- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
- Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
- A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- Porcupines float in water!
- Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”!
- The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”!
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
- The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
- Cat urine glows under a black-light!
- The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
- A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
- The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off – it dies from starvation!
- Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
- you’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
- Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
- During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
- In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow down their faces!
- There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
- About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
- More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
- Slugs have 4 noses!
- Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
- Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue!
- It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
- Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
- Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
- A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
- More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
- The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out!
- The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
- The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
- One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
- Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
- Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
- In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
- There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
- You blink over 10,000,000 times a year! That’s ten million!
- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
- In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word!
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
- The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
- An average person laughs 13 times a day!
- Dogs can hear sounds that you can’t!
- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word “set” has the most definitions!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- The most used letter in the English alphabet is E, and Q is the least used!
- There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
- The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
