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.
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