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Wasn't sure exactly which forum to post these in, but this is one of the more popular ones
9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
A baby in Florida, America was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. Only in America.
A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.
A nihilist believes in nothing.
A notaphile collects bank notes.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
According to ancient chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.
Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
The Californian state of America has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in America. No surprise there.
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper.
Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. So a lot of films are wrong!
Rice paper does not have rice in it.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
Someone within 200 miles of every town in America claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
Students at colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.
That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.
The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The average web page contains 500 words.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, U.S.S.R., in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.
The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Our UK is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Phillipines, with an enrollment of 25,000. Wow, my school has less than 1,000 students!
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.
The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.
The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.
The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall. (Even smaller than Mini Me!)
The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm
The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
The University of Calgary (in Canada) offers a two-day course in igloo building.
The Victoria Cross is our highest military decoration.
The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1996
The World Trade Center in New York had 43,600 windows.
The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.
The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
More to come as I do more research.
9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
A baby in Florida, America was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. Only in America.
A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.
A nihilist believes in nothing.
A notaphile collects bank notes.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
According to ancient chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.
Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
The Californian state of America has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in America. No surprise there.
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper.
Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. So a lot of films are wrong!
Rice paper does not have rice in it.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
Someone within 200 miles of every town in America claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
Students at colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.
That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.
The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The average web page contains 500 words.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, U.S.S.R., in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.
The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Our UK is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Phillipines, with an enrollment of 25,000. Wow, my school has less than 1,000 students!
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.
The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.
The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.
The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall. (Even smaller than Mini Me!)
The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm
The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
The University of Calgary (in Canada) offers a two-day course in igloo building.
The Victoria Cross is our highest military decoration.
The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1996
The World Trade Center in New York had 43,600 windows.
The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.
The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
More to come as I do more research.
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the world is indeed a strange place.
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
A 2000 year old toilet complete with running water, a stone seat, and an armrest was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Chinese king, of the Western Han Dynasty.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
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 pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
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.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.
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.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
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 # sign is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
There was once a town in West Virginia, America called "6".
Singapore only has one train station.
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.
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.
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.
Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving the toilet is 80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using the toilet is 55%.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eifel Tower has 2 500 000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
It takes the Where's Wally artist one month to complete a
drawing.
2500 left handed people die each year using products designed for the right handed.
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.
Blue and white are the most common school colours.
It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10 000 pounds
of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
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 says "ha-roo".
A rooster in Germany says "ay-ee-ache-ache"
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
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 most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
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 word "AND" appears 46 277 times in the Bible.
The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "Horn."
The typical person goes to the toilet 6 times a day.
There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
A typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
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 avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
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 typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Stainless steal was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
The only dogs that don't have a pink tongue is the chow and the chinese shar-pei .
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The stupidest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
The first X-rated animated cartoon was Fritz the Cat
The Library of Congress contains 327 miles of book shelves.
There are 5 varieties of twins.
The longest word in the english language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It has 45 letters.
An ostriche's eye is larger than its brain.
The only words in the English language to use all vowels in order is vacesious and facetious.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth.
A goldfish will eventually turn white when placed in a dark room.
It was first discovered on a space misson flight that a frog could throw up. First it throws up its stomach, uses it's forearms to dig out the food and then swallows it stomach back down.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.
A 2000 year old toilet complete with running water, a stone seat, and an armrest was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Chinese king, of the Western Han Dynasty.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
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 pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
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.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.
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.
There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
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 # sign is called anoctothorpe.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
There was once a town in West Virginia, America called "6".
Singapore only has one train station.
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.
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.
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.
Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving the toilet is 80%.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using the toilet is 55%.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eifel Tower has 2 500 000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
It takes the Where's Wally artist one month to complete a
drawing.
2500 left handed people die each year using products designed for the right handed.
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.
Blue and white are the most common school colours.
It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10 000 pounds
of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
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 says "ha-roo".
A rooster in Germany says "ay-ee-ache-ache"
Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
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 most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
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 word "AND" appears 46 277 times in the Bible.
The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "Horn."
The typical person goes to the toilet 6 times a day.
There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
A typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
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 avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
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 typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
Stainless steal was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
The only dogs that don't have a pink tongue is the chow and the chinese shar-pei .
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The stupidest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
The first X-rated animated cartoon was Fritz the Cat
The Library of Congress contains 327 miles of book shelves.
There are 5 varieties of twins.
The longest word in the english language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It has 45 letters.
An ostriche's eye is larger than its brain.
The only words in the English language to use all vowels in order is vacesious and facetious.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth.
A goldfish will eventually turn white when placed in a dark room.
It was first discovered on a space misson flight that a frog could throw up. First it throws up its stomach, uses it's forearms to dig out the food and then swallows it stomach back down.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.
The first word spoken on the moon was "okay."
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the King is dead"
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz."
Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: "What hath God wrought?"
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you."
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes
The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb."
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing
Pogonophobia: The fear of beards
In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same
The infinity character on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate"
Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom
The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'
Before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag
The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it
There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange
The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish
You won’t find a "6" in Cameroon phone numbers--the native language has no sound for "x."
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down--hence the expression "to get fired."
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil"
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the King is dead"
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
The longest word in the Old Testament is "Malhershalahashbaz."
Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: "What hath God wrought?"
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: "Watson, please come here. I want you."
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes
The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: "Mary had a little lamb."
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing
Pogonophobia: The fear of beards
In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same
The infinity character on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate"
Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom
The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'
Before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag
The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it
There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange
The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish
You won’t find a "6" in Cameroon phone numbers--the native language has no sound for "x."
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down--hence the expression "to get fired."
More people are alive today, than have ever died.
A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
Einstein didn’t like to wear socks.
Einstein was a bad student, and dropped out of school.
Galileo’s last name was Galilei, his first name was Galileo. (Earth revolved around the sun theory)
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990’s.
In Michelangelo’s ceiling paining of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II pressured him to finish the giant painting on time. For this, Michelangelo didn’t like the Pope, and placed him, and others he didn’t like, in hell when he painted the Judgment day scene.
In the Dark, Middle, and Medieval ages, the Pope was the true ruler of Europe, because disobedient kings were threatened with eternal damnation.
The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
Elvis Presley was named a ‘Special Federal Narcotics Agent’ by Richard Nixon.
The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928.
The shell makes up 12% of an egg’s total mass.
The Statue of Liberty’s crown has seven points.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The world’s most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Until the mid 1800’s, only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan.
The British launched a war with Japan, because Japan would not let the British import the addictive drug opium. (Japan suffered a great defeat at sea)
A quasicrystal is the only crystal to not have a repeating structure.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.
The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
The shortest sentence in the English language is, ‘I am’.
The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
India has 50 million monkeys.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes.
The mother of Mike Nesmith, a member of the rock group ‘The Monkeys’ invented liquid paper.
The parking meter was invented in 1935 by C.C. Magee.
After eating too much food, you hearing becomes less sharp.
The oldest vegetable is the pea.
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit of Pi is ‘9’.
IBM™ made a computer in 1961 which calculated Pi to 100,265 digits.
IBM™ started out as a typewriter manufacturer.
Boeing, (if you fly on a plane, chances are Boeing made it) became a furniture manufacturing company for a short period.
Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
The mongoose was not allowed to enter the U.S. unless it was dead in 1902.
More fatal car accidents occur on Saturday, than any other day in the week.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
A typist fingers travel over twelve and a half miles in an average day.
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
Einstein didn’t like to wear socks.
Einstein was a bad student, and dropped out of school.
Galileo’s last name was Galilei, his first name was Galileo. (Earth revolved around the sun theory)
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990’s.
In Michelangelo’s ceiling paining of the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II pressured him to finish the giant painting on time. For this, Michelangelo didn’t like the Pope, and placed him, and others he didn’t like, in hell when he painted the Judgment day scene.
In the Dark, Middle, and Medieval ages, the Pope was the true ruler of Europe, because disobedient kings were threatened with eternal damnation.
The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
Elvis Presley was named a ‘Special Federal Narcotics Agent’ by Richard Nixon.
The electric shaver was patented on the 6th of November, 1928.
The shell makes up 12% of an egg’s total mass.
The Statue of Liberty’s crown has seven points.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The world’s most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay.
The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
Until the mid 1800’s, only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan.
The British launched a war with Japan, because Japan would not let the British import the addictive drug opium. (Japan suffered a great defeat at sea)
A quasicrystal is the only crystal to not have a repeating structure.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 2,000 years.
The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
The shortest sentence in the English language is, ‘I am’.
The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’.
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
India has 50 million monkeys.
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes.
The mother of Mike Nesmith, a member of the rock group ‘The Monkeys’ invented liquid paper.
The parking meter was invented in 1935 by C.C. Magee.
After eating too much food, you hearing becomes less sharp.
The oldest vegetable is the pea.
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
The billionth digit of Pi is ‘9’.
IBM™ made a computer in 1961 which calculated Pi to 100,265 digits.
IBM™ started out as a typewriter manufacturer.
Boeing, (if you fly on a plane, chances are Boeing made it) became a furniture manufacturing company for a short period.
Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
The mongoose was not allowed to enter the U.S. unless it was dead in 1902.
More fatal car accidents occur on Saturday, than any other day in the week.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
Wasn't sure exactly which forum to post these in, but this is one of the more popular ones
9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
A baby in Florida, America was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. Only in America.
A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.
A nihilist believes in nothing.
A notaphile collects bank notes.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
According to ancient chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.
Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
The Californian state of America has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in America. No surprise there.
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper.
Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. So a lot of films are wrong!
Rice paper does not have rice in it.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
Someone within 200 miles of every town in America claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
Students at colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.
That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.
The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The average web page contains 500 words.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, U.S.S.R., in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.
The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Our UK is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Phillipines, with an enrollment of 25,000. Wow, my school has less than 1,000 students!
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.
The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.
The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.
The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall. (Even smaller than Mini Me!)
The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm
The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
The University of Calgary (in Canada) offers a two-day course in igloo building.
The Victoria Cross is our highest military decoration.
The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1996
The World Trade Center in New York had 43,600 windows.
The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.
The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
More to come as I do more research.
9% Of Americans report being in the prescence of a ghost.
A baby in Florida, America was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. Only in America.
A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.
A nihilist believes in nothing.
A notaphile collects bank notes.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
According to ancient chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.
Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.
Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.
The Californian state of America has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in America. No surprise there.
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.
Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.
Money is made of woven linen, not paper.
Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
No one seems to know why people blush.
Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
One billion seconds is about 32 years.
One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.
One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.
One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.
Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel. So a lot of films are wrong!
Rice paper does not have rice in it.
Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.
Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.
Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.
Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.
Someone within 200 miles of every town in America claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.
Students at colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.
Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.
That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.
The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.
The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.
The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
The average web page contains 500 words.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, U.S.S.R., in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.
The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
Our UK is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.
The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Phillipines, with an enrollment of 25,000. Wow, my school has less than 1,000 students!
The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.
The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.
The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.
The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.
The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.
The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.
The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall. (Even smaller than Mini Me!)
The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm
The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.
The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.
The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
The University of Calgary (in Canada) offers a two-day course in igloo building.
The Victoria Cross is our highest military decoration.
The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1996
The World Trade Center in New York had 43,600 windows.
The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.
The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.
There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
More to come as I do more research.
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