Dragonflies are capable of flying sixty miles per hour, making them one of the fastest insects. This is good since they are in a big hurry, as they only live about twenty-four hours.
The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
Peter Falk, who played “Columbo,” has a glass eye.
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
“Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag.
Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.
Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a bar
The “Dull Men’s Hall of Fame” is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.
The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually.
Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year
In ancient Greece “idiot” meant a private citizen or layman.
Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
“Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
One in every 9000 people is an albino.
Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.
Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.
More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
“You” is the second most spoken English word
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.
A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.
Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”.
Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th, which occurs one to three times a year.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
14% of all facts and statistics are made up and 27% of people know that fact.
The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.
The country code for Russia is “007”.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their fingerprint.
A jellyfish is 95% water.
Barbie’s full name is “Babara Millicent Roberts.”
The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay their taxes
Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.
Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film ‘Some Like It Hot’.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don’t have eyes.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
