Your brain is more active when its asleep than when its watching TV!
If you're ever in Chicago, remember not to feed a Dog whiskey - it's against the law.
The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
It is estimated that around 10% of Americans have picked someone else's nose.
There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.
An Ostrich's eye is actually bigger than its brain.
The average person will spend around 2 weeks of their life waiting on traffic lights to change.
Someone with an irrational fear of meat is called a carnophobic.
In Albania, nodding your head means 'no' and shaking your head means 'yes'
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
The ancient Mayans valued Chocolate so much that cocoa beans were once used as currency.
Polar bears are predominately left handed.
Synesthesia is a rare condition where the human senses are combined. Synesthetes can 'see' words, 'taste' colours and shapes, and 'feel' flavours.
Whilst the Bible is the world's best-selling book, it's also the world's most shoplifted book.
Bats will always turn left when exiting a cave.
It is estimated that on averate, during a lifetime an American Man will spend about 3,500 hours shaving.
Months that start on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The ZIP code 12345 is assigned to a company in Schenectady, New York - General Electric.
If you lift a kangaroo's tail, it can't hop.
In 1924, a nicotine-addicted monkey in South Bend, Indiana was convicted of smoking a cigarette. His punishment was to pay a $25 fine and trial costs.
The film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me had to be renamed in Singapore as censors didn't like the title - it was briefly forced to change it to 'The Spy Who Shioked Me.' (Shioked means 'treated nicely.')
The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.
Before she met Popeye, Olive Oyl went out with Ham Gravy.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The praying mantis only has one ear.
Sneezes can reach up to 100 mph.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size 39-23-33.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching the television.
Panda Bears spend around 12 hours of their day eating bamboo.
Peter Falk has a glass eye.
The common vulgar expression, "Son of a bitch" was first used in Disney's Lady and the Tramp.
The smallest book in the Library of Congress is Old King Cole measuring just 1/25 inch by 1/25 inch, or about the size of a period at the end of this sentence.
One out of every three people cant snap their fingers.
President Theodore Roosevelt was keen on Animals, and had various 'pets' including Sailor Boy, a Chesapeake Bay retriever, Manchu, a Pekingese, Skip, a mutt, cats named Tom Quartz and Slippers, Josiah the badger, Algonquin the pony, Eli the macaw, Jonathan the rat, Emily Spinach the snake, 12 horses, 5 bears, 5 guinea pigs, and an owl, squirrel, lion, hyena amongst others...
"Aegilops" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be created by using only the top row of the keyboard.
Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
Each day we lose anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 brain cells.
Our nails grow at a rate of around 0.1 mm per day. So it would take roughly 3 months to replace an entire fingernail.
Contrary to popular belief there has only been 1 alligator found in the NY underground. In 1935 4 kids pulled a 57Kg Gator from a sewer.
You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
In Britain if you wish to have a TV you must buy a license.
In 1911 a dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt. This unlucky creatre is the only one known to have been killed by a meteor.
Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.
An Ostrich can reach speeds of 31 mph.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
In Topeka, Kansas it is illegal for you to install a bathtub.
Actor Bela Lugosi was buried, as he had requested, in his famous Dracula cape.
Koala Bears sleep for around 19 hours a day.
Koala Bears are one of my the most dangersous creatures to be near. The eculiptous leaves that they eat are like drugs for them, and if you disturb them while they eat (they eat for 98% of their entire lifetime) then they will actually try to fight you. They do have viciously large claws might I add.
The word 'God' appears in the bible 3,358 times.
Jellyfish are more than 95% water, have no heart, bones or real eyes.
In the Southern Hemisphere, no country has ever hosted an Olympic Winter Games.
There is a southern French wine called Fat Bastard Chardonnay.
A 1997 Gallup poll discovered that 24 percent of American workers would, if they could, fire their boss.
In England, impersonating Chelsea pensioners is against the law.
The average adult will stand around 0.5 inches taller in the morning than in the evning due the slight cartilage compression that happens over the course of a day.
There are about 100,000 hairs on the human head.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Due to the contraction and expansion of metal, the Eiffel Tower's height varies by several inches, depending on temperature.
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.
In the 18th century all carrots were either Purple or White. It was the Dutch farmers who decided to plant and cultivate Orange crops as it was their national colour.
The cruel (and somewhat Mad) Roman Emperor Caligula once made his horse a Senator.
In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant
The next glass of water you drink could contain molecules that Dinosaurs drank - there is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when it was formed.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Dating back to the 1600s, thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.
In Italy, a man can be arrested if he wears a skirt in public.
A town named Dildo exists in Newfoundland, Canada.
The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
Actor Bela Lugosi was buried, as he had requested, in his famous Dracula cape.
An average person will spend two weeks of their life kissing.
Koala Bears sleep for around 19 hours a day.
The word 'God' appears in the bible 3,358 times.
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