There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
“Venus observa” is the technical term for the “missionary position.”
There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.
Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
Andorra, a tiny country between France & Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
The first McDonald’s restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.
Possums have one of the shortest pregnancies at 16 days. The shortest human pregnancy to produce a healthy baby was 22 weeks, 6 days — the baby was the length of a ballpoint pen.
Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
“I” is the most spoken word in the English language
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
A “2 by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.
The Amazon is the world’s largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.
It’s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It to Beaver.”
The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, not the baseball player.
Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “soyce”.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘set’ has the most definitions!
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.
A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Respiratory Disease is China’s leading cause of death.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen.
Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.
Tina Turner’s real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.
Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
Children grow faster in the springtime.
More people are afraid of spiders than death. Amazingly, few people are afraid of Champagne corks even though you are more likely to be killed by one than by a spider.
Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
Emus and kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
One in eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game
Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.
If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There is a city in Norway called “Hell”
Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars’ food or not.
The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
Laredo, Texas is the U.S.’s farthest inland port.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and just 108.7 acres.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef
There are more types of insects in one tropical rain forest tree than there are in the entire state of Vermont.
Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.
Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
The rhinoceros beetle is the strongest animal and is capable of lifting 850 times its own weight.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
The caterpillars of some Snout Moths (Pyralididae) live in or on water-plants.
The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.
A 2″ X 4″ is really 1-1/2″ by 3-1/2″.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.
Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
