Interesting Facts of the World

  1. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death
  2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
  3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
  4. A snail can sleep for three years
  5. All Polar bears are left-handed
  6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
  7. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
  8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
  9. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age
  10. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
  11. Butterflies taste with their feet
  12. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten
  13. Cat's urine glows under a black light
  14. China has more English speakers than the United States
  15. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
  16. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
  17. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
  18. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
  19. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
  20. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure
  21. I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
  22. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck
  23. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
  24. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
  25. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white
  26. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
  27. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes
  28. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
  29. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
  30. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
  31. Marilyn Monroe had six toes
  32. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
  33. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes
  34. No word in the English language rhymes with month
  35. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
  36. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death
  37. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition
  38. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
  39. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
  40. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
  41. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
  42. Some lions mate over 50 times a day
  43. Starfish haven't got brains
  44. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
  45. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
  46. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night
  47. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds
  48. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
  49. The electric chair was invented by a dentist
  50. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
  51. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
  52. The most common name in the world is Mohammed
  53. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
  54. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  55. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites
  56. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
  57. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
  58. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
  59. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
  60. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
  61. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States
  62. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
  63. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
  64. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
  65. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
  66. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world

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