The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow.
A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.
The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese.
There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species.
The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named “Jesus Christ.”
You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.
King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.
“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.
Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
On average a hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.
Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
98% of Japanese are cremated.
Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out – approximately 4.6 times per week.
The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, of which only about 460 are more than 1 square mile in area.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
More people speak English in China than the United States.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.
Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Nepal is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag. It is also asymmetrical.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.
Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.
There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.
The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”
The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
They NEVER said “Beam me up, Scotty” on Star Trek.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
$283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.
In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.
For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
Greenland is the largest island in the world.
The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.
Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
“Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
Termites outweigh humans by almost ten to one.
Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
