THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU DIDN'T KNOW

[Warning: most of these are probably fake, but I don't have time to 
check them out.  You have been warned! ]


A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

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

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.

China has more English speakers than the United States. 

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any
    pants.

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

 February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
    moon.

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will 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 the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

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

One of thereasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers
    in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as
competition.

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

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

Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. 

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each
    gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to 
    squirt blood 30 feet.

The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.

 The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
    necessary.

 When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had
 segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and
whites.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

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

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
    on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.