A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
All porcupines float in water.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
“Hang On Sloopy” is the official song of Ohio.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers --they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Polar bears are left handed.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Starfish have no brains.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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. Same thing with the library at the University of Massachusetts. And Herrick Library at Alfred University.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males’ head off.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage so if the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got"the whole 9 yards."
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.