Unusual Facts
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Gum is made from trees!
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 characters long and refers
to a distinct part of DNA.
In every episode of Seinfeld , there is a Superman somewhere.
Your hair grows three inches every month.
Pigs take 34.3294 repeating minutes to shave.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896.
Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. It's fur is not white , but 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 doe not wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one of her feet.
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.
The sentence, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every
letter in the English language.
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they begin
with.
The word 'lethogica' 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 on 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 words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for three years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least nine million other
people in the world?
'I am' is the shortest complete sentence in the English Language . Not
quite. 'BE' is a complete sentence; in an imperative statement, the subject
'you' is is understood.
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.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
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
humans neck.
The flea can jump 350 times it's body length. It's like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
No word in English rhyme's with ' month ' , ' orange ' ' silver
' , or 'purple '.
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 scissors.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime
time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% and the percentage of North
America that is wilderness: 38%.
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
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 world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Those San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs -Alexander, the Great, and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but
the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Super Bowl.
Conception happens more often in December than any other month.
Lack of a theme song separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show.
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birth place.
Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were
all invented by women.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas would be
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (I think this is a good time to mention
that I am just copying these off e-mail forwards. Sorry if it's not, um,
appropriate.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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. (Sorry again.)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Sorry...)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(Sorry again...)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Dust is 95% human tissue
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.
Deer can't eat hay.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Ducks cannot walk without bobbing they're heads.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
The billionth digit of pi is 9
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
In Michagin a women's hair is legally the property of her husband.
Canada is the has the worlds largest coastline.
The border between the US and Canada is the worlds longest undefended border.
It is illegal in several states to dance to "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Three electronic eyes on every packing machine make sure that there's a toy
in every box of Cracker Jack.
June 6 is considered National Yo-yo Day.
The Liberty Bell has an error where the word "Pennsylvania" is spelled "Pensylvania"
In Hay-on_wye, it is still legal to shoot a Welsh person on sight, on the
second Sunday of the month.
It's illegal to drag a dead horse down Yonge Street on Sunday.
A blue whale's heart is the siz of a VW bug.
Sea stars (star fish) eat by throwing up their stomachs, digesting the food,
and swallowing their stomachs again.
Both male and female walruses have tusks.
The Wright Whale got it's name because it was the right whale to kill.