40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet
1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
The mother of Michael Nesmith of “The Monkees” invented whiteout.
The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
Greece’s national anthem has 158 verses.
Eskimos have over 15 words for the English word of ‘Snow’
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.
A man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
A spider’s web is not a home, but rather a trap for its food. They are as individual as snowflakes, with no two ever being the same. Some tropical spiders have built webs over eighteen feet across.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.
When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it’s the bell.
About 55% of all movies are rated R.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for other animals, make products we use (like honey and silk) or have medical uses.
The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.
$203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
When sharks take a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.
There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.
The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.
The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
A housefly will regurgitate its food and eat it again.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
11% of the world is left-handed.
The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
The volume of the earth’s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.
The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren’t added to it.
The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.
A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.
Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.
The venom of the Australian Brown Snake is so powerful only 1/14,000th of an ounce is enough to kill a human.
“The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Starfish have no brains.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
There are over 58 million dogs in the US
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.
