scattered thoughts..

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

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.

Jaguars are frightened by dogs.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.

Hot water weighs more than cold.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong ‘cha-cha’ dance champion in 1958.

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

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

The word "FUCK" comes from the olden days. When a person was caught being unfaithful, they were made to wear a sign saying "FUCK", it stood for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge".

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.

Pigs have orgasms for 30 minutes long.

Uranus was originally called George, in honor of King George III of Britain.

The longest word in the English language is 1913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. Submitted by Bean-Bean

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

Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.

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

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

In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are humans on earth.

You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

An area of the Sun’s surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.

If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won’t pop.

It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

The Ribbon worm will start eating itself to avoid starvation.

A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

We lose half a liter of water a day through breathing.

Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Hippos kill more people in Africa when compared to crocodiles.

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

If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time.

A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

A mole can dig about 92 meters in 1 night.

All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.

The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years.

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

A flea can jump 350 times is own body length.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

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 ant can survive for up to two days underwater.

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

The horse shoe crab has blue blood which can be used to kill bacteria.

If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white.

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

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

Bees can see ultraviolet light.

For time, A.M stands for Ante Meridian and P.M. stands for Post Meridian.

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

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

The average person swallows one liter of snot every day.

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

A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.

In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.

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

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped.

To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day. You take about 600 million breaths during your lifetime.

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

No president of the United states was an only child.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Half the world’s population is under 25 years of age.

The world’s average school year is 200 days per year. In the US, it is 180 days; in Sweden 170 days, in Japan it is 243 days.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The shortest war on record took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes.

There are about a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as motorcars.

In 1996, former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman pleaded guilty to perjury for testifying at the O.J. Simpson murder trial that he’d never uttered a racial slur in 10 years; a recording proved otherwise.

The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers.

The Squaw Man was released in 1913 and was Hollywood’s first full-length film.

In the 1926 film version of Don Juan actor Lionel Barrymore set the record for the most kisses ever in a single film. Barrymore embraced Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor 127 times.

Howard Hughes once made half a million dollars in one day by receiving a single banker’s draft for $546,549,771 in 1966 in return for his 75 per cent holding in Trans World Airlines.

TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

Money notes are not made from paper, it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.

The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.

The costliest train robbery ever was in 1963 when over 2½ million was stolen from a train in Buckinghamshire, England. Only one seventh of the total was ever recovered.

Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth.

Tourism is the world’s biggest industry, affecting 240 million jobs.

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.

The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.

Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

The Major League Baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

Michael Schumacher is the highest paid sportsman, ahead of Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer. (Not including sponsorship endorsements.)

Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.

Pantyhose were originally created for men. Submitted by Melissa

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

On every continent there is a city called Rome.

The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

About 30% of consumers use their credit card as their main means of buying Christmas goodies, 70% do not save to buy Christmas gifts and 86% of consumers do their Christmas shopping during December.

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.

Sails were first used by the Phoenicians around 2000 BC.

In ancient China, the nose of a criminal who attacked travellers was cut off.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

An annoyed camel will spit at a person.

There are 1040 islands around Britain, one of which is the smallest island in the world: Bishop’s Rock.

Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians and Incas.

Thomas Cook, the world’s first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.

There are more than 16,400 parking meters in Manhattan, New York.

On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).

Opened out and laid flat, the lungs would cover an area the size of a tennis court.

Your biggest muscle is in your buttocks and is called the glutimus maximus.

US citizens watch the most TV. By age 65, an American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.

About 80% of VCRs are made by Japanese companies.

New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.

The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.

Adriaan van der Donck was the first and only lawyer in New York City in 1653.

A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.

Argon is used to fill the space in most light bulbs. Neon is used in fluorescent signs. Fluorescent lights are filled with mercury gas.

A million dollars’ worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds.

The largest mint is in the USA, making 22 million coins a day using almost 100 stamping machines. At full production it could produce a pile of coins 5 times higher than Mount Everest in just one day.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States four times - in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.

A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth.

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

It is impossible to get water out of a rimless tire

The words racecar, kayak, level and Navy Van are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left, and these are called palindromes. The longest palindromes in the dictionary however are the words ‘Malayalam’ and ‘redivider’.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways. Read this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can’t handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them.

The first bar code was used on Wrigleys gum.

If a cockroach was human size, it could run 300 MPH.

Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he/it doesn’t wear pants.

Your body releases growth hormones when you sleep.

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

4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.

As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by YOUR HEAD!

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

When you put a seashell to your ear, the sound you hear is not the waves, but actually the echo of the blood pulsing in your own ear.

Laika the dog, was the first living thing which was sent to space.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

The hair on a polar bearis not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.

Soybean actually has Diadzein and genistein that act like weak estrogen.

LOLLIPOP is the longest word you can type with your right hand.

Every time you sneeze, your heart stops beating. That’s why we say "God Bless You". Submitted by Amanda

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

Fleas are essential to the health of armadillos and hedgehogs; they provide necessary stimulation of the skin. Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die.

During Ejaculation a man’s sperm shoots out at a velocity of 28 MPH. Submitted by: John

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy, which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. At some times of the year the difference between high and low tide is 53 feet 6 inches, the equivalent of a three-story building.

If the ocean’s total salt content were dried, it would cover the continents to a depth of 5 feet.

You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.

1816 has been called the "Year Without Summer." Canada and the northeastern U.S. experienced cold and snow throughout the summer months. Dust from a volcano in the Dutch East Indies blocked part of the sun’s warmth.

If water, instead of fuel, were pumped by the three space shuttle main engines, an average family-sized swimming pool could be drained in 25 seconds.

If all the ice in Antarctica melted the level of the oceans would rise 200 feet. About one fourth of the land area of the world would be flooded.

Light is thought to be the fastest thing in the universe. It travels 186,000 miles each second. Still it takes about eight minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth.

Coke is used to clean up blood on spillways.

The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.

One square mile of rainforest has more types of butterflies than all of North America.

An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel.

The human body makes about two million red blood cells every second.

A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person can hear. If a person can just hear a noise that is coming from 10 feet away, a dog could hear that same noise from 100 feet away.

The Golden Gate Bridge connects two different areas that at one time were 1,000 miles apart.

A slow cascade of water beneath the Denmark Strait sinks 2.2 miles, more than 3.5 times farther than Venezuela’s Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall on land.

The Mid-Ocean Ridge stretches 46,000 miles, more than four times the lengths of the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined.

Although Mount Everest, at 29,028 feet, is often called the tallest mountain on Earth, Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano on the island of Hawaii, is actually taller. Only 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea stands above sea level, yet it is 33,465 feet tall if measured from the ocean floor to its summit.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was originally named Michael, like his father. When Jr. was 5, dad changed both their names to Martin.

Contrary to many people, no star on the flag is specifically representing any one state. In fact, no law exists as to how they are even to be arranged.

In 1971, cigarette ads were banned from television in the U.S.

The oldest capital city in the U.S. is Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1610.

Ford Motor Company paid its auto workers $5 per day in 1914.

Peanut butter was invented by the brilliant African-American scientist George Washington Carver. (1864-1943)

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. This was 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.

Rum is an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane by-products that are produced when manufacturing sugar. After distilling, the rum is darkened by the addition of caramel and aged from 5 to 7 years.

Calvin Coolidge had 2 pet racoons.

A town called Terminus was founded in Georgia in 1837 because it was the end of a railroad line. This town was made into Marthasville in 1843. What is this "town" called today? Since 1845 it has been called Atlanta, of course.

Edgar Allan Poe was once an army cadet at West Point.

Amelia Earhart was the first female to fly across the Atlantic, once as a passenger, and once as a solo pilot. She was the first to fly solo from California to Hawaii, and the first to fly solo from Mexico City to New Jersey.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are 140 towns and cities in the U.S. that have the word "Christmas" in their names.

There are 50,000 words without the letter "e" in the English dictionary.

An average size room contains about 90 pounds of air.

Leather money was used in Russia right up until the 17th century, as was tea money in China.

Unlike other planets in the Solar system, Venus spins not from West to East, but from East to West.

Pieces of bread were used to erase lead pencil before rubber came into use.

The longest recorded Monopoly game was 1,680 hours.

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

Green tea has 50 percent more vitamin C than black tea.

Prepared mustard can be stored for at least 2 years.

There is no synonym for thesaurus. The word is from Greek and means a treasure.

The word ‘karate" means "empty hand."

Amount of time an average man spends shaving in an year is approximately 3350 hours.

Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize Witchcraft.

President John Tyler had fifteen children.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

At the age of 82 when he died, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller donated nearly $550 million for philanthropic causes. And this was in 1940.

A sea-lion balances a ball using their whiskers.

a bee flaps its wings 350 times per second.

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

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.

Ground visibility in the Antarctic during summer is 285 miles.

Princess Alice, an elephant at the London Zoo, lived to the age of 152 years.

Myanmar was known as Burma until 1989.

There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

There is no such thing as naturally blue food, even blueberries are purple.

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

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange

The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Marijuana is Spanish for ‘Mary Jane.’

Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got the consent of the King and the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F. U. C. K. on it (Fornication Under Consent of the King). Now you know where that came from.

There are 118 ridges on the outside of a dime.

The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.

The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.

Moisture, not air, causes superglue to dry.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

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

The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.

Cinderella’s slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn’t want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there

Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.

If a statue in the park of a person on a 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 as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

A banana tree is not a tree; it is an herb.

The original plan for Disneyland included a Lilliputland.

Turnips turn green when sunburnt.

The music group "TLC" actually stands for Tittyless Crew.

Starfishes haven’t got brains.

Average number of days for a West German to wash their underwear is 7.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

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

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.

Don MacLean’s song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly.

‘Strengths’ is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

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

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes…when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, "good night, sleep tight" came from.

If you put Chicklets in a Groundhogs hole, they will choke on them and die. Submitted by Melissa

M & M’s were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.

Nitrogen used to be called azote.

All dogs, from the St. Bernard to the tiny Poodle, are direct descendants of wolves. They can all breed together and produce fertile offspring. Technically they are of the same species.

On average a person eats and drinks around a ton each year.

The Frigate bird can get up to speeds of 260 MPH.

63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.

The annual mean temperature at the Antarctic South Pole is -56.7 degrees Fahrenheit (-49.3 degrees Celsius).

The rarest blood group in the world is K Zero. There are hardly fifty people in the world who belong to this group.

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

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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

Los Angeles’ full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula".

There are only four words in the English language which end in"dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

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

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

The body can function without a brain. And anyone who has walked around the city on a Saturday night will know what I mean.

A bee could travel 4 million miles at 7 mph on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy that honey properly.

Weather is a factor in about 40 percent of all aviation accidents.

Antenna deployment drive motors have been pulsed over 15,000 times as of September 1994 (the last time that they were used) in the effort to open Galileo’s High Gain Antenna.

The oldest coin is said to be an electrum stater of King Gyges of Lydia (now Turkey), believed to be dated c.630 BC.

Cows drink 25-50 gallons of water each day. That’s nearly a bathtub full.

The most expensive film ever made, was James Cameron’s "Titanic." It cost $200 million, but also was the most successful, in the sense that it won 11 Academy Awards, equalling "Ben Hur" of 1959.

We’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206?

We take about 600 million breaths during your lifetime.

By eating Soya, you decrease your chance of getting cancer by 54%.

-Kennedy was elected in 1960.
-Lincoln was elected in 1860.
-Kennedy’s secretary’s name was Lincoln.
-Lincoln’s secretary’s name was Kennedy.
-Both secretaries advised their presidents not to go to the places where they were assassinated.
-Both men were shot in the presence of their wives.
-The successor of each president was named Johnson; Andrew Johnson born in 1808, Lyndon Johnson born in 1908.
-Of the two assassins, Booth was born in 1839, Oswald was born in 1939.
-Booth ran from a theater, Oswald ran into a theater.
-Both men were killed before they could be tried.
-Both were killed on a Friday.
-Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln".
-John Wilkes Booth’s and Lee Harvey Oswald’s names are comprised of 15 letters.
-Both Kennedy and Lincoln were shot in the head.
-A week before Lincoln was shot, he was with friends in Monroe, Maryland.
-A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

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

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

A polar bear’s kidneys are poisonous.

The highest ever amount paid out in a life insurance claim was $18,000,000 to Linda Mullendore.

Adolf Hitler was addicted to speed.

Jesus lived only 66 generations ago.

The quickest boxing match in history was 10.5 seconds, this included the 10 second count.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico. Fresca is slang for lesbian.

The famous battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War was not fought on Bunker Hill but actually on nearby Breed’s Hill instead.

Lightning strikes the earth somewhere more than seventeen million times every day, or about two hundred times every second.

The horn of the Rhinoceros is not bone, it is hair.

There are about 5,000 different languages spoken on Earth.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The average size of a star is about 150,000 times bigger than the world.

Centipedes have between 28 and 354 legs.

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

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

If mined, all the gold suspended in the world’s sea water would give each person on Earth 9 pounds.

Canada has the longest coastline of any country, at 56,453 miles or around 15 percent of the world’s 372,384 miles of coastlines.

In the U.S. alone, 3.8 cans of Spam "are consumed every second" (assuming SPAM is eaten 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year).

85% of women wear the wrong bra size.

At 39 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of almost all of the deep ocean is only a few degrees above freezing.

In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.

The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten gallon tank.

King George I of England could not speak English. He was born and raised in Germany and never learned to speak English even though he was King from 1714 to 1727. He left the running of the country to his ministers thereby creating the first government cabinet.

The first contact lens was actually conceived by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 15th century.

The world record for eating 100 peanuts, one at a time is 59.2 seconds.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, My Dear Watson."

A shark can live for months without a meal because it’s liver has stored fat in it.

The world’s smallest cat is a male blue point Himalayan-Persian named "Tinker Toy." He is just 2.75 inches tall and 7.5 inches long!

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Lightning moves about 30,000 times as fast as a bullet.

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.

The world’s largest crossword-puzzle contained 82951 cells.

The word "peach" was once used as a slang term for informing against or betraying an accomplice.

A bee flaps its wings 350 times per second.

The country Cyprus has a map on it’s flag.

The first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.

If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years!

The total possible winnings in one game of Jeopardy! is $124,800. You’d have to get the daily double as the last thing on the board in both rounds in the least lucrative square.

The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is ‘Quartzy’. This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double-word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. ‘Bezique’ and ‘Cazique’ are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.

If each count was a second it would take 12 days to count to a million and 32 years to count to a billion.

Ketchup from a Heinz bottle comes out at 25 MPH.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald’s Big Mac bun.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

It only takes 4 lbs. of pressure to pull off the human ear.

It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey’s Kiss.

A Sailfish is the fastest known fish, it can swim more than 60 MPH.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road!

The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 MPH.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows knees can’t bend properly to walk back down.

The size of your modem really doesn’t matter, it’s what time of day you are on the internet. The higher the traffic, the slower your connection speed. Between midnight and 6 in the morning is the fastest time.

Dolphins don’t automatically breath, they have to tell themselves to.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the U.S.

A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

There is more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of U.S and Canada combined.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

In the game Monopoly, the most money you can lose in one travel around the board (normal game rules, going to jail only once) is $26,040. The most money you can lose in one turn is $5,070.

A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie!

The Burramundy, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed.

It is impossible for anyone to verbally count up to the number 1 trillion.

The salute of uniform bodies originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty.

Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears.

The dioxin 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin is 150,000 times deadlier than cyanide.

Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar and they cannot stick their tongue out.

The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day.

The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming a mean temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language that has three consecutive pairs of letters.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can’t retract its claws.

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate. Submitted by Dana

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

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. Submitted by Dana

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

In Cleveland, Ohio, it’s illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. Submitted by Dana

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Submitted by Dana

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Submitted by Dana

There are coffee-flavored Pez. Submitted by Dana

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Submitted by Dana

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. Submitted by Dana

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. Submitted by Melissa

The soft plastic headphones used on aeroplanes create a warm, moist environment in the ear canal that is ideal for breeding bacteria. Submitted by Melissa

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Submitted by Melissa

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. Submitted by Melissa

The jack of clubs is the only jack without a mustache. Submitted by Melissa

There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination "uu" in them. They are: muumuu, vacuum and continuum. Submitted by Melissa

The worlds first postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in Britain in May 1840. Submitted by Melissa

Here is page 2 of my amazing facts. Once again, some are unbelievable, yet true. The newest facts are at the bottom of this list. If you have one or more amazing facts youd like to submit, please send them to my E-Mail. Ill give you the proper credit needed for them.

An ostrichs pupil is rectangular. Submitted by Melissa

Yo-yo means ‘come-come’. Submitted by Melissa

The worlds largest fruit, the double coconut, takes ten years to ripen. Submitted by Melissa

By the time you are 70, your heart will have rested for 40 years - Not all at once though. Just a little bit between heartbeats. Submitted by Melissa

There are 639 muscles in your body. Submitted by Melissa

There are approximately 65 alphabets in use throughout the world today. Submitted by Melissa

It would take 17 days for a snail to travel one mile. Submitted by Melissa

A lion’s roar can be heard as far as five miles away. Submitted by Melissa

The letter E is the most-used letter in the English language. Submitted by Melissa

There is a new star in our galaxy about every 18 days. Submitted by Melissa

If one would claim that the shade of the stop light had changed from red to green due to the Doppler effect, he/she would have been going fast enough to earn a $140 million fine.

Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.

On an average, a house wife walks 10 mile a day doing housework.

Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high.

The country with the most post offices is India with over 152,792 compared with just over 38,000 in the United States.

Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.

A womans threshold of pain is 9 times stronger than a mans. Submitted by Alex

You will get fewer cavities if you eat a bag of candy in one sitting and then brush your teeth than if you slowly eat the candy a piece at a time all day.

The first toy product ever advertised on television was MR. POTATO HEAD. Introduced in 1952, MR. POTATO HEAD took advantage of TVs explosive growth to gain access to tens of millions of newly "plugged-in" households.

The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.

No black quarterback has ever won the Super Bowl. Submitted by Brandon

In the movie "Aladdin" when Aladdin goes up to Jasmines room, he whispers to Rajah (the tiger), "Good kitty, take off your clothes". Submitted by Melissa

The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.

It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; 7 was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. UP indicated the direction of the bubbles.

The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than any other part of the body.

Alfred Butts, the inventor of ScrabbleŽ, decided on the frequency and distribution of letters by analyzing the front page of the New York Times. He used a penknife to cut his first set of wooden ScrabbleŽ tiles.

There is no one who does not dream. Those who claim to have no dreams, laboratory tests have determined, simply forget their dreams more easily than others.

No one truly has double joints. Contortionists are actually able to stretch the fibrous tissues known as ligaments. Ligaments hold organs in place and fasten bones together. Ligaments normally restrict the movements of certain joints, but some folks find that their ligaments are more flexible than others.

A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.

Pinocchio is Italian for pine head.

The fastest restaurant in the world serves the client´s food within 13 seconds after the order is made (in tables of four).

Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music.

There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain.

The length of the finger dictates how fast the finger-nail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your finger-nails.

10 percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed.

Barbie sold more Corvettes in 1984 than General Motors.

Every 8 seconds one acre of U.S trees disappears.

If you find that your eyes are puffy in the mornings, it could be that your head isnt high enough when you sleep. If your head is below or at the same level as your heart, the blood is going to pool and cause puffiness. Raise your pillow.

The largest city in the U.S. that has never had a recorded temperature of 100 degrees or more is Miami, Florida.

Soap Operas are so called because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.

No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

Hanukkah can be spelled in 17 different ways: Channuka, Channukah, Chanuka, Chanukah, Chanuko, Hannuka, Hannukah, Hanuka, Hanukah, Hanukkah, Kanukkah, Khannuka, Khannukah, Khanuka, Khanukah, and Khanukkah, and Chanuccah.

The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.

In 1903, driving his famous "999" built by Henry Ford, Berner Eli ("Barney") Oldfield became the first man to achieve 60 miles per hour, a speed many doctors of the day claimed would cause deafness.

If you stick your head in the freezer if you have a major cold, it will shrink the blood vessels in your nose and it will allow you to breathe.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Porcupines have 30,000 plus quills.

The snail only moves 0.000362005 MPH.

A hippo can run faster than a human can.

Its against the law to tickle a girl in Norton, Virginia.

Its against the law of Hawaii for a person to insert pennies in the ear.

Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.

In a ping pong match in 1936 Alex Ehrilichand and Paneth Farcas rallied for 2 hours and 12 minutes.

The tallest dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was 42 inches tall and weighed 238 lbs.

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

The Cairo Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1970. The Cairo fire station was located inside the same building.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

The condom - made originally of linen, was invented in the early 1500s.

Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.

Every swiss citizen is required to have access to a bomb shelter.

In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The Utah State Bird is the California Seagull and the Utah State Tree is the Colorado Spruce.

An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean.

The first electric Christmas lights were created by a telephone company PBX installer. Back in the old days, candles were used to decorate Christmas trees. This was obviously very dangerous. Telephone employees are trained to be safety concious. This installer took the lights from an old switchboard, connected them together, strung them on the tree, and hooked them to a battery.

The dot above an i is called a tittle.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capras "Its A Wonderful Life".

Former president Ulysses S. Grants real name was Hiram.

More than one-fourth of the entire population of Memphis, Tennessee, was wiped out by yellow fever in 1878.

More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state.

Before 1913, the U.S. had no income tax. The 16th Amendment was needed so the government could do what they wanted to with the money.

The 30s gangster Machine Gun Kelly gave the FBI the nickname "G-Men."

All banks in the U.S. were closed during the week of March 5th - 12th, 1933. This was to keep scared people from taking all their money out.

John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents.

Harry S. Truman was the only president in this century who didnt have a college education.

Long before the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay became a prison, it was used as a military fort. Shortly prior to this, the first light house located on the West Coast was built here in 1854.

July 4, 1776, is the "official" date when our country was born, but actually was not one country until 1788.

The 33rd president was Harry S. Truman. What is his middle name? His parents were going to give him the name Shippe or Solomon, the names of his grandfathers. They could not agree, so they gave him just an initial, "S".

The Missouri River is 2,466 miles long and the Mississippi River is 2,348 miles. Why is the Mississippi called our longest river? The Missouri is not continuous. More correctly, the Mississippi should be referred to as the longest continuous river.

They actually put rubber in gum, this helps you to make bubbles.

On average a pencil could draw a line 35 miles long.

The skin of a hippo is an inch and a half thick.

The bottle-nosed whale can reach a depth of 3,000 feet in a minute.

There is a naked man hidden in the camel on Camel Cigarette packages.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Your arm is stronger when you relax it.

There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.

Many Japanese golfers carry "hole-in-one" insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share ones good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an "ace." The price for what the Japanese term an "albatross" can often reach $10,000.

Goats eyes have rectangular pupils.

The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard

The average teenager uses the phrase "Its not fair" 86 times a day.

In some schools, youre given as many times as you want to get the answer right.

Scotophobia - a fear of the dark and also the fear of anything Scottish!

The worlds largest crossword-puzzle contained 82951 cells!

Cats eyes shine at night because of the light reflected by the tapetum, a layer of cells forming a large part of the inner eye.

In the US natural gas first came from a shallow well in New York, in 1821. Distributed through a small-bore lead pipe, it was used for lighting and cooking.

Did you know that Paul Revere never completed his journey? On the evening of 18 April 1775, Paul Revere was instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. Riding a horse that he borrowed from his friend Deacon John Larkin, he alarmed the countryside, stopping at each house, and reached Lexington at midnight.

By the age of 10, Ramesses II was captain in the army and had his own harem. He fathered 111 sons and 67 daughters.

In 1891, 2 Frenchman, René Panhard and Emile Levassor, were the first to put an engine in the front of the car, which gave better balance, and the weight on the front wheels made it easier to steer.

The worlds heaviest bell weighing 196 tons, is in the Kremlin and has never been rung.

The costliest dress ever made was priced at 1 million. It was a white royal-embroided muslin evening gown decorated with 516 diamonds.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

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

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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

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

Europe is the only continent without a desert.

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

Goodyear rubber company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.

It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

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

Horses can sleep standing up.

Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

Your brain is 80% water.

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

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

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

The billionth digit of pi is 9.

Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.

Kermit the Frog is left handed.

The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn’t end in an A is Afghanistan.

The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

Assuming Rudolph was in front there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Shirley Temple always had 56 curls in her hair.

All porcupines float in water.

Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable by death under church law.

There is a 1 in 685,000 chance that you will accidentally drown in your own bath.

Mickey Mouse was banned in Romania in 1935 because it was felt that he was too scary for children.

Mosquitos have forty-seven teeth.

There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.

Queen Victoria was the first European monarch to use a telephone.

A pound of termites has more nutrients than a pound of beef or pork.

The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly.

If you started counting, and said one number every second, it would take you 33 years to get to 1 billion.

20 newborn opossums can fit into a tablespoon.

The Milky Way galaxy contains 5 billion stars larger than our sun.

The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

During it’s lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.

Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.

Shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel.

Turkey’s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.

In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ‘ugly’ potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.

The magic word ‘Abracadabra’ was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother, they were both deaf.

There are more nutrients in the cornflake packet itself than there are in the actual cornflake.

A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.

Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

The Roman Emperor Nero used to eat Leeks to try to improve his singing voice.

After his first concert appearance Elvis presley was advised to consider becoming a lorry driver.

Children grow faster in springtime than they do the rest of the year.

A yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow, and grunts like a pig.

The measurement of a yard was instituted by Henry I, who decided it should be the distance from the end of his nose to his thumb.

It has been traditional to serve fish with a slice of lemon since the Middle Ages when people believed that the fruits juice would dissolve any bones accidentally swallowed.

Horses do not have collar bones.

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

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.

The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.

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

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

Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.

The word "sophomore" means "sophisticated moron."

To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs–it will let you go instantly.

A whale’s penis is called a dork.

In Super Mario Bros., Mario’s full name is Mario Mario, and Luigi’s is Luigi Mario.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ‘mantles’) are radioactive — so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

Americans will also produce enough gas to fly a fleet of 75 Hindenbergs from L.A. to New York in 24 hours.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

Cat’s urine glows under a black-light.

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

Rats cannot vomit.

John D. Rockefeller was actually the richest man ever. He was worth $900 million back when he lived, which would be equivalent to $189 billion dollars today.

In Meghalaya State, India, almost 39 feet of rain is poured down annually, causing flooding almost 75% of the year.

A guy from Ottawa, Canada did 3,416 push-ups in one hour before almost passing out after he was done.