A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

Horses cannot vomit.

Rabbits cannot vomit.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

The only planet without a ring is earth.

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmentarianism".

When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, besides sewing the first American flag, was running a munition factory in her basement.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.

Canola oil is actually grape seed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The A &W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

A baby eel is called an elver; a baby oyster is called a spat.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

There are four cars and ten light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anni-frid.)

What five-digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978, 21978 x 4 = 87912.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and “strengths.”

On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan; Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

The dot over the letter 'I' is called a tittle.

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view.

When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox; Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes. In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47.

Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean Ingrown toenails is hereditary.

Winston Churchill was born in ladies' room during a dance.

The largest city in the United States with a one-syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.

We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation was played by six different cats.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672.

A full seven- percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

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.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language, which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.

On average people fear spiders more than they do do death.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.

The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.

Jellyfish do not have brains.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

John Lennon's first girlfriend’s name was Thelma Pickles.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey, USA.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in a 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.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses; no one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

The city with the most Rolls Royce per capita, is Hong Kong.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and Hydroxydesoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

Turkish towels are French and Indian ink comes form China.

The word yo-yo actually means come-come.

The longest word that can be spelled by using only the left hand on a standard keyboard is stewardesses.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled with out repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
 

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Disney's Snow White was originally drawn as a Blonde.

Mel Blanc (the voice of bug’s bunny) was allergic to carrots.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its a wonderful life."

The average woman eats 20kg of lipstick in her life.

Like fingerprints everyone’s tongue print is different.

One in every 2.5 marriages ends up in divorce.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

Every two and a half years, there are two full moons in a month instead of the usual one full moon. The second full moon is called a blue moon.

If you toss a 5-cent piece 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.