The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
.Almonds are members of the peach family
.The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
.The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
.The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwh enuakita
.There are more chickens in the world than people
.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
.If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
.After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
.The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
.40, 000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
.Frogs do not drink water.
.Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, and purple.
.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
.Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
.The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
.Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
.A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
.Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
."Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
.On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
.The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.
.Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
.The word yo-yo actually means come-come.
.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
.The average women eats 20kg of lipstick in her life.
.Like fingerprints everyones tongue print is different.
.One in every 2.5 marriages ends up in divorce.
.Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
.Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
.A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
.If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
.The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. (YUCK!)
.The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
.Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
.The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
.If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
.By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )
.The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
.Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
.Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
.The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
.111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
.If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
.Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
.In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.
.Coca-Cola was originally green.
.Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world! (What the funk is Dragon boat racing)
.If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
.Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)
.2,50The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
0 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
.One googol written out is: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
.The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
.An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
.The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
.Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
.In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
.4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
.There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates
.In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
.One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton
.Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names
.In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12
.The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
.There is a city called Rome in every continent.
.A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
.A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California.
If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!
When nobody else is around, 47% of people drink straight from the carton.
In Spain, it is common to pour chocolate milk on cereal for breakfast.
The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.
Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
The most popular Campbell's Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck gizzard.
Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake.
Austria was the first country to use postcards.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.
The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.
The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were mispelled.
You can start a fire with ice.
Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.
Unless you have a doctor's note, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6 p.m. in Newark, New Jersey!!
Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes!
Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.
The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
Pluto is NOT a planet.
Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
Only male fireflies can fly.
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
Snails breathe through their feet.
Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.
It has been estimated that the fear of the number 13 costs Americans more than $1 billion per year!
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
Mothers pregnant with boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls!
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
Before 1933, the dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.
In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
The bagpipe was first made from the liver of a sheep.
The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
Europe is the only continent without a desert.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
Chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs.
A killer whales heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
Babies are born without knee caps.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Cats cannot taste sweet things.
The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!
More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
