» The average
human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
» A cockroach
can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
» A rhinoceros
horn is made of compacted hair.
» The shortest
war in history was between Zanzibar an 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.
» Donald Duck
comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
» More people
are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
» Stewardesses
is one of the longest words 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.
» No president
of the United States was an only child.
» The word "lethologica"
describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
» TYPEWRITER,
is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters 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 Eisenhower
interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These
straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
» Vatican City
is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size
108.7 acres.
» The longest
town name in the world has 167 letters.
» Did you know
you share your birthday with at least 9 other million 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.
» The
average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.