Interesting Facts
February 27, 2007Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Starfish have no brain.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which
containing the letter “E”.
Bulls are colour blind.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than
caffeine.
A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
“Babe” was played by over 48 pigs.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Lip stick contains fish scales.
Ants never sleep.
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
Kidney stones come in any colour from yellow to brown.
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
The shortest TV advertisement ever was only 4 frames of a second.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445 923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.
Dr.Seuss pronounced “Seuss” so it rhymed with “rejoice”.
Babies are born without knee caps. They appear when the child is 2-6
years of age.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Emus can’t walk backwards.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of bears is called a sleuth.
12 or more cows is called a flink.
A baby oyster is called a spat.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of
a chicken with its head cut off. It was alive too!
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
A mule won’t sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10
of a calorie.
The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
There was once a town in West Virginia called
“6″.
Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a
senator.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn
orange.
Pluto’s orbit crosses Neptune’s making Pluto
the eighth planet from the sun.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000
tons.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the
same time is equal to 500
tons of TNT.
Popeye was 5″6.
The first word spoken on the moon was “Okay”.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his
left foot first.
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the
bottle is 25 miles per
year.
The percent of women who wash their hands
after leaving a restroom is
80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after
using a restroom is 55%.
The Eifel Tower has 2 500 000 rivets in it.
“Jaws” is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist’s fingers
travel 12.6 miles.
The longest word in the Old Testament is
Malhershalahashbaz.
The longest time a person has been in a coma
is 37 years.
2500 lefties die each year using products
designed for righties.
A baby is born every 7 seconds.
10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth
everyday.
On average, a 4 year old child asks 437
questions a day.
The three words in the English language with
the letters uu are: vacuum,
residuum and continuum.
A baby in Florida, USA, was named:
Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
His middle name is George James.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred
sheep with blue
wool.
A dog in East Africa says “woo-woo”.
A dog in Bangkok says “bahk-bahk”.
A dog in Japan says “wan-wan”.
A dog in Russia says “gahf-gahft”.
A cow in Thailand says “oo-ah”
A cat in Japon says “neow”.
A cat in Thailand says “mao”.
A pig Japan says “moo-moo”.
A pig in Thailand says “oot-oot”.
A pig in Russia sayds”ha-roo”.
A rooster in Germany says “ay-ee-ache-ache”
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air
like porpoises.
India has 50 million monkeys.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own
life.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at
top speed.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the
chances are that you’ll
have a bad dream.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey
Mouse.
Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot
number 54018.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a
bottle at an average of 4
miles per hour.
The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8
inches off the ground.
The foot is the most common body part bitten
by insects.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.
The electric shaver was patented on November
6, 1928.
There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles
Moncke.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog’s legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of
Liberty’s crown.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
The most common non-contagious disease in the
world is tooth decay.
The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg’s
weight.
A squid has 10 tentacles.
A snail’s reproductive organs are in its head.
A cow’s only sweat glands are in its nose.
The world AND appears 46 277 times in the
Bible.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by
Laszlo and Georg Biro.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle
finger.
The human body weighs forty times more than
the brain.
A person swallows approx. 295 while eating
dinner.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The letter N ends all Japanese words not
ending in a vowel.
France has the highest per capita consumption
of cheese.
The hardest bone in the human body is the
jawbone.
4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
The shortest English word that contains the
letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is
the index finger.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of
any animal.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the
tongue.
The most fatal car accidents occur on
Saturday.
It takes the typical person seven minutes to
fall asleep.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is
the cleanest, because it
is the least used.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.
The first X-rated animated cartoon was Fritz the Cat
There are 5 varieties of twins.
