 | Every year, parks in London alone are doused in one
million gallons of dog urine. |
| The germs present in human faces can pass through
up to ten layers of toilet paper. |
| The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting
is 27 feet. |
| Several well documented instances have been
reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them.
The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out. |
| If your body's natural defenses failed, the
bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the
inside out. |
| Parasites count for 0.01% of your body weight.
|
| The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human
body was 33 meters in length. |
| A woman who had recently visited South America,
where she had salaried in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left
ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down
to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed
that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her
eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider
crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed... |
| On his way home to visit his parents, a Harvard
student fell between two railroad cars at the station in Jersey City, New Jersey and was
rescued by an actor on his way to visit a sister in Philadelphia. The student was Robert
Lincoln, heading for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The actor was Edwin Booth, the brother of
the man who a few weeks later would murder the student's father. |
| Elwood Edwards' voice is heard more than 27 million times
a day (which comes to more than 18,000 times per minute). Edwards is the man behind those
special words (not "I love you") "You've got mail!" |
| Police in Hong Kong use trained rats to sniff out
heroin factories. |
| In laboratory experiments, given 3 T-Shirts to
smell, one they'd worn themselves, one worn by a strange male, and one worn by a strange
female, humans were able to distinguish them with remarkable accuracy. |
| Before a they fight each other, hippopotamuses
defecate a LOT. The animal that produces more will usually win. Perhaps due to the
morale-boost of its own smell. |
| The female gypsy moth produces a chemical pheromone
which attracts males from miles around. If a gram of it were released in a single puff,
the males would still be able to detect it a million years later. |
| 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. |
| Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their
unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression
to get fired. |
| 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. |
| The term the whole 9 yards came from WWII fighter
pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine
gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded. If the pilots fired all
their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." |
| Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. |
| The phrase rule of thumb is derived from an old
English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb. |
| An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain. |
| The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
thirteen seconds. |
| The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in
the army for the General Purpose vehicle, G.P. |
| Cat's urine glows under a black light. |
| Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using
products made for right handed people! |
| The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in
it. |
| 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 the longest word 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. |
| The name of all the continents end with the same
letter that they start with. |
| The word "lethologica" 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 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 electric chair was invented by a dentist. |
| 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 million other 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. |
| No president of the United States was an only
child. |
| 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. |
| Einstein couldn’t read until the age of nine.
|
| Artichokes are flowers. |
| On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day; a
child laughs 400 times. |
| Abraham Lincoln hated being called "Abe".
|
| On average, Americans buy 1.5 toothbrushes a year.
|
| Alaska has the highest percentage of Baby Boomers;
Utah the lowest. |
| Only pharoahs were allowed to eat mushrooms in
ancient Egypt. |
| Vitamin C is important because it helps us absorb
iron. |
| There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. |
| Tomato ketchup was once sold in the U.S. as a
medicine. |
| The two lines that connect the bottom of your nose
to your lip are called the philtrum. |
| "J", the youngest letter in the English
alphabet, was not added until the 1600s. |
| The Hewlett Packard computer company’s first
product was an automatic urinal flusher. |
| In Nepal, Mt. Everest is known as
"Gauriosankar". |
| The ancient Romans died their hair with bird
droppings. |
| Why is a newborn baby’s skin wrinkled?
It’s too big for its body. |
| Elephants breathe 12 times a minute. |
| 16th century French doctors prescribed chocolate as a
treatment for venereal disease. |
| Ducks can get the flu. |
| The first tennis balls were stuffed with human
hair. |
| Most married men sleep on the right side of the
bed. Divorced men often switch to the left. |
| The most common time to sight a UFO is 11pm.
|
| According to research, you’ll blow your nose
about 250 times this year. |
| What area of your body has the most bacteria?
Between your toes. |
| On the day that "The Wizard of Oz's" Judy
Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas. |
| The last United States train robbery took place in 1933. |
| In the Middle Ages, you were supposed to throw eggs
at the bride and groom. |
| Snakes can get malaria. |
| It's impossible to snore in the weightlessness of
space. |
| It takes around 200,000 frowns to create a
permanent brow line. |
| Siberia means "sleeping land." |
| Fish cough. |
| Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. |
| At Old English weddings, guests through shoes at
the groom. |
| Clams can live as long as 150 years. |
| Can you flare your nostrils? Only 30% of humans
can. |
| If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own
arms. |
| Abe Lincoln's favorite sport was wrestling. |
| Charles Darwin's cousin invented the IQ test.
|
| Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant. |
| It takes about 30 minutes for an aspirin to find a
headache. |
| Niagara Falls was created by a glacier. |
| You use 15 different muscles in your face to laugh.
|
| The fastest-moving land snail is the common garden
snail whose top speed is 55 yards per hour or 0.0313 mph. |
| A 1,200 pound horse eats about 15 lbs. of hay and
nine pounds of grain everyday (seven times its own weight each year). |
| The skin on your eyelid is one one-thousandth of an
inch deep (the thinnest); the skin on your back is one-fifth of an inch (the thickest).
The average wink, or blink, lasts one-tenth of a second. |
| The knee-high measurement of an average-sized
grasshopper is about 1/2 inch. |
| The official record for kite flying is 12,471 feet
set by Abbott Rotch, director of the U.S. Weather Bureau station in Milton Massachusetts.
He set that record on Feb. 28,1898. |
| Los Angeles Police Department ballistics experts say that
the fastest bullet is fired from a .223 caliber rifle and travels at 3,500 feet per
second, more Than 3 times the speed of sound. |
| Only about half of all spiders spin webs. |
| The Yo-yo is believed to be the second-olders toy
in the world after dolls. The Greeks played with yo-yos as far back as 500 B.C. |
| In the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 6 of the tower’s eight
floors are without safety rails. More than 250 people have fallen to their deaths since
1174. |
| The average wink or blink of an eye lasts one-tenth
of a second. |
| An ecstatically weeping woman paid $8,625 at an
auction for a pair of horseshoes worn by Mr. Ed. |
| Ratio of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame who are hearing impaired: 3 in 5. |
| 5% of Americans let their dishes pile up for a
couple of days before washing them. |
| 3000 cows are needed to supply the leather for a
year’s supply of NFL footballs. |
| 40 bottles of sunscreen are used monthly by cast
and crew of Baywatch. |
| The average American uses 12 gallons of water while
showering. |
