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8Marcus8
01-02-2005, 09:19 PM
Ok i will start us off!

Left handed people on average die 9 years earlier than right handed people.

GommeInc
01-02-2005, 09:26 PM
Um, www.useless-info.tk (Mentors other site) has aload of useless information

Ryan
01-02-2005, 09:26 PM
a cow can walk upstairs but not down.....

8Marcus8
01-02-2005, 09:36 PM
If you took a baby from 2 thousand years ago to the present time it could live a normal life. How useless is that!?

Ryan
01-02-2005, 09:40 PM
how the hell would ppl no that lol

elephants can swim for over 2 miles lol

yes i been watchin ricky gervais :p

8Marcus8
01-02-2005, 09:44 PM
On average male adolencents take 70% of their brain up thinking of the opposite gender. . .

G-flow
01-02-2005, 09:45 PM
in scotland it is against the law to be drunk and be in possession of a cow.

In new york, you are not aloud to put an ice cream cone in your pocket on a sunday

8Marcus8
01-02-2005, 09:52 PM
the law of oxford university still states that all students during an exam are entitled to purple grape wine and old english biscuits. This law dates back to the 1600's!

Concentric
01-02-2005, 10:01 PM
In new york, you are not aloud to put an ice cream cone in your pocket on a sunday
Yes there are lots of funny laws in America dating back from its early independant years, e.g.

In Alabama it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

What?!?! :s

Also in Alabama it is legal to drive the wrong way down a one-way street if you have a lantern attached to the front of your automobile.

In Alaska, moose may not be viewed from an airplane, it is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane and it is considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose

Pixel
01-02-2005, 10:04 PM
Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.

Concentric
01-02-2005, 10:12 PM
In Georgia it's illegal for a chicken to cross the road :o

Oh and this one deserves a mention - In Kansas, if two trains meet on the same track, neither shall proceed until the other has passed. :s

Mentor
01-02-2005, 10:25 PM
Heres a few..............hundred.....



1. The 1st nuclear submarine was called the nortilus

2. A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples

3. The longest word that can be typed with only the left hand is stewardesses

4. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

5. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

6. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

7. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

8. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

9. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

10. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

11. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

12. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

13. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

14. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

15. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

16. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

17. There are more chickens than people in the world

18. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

19. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak

20. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

21. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

22. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag

23. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20

24. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple

25. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

26. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill

27. Almonds are a member of the peach family

28. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance

29. Maine is the only American state whose name is just one syllable.

30. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous"- tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

31. All golf balls have between 300 and 500 dimples

32. Banging your head against a brick wall use’s 150 calories an hour, that 2.5 calories a minute

33. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body

34. A crocodile cannot stick it tongue out

35. If you shouted for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat up one cup of coffee

36. You cant kill yourself by holding your breath

37. All polar bears are left-handed

38. On average people fear spiders more than they do death

39. People eat an average of 6 spiders during their lifetime.

40. On average Americans consume 18 acres of pizza a day

41. A ****roach can live 9 days without its head

42. Every time you **** a stamp you are consuming one tenth of a calorie

43. You are more likely to be killed by a Champaign cork than a poisonous spider

44. Butterflies taste with there feet

45. Right-handed people, on average live 9 years longer than left handed people do

46. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump

47. Starfish haven’t got brains

48. Earths core is made of iron

49. Cloning is illegal

50. It takes 3 IQ points to grunt

51. The liver is the largest organ in the body

52. There are approximately 10,000,000 bricks in the empire estate building

53. A pregnant gold fish is called a twit

54. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

55. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

56. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

57. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

58. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

59. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

60. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

61. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

62. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.

63. The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

64. More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

65. Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

66. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

67. Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

68. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

69. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

70. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

71. The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wris****ch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.

72. One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!

73. A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.

74. hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.

75. Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

76. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

77. The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.

78. It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris,

79. France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years

80. From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.

81. About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.

82. The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

83. No president of the United States was an only child.

84. The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime

85. In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

86. It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.

87. You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.


88. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

89. There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

90. Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.

91. Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.

92. Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.

93. Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

94. Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.

95. Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.

96. Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.

97. Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.

98. Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million

99. Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.

100. The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.

101. 13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.

102. There is a 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

103. About 1/3 of American adults are at least 20% above their recommended weight.

104. The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

105. The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

106. The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes each year.

107. Skin temperature does not go much above 95 degrees even on the hottest days.

108. 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.

109. Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.

110. Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

111. The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.

112. Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.

113. Driving 55 miles (88 km) per hour instead of 65 miles (105 km) per hour increases your car mileage by about 15%.

114. Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.

115. If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

116. 1/3 of all cancers are sun related. The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.

117. There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

118. It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.

119. The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

120. The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

121. Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.

122. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

123. If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

124. The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year

125. In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.

126. In 75% of Americans households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

127. The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

128. Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 166 or older.

129. The world record for rain boot tossing is 179.14 feet (54.60 m).

130. More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.

131. 1/4 of the bones in your body is in your feet.

132. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

133. You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

134. There are 1,525,000,000 miles (2,453,725,000 km) of telephone wire strung across America.

135. Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.

136. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

137. The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.

138. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

139. The average person laughs 15 times a day.

140. It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

141. The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

142. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles (4827 km) per hour.

143. The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.

144. Papaphobia is the fear of Popes

145. The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. 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.

146. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards

147. The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

148. "Zorro" means "fox" in Spanish.

149. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

150. The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan "finger-lickin' good" came out as "eat your fingers off" in Chinese.

151. "Floccinaucinihilipilification" which means "the act of estimating as worthless" is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.

152. Pogonophobia: The fear of beards.

153. In Chinese, the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.

154. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

155. "So long" came from the Arabic "salaam" and the Hebrew "shalom."

156. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

157. The word "racecar" and "kayak" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

158. The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.

159. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

160. The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

161. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

162. "Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed.

163. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

164. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

165. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

166. "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

167. The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet, a public

168. square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.

169. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.

170. The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means, "the king is dead."

171. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.

172. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

173. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."

174. California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."

175. The first McDonald's restaurant in Canada was in Richmond, British Columbia.

176. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.

177. There are more donut shops in Canada per capita than any other country. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.

178. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

179. In Quebec, there is an old law that states margarine must be a different color than butter.

180. The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.

181. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

182. More than 90% of the Nicaraguan people are Roman Catholic.

183. Cuba is the only island in the Caribbean to have a railroad.

184. Jamaica has the most churches per square mile than any other country in the world.

185. Jamaica was the first country from the English speaking Caribbean to qualify for the Football World Cup.

186. Bolivia has two capitals.

187. The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.

188. Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the summer Olympic games while hosting the event.

189. The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259 km) long.

190. The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain.

191. A single sausage measuring 5,917 feet (1,804 m) in length was cooked in Barcelona, Spain on September 22, 1986.

192. There is a church in Spain that allows worshippers to make donations via a credit card terminal.

193. The people of France eat more cheese than any other country in the world.

194. There's a place called "Y" in France. King Louis XIX ruled France for 15 minutes.

195. The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.

196. The Eiffel tower in France varies in height depending on the temperature, Sometimes by as much as six inches.

197. Greece's national anthem has 158 verses.

198. In ancient Greece "idiot" meant a private citizen or layman.

199. Bulgarians are known to be the biggest yogurt eaters in the world.

200. Czechs are the biggest consumers of beer per male in the world.

201. A Czech man, Jan Honza Zampa, holds the record for drinking one liter of beer in 4.11 seconds.

202. A national campaign against swearing has started in Holland. Railway stations have started to display signs that say, "Missed your train? Cursing doesn't help!"

203. Netherlands is the only country with a national dog.

204. When we think of Big Ben in London, we think of the clock. Actually, it's the bell.

205. King George I of England could not speak English; he was born and raised in Germany. He let his ministers run the country to get around this problem.

206. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) was introduced in England in 1965.

207. Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.

208. In ancient Scotland, every leap year maidens were allowed to ask a man to be her husband, refusal cost him a pound.

209. Icelandic phone books sometimes contain people's occupations as well as their name. This is because so many people have the same name.

210. Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.

211. Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark.

212. Sweden has the lowest birth rate (1 in 100).

213. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year

214. Sweden has the least number of murders annually.

215. Until 1965, driving in Sweden was done on the left-hand side of the road. The conversion was done on a weekday at 5:00 p.m. This was supposed to prevent people from waking up in the morning and forgetting which side of the road to drive on.

216. Donald Duck Comics were once banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants

217. Lithuania has the highest suicide rate in the world.

218. The country code for Russia is "007".

219. To buy a McDonald's extra value meal in Russia it would cost the average Russian worker 1 months pay.

220. Russians generally answer the phone by saying, "I'm listening".

221. The U.S. bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia.

222. 1 in 5 of the world's doctors are Russian.

223. Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

224. The people of Israel consume more turkeys per capita than any other country.

225. The daily commuter trains arriving and departing from Bombay, India are designed to carry 1,700 passengers but are regularly packed with over 7,000 passengers.

226. Nepal is the only country that has a non-rectangular flag. It is also asymmetrical.

227. The official name for the city of Bangkok, Thailand is "Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit" or just "Krung thep" for short meaning "City of Angels."

228. 1,800 cigarettes are smoked per person each year in China.

229. Respiratory Disease is China's leading cause of death.

230. There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script.

231. More people speak English in China than the United States.

232. There is a tea in China called "white tea" it is simply boiled water.

233. The Chinese built a battery that lasted 400 years.

234. The Chinese Lettered Goldfish has Chinese characters on it; it has been achieved though many years of cross breeding.

235. The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.

236. Mongolia is the largest landlocked country.

237. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.

238. In Japan, watermelons are squared. It's easier to stack them that way.

239. 98% of Japanese are cremated.

240. Out of the 23,000 Japanese soldiers that died on the Guadal-c****, only 10% died from bullets. The majority died from fever, malaria, and hunger.

241. The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".

242. The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.

243. There's a place in Japan called "O."

244. The Philippines has about 7,100 islands, of which only about 460 are more than 1 square mile (2.6 sq km) in area. Eleven islands have an area of more than 1,000 square miles (2590 sq km) each and contain the bulk of the population.

245. Yo-yos were used as weapons by warriors in the Philippines in the 16th century.

246. Australian soldiers used the song "We're Off to See the Wizard" as a marching song in WWII.

247. Australia is the only country to have monotremes. A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but ****les its young on milk once they have hatched (e.g. the platypus).

248. The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

249. The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.

250. The Salvation Army in Australia made the worlds first full length feature movie in 1900.

251. Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.

252. The longest place name still in use, which is 85 letters long, is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipuka- kapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" which is a name of a hill in New Zealand.

253. Greenland is the largest island in the world

254. The Simpsons is the longest running animated series on TV.

255. The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

256. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.

257. The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

258. It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

259. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

260. The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour

261. When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.

262. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

263. Children grow faster in the springtime.

264. It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.

265. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

266. Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

267. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

268. If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

269. The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.

270. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

271. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

272. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

273. The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

274. Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

275. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

276. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

277. Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

278. The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).

279. A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.

280. The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).

281. 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

282. The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.

283. The human body is comprised of 80% water.

284. The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

285. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

286. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

287. You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.

288. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

289. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

290. There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.

291. The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood

292. Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.

293. During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

294. Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

295. Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

296. While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.

297. The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan

298. McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film.

299. Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

300. Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open

301. Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."

302. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

303. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

304. Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.

305. There is a sea squirt found in the seas near Japan that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature, it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So, waste not want not, it eats it.

306. A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.

307. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

308. The brown myotis bats when born are equivalent to a woman giving birth to a 30 pound baby.

309. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

310. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

311. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

312. The housefly hums, middle octave, key of F.

313. A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.

314. The correct animal group terms:
A herd of donkey
A sloth of bear
A clutter or clowder of cat
A drove or herd of cattle
A clutch or brood of chicken
A herd of deer
A pack of dogs
A brace or herd of ducks
A herd of elephant
A shulk of fox
A tribe or trip of goat
A flock or gaggle of geese
A herd of horses
A pride of lion
A band or troop of monkeys
A flock or drove of sheep
A bevy of swans
A litter of swine or pigs
A gam or pod of whale
A pack of wolves

315. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

316. Rats can't vomit. That's why rat poison works so well.

317. Giraffes have no vocal chords.

318. Cats can hear ultrasound.

319. A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

320. The largest known butterfly is Queen Alexandra's Birdwing from New Guinea, which has a wingspan of approximately 11 inches (28 cm).

321. The smallest butterfly, the Dwarf Blue from Africa, has a wingspan of only 1 / 2 inches (1 cm).

322. The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator in feet

323. The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.

324. The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

325. The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the North Slope.

326. The Hippopotamus does 80% of their vocalizations under water.

327. The cells that make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

328. Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of a species of super-flea; they are bigger than ****roaches and can jump 20 feet (6 m).

329. A hippo can run faster than a man can

330. A jellyfish is 95% water.

331. A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.

332. A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

333. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

334. A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

335. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

336. Rodent's teeth never stop growing.

337. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

338. A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.

339. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

340. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

341. Slugs have 4 noses.

342. Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.

343. The penguin is the only bird that can swim but can't fly.

344. The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.

345. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

346. Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.

347. Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.

348. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.

349. Insects outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one.

350. Sharkskin has tiny tooth-like scales all over.

351. Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.

352. Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.

353. Lacking a collarbone, the deer mouse can flatten its body so much it can squeeze into an opening one quarter of an inch high.

354. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

355. The orca is the largest member of the dolphin family, and is not really a whale. Due to its size, however, the orca is frequently included in discussions of whales.

356. Flies jump backwards when they take off.

357. More than 20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal purposes. The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.

358. The largest insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with wingspans of over 3 feet (91 cm).

359. Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.

360. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived, reaching 100 feet (30 m) in length and weighing 150 tons. The largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus, was estimated to weigh 110 tons.

361. Cats, camels, and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

362. Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals.

363. Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles (81 km) per hour.

364. The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.

365. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

366. To reach rivers and lakes where they spend most of their lives, many newborn eels swim for up to 3,000 miles (4,827 km) nonstop.

367. A male rabbit is called a "buck" and a female rabbit is called a "doe."

368. It's against the law to have a pet in Iceland.

369. In 1681, the last dodo bird died.

370. The snail mates only once in its entire life.

371. The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for 5 hours.

372. Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.

373. The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

374. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs

375. A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.

376. Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.

377. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

378. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

379. No other animal gives us more by-products than the pig. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk and insulation to name a few.

380. The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

381. A kangaroo can jump up to 10 feet (3 m) high and leap up to 26 feet (8 m).

382. The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.

383. The ****roach's favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.

384. Tuna swim at a steady rate of 9 miles (14 km) per hour until they die and they never stop moving. Some Scientists estimate that a 15-year-old tuna must have traveled 1,000,000 miles (1,609,000 km).

385. An adult hippo can bite a 12-foot (3.6 m) adult male crocodile in half.

386. The Australian Emu holds the land speed record for birds at 31 miles (50 km) per hour.

387. At full speed, a Cheetah takes strides of 26 feet (8 m).

388. Of the 4,000 species of mammals on the planet, the are 900 different species of bats.

389. Rabbits digest their food twice (if you know what I mean) for two reasons: they don't get all the nutrients the first time around and because they need a high bacterial count in their stomach, which they get from, that's right, poop.

390. The name "Kangaroo" came about when some of the first white settlers saw this strange animal hopping along and they asked the Aborigines what it was called. They replied with "Kanguru", which in their language means "I don't know".

391. Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.

392. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

393. Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles (299,274 km) per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles (1,126 km) per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles (20,917 km) away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

394. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

395. The bagpipe was originally made from the liver of a dead sheep.

396. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

397. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

398. In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

399. It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

400. Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832, left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.

401. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

402. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

403. The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

404. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

405. The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.

406. Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

407. Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive.

408. Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil.

409. The 'rusticles' on the model of the sunken Titanic were Cheeto's and bran flakes painted with rust colored primer.

410. Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.

411. Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished and corroded brass.

412. Raindrops aren't actually teardrop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.

413. One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.

414. The first police force was established in Paris 1667.

415. Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.

416. A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

417. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

418. Playing cards in India are round.

419. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

420. Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. Most of it is paper.

421. The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.

422. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

423. Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mt Everest

424. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

425. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

426. The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface.

427. German chemists have made a replica of the football World Cup trophy that is the size of one molecule.
428. That is less than 100-millionth the size of the original. They were bored.

429. The first recording of the human voice, by Thomas Edison in 1877, was "Mary had a Little Lamb."

430. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.

431. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

432. Most of the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin.

433. A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.

434. The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

435. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

436. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

437. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

438. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

439. A jumbo uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

440. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

441. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

442. Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner.

443. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is around the same amount of time they spend in school.

444. There is cyanide in apple pips.

445. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

446. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

447. If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.

448. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

449. Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

450. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

451. The Volkswagen was originally called the "Strength through Joy Wagon".

452. Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

453. Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

454. Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the Building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.

455. An average orange falls just as fast as a skydiver. It's hard to catch in free fall, though - the "burble" of disturbed air around the jumper pushes the orange away.

456. If you're going to eat fast food, the odds are 2 out of 5 you will buy it at McDonald's, 1 out of 5 you will choose Burger King, and 1 out of 10 for Hardee's and for Wendy's.

457. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

458. The first person to ever survive the fall over Niagara Falls was in 1901 when Annie Edson Taylor, a 43 year-old widowed school teacher from Bay City, Michigan, survived the fall in a 260 pound oak barrel.

459. The deepest point in the deepest ocean is the Marianas Trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,837 feet (10,923 m) according to a recent hydrographic survey. This is close to 7 miles (11 km) down, 29 times the height of the Empire State Building.

460. According to the Guiness Book, the fastest restaurant in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made. The name of the restaurant is Karne Garibaldi and is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.

461. World's tallest freestanding indoor climbing structure is the Game Works climbing wall standing at 75 feet (23 m).

462. The fastest Pony Express ride was 7 days, 17 hours and was carrying Lincoln's inaugural address.

463. The fastest tectonic movement on Earth, 9.4 inches (24 cm) per year, is at the Tonga microplate near Samoa.

464. Pioneer 11's speed going past Jupiter was over 107,000 miles (172,163 km) per hour, the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object.

465. The fastest moving landmass on the planet, the Tongan Island of Niuatoputapu in the South Pacific, has recently been clocked at almost 10 inches (25.4 cm) per year.

466. The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.

467. The Steel Phantom in West Millen, Pennsylvania, is the fastest roller coaster in America, reaching speeds of 80 miles (129 km) per hour.

468. The fastest typist can type at 211 words per minute.

469. The world's fastest ship weighs 112 tons and travels at 102 miles (164 km) per hour.

470. President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

471. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.

472. The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.

473. The first ever TV commercial in the U.S. was for Bulova watches. It aired in 1941 on WNBT, New York, and cost Bulova 9 dollars.

474. Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.

475. The first female guest host of "Saturday Night Live" was Candace Bergen.

476. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be televised, on April 1939 at opening of the New York World's Fair.

477. The first city in modern history to reach 1 million people was London in 1811.

478. New Zealand was the first place in the world to allow women to vote.

479. The first television shows to have the characters take bathroom breaks were "All in the family" and "Married with children."

480. The first music video was aired on August 1, 1981 "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Bugles on MTV.

481. Most people have an IQ in the 90 - 109 range. You're considered a genius if your IQ is 132 or above. Chris Langan has an IQ of 195, the highest known IQ in the US. He started talking at 6 months and by age 4 could read and comprehend books. His IQ puts him in the same class as Sir Isaac Newton and Michelangelo. He's in his mid-forties, and he works as a part-time bouncer at a bar and lives in a one-room house on $6,000 a year.

482. William James Sidis had the highest ever known IQ estimated at between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult, he could speak more than 40 languages and dialects. He spent most of his life wandering from one menial job to another.

483. La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia, is the highest capital in the world at over 17,000 feet (5,181 m).

484. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 3,212 feet (979 m).

485. The highest tide in the world is in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, where there is a rise of 53 feet (16 m).

486. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

487. The largest flower in the world, the Rufflesia, grows to over 10 feet (3 m) in diameter.

488. The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

489. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived, reaching 100 feet (30.4 m) in length and weighing 150 tons. The largest dinosaur, Argentinosaurus, was estimated to weigh 110 tons.

490. The largest living thing on earth is a tree named "The General Sherman Tree" in Sequoia National Park. It is 275 feet (84 m) tall and 37 feet (11 m) wide at the widest part of the base.

491. The largest ketchup bottle is a 170 feet (52 m) tall water tower.

492. The world's largest collection of preserved human brains is maintained in a WWII era bomb shelter beneath the Runwell Psychiatric Hospital in Essex, England. 8,000 brains collected over the past 40 years are available for researchers to study.

493. Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).

494. Pencils write use iron pyrite, not lead as is commonly thought

495. Sharks cant get cancer

496. The only parts of a human that can cause disease if eaten is the brain

497. The only part of a tree that is living is the outer perimeter and bark, the inside of the tree is actually dead

498. It is possible to become addicted to chocolate, as the caffeine it contains is addictive

499. Lactose tolerance is when you are allergic to all dairy products

500. tonsafobia is fear of hair cuts

501. retrograde amnesia is complete loss of all memories

502. there are three reported cases of human spontaneous combustion ( non have been proven)

503. Cliniophobia- fear of going to bed *Not to be mistaken with Clintonphobia, fear of going to bed with Bill Clinton*
504. Hylophobia- fear of forest

505. Placophobia- fear of tombstones

506. Technophobia- fear of technology

507. Sicophobia- fear of shadows

508. Triskaidekaphobia- fear of the number 13

509. Pyrophobia- fear of fire

510. Pnigerophobia- fear of smoldering

511. Aerophobia- fear of fresh air

512. Aelurophobia- fear of air sickness

513. Ommetaphobia- fear of eyes

514. Eremophobia- fear of being alone

515. Abluthophobia- fear of bathing

516. Acarophobia- fear of itching

517. Acerophobia- fear of sourness

518. Agyophobia- fear of crossing streets

519. Odynephobia- fear of pain

520. Arachnophobia.- fear of spiders

521. Phobophobia – fear of fear

522. Ablutophobia: fear of washing or bathing

523. Agrizoophobia: fear of wild animals

524. Alektorophobia: fear of chickens

525. Alliumphobia: fear of garlic

526. Allodoxaphobia: fear of opinions

527. Arachibutyrophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth

528. Aulophobia: fear of flutes

529. Barophobia: fear of gravity

530. Cacophobia: fear of ugliness

531. Caligynephobia: fear of beautiful women

532. Chaetophobia: fear of hair

533. Chorophobia: fear of dancing

534. Daemonophobia: fear of demons

535. Euphobia: fear of hearing good news

536. Geniophobia: fear of chins

537. Genuphobia: fear of knees

538. Hominophobia: fear of men

539. Mageirocophobia: fear of cooking

540. Myxophobia: fear of slime

541. Scoleciphobia: fear of worms

542. Walloonphobia: fear of the Walloons

543. Zemmiphobia: fear of the great mole rat

544. Achluophobia: fear of darkness

545. Acousticophobia: fear of noise

546. Acrophobia: fear of heights

547. Aichmophobia: fear of needles or pointed objects

548. Aphenphosmphobia: fear of being touched

549. Astraphobia: fear of thunder and lightening

550. Athazagoraphobia: fear of being forgotten or ignored or forgetting

551. Atychiphobia: fear of failure

552. Autophobia: fear of being alone or of oneself

553. Aviophobia: fear of flying

554. Coulrophobia: fear of clowns

555. Dentophobia: fear of dentists

556. Hadephobia: fear of hell

557. Hematophobia: fear of blood

558. Iatrophobia: fear of going to the doctor or of doctors

559. Oneirophobia: fear of dreams

560. Paraskavedekatriaphobia: fear of Friday the 13th

561. Spermatophobia: fear of germs

562. Thanatophobia: fear of death or dying

563. apotemnophobia: fear of persons with amputations

564. dextrophobia: fear of objects at the right side of the body

565. dipsophobia: fear of drinking

566. dishabiliophobia: fear of undressing in front of someone

567. ereuthrophobia: fear of blushing

568. hedonophobia: fear of feeling pleasure

569. hellenologophobia: fear of Greek terms

570. hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words (evil)

571. hylephobia: fear of materialism

572. hypegiaphobia: fear of responsibility

573. leukophobia: fear of the color white

574. linonophobia: fear of string

575. leukophobia: fear of the color white

576. enophobia: fear of new things or ideas

577. chaetophobia: fear of hair

578. cyberphobia: fear of computers or working on a computer

579. cymophobia: fear of waves or wave like motions

580. decidophobia: fear of making decisions

581. automatonophobia: fear of ventiloquist dummies or wax statues

582. bogyphobia: fear of the bogeyman

583. panophobia: fear of everything

584. parthenophobia: fear of virgins or young girls

585. peladophobia: fear of bald people

586. politicophobia: fear of politicians

587. porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple

588. samhainophobia: fear of Halloween

589. scolionophobia: fear of school

590. seplophobia: fear of decaying matter

591. sinistrophobia: fear of left-handedness

592. socialphobia: fear of being evaluated negatively

593. sociophobia: fear of society

594. teutophobia: fear of German or German things

595. thanatophobia: fear of fear of death or dying

596. vestiphobia: fear of clothing

597. Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern Lights

598. Barophobia- Fear of gravity

599. Batophobia- Fear of being close to high buildings

600. Bibliophobia- Fear of books

601. Chionophobia- Fear of snow

602. Chronophobia- Fear of time

603. Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks

604. Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting

605. Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors

606. Dendrophobia- Fear of trees

607. Aerophobia- Fear of swallowing air

608. Ambulophobia- Fear of walking

609. Anablephobia- Fear of looking up

610. Anemophobia- Fear of wind

611. Anthrophobia- Fear of flowers

612. Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers

613. Eosophobia- Fear of daylight

614. Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge

615. Ergophobia- Fear of work

616. Geumaphobia- Fear of taste

617. Geliophobia- Fear of laughter

618. Heliophobia- Fear of the sun

619. Helmintophobia- Fear of being infested with worms

620. Hemophobia- Fear of blood

621. Homichlophobia- Fear of fog

622. Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish

623. Ideophobia- Fear of ideas

624. Kainophobia- Fear of anything new

625. Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down

626. Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables

627. Mnemophobia- Fear of memories

628. Mottephobia- Fear of moths

629. Nomatophobia- Fear of names

630. Octophobia- Fear of the number 8

631. Ophthalmophobia- Fear of opening one’s eyes

632. Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish

633. Siderophobia- Fear of stars

634. Sitophobia- Fear of food

635. Sophophobia- Fear of learning

636. Frankenstein is the name of the doctor who created the monster, not the monster itself.

637. The first product advertised in Britain was the mars bar

638. osama bin larden is a former C.I.A agent

639. 9.3% of the human brain is used in the average person

640. Captain Kirk from star treks middle name is Tyberius

641. A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second!.

642. Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.

643. If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit!.

644. A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times.

645. The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

646. · Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping.

647. · Whitby has more doghnut shops per capita than any other place in the world.

648. · The billionth digit of pi is 9.

649. · The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

650. · The first one-hundred digits of pie are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939
93751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421 17067

651. · A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink

652. · Alligators cannot move backwards

653. · Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down

654. · Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their

655. · The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span

656. · Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day

657. · The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts

658. · Alfred Hitch**** didn't have a bellybutton

659. · Approx. 16 Canadians have their appendics removed when not required everyday

660. · 97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own

661. · Your brain is 80% water

662. · 400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow

663. · The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet

664. · If you look carefully at the picture of Mona Lisa, you will notice a bridge hidden in the background

665. · 10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.

666. · At 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was the only US President to get stuck in the White House bathtub

667. · Taft also had a special re-enforced steel dinning chair.

668. · The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye

669. · The end of a hammer, oppostie the striking end, is called a peen

670. · Spat-out food if called chanking

671. · Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox

672. · Eosophobia is the fear of dawn

673. · Groaking is to watch people eating food hoping they'll offer you some.

674. · Dibble means to drink like a duck

675. · Lee Harvey Osawald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600

676. · Dan Aykroyd's conehead from Saturday Night Live was auctioned off at $2,200

677. · Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed him.

678. · Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella

679. · Zarf is the holder of a handleless coffee cup

680. · Niel Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot

681. · Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

682. · The sun is NOT the biggest star in the universe.

683. · Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness

684. · Goofy had a wife, Mrs. Goofy, and one son, Goofy jr.

685. · Peope DO NOT get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors alot more.

686. · The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79cm²

687. · Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philidelphia, PA

688. · The revolving door was invented in 1888

689. · Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever underground school

690. · The the first ever televised murder case appeared on TV in 1955, Dec. 5-9. The accused was Harry Washburn.

691. · Small ****roaches are more likely to die on their backs than large ****roaches

692. · A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years

693. · Howdy-Doody had 48 freckles

694. · National pi day is March 14

695. · The first recorded occurenece of a Tornado was June 10, 1682

696. · The first umbrellas were used in Windsor Connecticut, 1740 697.

698. · The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984

699. · The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's 'Born in The USA'

700. · Their are only two types of pig: American and European

701. · Cows have four stomachs

702. · When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart!

703. · A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp

704. · A Dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps

705. · Your skin is the heaviest organ

706. · Those stars and colours you see when you close and rub your eyes are called phosphenes

707. · The human brain stops growing at the ages of 18

708. · Sneezes can travel over 100 mph

709. · 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube

710. · Only 7% of the population are lefties.

711. · A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon

712. · Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments

713. · 40 pleople are sent to the hospitol for dog bites every minute.

714. · There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy (NOT 2001!!)

715. · The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes

716. · The Monoliths all have propportional sizes of 1x4x9

717. · Montpelier Vermont is the only state capital without a mcdonalds

718. · 13 blimps in the world, nine in US

719. · Superman is in every Seinfeld episode (it's on a shelf in Jerry's apartment

720. · Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'

721. Emus can't walk backwards

722. · Our eyes never grow, our nose and ears never stop growing

723. · Camels' milk can't curdle

724. · It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound

725. · No word in the English language rhymes with month

726. · Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old

727. · Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenoulsly.

728. · Most common name om world is Mohammed

729. · Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older

730. · The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan

731. · The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines

732. · A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body

733. · Brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pickup truck

734. · Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

735. · Queen Elizabeth was good friends with William Shakespeare

736. · The most popular ice cream flavour is vanilla

737. · The world sheep population is approx. 1,202,920,000

738. · The world cattle population is approx. 1,294,604,000

739. · The world goat population is approx. 94,266,000

740. · The world pig population is approx. 857,099,000

741. · The world camel population is 19,627,000

742. · The longest recorded lifespan of a camel was 35 years, 5 months

743. · The longest recorded lifespan of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.

744. · The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines

745. · The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items.

746. · In honor of Johan Vaaler, inventor of the paper clip, a 221/2 paper clip was erected in Oslo, N

747. · Augusts Ceaser had achluophobia -- the fear of sitting in the dark

748. · Queen Elizabeth the First had anthophobia -- the fear of roses

749. · Malcom Lowry had pnigophobia -- the fear of choking on fish bones

750. · Lee Harvey Oswald was dyslexic

751. · Beaver Cleaver graduated in 1953

752. · 78% of cats never travel with their owners

753. · 44% of hotels allow pets into the rooms

754. · September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awarness week

755. · November 29 is National Sinky day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it

756. · The toothbrush was invented in 1498

757. · The term 'The Real McCoy' was coined in the 1880's

758. · The term 'Rock N' Roll' was coined in 1951

759. · Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate

760. · Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90°

761. · The opening day of the Montreal summer Olypics was only 21° celsius

762. · A sysygy occures when all the planets of our Solar System line up

763. · The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second

764. · The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles

765. · Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

766. · The 29,249th digit of pi is a seven

767. · The most common letters in english are R S T L N E

768. · 'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon

769. · 'A man a plan a c**** Panama' is also a palindrome

770. · Mount. Olympis Mons on Mars is three times the size of Mount. Everest

771. · On Beaver Cleaver's US tour, he visited Albequrque on a tuesday

772. · Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey

773. · The number one most popular cat name is kitty

774. · The number one most popular dog name is Brandy

775. · August 8th is the start of 'National Pickle Week'

776. · December 17th is Wright Brother's day

777. · Beaver's phone number is KL5-4763

778. · The Olympic flag pole at the Tokyo Olympics was 49 feet, 10

779. 3/4 inches tall

780. · 5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed each day by Americans

781. · 1/3 of all Americans flush the toilet while still on it

782. · There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll

783. · In 1977, a 13-year-old kid found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

784. · Penguins can jump 6 feet.

785. · There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.

786. · Houseflies hum in the mdidle octave key of F

787. · A necropsy is an autopsy on animals

788. · EEG stands Electroencephalogram

789. · A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightend

790. · You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah

791. · By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours

792. · 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day

793. · When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks

794. · The average acre of corn contains 7.2 million kernals

795. · It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop

796. · The serial number of the first MAC ever produced was 2001

797. · The average web page contains 500 words

798. · It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California

799. · The 7th most common word used on the ineternet is 'HTML'

800. · The 42 most common word used on the internet is 'INFORMATION'

801. · Cows poop 16 times per day.

802. · Cows produce around 65 pounds of maneure per day

803. · There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'

804. · There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'orange'

805. · It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a rubix cube puzzle

806. · If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns

807. · The holes in fly swaters are used to lower air resistance

808. · The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam

809. · 'Party Party Day' is occurs when the day equals the month. Oct. is the 10th month so Oct. 10 would be Party Party Day

810. · Party Party Day is just an excuse to have a party

811. · It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan

812. · 51% of turns are right turns

813. · A group of goats is called a trip

814. · A group of hares is called a Husk

815. · A group of finches is called a Charm

816. · The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute

817. · acrophobia is the fear of heights

818. · nycrophobia is the fear of dakness

819. · zoophobia is the fear of animals

820. · pyrophobia is the fear of fire

821. · entomophobia is the fear of insects

822. · xenophoia is the fear of strangers

823. · In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home

824. · The average American has $104 in their wallet

825. · 64% of the population can roll their tongue

826. · The averge womens' handbag weighs between 3 and 5 pounds

827. · Most people button thier shirt upwards

828. · There are only 4 flavours of plain M&Ms

829. · More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made

830. · There are 450 hairs in an average eyebrow.

831. · 60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.

832. · The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member

833. · The average person spends 40 years cleainging.

834. · The record distance for cherry pit spitting is 95 feet, 7 inches.

835. · The cigaretter lighter was invented before matches.

836. · March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day.

837. · Neil Armstrong's full name= Neil Alden Armstrong

838. · Cats have 5 pads on thier front feet, four on their back feet.

839. · Michael Jordan shaves his head on Tuesdays, and Fridays

840. · smart people have more zinc in their hair. Higher IQs

841. · The Queen Elizabeth ship burns a gallon of oil to move 1 foot

842. · The name of the girl on the statue of liberty is Mother of Exiles

843. · A signature is called a John Han**** because he signed the Declaration of Independce.

844. · Only 2 people signed the declaration of independence on July 4. The Last person signed 2 years later.

845. · Lemons have more sugar than oranges.

846. · 3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

847. · There's a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.

848. · The lining of your digestive system is shed every 3 days.

849. · The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat.

850. · In England it is in the key of G.

851. · Most digital alarm clocks ring in the key of B flat.

852. · The sound of knuckles cracking is generated by imploding synobial fluid.

853. · A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees farenheit.

854. · Arnold Schonberg suffered from triskaidecaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13th.

855. · In 1946, the first TV toy commericial aired. It was for Mr. Potato head.

856. · 1998) the Bugs Bunny prototype appeared in Porky's Hair Hunt.

857. · April 30 is National Honesy Day.

858. · The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains

859. · Mozart wrote the nusery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.

860. · Elvis was once appointed Special Agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

861. · Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.

862. · There are 1,575 steps from the ground flooer to the top of the Empire State building.

863. · The worlds record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.

864. · There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

865. · Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.

866. · A duck has three eyelids.

867. · 70% of dust of house dust is dead skin cells.

868. · the only animal with four knees is the elephant.

869. · Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.

870. · the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches.

871. · A rat can go longer without water than a camel.

872. · the human tooth has about 55 miles of c****s in it.

873. · in the Phillippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.

874. · a chicken is the only animal that is eaten before it is born and after it is dead.

875. · weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald Mcdonald

876. · your skin weighs twice as much as your brain

877. · every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

878. · a pig always sleeps on its right side.

879. · there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.

880. · one year contains 31,557,600 seconds.

881. · Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

882. · When opossums are hanging upside-down, they are not playing. It is from shear terror.

883. · If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, the New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

884. · The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

885. · The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

886. · Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

887. · Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box

888. · All porcupines float in water.

889. · An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

890. · Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

891. · The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

892. · The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

893. · The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

894. · It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

895. · Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.

896. National doodle day is on the 27th of February

897. The nnly bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird

898. · Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.

899. · An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

900. · In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

901. · Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

902. · The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis.

903. · Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

904. · St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.

905. · In his book 'The Insects', naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid tha· The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

906. · You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.

907. · Camel's milk does not curdle.

908. · Cat's urine glows under a blacklight t the females are born pregnant

909. · The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump.

910. · Only only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

911. · Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same ***.

912. · Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

913. · Armadillos can be housebroken.

914. · Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

915. · Mosquitoes have teeth.

916. · The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly.

917. · Slugs have 4 noses.

918. · Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

919. · Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

920. · Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

921. · Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

922. · The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

923. · A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

924. · Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) border collie 2)poodle 3)golden retriever.

925. · Dumbest dog: Afghan 926. · A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

927. · Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox. 928. · Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing. 929. · The airplane Buddy Holly died in was named the ?American Pie.?

930. · Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.

931. · Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers. (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

932. · Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally ******ed.

933. · Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

934. · The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

935. · Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

936. · Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

937. · Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

938. · Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

939. · Dr. Seuss pronounced 'Seuss' such that it rhymed with 'rejoice.'

940. · Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

941. · In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said 'Play it again, Sam.'

942. · Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'

943. · Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)

944. · Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant 'plenty of excrement.'

945. · The youngest pope was 11 years old.

946. · Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

947. · Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers (subject is boxing)

948. · Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

949. · Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. ( He changed it every two innings)

950. · Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

951. · Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

952. · Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart.

953. · The state of Florida is bigger than England.

954. · Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year.

955. · Many people think that the clock in the tower of Londons House Of Parliment is called 'Big Ben.' Actually, the nickname 'Big Ben' originally applied to the huge bell in the clock, not to the clock itself.

956. · Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

957. · The only nation whose name begins with an 'A', but doesn't end in an 'A' is Afghanistan.

958. · The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

959. · Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

960. · 'Three dog night' (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

961. · In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

962. · Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

963. · A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

964. · The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

965. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

966. In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.

967. Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer, they reported. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg Lager, for example, is 510-520 cycles per second.

968. "Evaluation and Parameterization of Stability and Safety Performance Characteristics of Two and Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys for Riding." Title of a $230,000 research project proposed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to study the various ways children fall off bicycles.

969. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

970. Several varieties of lightning have been identified by meteorologists. In the so-called "Positive Giant" type, the temperature of the lightning bolt reaches 30,000 degrees C. Over five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

971. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.

972. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The "crack" of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

973. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

974. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

975. The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.

976. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

977. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

978. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

979. Every person has a unique tongue print.

980. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

981. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

982. Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.

983. Hot water is heavier than cold.

984. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

985. You are born with 300 bones but only have 206 after reaching adulthood.

986. Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.

987. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

988. The Battle of New Orleans, in which Andrew Jackson's U.S. forces routed "the bloody british", was fought on Janurary 8, 1815, two weeks after the War of 1812 was officially ended by the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.

989. John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000

990. Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time (think about that one!)

991. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

992. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

993. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

994. The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

995. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

996. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

997. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

998. Eskimos never gamble.

999. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

1000. Los Angeles' full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula' and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, 'L.A.'.

1001. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

1002. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong

1003. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

1004. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

1005. Elephant trunks can hold 4 gallons of water.

1006. More people die annually from donkeys than plane crashes

1007. 26 people killed by blind pull cords in total

1008. Lawn darts are illegal in Canada

1009. There are more psycho-****ysts per capita in Buenos Aires than any other place in the world

1010. The best working light-bulb a LONG time ago was a thread of sheep's wool coated with carbon

1011. The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid

1012. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure

1013. The only real person to ever to appear on a pez dispenser was Betsey Ross.

1014. Mike Neismith's (the guitarist of The Monkeys)mom invented White Out.

1015. On July 31, 1994, Simon Sang Sung of Singapore turned a single piece of dough into 8,192 noodles in 59.29 seconds!

1016. The largest crossword puzzle ever contained 82,951 squares. It had 12,489 clues across, and 13,125 down. It was created by Robert Turcot, from Quebec.

1017. At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.

1018. Only 6 people in the whole world have died from moshing.

1019. You loost enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five pound flour bags.

1020. 20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.

1021. 5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992.

1022. 8% of Americans twiddle their thumbs.

1023. In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.

1024. Horse racing is one of the most dangerours sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.

1025. in 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County,Missouri.

1026. The strorage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes

1027. In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1

1028. humans spend 3 yrs making love.

1029. If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

1030. There are 108 stiches on a baseball.

1031. 250 million tires are disposed of each year in the U.S.

1032. Ukalaily (Ukilaly, you-ki-lay-ley, however it's spelled) is Hawaiian for "jumping flies"

1033. 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.

1034. a male gypsy moth can smell a female gypsy moth in heat from upto a mile and a half.

1035. 26 Billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.

1036. Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.

1037. Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.

1038. Lycanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's a wolf. It is the scientific name for "wolf man" or, wearwolf.

1039. The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

1040. Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. it held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation.

1041. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivelent of 5 times around the equator.

1042. Bacteria increase from 1 to one billion in a petri dish in 24 hours.

1043. Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".

1044. If everyone China lined up infront of you and you started walking past, you would never see the end due to their reproductive rate.

1045. If you tore a piece of printer paper in half: half-way down the page if you were reading it, then put those two pieces on top of eachother and did it again, and again, and again until you'd done it 1000 times, the stack of paper would reach the sun.

1046. Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways 1047. Camel milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when boiled.

1048. The first contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the ancient Egyptians.

1049. Since 1978, 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attepmt to get free merchandise. 113 have been injured

1050. Lime Jell-o gives off the same brain waves as adult males (true!)

1051. There used to be a 13th constellation in the Zodiac - Opheicus. But since 13 is unlucky, astrologers just ignored it.

1052. Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

1053. Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow.

1054. 203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S. 1055. 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

1056. 56% of the video game market is adults.

1057. The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.

1058. One who busies themself with the quadrature of a cirlce is called a tetragondzein.

1059. The quadrature of a circle is the square which has equivelent area to that circle.

1060. March is national noodle month

1061. March is national Food Container Month

1062. Bruce was the nickname of the mechanical shark used in the JAWS movies.

1063. cyclometer - one who is taken by the measure of a circle.

1064. piet - one who is obsessed with pi.

1065. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated



Ps. Yes I do have to much free time on my hands

Soyers
01-02-2005, 10:53 PM
*Cries* I got to number 200 and got really hungry.. i only get REALLY hungry when ive been working out *rubs head* too much information!


OH i would just like to say I CAN SNEEZE WITH MY EYES OPEN.. Hah :)

(P.s. No idea if this is in your list somewhere)
If you rub an onion on the bottom of your foot youll taste it in your mouth about 4 or 5 seconds later

infatuation
02-02-2005, 12:14 AM
EW! LOL


A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples

Xaction
02-02-2005, 12:38 PM
Party Facts


In People:

1-10 = Get Together
10-20 = Kick Back
20-30 = Hit
30-45 = Pop Party
45-100 = Rave

Janumz
02-02-2005, 07:40 PM
When you cut the grass it takes about 2 weeks to grow back
USELESS!

Concentric
02-02-2005, 09:15 PM
51. The liver is the largest organ in the body
No, that would be the skin. :)

Ryan
02-02-2005, 09:17 PM
681. · Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

Mental lol

Edit By nvrspk4 Forum Mod-Please don't make pointless posts.

icebox12
02-02-2005, 10:42 PM
#The chaffinch has no melod of its own and can only sing by imitating the song of another bird

#The first credit card was issued in 1952

#The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven

#Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian

there for now

RedFlagWaving
02-02-2005, 11:35 PM
In Kentucky, it is illegal to throw a knife at a man wearing a striped suit.
Verrry pointles... :p

Fingerboots
03-02-2005, 12:05 AM
In some European country it is illegal to marry a dead person..
You never know where to look when eating a banana..
Dogs can't look upwards..
A duck's quack doesn't echo..
XD

8Marcus8
03-02-2005, 04:34 PM
u cannot touch your elbow with your tongue :p

icebox12
03-02-2005, 04:39 PM
actualy a girl in my year can - i'll take a picture if I have to

#A common Fle can live for 22 months without food
#The largest 'eye' of any animal, alive or extinct, belongs to the Squid. Large specimens have a diameter of up to 400 millimetres
#A vampire bat can hear frequencies more than eight times greater than a human

la-ur-en
03-02-2005, 08:37 PM
here are some useless facts:
The human head contains 22 bones

The mathematical dceimal system was introduced in 4 BC

There are more than 2700 languages spoken in the world

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced

Traffic lights were in use before the advent of the motorcar

African elephants only have 4 teeth to chew their food with

A house fly lives for 14 days

The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki

There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK

Fish and insects don't have eylides, their eyes are protected by a hardened lens

In denmark there are twice as many pigs as people

A giraffe can clean its ears with is 50cm tongue

The tounge of a blue whale is as long as a elephant

Sharks are immune to all known diseases

If you spell out consecutive numbers, you have to go up to one thousand until you would find the letter A

The worlds smallest dog is the Chihuahaua

Chihuahua means 'tiny dog in the sky'

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with

The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria

Tokyo was once known as Edo

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing

Women make up 49% of the world population

The first credit card was issued in 1951 (actually)

A common flea can live for 22 months without food

A rat can last longer without water than a camel

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Newborn babies produce no tears at all for the first three months of life

An average scalp contains 100,000 follicles

From the age of 35 you start losing brain cells at the rate of 7,000 a day

The average persons body carries 4-5 litres of blood

At this moment, nearly 2,000 thunderstorms are taking place aroudn the world

Its estimated that you'll spend a year of you life looking for lost objects

Man is the only animal that cries

Three U.S presidents died on July 4th

The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forest take place inside the tree

Hot water weighs more than cold

The act of snapping ones fingers has a name, it is called a 'fillip'

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue

Its possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'

nvrspk4
03-02-2005, 10:57 PM
Erm the word with teh most consecutive double letters is bookkeeper.

In some town in Illinois it is against the law for a boy to throw a snowball against a tree but girls can. How pointless is that?

You cant kiss your elbow.

All the original Monopoly Properties were Jersey City Streets. More coming soon as I remember 'em. :D

Fingerboots
03-02-2005, 11:13 PM
On average, you spend about 3 years of your lifetime in the bath.
PRUNES!

hellzfrost
05-02-2005, 09:08 PM
Delete Post

hellzfrost
06-02-2005, 05:50 PM
On average, you spend about 3 years of your lifetime in the bath.
PRUNES!
Not if your me I spend 1 hour in the bath every night !

Edit By nvrspk4 Forum Mod-Please do not double post, simply edit your previous post.

Lincoln Imp!
06-02-2005, 09:22 PM
#The chaffinch has no melod of its own and can only sing by imitating the song of another bird

#The first credit card was issued in 1952

#The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven

#Midday refers to the moment the sun crosses the local meridian

there for now

Lmao, Did you get all those from a school diary? Cuz they're all in my school diary! :o :p

Mit
06-02-2005, 09:46 PM
in keneticut usa it is the law to eat fried chickens with ur hands

Lincoln Imp!
07-02-2005, 06:52 PM
in keneticut usa it is the law to eat fried chickens with ur hands

So that means if you eat it with a fork its against the law? :o

frobberwob
07-02-2005, 06:53 PM
HELLO, stupid fact: i found marcus lol

frobberwob
07-02-2005, 06:56 PM
HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LMAO

frobberwob
07-02-2005, 07:10 PM
HIYA MARCUS!!! WOOOOOOOOOO

:Illusion - Please do not triple or pointless post.

Escalabar
08-02-2005, 02:36 AM
The world is made up of 75% water and 25% land (at least I think thats the right percentages)

lilli666
27-04-2005, 04:32 PM
ive got a useless fact and ostich's eye is bigger than its brain!!! :s

Bruck
27-04-2005, 04:34 PM
The Earth Is about 36,000 miles in diameter.
INTERSETING !!

Feet carry us 77,000 miles in our lifetime.

ff_vivi
27-04-2005, 05:51 PM
People ate uranium bars to make themselves healthy.

Steph
27-04-2005, 05:52 PM
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

ff_vivi
27-04-2005, 05:56 PM
1 in 200 people are related to that Mongolian ruler Genghis Khan(sp?)

Surname
27-04-2005, 06:11 PM
1 in 200 people are related to that Mongolian ruler Genghis Khan(sp?)
I watched that, quite interesting...

Anyway... If asked to pick an odd number between 1-50, 84% of people would pick the number... 37.

(100th post ;))

ff_vivi
27-04-2005, 06:14 PM
98th...

Anyway I didn't watch it.

My friend did and we had a free class so we talked about him and how we was such a legend.

brodeo
26-09-2005, 06:12 PM
Chickens can't fly (omigosh i found one of my old threads!)

Kardan
26-09-2005, 06:13 PM
Chickens can't fly (omigosh i found one of my old threads!)

A thread of april ;)

Err...

Ginger people feel more pain or is it less?

I forget =/

Rawr
26-09-2005, 06:21 PM
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Jake-2k5
26-09-2005, 06:24 PM
A Goat can climb a mountain
And a pig cant look up
If u put toast into a toaster it doesn't turn back into bread!

EletricMornings
26-09-2005, 06:27 PM
www.worldoftheweird.com
My daddys site XD

brodeo
28-10-2005, 10:24 AM
When asked to pick a number between 1-10, over three quarters of people will choose 7, the second most likely 8, and the third 3.

GoldenBiscuit
28-10-2005, 01:56 PM
Liverpool FC have won the Europian cup more than any other english football cup.
That isn't useless though, :s

FrozenWhisper
28-10-2005, 04:05 PM
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down Mentor/thybag. The que.. I mean KING of useless info.


The-Rasmus-Girl/Imogen is obbessed with The Rasmus and thinks Lauri Ylonen (lead singer) is FIT!!!
Wow brill fact golden :)

LPFC <3

Eamonn
28-10-2005, 04:36 PM
On average male adolencents take 70% of their brain up thinking of the opposite gender. . .
What if there gay ? :rolleyes:

GoldenBiscuit
28-10-2005, 05:54 PM
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down Mentor/thybag. The que.. I mean KING of useless info.


The-Rasmus-Girl/Imogen is obbessed with The Rasmus and thinks Lauri Ylonen (lead singer) is FIT!!!
Wow brill fact golden :)

LPFC <3
Yeah, it's an amazing fact! I seem to keep bumping into you on different threads :s

Rebuild
28-10-2005, 06:05 PM
Not sure if this has already posted, can't be bothered to check the 1000 or so posted...

Silent and Listen are spelt the same.

Steph
28-10-2005, 06:06 PM
A BLOG (weblog) is created every second.

Miny-R
28-10-2005, 06:10 PM
Not sure if this has already posted, can't be bothered to check the 1000 or so posted...

Silent and Listen are spelt the same.
ya meant it uses the same letters :P

Forest-Law
28-10-2005, 06:14 PM
forest-law's guide to filthy facts

it is illegal to pee in public unless it is on the rear left wheel of your motor vehicle with your left hand above the wheel.

Vegetarians fart more, but theirs smell less.

Two thirds of 17 year olds have at least one wet dream per month.

Left testicles usually hang lower than the right

On average, you produce 200g of poo per day.

Jasmin
28-10-2005, 06:39 PM
On average, you produce 200g of poo per day.


Thants really something :rolleyes:

le harry
28-10-2005, 11:17 PM
Heres a few..............hundred.....


Ps. Yes I do have to much free time on my hands

You just copied it from http://www.useless-info.tk/ ... nub

le harry
28-10-2005, 11:18 PM
Sorry for double post but heres a real funny one

It is tested that it is funner to watch grass grow then paint dry...

Wow

Mentor
28-10-2005, 11:21 PM
You just copied it from http://www.useless-info.tk/ ... nub
Actaly that database is out of date, the new system is only on thybag so far.
Plus i made and own useless-info.tk (athogh with a layout like that i may be forced to disown it) So i gain the right to C&P the facts ive arleady archived :rolleyes:

Most uptodate archive found here: http://thybag.co.uk/index.php?p=Uselessinfo
Athogh i have a few hundred stockpiled facts as i havent actaly go around to building a fact added lol

gregzilla
28-10-2005, 11:25 PM
No, that would be the skin. :)
skin isn't an organ. oh that wasnt one by the way.

its illegal to stop a japenese man from drowning. it *interfeers* with their fate.

oh and, over 50% of paper shredders arent used more than once a week

FrozenWhisper
29-10-2005, 11:18 AM
Yeah, it's an amazing fact! I seem to keep bumping into you on different threads :s
:o OMG your stalking me :(

Luayminator
29-10-2005, 11:44 AM
you cannot die by holding your breath

Rebuild
29-10-2005, 12:46 PM
Not sure if this has already posted, can't be bothered to check the 1000 or so posted...

Silent and Listen are spelt the same.


ya meant it uses the same letters :p

Ooh, thanks for correcting it, that was pretty stupid from me.

Mentor
29-10-2005, 12:58 PM
Females are ten times more likely to attempt to commit suicide than men, but men are four times more likely to succeed.

For more see http://thybag.co.uk/index.php?p=Uselessinfo .

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