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Some Interesting Unknown Amazing Facts

Here is some interesting mind blowing amazing facts to learn and improve your general knowledge that you may or may not have known. 

·         $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

·         $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.

·         1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day

·         101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie.

·         11 % of the world is left-handed

·         25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.

·         259200 people die every day.

·         28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.

·         315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

·         40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

·         55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

·         7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

·         90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica

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

·         A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

·         A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

·         A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

·         A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

·         A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

·         A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

·         A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

·         A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.

·         A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

·         A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

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

·         A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!

·         A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

·         A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

·         A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

·         A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.

·         A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

·         A jellyfish is 95% water.

·         A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

·         A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

·         A mongoose is not a goose but more like a Meer cat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.

·         A moth has no stomach.

·         A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, one will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, one will die.

·         A person produces about half a liter of farts a day.

·         A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

·         A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

·         A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

·         A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

·         A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

·         A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

·         A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

·         A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

·         A snail can sleep for 3 years.

·         A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

·         A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

·         A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

·         About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.

·         About 14% of injecting drug users is HIV positive.

·         About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.

·         About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.

·         About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

·         About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.

·         About 55% of all movies are rated R.

·         Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.

·         Abraham Lincoln's mother (Nancy Hanks Lincoln) died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.

·         Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

·         After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.

·         Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

·         Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Lawenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

·         Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.

·         All polar bears are left-handed.

·         All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

·         Almonds are members of the peach family.

·         Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

·         American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

·         American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.

·         Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.

·         Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

·         Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

·         An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

·         An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

·         An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.

·         An elephant can smell water three miles away

·         An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

·         An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

·         Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.

·         Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan of 83.49 years.

·         Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter

·         Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert

·         Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

·         Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.

·         Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.

·         Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!

·         As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second

·         At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.

·         Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.

·         Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.

·         Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

·         Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

·         Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.

·         Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

·         Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

·         Birds don't sweat

·         Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

·         Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

·         Butterflies taste with their feet.

·         By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

·         C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

·         Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

·         Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

·         Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

·         Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

·         Cats’ urine glows under a black light.

·         Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

·         Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

·         China has more English speakers than the United States.

·         Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

·         Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

·         Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.

·         Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

·         Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

·         Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

·         Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.

·         Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

·         David Sarnoff received the Titanic’s distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).

·         Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.

·         Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

·         Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.

·         Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

·         Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “soyce”.

·         Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour

·         Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

·         Duff is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

·         During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.

·         During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!

·         Each 5 mph (miles-per-hour) you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!

·         Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David; Clubs = Alexander the Great; Hearts = Charlemagne; Diamonds = Caesar.

·         Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

·         Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

·         Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

·         Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

·         Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.

·         Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.

·         Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. You’ve got Mail!). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as Q-Link.

·         Eskimos don't gamble.

·         Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

·         Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

·         Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint

·         Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

·         Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."

·         Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

·         Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).

·         Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

·         Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

·         Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks

·         Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts

·         For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.

·         Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).

·         Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km out to sea.

·         Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!

·         Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.

·         Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

·         God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.

·         Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

·         Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.

·         Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

·         Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

·         How does a shark fin fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

·         Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

·         Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

·         Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.

·         Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.

·         Hummingbirds can't walk.

·         IBM’s motto is ‘Think’. Apple later made their motto ‘Think different’.

·         Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.

·         If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

·         If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

·         If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

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

·         If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.

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

·         If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

·         If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

·         If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

·         In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

·         In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

·         In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

·         In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

·         In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.

·         In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.

·         In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.

·         In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

·         In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.

·         In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.

·         In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

·         In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).

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

·         In golf, a Bo Derek is a score of 10.

·         In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.

·         In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

·         In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.

·         In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

·         In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.

·         In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.

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

·         In the U.S, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.

·         In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.

·         In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

·         In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

·         In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!

·         India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

·         India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history

·         It is against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

·         It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

·         It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

·         It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

·         It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

·         It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

·         Jiffy is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

·         Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.

·         John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."

·         John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.

·         John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

·         John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

·         Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

·         Judy Scheindlin (Judge Judy) has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.

·         Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

·         Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.

·         Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.

·         Justin Timberlake's half-eaten French toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

·         Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

·         King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

·         King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.

·         Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).

·         Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.

·         Lassie was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

·         Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

·         Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.

·         Leonardo Da Vinci took 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

·         Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.

·         Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

·         Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

·         Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

·         Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

·         Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

·         Many spiders have eight eyes.

·         Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

·         Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.

·         Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.

·         Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.

·         Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.

·         Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

·         More people are afraid of open spaces (keno phobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

·         More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

·         More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

·         More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

·         More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

·         More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

·         Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

·         Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.

·         Most lipstick contains fish scales.

·         Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.

·         Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.

·         Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.

·         Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.

·         Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.

·         Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.

·         Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.

·         On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

·         On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand “1” and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.

·         On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.

·         On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

·         On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

·         On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

·         One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.

·         One in every 9000 people is an albino.

·         One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

·         One in ten people live on an island.

·         One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the ’30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).

·         One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

·         One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

·         Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.

·         Only female mosquitoes bite.

·         Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

·         Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

·         Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don’t Mess with them

·         Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

·         Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

·         Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

·         Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called “Solarmax”.

·         Owls are the only birds that can see the blue colour.

·         Pac-Man, Namco’s 1979 arcade game, was originally called “Puck Man”. The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter “P”.

·         Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence (7/1/1967).

·         Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

·         Pearls melt in vinegar.

·         Penguins are not found in the North Pole

·         People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

·         People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

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

·         Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun… usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.

·         Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.

·         Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

·         Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.

·         Queen ants can live to be 30 years old

·         Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.

·         Rats and horses can’t vomit.

·         Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

·         Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

·         Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.

·         Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

·         Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

·         Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.

·         Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.

·         SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below

·         Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

·         Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.

·         Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.

·         Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca, and they NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.

·         Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

·         Slugs have 4 noses.

·         Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

·         Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland. They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.

·         Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

·         Starfish have no brains.

·         Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.

·         Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.

·         Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

·         Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

·         The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".

·         The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

·         The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

·         The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

·         The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

·         The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.

·         The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.

·         The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.

·         The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

·         The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.

·         The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.

·         The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.

·         The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil.

·         The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

·         The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

·         The average person laughs 10 times a day!

·         The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

·         The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.

·         The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

·         The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)

·         The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

·         The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.

·         The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

·         The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)

·         The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

·         The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

·         The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

·         The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

·         The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

·         The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

·         The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres of water in its trunk.

·         The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.

·         The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

·         The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

·         The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).

·         The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year.

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

·         The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

·         The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.

·         The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

·         The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

·         The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.

·         The first patented condom was meant to be reused!

·         The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.

·         The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!

·         The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.

·         The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

·         The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

·         The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

·         The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft

·         The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.

·         The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

·         The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

·         The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.

·         The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

·         The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).

·         The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!

·         The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

·         The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk.

·         The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

·         The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

·         The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.

·         The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.

·         The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company’s first ads in 1896.

·         The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

·         The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.

·         The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

·         The numbers “172” can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

·         The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.

·         The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert

·         The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old. 

·         The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

·         The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

·         The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

·         The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.

·         The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.

·         The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

·         The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

·         The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

·         The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

·         The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

·         The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

·         The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

·         The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

·         The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

·         The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

·         The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.

·         The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)

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

·         The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

·         The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn’t kill their enemies.

·         The tool doctors wrap around a patient’s arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.

·         The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

·         The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant “Qwert Yuiop”, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

·         The U.S. has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

·         The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.

·         The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.

·         The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

·         The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

·         The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.

·         The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

·         The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).

·         The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.

·         The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

·         The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.

·         The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

·         The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.

·         There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

·         There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

·         There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.

·         There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

·         There are a million ants for every person on Earth.

·         There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.

·         There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.

·         There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).

·         There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

·         There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

·         There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

·         There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul’s armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.

·         There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

·         There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Graham Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.

·         There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.

·         There is a city called Rome on every continent.

·         There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.

·         There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.

·         There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.

·         There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.

·         There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

·         Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

·         Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.

·         Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

·         Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

·         To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

·         Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

·         Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).

·         Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

·         Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

·         Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.

·         US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

·         US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”.

·         Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.

·         Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're going to visit Venus, pack your gas mask!

·         Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

·         Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

·         Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

·         When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

·         When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).

·         When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.

·         When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska’s third largest city.

·         While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY.

·         William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.

·         Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

·         Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

·         World's heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.

·         Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.

·         You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

·         You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

·         You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

·         You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

·         You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

·         You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

·         Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

·         Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

·         Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

·         Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

·         Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

·         You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

·         Z-At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels.

·         Z-During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

·         Z-Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.

·         Z-For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the 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 of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

·         Z-Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

·         Z-Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. Its scientific name is Felis concolor, which means “cat of one color.” At one time, mountain lions were very common!

·         Z-Printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet; libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

·         Z-Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

·         Z-Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.

·         Z-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

·         Z-Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.

·         Z-Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.

·         Z-The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out! Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time!

·         Z-The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.

·         Z-The worst industrial disaster in India occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methyl isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy are being felt even today.

·         Z-The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days.

·         Z-There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations at have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.

·         Z-There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.

·         Z-Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname “Tiger” in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.

·         Z-While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951). 

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