The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Annually more people are killed by donkeys than are killed in plane
crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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 English language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember
the word you want.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on
only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to
right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people
in the world.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length
of a normal human's neck.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is
necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still
had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and
whites.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common given name in the world is Mohammed.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
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 when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories per hour.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than
by a poisonous spider
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank No. 1
for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to
death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish don't have brains.