(or more importantly.....WHY?)
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider
Women blink twice as much as men
TYPEWRITER is the longest word you can spell using only one row of a keyboard
There are two credit cards for every person in the united states
The words racecar and kayak read the same backwards as forwards
The word "lethologica" is state of not remembering what you want to say
Your strongest muscle is your tongue
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"uses every letter in the English language
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virgina has twice as many toilets as neccessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate washrooms for blacks and whites
The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan
The last letter of every continent is the same as the first letter (i.e. AfricA. EuropE)
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
The male praying mantis cannot copulate with its head on. Therefore the female rips the males head off to initiate sex
The human heart creates enough pressure to shoot blood 30 feet
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
The cruiser, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves 6 inches for every gallon of fuel that it burns
Catfish have over 27,000 tastebuds
The average human eats about eight spiders in their lifetime while they are asleep
An ant always falls on its right side when intoxicated
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with just the left hand
Starfish havent got brains
Some lions mate over 50 times a day
Shakespeare invented the words "assassinate" and "bump"
Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left-handed people
Our eyes are always the same size but our ears and nose never stop growing
Only one person in two billion will grow up to be older than 116 years old
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers....they thought it would be competition
On average, people fear spiders more than death
No word in the English language rhymes with the words "month" or "purple" (nurple is not a word)
More people are killed by a donkey than in an airplane every year
Michael Jordan makes more money annually from Nike than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
Marylin Monroe had six toes
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open without holding them with your hands
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
In ancient Egypt, preists plucked EVERY hair from their body. Including eyebrows and eyelashes
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have created enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas energy is created to make the equivalent amount of energy of an atomic bomb
If the entire population of China lined up single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
If Barbie were life-size, he measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7'2" and have a neck twice as long as a normal human being
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
Humans and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
Duelling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are blood donors
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland becuase he doesnt wear pants
China has more English speakers than the United States
Cats urine glows under a black light
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds whereas dogs have only about 10
Butterflies taste with their feet
Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour
Babies do not have kneecaps. They develop them between 2 and 6 years of age
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
Americans on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day
American Airlines save $40,000 by removing one olive in each salad served in first-class
All polar bears are left handed
A snail can sleep for 3 years
A pig's orgasm lasts up to 30 minutes
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
A cockroach will live up to nine days without its head before starving to death
In May, 1983, 1,938-foot-long hot dog was made by Bill-Mar Foods of Zeeland, Wisconsin
One day in 1922, Charles Osborne of Iowa started hiccuping. He stopped 22 years later, after over 400 million hiccups
"Coconuts" and "Brazil Nuts" are seeds, not nuts
It takes 200,000 frowns to make a permanent wrinkle
Animators drew nearly 6.5 million black dots for the film 101 Dalmations
Cows give more milk when they listen to music
1,000,000,000 M&Ms are sold every day, and most of them are brown
Your eyeballs are 3.5% salt
Your brain uses less power than a 100 watt light bulb
Pigs and humans are the only animals that get sunburned
To say just one word, you use over 70 muscles
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
The distance between a Boeing 747's wing span is a longer distance than the Wright Borthers first flight
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest
Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest
A 10 gallon hat holds about a gallon
Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona Lisa's lips
The original name for a butterfly was Flutterby
Both Hitler and Napolean had only one testicle
Most american made car horns beep in the tone "F"
The praying mantis is the only animal on earth with only one ear
An octopus has 3 hearts
Dolphins sleep with one eye open
Wearing headphones for over an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere
A ducks quack doesnt echo, and no one knows why
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs
Men are 6 times more likely to be hit by lightning than women
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel titled "Gadsby"- it contained over 50,000 words...none of them had a letter "E"
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head
(what is up with the praying mantis)
Americans choke on toothpicks more than anything else
Apples do a better job than caffeine for keeping you up in the morning
One human hair can support 6.6 pounds
The average human body has enough fat to make 7 bars of soap
You can see the Great Wall of China from the Moon
The Sea Urchin walks on the tips of its teeth
The first couple to shown in bed on TV where Fred and Wilma Flintstone
Coca-Cola was originally green
Everyday more money is printed for monopoly than the US treasury
Youngest parents ever were 9 & 10 years old
Youngest pope was 11 years old
Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite
On the old Canadian two, five and ten dollar bills, the flag hanging over the Parlaiment building is an American flag
Maine is the only state whos name is just one syllable
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds
In England, the Speaker of the House is not permitted to speak
The micro-wave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and chocalte bar melted in his pocket
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
If Snoop Doggy Dogg married Winnie The Pooh, his name would be:
Snoop Doggy Dogg Pooh