaculate with the force of a 12-gauge shotgun. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By age 16, Andre the Giant (who's real name is Andre Russimof) was 6'10' tall. He had a rare glandular disorder that made his body continue to grow. Even as he died, his body was still growing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sex can relieve arthritis pain for up to 6 hours. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The end of a hammer, opposite the striking end, is called a peen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only letter that doesn’t appear in the Periodic Table is “J.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drinking water is about three billion years old. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only animals who have s*x for pleasure are humans and dolphins. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using letters on one row of the keyboard. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cats can hear ultrasound. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 cause. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Names of the three wise monkeys are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All polar bears are left handed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Symbol of a dollar are combined letters U.S.($) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apocalypse now is the movie with most known mistakes(currently 390). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most common name in the United States is 'Sue Smith'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ancient Egyptians used molted cobra skins as condoms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The African black rhinoceros excretes its own weight in dung every 48 hours. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7% of Americans eat in McDonalds each day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The French language has seventeen different words for "surrender." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an entire winter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most lipstick are partially made of fish scales. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worldwide, there are more statues of Joan of Arc than of anyone else. France alone has about 40,000 of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If earth was tiny, like sand, the sun would be 5 cm long. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cockroaches can live 9 days after their head has been cut off. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Male lions sleep 20 hours a day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are approximately 50 milion monkeys in India. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A pig in Japan says "moo-moo". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The earth is approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Titanic had only 20 life boats. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The avocado is the richest fruit in calories. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google’s name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A snail can sleep for three years. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An albatross can sleep while it flies! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worms reportedly taste like bacon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple seeds are poisonous! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax! Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don’t have eyes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The electric chair was invented by a dentist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Almonds are a member of the peach family. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Ithyphallophobia” is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect p***s. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates s*x. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th, which occurs one to three times a year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their finger print. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Camel’s have three eyelids. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slugs have four noses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The original name for butterfly was flutterby. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rats and horses can’t vomit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starfish have no brains. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The youngest pope ever was 11 years old. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was Aron. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A jellyfish is 95% water. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elephants only sleep for two hours each day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ”Judge Judy” has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pearls melt in vinegar. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One in eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earth is the only planet not named after a god. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In ancient Greece “idiot” meant a private citizen or layman. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it’s the bell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russians generally answer the phone by saying, “I’m listening”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Japan, watermelons are squared. It’s easier to stack them that way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian soldiers used the song “We’re Off to See the Wizard” as a marching song in WWII. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It to Beaver.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pancreas produces Insulin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barbie’s full name is “Babara Millicent Roberts.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I’s mother, had six fingers on one hand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I” is the most spoken word in the English language. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You” is the second most spoken English word. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a city in Norway called “Hell”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt light bulb. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-dairy creamer is flammable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. 9 Things I Hate About Everyone: 1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time… I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is? 2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually. 3. When people say “Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too”. Damn Right! What good is cake if you can’t eat it? 4. When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you’ve found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? 5. When people say while watching a film, “did ya see that?” Of course not, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor! 6. People who ask “Can I ask you a question?”… Didn’t give me a choice there, did ya sunshine? 7. When something is ‘new and improved’. Which is it? If it’s new, then there has never been anything before it. If it’s an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn’t be new. 8. When people say “life is short”. What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that’s longer? 9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks “Has the bus come yet?” If the bus came, would I be standing here??