- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
- The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'.
- Iguanas have two penises! (LOL)
- A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
- President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
- Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.
- About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
- To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
- Austria was the first country to use postcards.
- Texas reserves the right to become 4 seperate states at a time of its chosing (a condition of statehood 1845).
- 10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
- Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
- More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
- Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.
- In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child “Buttocks” or “Prostitute”!
- In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
- Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair
- Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
- Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
- It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
- A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
- A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
- A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
- Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
- What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
- Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
- If a lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.
- Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.
- Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
- Dolphins nap with one eye open.
- No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
- Henry Ford produced the Model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
- Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!
- The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
- 6% of men propose over the telephone!
- There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
- Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.
- The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
- One in eight Americans is considered poor, but one home in six has at least three cars or trucks.
- There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
- The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
- Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
- A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
- If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
- 55.2% of us will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're using the toilet.
- Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
- Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.
- Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
- Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
- In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
- When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because
of embarrassment.
- Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
- Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
- Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin.
- Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.
- There are only 14 blimps in the world.
- An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
- The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
- In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel's back.
- In 21 U.S. states, WAL*MART is the single largest employer.
- Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
- About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.
- A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
- In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male.
- Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph.
- The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
- A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
- Cold water weighs more than hot water.
- Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free
can of soda.
- More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
- Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed! (EEK!)
- About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
- The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.
- Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
- Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
- When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.
- 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
- The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
- Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
- 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
- Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
- The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.
- Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
- The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this
time.
- An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.
- One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
- Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.
- Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
- Gloucestershire Airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
- Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
- Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put
in the laundry.
- If your dog lives to age 11, you’ll have spent more than $13,000 on him/her.
- 45.2% of people pee in the shower.
- In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.
- The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.
- An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.
- X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by
Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
- A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
- Nicole Kidman has a morbid fear of butterflies. (hahaha)
- The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob
seed.
- Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
- More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
- During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle,
unless their car has curtains.
- The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
- Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.
- Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
- In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot off a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm. (WTF?!)
- When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
- Kittens are born both blind and deaf.
- A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length. (EEEWW!)
- A male baboon can kill a leopard.
- The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
- All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
- The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
- You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
- People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
- 10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
- Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
- There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
- Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
- The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
- On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
- Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.
- 20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
- The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
- There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
- More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
- When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
- Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
- One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
- A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
- Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year!
- Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
- In Nebraska, It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
- Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
- It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
- Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
- There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
- There is a city called Rome on every continent.
- It takes a person 15 to 20 minutes to walk once around the Pentagon.
- All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
- The official name of India is not India. It is Bharat.
- Spiders have transparent blood.
- It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
- The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
- The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe. (hahaha
dumbasses!)
- It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
- By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
- The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients. (right......)
- Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.
- Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
- Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high.
- Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
- The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
- The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.
- Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
- Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
- The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
- 10% of Star Trek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.
- A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
- In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
- 80% of millionaires drive used cars.
- The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic itself!
- The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
- Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
- There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
- The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.
- All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
- Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
- Your brain is 80% water.
- There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
- In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.
- Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
- There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
- 6 million tourists a year visit California while only 58,000 visit Mississippi.
- The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years!
- The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients
in perfume!
- Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .
- In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from its First Class salads.
- There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
- If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top.
- Hyenas regularly eat the feces of other animals!
- Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
- More people in China speak English than in the United States.
- Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
- An adult giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.
- Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
- In France, it is legal to marry a dead person! (Creepy!)
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
- In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
- A bowling pin needs to only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
- Black Whales are born white.
- Insects outnumber humans by 1 million to one.
- It's illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana Fishing License.
- Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
- One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building!
- By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
- On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
- The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
- Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
- Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting!
- Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
- 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.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
- The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
- Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.
- Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
- The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!
- The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded
music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
- Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
- Nachos is the food most craved by mothers-to-be.
- Some species of fish have voices!
- The flea can jump 350 times its body length. This is the equivalent of a human jumping the entire length of a football
field.
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