Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.
Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”
In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.
The Beetham Tower has 47 floors.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Your brain consumes 25 watts of power while you’re awake. This amount of energy is enough to illuminate a lightbulb.
October 12th, 1999 was declared “The Day of Six Billion” based on United Nations projections.
The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book.
‘Wireless’ communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.
One in ten people live on an island.
The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.
For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
The world’s longest snake (by reliable documentation) is the reticulated python, with a maximum length of, perhaps, 30 feet.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The most poisonous spider is the black widow. Its venom is more potent than a rattlesnake’s.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
The “pound” key on your keyboard () is called an octotroph.
In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Louisiana’s capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.
Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
Camel’s have three eyelids.
Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. – probably the world.
25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.
People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
Slugs have four noses.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.
All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle.
Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.
Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
It’s illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.
The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.
An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
In Japan, watermelons are squared. It’s easier to stack them that way.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I’s mother, had six fingers on one hand.
A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
The females of some moth species lack wings, all they can do to move is crawl.
”Judge Judy” has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
There are more beetles than any other animal. In fact, one out of every four animals is a beetle.
There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
California consumes more bottled water than any other product.
If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.
The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then
Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
The first license plate on a car in the United States was issued in Denver, Colorado in 1908.
Astronauts cannot belch – there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
The original story from “Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights” begins, “Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.”
