When snakes are born with 2 heads they fight each other for food
The vintage date on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling
The face of a penny can hold about 30 drops of water
In Michigan a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission
Sound travels 4 times faster in water then air
All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide
The chances of making 2 holes in one in a round of golf are about 1 in 67 million
The cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6400
On a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44 million ways to make bingo
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest polish population in the world
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of 6 feet normally without being hurt
The left leg of a chicken is more tender then the right one
An ant can survive for up to 2 days underwater
A man once sued his doctor because he survived the cancer longer then the doctor predicted
An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10000 feet
There are 170000000000000000000000000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game
Ballroom dancing is a major at Brigham Young University
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife
Reindeer milk has more fat then cow milk
Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only 6 days old
China's Beijing Duck restaurant can seat 9000 people at one time
In the United States approximately 7 billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year
A duck has 3 eyelids
The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows
Henry Ford father of the automobile is also the father of charcoal briquette
Ther are 48 Gutenberg Bibles still in existence. 2 of them were in Gormany during WW2 and are missing but many book collerctors believe them to be in private collections
All the coal, oil, gas and wood on earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days
Wine is kept in tinted bottles because it wills poil if it's exposed to sunlight
One punishment for an adulterous wife in Medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through the town *****
The world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet and 4 inches
Nails grow at 3mm per month
The world record for balancing people on your head is 92 in 1 hour
Goulash, a beef soup originated in Hungary in the 9th century A.D.
Cats have no ability to taste sweet things
20% of tuxedo rentals take play in may
Sigmund freud had a morbid fear of ferns
Canola oil is actually **** seed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons
Australia has no native monkeys in the wild
If manhattan had the same density population as Alaska there would only be 15 people living there
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less then 96 degrees
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist then men are
A bean has more DNA per cell then a human cell
The san francisco cable cars are the only mobile National monument
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2200 people
The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years
Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars
In arkansas it is illegal to buy or sell blue light bulbs
There are approximately 3600 astronauts in the U.*. - but over 150000 astrologers
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat
In oregon anyone with a bad reputation is prohibited from distributing malt beverages
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lif*hitz
February 1865 is the only month in recorder history not to have a full moon
Giant Panda bears give birth to 4 ounce babies
The penguin is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses
The first Rose Bowl game was held in 1902 in Paadena California. The University of Michigan beat sanford 49-0
5200000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans
The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine, an average length of 20 feet
Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth
A pig always sleeps on its right side
Europe is the only continent without a desert
Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel
Babies' ears do not produce tears until the baby is 6 to 8 weeks old
An ant's sense of smell is as good as a dog's
28.1% of people pee in the pool
Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color
Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional resposne
Giraffe's are unable to cough
City with most Rolls Royces per capita; Hong Kong
The record distance for cherry pit spiting is 95 feet 7 inches
Bilbo Baggins was born on september 22nd 2190
If china imported just 10% of it's rice needs, the price of rice on the world market would increase by 80%
Lemons have more sugar then oranges
Apple seeds are poisonous
Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier
The youngest pope was 11 years old
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61000
More then 100 pizza-box related patents have been issued since 1976
The best diamonds are colored blue-white
Life on earth dates back 3.8 billion years
A blue whale's heart beats 9 times per minute
A blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant
Roosters can't crow unless they fully extend their necks
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
The average web page contains 500 words
No words in the English language rhyme with orange silver or purple
Women blink nearly twice as much as men do
The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life
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.
The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
98% of all murders and ***** 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.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (*********) paper.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his *********.
The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is *******) from 1885 to 1903.
A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
Camel's have three eyelids.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
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.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
Slugs have four noses.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
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. (DON'T TRY IT, DUMB ASS)
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.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
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.
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That's more than sharks.
Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
It took Leonardo Da Vinci 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.
If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
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 first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.
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.
In the US, 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 Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
One in ten people live on an island.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Back in the mid to late '80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company's first ads in 1896.
About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
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.
One in every 9000 people is an albino.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
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.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
About 55% of all movies are rated R.
About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
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.
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.
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