A few new ones.

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

People don't sneeze when they are asleep, as the nerves involved in sneezing are also resting.

A bat is the only mammal that can fly.

1oz of milk chocolate has only a small amount more caffeine then the amount found in a cup of De-caffeinated coffee.. White chocolate has no caffeine.

Chocolate can kill dogs. I affects their hearts and nervous system.

Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea inlets and they are all joined by 400 bridges. It is sinking slowly into the water.

Mt Everest rises a few millimetres every year.

In Disney's Fantasia. The Scorcerer to whom Mickey was apprentice was named YENSID. This is DISNEY backward.

Shakespeare's father was a lace maker.

On the stone temples of Madura in India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.

An ants sense of smell is stronger than a dogs.

The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.

The average brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10 watt light bulb.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Yup....even more.

The Lone Rangers mask, was made from the vest of his Dead brother.

Some unwrapped mummies had a total bandage length of about 1.5 miles.

Although its only 2% of our body weight, the brain uses 20% of all the oxygen we breathe, 20% of all the calories we consume and 15% of all our blood supply.

At the South pole. every direction you look is North.

By the time you are 70, you will have lost over half of your taste buds.

A mosquito can beat its wings up to 600 times per second, but only travels at 1 mph.

97% of all the Earths water supply is in the oceans.

The word 'Acre' literally means, "the amount of land plowable in one day".

The scientific name for Goosebumps is "Horripilations"

The human body has 45 miles of nerves, enough blood vessels to circle the equator 6 times and a mile of intestine.

The word "MAYDAY" comes from the French "Maidez", which means 'Help me'

President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.

The human brain feels no pain. It is the surrounding membrane that is laced with nerves that transmits pain sensations to the brain.

There are more chickens in the world, than people.

Every Monarch of England since 1066 and William the  Conqueror have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.

The SPAM luncheon meat trademark is registered in 93 countries.

The maximum achieveable score possible in a game of  PacMan is 3,333,360 points.

It cost 7 million Dollars to build the Titanic, and 200 million dollars to make a film about it.

X-rays have proved that there are 3 other versions of the Mona Lisa under the one on show.

There are a possible 2 million different combinations of sandwiches can be made from a Subway menu.

The UK eats more tins of Baked Beans, than the rest of the world combined..

God is the only character in 'The Simpsons' to have 5 fingers on each hand.

Althaiophobia is a fear of Marshmallows.

Mosquito repellants, don't repel they mask your odour,so the mosquito doesn't realise your there.

During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill 2 swimming pools.

The current flag of America, The Stars and Stripes, was designed by a 17 year old for a school project. He only got a B-.

Facebook is Blue, mainly because its founder Mark Zuckerberg suffers from Red/Green colour blindness.

The voice behind 'Mickey Mouse' is married in real life to the voice of 'Minnie Mouse' who is Russi Taylor.

The Harry Potter franchise made more money than the gross domestic product of Bolivia.

There is no word for "yesterday" in Inuit.

The letter "J" is the only letter not in the Periodic Table.

Although Jones is the most common surname in Wales.. There is no "J" in the Welsh alphabet.

The Phillippine Island of LUZON has a lake, this lake contains an island, this island contains a lake and that lake also contains an island.

According to the NASA astronauts, the moon smells of spent gunpowder.

The forest of the Canadian Lake District is so dense, during winter, the snow stays on the tree tops and the forest floor is bare.

They keep on coming...

In the 1500's in England, they began to run out of places to bury people, so started to dig up coffins to re-use them. They often found scratch marks on the lids, and realised that some people had been buried alive.
To prevent this, they started to tie a piece of twine around the wrist of the person before they went into the coffin. This was tied to a bell hanging from a tree in the graveyard. They then paid someone to sit in the graveyard all night to listen out for the bell..
This is where we get the phrase "on the graveyard shift" from and also, "Saved by the bell".

On average, more people are scared of spiders, than are afraid of dying.

In the 1500's, Bread was divided amongst the household. The Lower staff got the burnt bottoms of the loaves, The higher staff got the middle bit and the Family and guests got the Top, Hence "Upper Crust"

You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.

Tarzan couldn't have swung on jungle vines as they are attatched to the ground.

When a whale wants to change its line of vision, it has to turn its whole body around, as its eyes are fixed.

Inflammable is NOT the opposite of Flammable. In fact they both mean the same thing. "Easily set on fire" Non-flammable, means NOT easily burned. The prefix 'in' made many people confused, so warning labels were switched to just read the word 'Flammable' instead.

7% of the entire barley crop in Ireland, goes into the production of Guiness.

The average human body contains enough lead to make 900 pencils.

The # hashtag is called an 'Octothorpe'.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

In Mel Brooks film "Silent Movie", the only person who had a speaking part was the mime artist Marcel Marceau.

Grapes explode when you put them in a microwave.

There is a 7 letter word in English that contains 9 other words without rearranging any of the letters..  'THEREIN'.   "the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein.

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about  about Mia Farrows sister Prudence, when she wouldn't come out to play with Mia and the Beatles during a religious retreat in India.

Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon's mothers maiden name was 'Moon'

SOS, doesn't actually mean anything. It was chosen as 2 letters than anyone could remember and use it to key it in Morse Code. S = dot-dot-dot. O = dash-dash-dash.

"Strengths is the longest word in English with only 1 vowel.

The Busby worn by the Queens Guards at Buckingham palace are made from Canadian Bearskin.
They were originally worn by Napoleons Imperial Guards to make them look taller. Recently animal lovers demanded a switch to synthetic fur, but a spokesman said, In the rain, the guards would look as if they were having a bad hair day as the natural fur is waterproof.

The population density of Alaska is 1 person per sq mile.

Picasso's full name is "Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remidios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.  Phew.

Richard Nixon is the only President to have his name engraved on a plaque and left on the moon.

Pope John Paul II once wrote a play that premiered at a theatre in London.

The middle initial of US President Harry S Truman doesn't stand for anything. Both Grandfathers names began with 'S' and Harrys parents didn't want to upset either side.

The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to its overall length in feet.

Starboard on a ship, comes from the Viking word for the paddles on the right hand side of the boat, used to steer. They were called "Steorbords"

The cells which make up the antlers on a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

The oldest business in the world is the Cymbal company "Zildijan". It was founded in 1623 in Constantinople.

From outer space, the brightest place visible is Las Vegas in Nevada.

Ignore Popeye., Spinach doesn't have any more iron than any other green veg. In the 1950's a food analyst made an error while calculating the value and his decimal point was in the wrong place. This made the spinach seem to have 10 times more iron than it actually did.

According to the Guiness Book of World Records, The hardest tongue twister to say is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheeps sick."

In 1999 Lambeth council in London owed £850 million. This was more than the national debt of Guatemala.

It took Leo Tolstoy 6 years to write "War and Peace"

Mr Ed. The talking horse was played by a horse called "Bamboo Harvester"

It would take 100 cups of coffee, consumed within 4 hours to kill the average person through a caffeine overdose.

Apples were not likely to have grown in the Garden of Eden. Actually, Eve was more likely to have been guilty of eating an Apricot.

In Czechoslovakia, there is an ancient church decorated with the bones of 10,000 humans.

Some people in America consider the $1 bill to be unlucky. There are so many 13's on it. 13 stars, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it.

The word "Listen", contains the same letters as "Silent"

Spam is so resistant to spoiling, that as long as the tin is sealed, it will last for eternity.

The name LEGO comes from the Danish LEg GOdt, which means 'play well'

Just a few to titilate you..

The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine is 889 to 1.

The Amazon river flows 12 times that of the Mississippi and the Amazon carries as much water in a single day as flows down the river Thames in London in 1 year.

A 'hairsbreath' is actually 1/48th of an inch.

The oldest city in Britain is Ripon, which received its original charter in 886.

If you add all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively i.e.(1+2+3+4+5+6) ect. The total would be 5050

When two or more words are combined to make a new word eg, MOTOR & HOTEL = MOTEL, or BREAKFAST & LUNCH = BRUNCH, the new word is called a Portmanteau.

There is only one word in the English language with only 1 vowel that appears 6 times. INDIVISIBILITY.

FACETIOUS  and  ABSTEMIOUS are the only 2 words that contain all the 5 vowels in the correct order..

Underground is the only word that begins and ends with UND.

Dreamt is the only word that ends in MT.

There are only 4 words in the English language that end in 'dous'  Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, and Hazardous.

The longest non technical word in the English language is ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTERIANISM.

Canada is a Native American Indian word meaning "Big Village".

Until 1965, driving was done in Sweden on the Left hand side of the road. They changed it to the Right hand side on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic was stopped and people changed lanes. It was decided to do it at this time, so that people wouldn't get out of bed in a morning and in a sleepy state, forget that this was "the changeover day".

Cinderella's slipper was originally supposed to be FUR. It was changed to GLASS in the 1600 by a translator.

If you are in a completely sealed room, you will die from carbon dioxide poisioning, before you died from lack of Oxygen.

Frogs can be frozen solid and thawed out and continue to live.

Since 1896, the beginning of the Modern Olympics, Only Greece and Australia have never missed a games. Great Britain competed in the 1980 games, but under the Olympic flag as GB were boycotting the games.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike Sponsorship, than all the Nike Factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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

The letters 'UGH' can be pronounced 9 different ways. The following sentence contains them all.
   "A rough-coated, tough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The word Pound is abbreviated to lb after the constellation 'libra', because it means pound in Latin.
The abbreviation for for British Pound symbol £ is from the same source. It is an L for 'libra' and a stroke through it to signify its an abbreviation.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib, but if you surpress a sneeze, you could rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and potentially kill yourself.

There are on average 178 seeds on a Big Mac bun.

10% of Russia's income comes from Vodka.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy on average, than all the worlds nuclear weopons combined.

There are 336 dimples on every golf ball.

A little extra.

The Mount Olympus Mons on  Mars is 3 times the size of Everest.

The amount of computer memory needed to run Word Perfect for WIN95, was 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

2000lb of space dust and debris fall on Earth every day.

If done perfectly, a Rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

There are 1,575 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.

The noise a whip makes when you crack it is actually a small sonic boom, since you break the sound barrier.

Hot water is heavier than cold water.

Half of all Americans still live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

If you spelled out all the numbers, you would get to One Thousand before you came across the letter 'A'.

Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently until he was 9. His parents thought he was retarded.

Thomas Edison who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.

You can sail all the way around the world at 60 deg south.

A praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named as an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'

A foetus develops fingerprints at 18 weeks.

A fear of vegetables is Lachanophobia.

Honolulu is the only place in the US that has a royal palace.

More money is spent on gardening than any other hobby.

Baby Robins eat about 14ft of worms every day.

Most of the dust in your house is dead skin.

Of all the words in the English language, the word SET has the most definitions.

The most used letter in the English Alphabet is 'E' and the least used is 'Q'

The name for the Wizard of Oz, got its title when the creator Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.

If you were to upturn the Millenium Dome in London. It would hold 3.8 billion pints of liquid to fill it up.

The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine are 889 to 1.

You gotta love em!!.

The average persons skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

Deer have a 300 degree field of view, since their eyes are on the side of their heads.

The moon is 1 million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself..

Apples are more efficient at keeping you awake, than caffeine.

When you say "Wait a moment", A 'moment' is actually a time of 90 seconds.

It takes between 4 to 5 pound of grapes, to make 1 pound of raisins.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times quicker than toenails.

The name Wendy was first invented for the Peter Pan novel,

Barbie's real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Macrophobia is a fear of long waits

90% of all the species on earth that have become extinct are birds.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than by airplane crashes.

The town of CALAMA in the Atacama Desert in Chile has NEVER had rain.

It costs more nowadays to buy a new car, than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake 3 voyages to and from the New World.

The plastic bits on the end of shoelaces are called Aglets.

In 18th Century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if the police raided.

Celery has negative calories, In fact it uses more calories to eat a stick of it, than are in it to start with.

You burn more calories sleeping, than you do watching TV.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood over 30ft.

The shortest was between  Zanzibar and England in 1896, Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A palindrome is a sentence of group of words that read the same forward as backward. i.e.
Red Rum sir is Murder.

The Golden Arches of McDonalds are more recognized worldwide than the crosses of Christianity.

If the average 50 year old man never shaved, his beard would be 27.5 ft long.

The name JEEP, comes from the Army abbreviation of a General Purpose Vehicle, or GP.

The only nation whose name begins with a letter 'A', but doesn't end in 'A' is Afghanistan.

Each king in a standard deck of cards represents a great King from History. Spades = King David.
Clubs = Alexander the Great,  Hearts = Charlemagne, and Diamond = Julius Caesar.

Until 1994, world maps and globes in Albania, only had Albania on them.

Few more....

Hitler dated 3 women in his life and all 3 attempted to commit suicide, including his niece.

Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday 13th.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

A car uses 1.6 fl oz of fuel idling for 1 min and 1/2 oz is used to start the average car.

Even though they split up many years ago, the Beatles still continue to sell more records than the Rolling Stones.

The Big toe is the reflexology point for the head..

Almonds are members of the Peach family.

For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.

Hummingbirds need to eat.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on Prime Time TV, were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

The microwave cooker was invented when a researcher walked past a radar tube and a bar of choc in his pocket melted.

Alligators can grow 2,000 new teeth every year. When old ones fall out, a new one grows.

When eating a Chocolate Bunny. 75% of people eat the ears first.

The animal with the largest brain in relation to its size is the Ant.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21" tongue.

Actor Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after himself.

The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made be Greer Garson for Mrs Miniver. It lasted an hour. Since then the winners have been given a time limit.

Japan is Half the size of California, but has half the population of the U.S.A.

Within 2 hours of standing on daylight, milk loses 50-65% of its Vitamin B content.

Adult human bones account for about 15% of the total body weight.

Spiders as a group, eat more insects than birds.

Every normal step a giraffe takes is 20 ft long.

An adult stomach can hold 21.5 ltrs of material.

The difference between monkeys and apes, is that monkeys have tails.

The highest temperature in the world ever recorded was 136 deg F. (58C) in Libya in 1922

Eggs age more in one day at room temperature, than one week in a fridge.

The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

Yet more facts. They keep coming.

The English FOUR is the only number which has the same number of letters as its value.

During their lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of about 5 times round the world.

There are over 24,000 species of butterfly in the world and over 140,000 moths.

Some moths never eat anything as adults. They don't have mouths and they rely on the energy they stored as caterpillars.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both people are registered blood donors.

All the clocks in 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck on 4:20.

The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.

Ghosts appear in 4 Shakespeare plays. 'Julius Caesar', 'Richard III', 'Hamlet'  and 'Macbeth'.

90% of New York City's cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

The Vatican City is the worlds smallest city with a population of 1000 and just 108.7 acres.

The average child in the western world, recognises over 200 company logos by the time they start school.

Chameleons can move their eyes in 2 different directions at the same time.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million others in the world.

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a epithalamium.

Australian soldiers used to sing the song "We're off to see the Wizard" as a marching song during WWII.

A snail takes 33 hours to crawl 1 mile.

A rhino horn is made from compacted hair.

A skunks smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

The most sensitive cluster of nerves in the the body is at the base of the spine.

The surface of the Earth is around 60% water and 10% ice.

Zsa Zsa Gabor holds the title of the most married celebrity, She has had 9 husbands.

More people Study English in China, than speak it in America.

An ant is able to lift and carry 20 times its own body weight.

Moths have no stomach.

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

Unlike most fruits, pears ripen better off the tree..

One inch of rainwater is equivalent to 15 inch of dry powdery snow..

The only continent on the planet not to have a Mc Donalds is Antarctica.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

The spots on a ladybird fade as it ages..

The heart of a giraffe is 2 ft long and can weigh as much as 25 lb.

Blondes have more hair than dark haired people.

The dog 'TOTO' was paid $125 per week during filming of  'The Wizard of Oz.

A fingernail grows at around 1/8th of an inch per day

When KFC first launched its slogan "Finger lickin good", translated into Chinese as "Eat your fingers off"..

The average lead in a pencil will write about 35,000 words or draw a line 35 miles long.

Bulls are usually colourblind and will charge at a waving cloth no matter what the colour.

A fingertip takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

Just a few more..

 Construction workers hard hats were first designed and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.

Groaking is to watch someone eat in the hope they will offer you some.

Right handed people live on average 9 years longer than left handed people.

It can take up to 4 hours to Hard boil an Ostrich egg.

A cheetah is the only cat that cannot retract its claws.

A Jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel just to take off.

Every year there is One tonne of cement poured for every Man, Woman and Child in the world.

The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi

It is impossible to lick your elbows..

40% of all the people who come to a party in your house will snoop in your bathroom cabinet.

The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springsteens "Born in the USA".

23% of all photocopy repairs are needed because of people photocopying their bottoms.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks, so that it doesn't digest itself.

More people are allergic to cows milk than any other food.

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

There are more beetles on the planet than any other animal. In fact 1 in every 4 animals is a beetle.

The San Francisco Cable Cars are the only Mobile National Monuments.

Only the female mosquito bites.

Cornwall is the only county in Britain to share its border with only one other. Devon.

During the Chariot scene, a small red mini car can be seen in the background.

Angel Falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.

In the Great Fire of London in 1666, Over half of London was destroyed, but only 6 people were injured and nobody was killed.

HEDENOPHOBIA  is the fear of pleasure.

An estimated 80% of all animals have 6 legs or more.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days. You will have produced enough sound energy to heat 1 cup of coffee..

When you sneeze, all your body functions stop for a split second, even your heart.

Caterpillars have around 4,000 muscles, Humans by comparison have only 600.

'GO' is the shortest sentence in the English Language.

At their nearest points. America and Russia are less than 4 KM apart.

Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel.

Indivisibility is the only word with One vowel that appears 6 times.

Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother had 6 fingers on one hand.

A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.

Beetles taste like Apples, Wasps taste like Pine nuts and Worms taste like Fried Bacon.

A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.

It keeps coming!!!

The word OXYMORON  is and Oxymoron. The word Oxy means Sharp and the word Moron means Dull.

The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS.
It is in 'Loves Labours Lost'.

The original title for the film "Hello Dolly", was 'Dolly: A Damned Exasperating Woman'.

A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.

The average persons Left hand does 56% of the typing.

William Shakespeare was 46 in 1611 when the King James version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the beginning was Shake and the 46th word from the end was Spear.

The Cruise ship, Queen Elizabeth II moved about 6 inches for every gallon of fuel it burned.

Wearing headphones for just 1 hour a day, will increase the bacteria in you ear by 700 times.

Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly sets, than is printed for the US Treasury.

Intelligent people have more Zinc and Copper in their hair.

It is estimated that at any one time, around 0.7% of the worlds population is drunk.

Because metal was scarce during WWII, the Oscars given out were made from Wood.

The venom of the Australian Brown Snake is so powerful, that only a 1/14,000th of an ounce is enough to kill a human.

Human feet can perspire Half a pint of fluid per day.

In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a reference or a picture of Superman somewhere..

There is a city in Norway called HELL.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear at around age 2 to 6.

The Catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

'YOU' is the 2nd most spoken word in the English language.

Charlie Chaplin once came 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.

ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA is the fear of Peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth,

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

The average human blinks their eyes 6,205.000 times each year.

98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or a friend of the victim.

The February of 1865 was the only month in recorded history, not to have a full moon.

Termites outweigh humans by almost 10 to 1.

More facts..

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 ft long in a single night.

A Hippo can open its mouth wide enough for a 4 year old child to stand inside.

Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny.

A cockroach can live for several weeks with its head cut off, It eventually dies from starvation.

Every time you lick a stamp, your consuming 1/10th of a calorie.

You are born with 300 bones, but by the time your an adult, you only have 260 as some fuse together.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

Over 10,000 birds die each year from smashing into windows.

The Northern Territorys of Australia are over 9 times bigger than UK.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams every year.

During your lifetime, you will consume over 60,000 lb of food, that is the same of 6 elephants.

A sneeze travels out at over 100 mph.

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

Recycling 1 glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

Your ribs move about 5 million times per year, everytime you breathe in and out.

Owls are the only animal who can see the colour Blue.

There wasn't a single Pony in the Pony Express, only horses.

The starfish is one of the few animals that can turn its stomach inside out.

Q is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in the name of any of the United States.

One quarter of all your bones are in your feet.

There are NO words in the dictionary that rhyme with ORANGE, PURPLE & MONTH.

And more!!!!!

Princess Anne was the only competitor in the 1976 Montreal Olympics who didn't have to undergo a sex test.

Coffins made for cremation are usually made with plastic handles.

Blackbird, who was the chief of the Omaha Indians, was buried sitting on his horse.

The 2 highest IQ's ever recorded in a standard test both belong to women.

The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last 1300 years.

A Ten gallon hat, holds 3/4 of a gallon.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for journeys of 50 minutes or less.

The King of Hearts is the only King without a moustache on a standard deck of cards.

There is 1 slot machine in Vegas for every 8 inhabitants.

The most popular first name in the world is Mohammed.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be used as a towel for guests to wipe their hands and faces on during and after a meal.

The Mona Lisa has no eye brows, it was fashionable in the time to shave them off.

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.

A lightening bolt generates temperatures 5 times hotter than those found on the suns surface.

A violin is made from 70 separate pieces of wood.

It takes Glass One million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite number of times...

Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

The first product to have a bar code was a packet of Wrigleys chewing gum..

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

Over 2,500 left handed people are killed each year by products designed for right handed people.

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

If you counted out loud every number for 24 hours a day, it would take you 31,699 years to reach 1 trillion.

Taphephobia, is the fear of being buried alive.

A crocodile always grow new teeth to replace the old ones,,

Clinophobia is the fear of beds.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time, It is 1/100th of a second.

The Sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

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.

A Sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow on its fur undisturbed.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

Still more stuff.

Ralph and Carolyn Cummins have 5 children all born between 1952 and 1966, they were all born on the 20th February.

Its illegal to be a prostitute in Siena Italy  if your name is Mary.

Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, never spoke to his wife or his mother using one. They were both deaf.

Attilla the Hun was thought to have been a dwarf.

One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.

The Toltecs, a 7th Century native Mexican warriors, went into battle with wooden swords, so they wouldn't kill their opponants, just to maim them..

There are over 200 religious denomination in the USA.

Eau de Cologne, was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plaque.

In 1904, the distress call was CQD, CQ stood for Seek you and the D was for distress. It was changed to SOS in 1906.

The word Denim, comes from the town of 'De Nimes' in France, it was the town that first produced the fabric,

Some Eskimos actually use refrigerators to stop food freezing.

It cost more to send someone to reform school, than it does to send them to Eton.

Iceland is the worlds oldest democracy.

John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.

In 1849, David Atchison became President of USA for just one day, and he spent most of it asleep.

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand over their testicles when taking the oath. Hence the modern term, 'testimony'.

They study of stupiditiy is called 'monology'

In 1911, 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, Their last names were Green, Berry and Hill.

There are no clocks or windows in Las Vegas casinos, The bosses don't want you to realise how long you have been in there..


Logophobia, or a Fear of words.

Ernest Hemingway founded an annual fishing competition when he lived in Cuba. Fidel Castro won it in 1960.

In 1968, Steve McPeak travelled from Chicago to Los Angeles on a unicycle, it took him 6 weeks.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

More money is spent each year on Cigs and Beer, than on Life insurance.

St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is actually the Patron saint of Thieves, Virgins and Communist Russia.

More fascinating stuff.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in the solar system combined.

Hot water is heavier than cold water.

Polar Bears are left handed,

The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita than any other is Hong Kong.

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

Barbies measurements if she were life size would be 39-23-33

The only food that will never spoil is honey. Jars have been found from many years ago and a still edible.

The parachute was invented by Da Vinci

The first book ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times. More likely to be 4,950, as the head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The housefly wings beat in the middle octave of 'F'

The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.


Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porcuncula'

An ostriches eye is bigger than its brain.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.

Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Sonny and Cher.

Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.

Wilma Flintstones maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubbles was Betty Jean McBricker..

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

If NASA sent birds into space they would die. They need gravity to swallow.

Tippex was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formally of The Monkees).

If a statue of a person is on a horse and the horse has both legs in the air, the person died in battle, It the horse only has 1 leg in the air, the person died from wounds received in battle, and if the horse has all four feet on the ground, the person died from natural causes..

STEWARDESS is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

The old saying 'Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' comes from the old Civil war cannons, the balls were stacked in a pyramid shape onto a piece of metal called a Brass Monkey. If the temperature dropped below freezing, the metal base would contract and the cannon balls would roll off..

Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and they are always the same sex.

Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a 50,000 word novel without using the letter 'E'.

In 1939, the New York Times, predicted that TV would fail, because people didn't have the time to stop and stare at a screen..

Things you never knew you wanted to know....

A rat can live longer without water than a camel.

The dot over the letter "i " is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped into a glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from top to bottom.

A female ferret will die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

315 entries in Websters 1996 Dictionary were mis-spelled.

Playing cards were issued to WWII British pilots, if they were captured, the cards could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating ONE olive from each salad served in First class..

The glue on Israeli stamps has to be certified kosher.

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him as the nurse at his bedside couldn't speak German.

St Patrick the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish.

St John, one of the 12 apostles, was the only one to die a natural death.

Most sailors used to wear a gold earring, so that if they died away from home, they could afford a proper burial.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 & 10 and lived in China in 1910.