Lil' known facts

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Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!

Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

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

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

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

Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut.
It will pass through the system and be excreted.

At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

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There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube.

There are 44,523,312,694,361,020,971,556,671,544,734,879,370 ,359,807,003,367,569,358,848,000,000,000,000 ways to order a deck of cards.

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

There are 48 Gutenberg Bibles still in existence. Two of them were in Germany during World War II and are missing, but many book collectors believe them to be in private collections.

There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

There are 63,360 inches in a mile.

There are a million ants for every person on Earth.

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

There are about 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar, while a cup of coffee contains around 100 to 150 milligrams.

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

There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left

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

There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

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

There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.

There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.

There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet.

There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.

There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.

There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.

There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world.

There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%

There are just over 7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).

There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.

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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.

Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.

Only three horses who had never previously won a race earned their first victories at the Kentucky Derby. They were Buchanan in 1884, Sir Barton in 1919 and Brokers Tip in 1933.

Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant, Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.

Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.

Orca (killer) whales can grow to b 30ft long.

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

Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.

Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.

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

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.

Our nerves system transmits messages at up to 300 ft. per second.

Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.

Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"

Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows

Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.

Over 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their asses.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right".

Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.

Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.

Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.

Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.

Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they'll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit -- because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed

Over the course of his lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing about a half trillion sperm.

Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.

Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.

Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.

Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

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Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.

Saint Isidore, or Seville, who lived in the 17th century, was believed to have written the world's first encyclopedia, the Etymologies. It included entries on medicine, mathematics, history and theology.

Salt caravans crossing the Sahara desert sometimes numbered as many as 40,000 camels.

Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.

Salt was once a very precious commodity, so much that many people were paid

Samual Morse, who invented the telegraph, was originally a portrait painter and didn't give up painting to turn to inventing until he was 46 years old.

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.

Samuel Clemens [AKA Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

Sandy Koufax threw a no-hitter in four consecutive seasons between 1962-65. He's the only player to throw no-hitters in more than two straight seasons.

Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nicholas who brings presents to children on New Year's Eve.

Santa's reindeer are: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.

Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet there is not a single river in the whole country.

Scandinavia has the world's highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4 pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.

Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears. (tip for people who dont bathe often)

Scholars estimate that the 66 books of the King James version of the Bible were written by some 50 different authors.

Scholars have named the highest number that's been counted, a googleplex.

Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F# on a harmonica.

Scientists have figured out that the speed of nerve impulses in the brain is 404 feet per second. If an idea is complex enough to take 100 nerve messages from one side of the brain to the other, the thought could be completed in less than a tenth of a second.

Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them. They'll 'snap' and sting themself.

Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.

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

Sea otters have the thickest fur of all animals.

Sea turtles don't age-they wont die unless they get an infection or get eaten by a larger animal. This means there could be a thousand year old turtle swimming around somewhere.....

Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.

Sea water weighs about a pound and a half more per cubic foot than fresh water at the same temperature.

Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.

Sears Roebuck and Company was founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears, a former railroad worker turned watch salesman, and Alvah Roebuck, a watchmaker.

Seattle passed an ordinance that states that goldfish could ride the city buses in bowls only if they kept still.

Second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died on July 4, 1826.

Seeing eye dogs are color blind but can still read stop lights by the position of the 'on' light

Self-annointing is something only hedgehogs do, in which they lick or nibble on something, make a foamy paste in their mouths, and then spread it with their long tongues in little spots on their quills. No one has ever determined exactly why they do this.

Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.

Seven cities claim to be the birthplace of the Greek epic poet Homer. He is also thought to have been born in either 1159 B.C., 1102 B.C., 1044 B.C., 830 B.C., or 685 B.C.

Seven of the eight US Presidents who have died in office either through illness or assassination were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.

Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.

Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.

Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center has several.

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

Shaquelle O'Neal [AKA Shaq] wears a size 22EEE shoe.

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.

Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson".

Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887).

Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.

Shirley Temple always has 56 curls in her hair. (talk about uptight).

Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.

Shoe salesmen have been using those little wooden measuring sticks since 1657.

shrimp have their heart in their head

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.

Since the beginning of this fact, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A

Sing Sing prison in New York has a name derived from the Indian words for "stony place."

Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York in 1919, to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. This was the first time that the Belmont Stakes had been run as part of thoroughbred racing's most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.

Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.

Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.

Six checker cabs are still in use in NYC.

Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.

Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.

Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick

Slaves who lived under the Manchus the last emperors of China who ruled from 1644-1912 wore pigtails so that they could be picked out quickly.

Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.

Sliced bread was patented in 1954.

Slicing the ear off the bull is the main object to bullfighting in one form...then stabbing the bull through the neck into the spinal cord to kill it is the next goal...the matadors are allowed two tries for that. Next, two mules take the dead carcass out of the stadium and where they have a celebration in honor of the owner of the bull and a feast (guess what the main course is!).

Slugs have four noses.

Smith is the most common last name in the United States. A little over 1% of all Americans share that last name.

Smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.

Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252

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Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. It is the animals with the most taste buds in the world.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.


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

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

On average people fear spiders more than they do dying.

It's impossible to sneeze with you eyes open.

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

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

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


Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by giants fighting underneath the ground.

The ancient Japanese thought there was a giant spider living under the earth, and each time it moved, it caused the earth to quake.

The rhino looks very primitive. They have looked the same for thousands of years.

There are two species of rhino: the white (or square-lipped rhino) and the black (or hooked-lipped rhino). The black rhino has three toes on each foot. Both the black and white rhino have two horns.

The rhinoceros's horn is made same stuff found in our hair and fingernails which is called keratin. It also contains something called gelatine.

There are over 900 different types of bats and they can all fly. The Vampire bat has less teeth than the other bats because it doesn't chew its food. It lives on the blood of mammals.

Bats do not need to see when they fly, they use sound to help them figure out where they are going. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

A cat's jaws can't move sideways

More people are killed each year by donkeys than die is air crashes.

"Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The vocabulary of the average person consists of about 5,000 to 6,000 words.

No word in the English language rhymes with "mouth".

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

All polar bears are left handed.

Ants don't sleep.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in then grinds his teeth.

The oldest playable musical instrument in the world is a flute made of bone. It's a flute carved from a bird's wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.


The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist Egypt 6,000 years ago.

Glue dates back to prehistoric time. Artists once mixed colourings with raw eggs, dried blood and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals.

Lightening strikes about 6,000 times per minute on earth.

A chameleon's (large lizard) tongue is twice the length of its body.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognise itself in a mirror but monkey's can not.

A rat can live longer without water that a camel can.

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do regularly to come up for air.

The world's largest animal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tonnes at birth. Fully grown it can weigh as much as 150 tonnes.

The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig and can weigh as much as 100 pounds.

The world's smallest mammal is the Bumblebee Bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.


Karl Benz invented the first gas powered car. It only had three wheels. The first car with four wheels was made in France in 1901 by Panhard et LeVassor..

Every year some 50 million cars are added to the world's roads making the car industry the world.

A cat can run about 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) when it is fully grown.

A cheetah can run 76 kilometers per hour (46 miles per hour).

The fastest human being can only run about 30 kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour).

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs live on all continents in the world except the Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.


The first kind of pencil was a bunch of Graphite sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.

A man called Joseph Rechendorfer was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of the pencil to make it really easy to rub out mistakes.

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

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

The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals.

The first metal bicycle was called the High-Wheel or Penny Farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycle which had a huge front wheel and a tiny back one.

The first toy balloon, made of vulcanised rubber, was invented by a person a company called J G Ingram in London, Britain, in 1847.

Pin Bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages.

The first stem powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the rocket.

All pet hamsters are descended from one female wild golden hamster found in a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

Ancient Egyptians thought cats were sacred animals.

Cats have more than 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.

Cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as a stationary diesel engine.

Roman children in the days of the Roman Empire played games very similar to children of modern times such as hide and seek, chase, hopscotch, leapfrog and ball games. They had kites, swings, building blocks and dolls.

The Romans of the Roman Empire didn't have toilet paper so they used a water soaked sponge on the end of a stick.

Roman emperor Julius Caesar invented the modern calendar with 12 months and 365 days. Before that there was 10 months, running from March to December. The winter time didn't have any months.

Though they added two months, there is still evidence of when there were only 10. September means seven but it's the ninth month. October means eight but it's the 10 month. November means nine but it's the eleventh month and December means 10 but it's the twelfth month.

Over a third of Captain Cook's crew died on his first voyage to the South Pacific due to scurvy - a lack of vitamin C. Forty-one of the 98 strong crew were lost on sailing in 1768. By 1795, sea voyagers had realised the importance of eating citrus so lemon juice was ordered on all British navy ships.

A library at Indiana University in the US sinks over an inch every year because the engineers who designed it did not make allowance for the weight of the books in the building.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognise itself in the mirror but a monkey can't

A cat's jaw can't move sideways.

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

A typical bed usually houses over six billion dust mites.

A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

Ants don't sleep.

Ants live in colonies with as many as 500,000 individuals.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from sand storms and blowing sand.

Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicoloured yolks.

The smartest dogs around are the Scottish Border Collie, Poodle and Golden Retriever. The dumbest dog is the Afghan Hound.

The name Wendy was actually made up for the story 'Peter Pan'.

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

The nursery rhyme 'Ring around the Rosey' is about the plague, either the Great Plague of London (bubonic plague) in 1665 or perhaps the first outbreak of the Plague hit England in the 1300's. People who had the plague would get a rosy red rash in the shape of a ring on the skin (ring around the rosy).

There are two stories about 'pocket full of poseys'. During the plague it is said people carried pockets or pouches were filled with sweet smelling herbs (or posies) as they thought that the disease was transmitted by bad smells. Other historians say that people with the plague would carry flowers in their pockets or pouches as the sores smelt so bad.

People who died from the plague were burned to help stop the disease from spreading (ashes, ashes, we all fall down).

The phrase 'rule of thumb' comes from an old English law which said you could not beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Sea water, loaded with minerals salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.

Ten percent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.

About one-tenth of the earth's surface is always covered with ice.

Greenland is the largest island in the world - 840,000 square miles.

All gondalls in Venice, Italy, had to be must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.

Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a customer who complained that his French Fries were too thick.

Rice is a staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.

Sliced bread was introduced by the Wonder Bread label in 1930.

The white potato first came from the Andes mountains and was probably brought to England by Sir Frances Drake in about 1586.

Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.

While sleeping, one man in eight snores and one in ten grinds his teeth.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

Penguins can jump almost 6 feet into the air.

Instead of teeth, snails and slugs have rows of tiny bumps on their tongues which act like a file to break up food.

If humans had the grasshopper's jumping powers, we could leap one third the length of a football pitch.

Honey is the only food that doesn't go off.

The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat.
Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.

In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year.
Barbies full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.

More money is printed daily for the game Monopoly than is printed daily in the whole of America.

The Teddy bear was named for The American President Theodore Roosevelt.

Stone yoyos more than 3,000 years old have been found in Greece.

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

If humans had the grasshopper's jumping powers, we could leap one third the length of a football pitch.

Chimpanzees in the wild chew medicinal plants when they're feeling sick.

A bird found in South America is so smelly that it is called 'pava hedionda' or 'stinking pheasant'. It smells like cow manure!

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

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

Earth is only planet not named after a god.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

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

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

You can not kill yourself by holding your breath.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old.

The oldest tree in the world is a bristle-cone pine. One in Arizona, in the US, is 4,600 years old. It was just a baby when the pyramids were being built, a tall tree when the ancient Greeks and Persians were battling in the Mediterranean, and was already old when Jesus was born.

Bamboo grows faster than any other plant. It can grow nearly a metre (39.4 in) in one day - about the same as you grew in the ten years after you were born.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older

A group of toads is called a knot.

A prickle is a group of porcupines.

Penguins can jump almost six feet into the air.

There are more sheep in New Zealand than people.

The elephant is the only animal with four knees.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

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

Your heart beats over a 100,000 times a day.

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

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

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9,000 years old!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The present population of over five billion people in the world is expected to become over 15 billion by 2080.

Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.

An Ant can lift up to 50 times its own weight.

The word 'queue' is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Cat's pee glows.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.

Ants don't sleep.

Fingernails grow nearly FOUR times as fast as toenails.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

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

A giraffe can clear its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

The average person laughs 10 times a day.

Girls blink nearly twice as much as men.

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More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.

Penguins are not found in the North Pole

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

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

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


Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

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

Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

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

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.

Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.

Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.

Frank Baum, the writer of "The Wizrd of OZ", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics

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.

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An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

An average human scalp has 100,00 hairs.

An average person laughs about 5 times a day.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.

An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.

An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

An elephant can smell water 3 miles away.

An elephant could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.

An elephant has 4 knees

An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

An Estee Lauder perfume called "Country Mist" had disappointing sales in Germany where the word "Mist" was slang for manure!

An estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.

An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."

An eyelash lives about 5 months.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.

An Octopus has 3 hearts!

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

An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!

An ostrich egg can make approx. eleven and a half omelets.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

An ounce of gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn into 80.5 kms(50 miles) of wire.

An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.

An owl cannot move it's eyeballs in its eye sockets.

An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.

An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.

Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.

Ancient Chinese artists freely painted scenes of nakedness and sex. However, they would absolutely never depict a bare female foot.

Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.

Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.

Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

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

Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.

Andrew Johnson, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.

Andy Warhol based his 1964 series of silk portraits of Marilyn Monroe on a still photo from the 1952 movie Niagra.

Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.

Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.

Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

Anne Boleyn had three breasts.

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

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, had an extra finger on her left hand.

Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of French fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.

Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.

Another name for your pinky finger is Wanus

Antarctica has only one ATM machine.

Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.

Antarctica is visited by over 10,000 tourists a year.

Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

Anthropologists use a standard height of 4 feet 11 inches to determine if a group of people are pygmies. The average adult male must be less than 59 inches in height.

Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.

Ants can live completely submerged underwater for up to 2 days.

Ants don't sleep.

Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.

Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House. At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.

Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)

Apparently there's a law stating that if a Kurtatchi woman of the Soloman Islands unintentionally reveals her genitals, it can be expected and will be understood if any nearby man sexually assaults her.

Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B.

Apparently, I misspelled it...it's "Sinterklaas." Thanks to the unnamed person from Holland who corrected me.

Apple pie was brought to England from France sometime around 1066 by William the Conqueror. It made it to America when the Pilgrims arrived.

Apple pits contain cyanide.

Apples are more effecient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.

Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.

Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.

Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

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A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey

A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.

A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.

A horse can sleep standing up.

A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief. It's olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a humanThanx liz chell

A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times in one second or over 5000 times a minute.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%

A jellyfish is 95% water.

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

A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.

A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.

A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."

A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.

A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.

A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.

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

A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.

A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years

A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.

A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.

A mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.

A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.

A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.

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

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

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air

A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.

A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.

A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).

A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.

A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.

A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base -by any means.

A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV

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A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.

A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).

A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.

A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second

A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.

A 10-gallon hat actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.

A 14-year old French girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received an electrical shock.

A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.

A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.

A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.

A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.

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

A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.

A bat is the only mammal that flies.

A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell

A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.

A beaver's teeth never stop growing.

A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.

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

A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.

A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.

A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.

A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.

A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.

A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.

A capon is a castrated rooster.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.

A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.

A cheetah is the fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.

A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.

A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.

A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.

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

A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.

A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".

A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

A cucumber is 96% water.

A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.

A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.

A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

A device invented sometime around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler.

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

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

A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which a human ear cannot.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.

A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".

A Fag is to work hard or to tire by strenuous activity and cigarettes are sometimes called Fags

A fagot is a bundle of sticks or a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature.

A father Emperor penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs, which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

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

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.

A five and a half year old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat.

A flea can jump 350 times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx seraph

A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.

A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.

A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.

A foal is a baby horse.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

A full-grown pumpkin has about 15 miles of roots.

A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.

A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your computer screen is..)

A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing stuff too.

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.

A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.

A grasshopper needs a minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.

A group od geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

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

A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.

A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.

A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.

A hinny is the offspring of a female donkey

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

Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.

Earth's magnetic field has been weakening. It seems to have lost 15% of its strength since 1670. At the present rate of decrease, it will reach zero in 2,000 years. Between the years 3500 and 4500, the magnetic field will not be sufficiently strong enough to ward off charged radiation from outer space.

Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.

Eating breakfast will help you burn from 5-20% more calories throughout the day.

Eating large amounts of carrots will eventually turn your skin orange because of the chemical substance called carotene which is found in carrots. Carotene is the cause of the orange hue in leaves during the fall.

Eddie Arcaro, one of the greatest jockeys in horse race history, rode 250 losers before he won his first race. Ultimately, Arcaro won 4,779 races including five Derby winners, six in the Preakness, and six in the Belmont Stakes, on such famous horses as Whirlaway, Citation, and Kelso.

Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.

Eggs sink in water when they are fresh and float when expired.

Eight positions are mentioned in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine. Only right field was left out.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

El Capitan in Yosemite National Park is the largest visible granite rock in the world. It's twice the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote David O. Selznick to ask that her maid, Lizzy McDuffy, be considered for the role of Mammy in Gone With the Wind.

Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive long-lost memories.

Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.

Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles in one day.

Elephants are the only Mammals that can't jump.

Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.

Elephants can't jump.

Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.

Elephants produce 50 pounds of manure every day.

Elephants, horses, and camels all descended from animals that originally came from North America, despite their present homes in Eurasia.

Elizabeth the First suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).

Elton John and The Beach Boys are tied for the record for the longest gap between number one hit singles in the United States. Both waited 21 years, 11 months.

Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.

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.

Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on "The Dorsey Brothers Show."

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."

E-mails started in 1971. Ray Tomlinson is it's DADDY!! and the first e-mail was sent WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN UPPER CASE.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

Emus have double plumed feathers and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.

Engelbert Humperdinck's real name is Gerry Dorsey. He didn't make that name up, though. It originally belonged to the 1800s German musician who wrote the opera Hansel and Gretel.

England and the American colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on September 14th, 1752. 11 days disappeared.

England once had a Prime Minister who was only 24 years old. He was William Pitt, elected in 1783.

England's King Edward VII gave a large diamond tiara to Wallis Warfield Simpson as a wedding gift. Simpson was the woman for whom Edward VII abdicated the throne for.

England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.

English traders introduced opium to China to create a market for the drug. They then traded silver for opium to help pay other Chinese traders for their tea.

Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were all once the lead guitarist for the English band the Yardbirds in the 1960's.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words, not a single word contained the letter "E

Europe has no deserts, it is the only continent without one.


Evard Ericksen sculpted "The Little Mermaid" statue which is located in Copenhagen harbor.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Even though they broke up 25 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.

Even when all the molecules in a single breath of air have been dispersed evenly in the earth's atmosphere, there will still be one or two of the same ones taken into the lungs with every subsequent breath. Every time you breathe in, you inhale one or two of the same molecules that you inhaled with the first breath you took as a baby.

Ever wonder how Swiss cheese is made? As the cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese, leaving all those holes.

Everest is not the tallest mountain. Mauna Kea Mountain in the Hawaiian Island is 230m taller. It is 4201m above water and 4877 underwater! Everest is only 8848m.

Every 14 years, Saturn's rings become briefly invisible to astronomers on Earth. At that time, the plane of the rings is tipped to that of the Earth's orbit, and they are seen edge-on. Since the ring's are so thin, they can't be seen at that angle.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

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

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

Every eleven years the magnetic poles of the sun switch. This cycle is called "Solarmax".

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Every man in Brainerd, Minnesota is required by law to grow a beard.

Every person has a unique eye and tongue print.

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

Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.

Every ten minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

Every time the moon's gravity causes a ten-foot tide at sea, all the continents on earth rise at least six inches.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 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.

Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 inches.

Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.

Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

Everyone in the Middle Ages believed -as Aristotle had -that the heart was the seat of intelligence.

Everyone is colorblind at birth

Everyone knows that the U.S. gold depository is in Fort Knox, Kentucky. But nobody seems to know that the U.S. silver depository is at West Point, New York.

Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.

Except for 2 and 3, every prime number will eventually become divisible by 6 if you either add or subtract 1 from the number. For example, the number 17, plus 1, is divisible by 6. The number 19, minus 1, is also divisible by 6

Experiments have shown that, ants are capable of lifting 50 times their own weight and pulling loads 300 times their own weight.