A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
the USA."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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 received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Monday, December 3, 2007
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