The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting.
The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs.
Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The Morgan’s Sphinx Moth from Madagascar has a proboscis (tube mouth) that is 12 to 14 inches long to get the nectar from the bottom of a 12 inch deep orchid discovered by Charles Darwin.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
All polar bears are left-handed.
“Ithyphallophobia” is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.
90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year
Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).
The pancreas produces Insulin.
Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Jim Morrison, of the 60’s rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.
Flies jump backwards during takeoff.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13.
Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.
A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.
Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Jim Henson first coined the word “Muppet”. It is a combination of “marionette” and “puppet.”
The first female guest host of “Saturday Night Live” was Candace Bergen.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don’t dry out.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.
Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
“Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.
In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was Aron.
When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”.
Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.
Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence…and now they are already past the Moon.
It is believed that Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.
US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”.
The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
Termites have been known to eat food twice as fast when heavy metal music is playing.
The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus – In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows’ milk.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
