(Colour-coding is for your benefit; if you don't want to read the whole page in one sitting, just go by colour sections each time you visit)
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Did you know there is coffee-flavoured Pez?
Spades-King David
Clubs-Alexander The Great
Hearts-Charlemagne
Diamonds-Julius Caeser.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
An ostrichs eye is bigger than it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Cat's urine glows under blacklight.
The only animal with purple fur is the blesbok, an antelope-type animal in Africa.
Sharks never sleep.
10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The only animal that cannot jump is the elephant.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Howard Cosell is older than Preparation H.
All fireflies are male. The female of the species are called glowworms and cannot fly.
"Big Ben" is not the London clock tower, but the 13 1/2 ton bell inside the tower.
The "Hundred Years War" lasted 116 years.
The Kangaroo rat never drinks water.
Ohio has the only non-rectangular flag.
Ants do not sleep.
90% of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
Spaghetti was invented by the Chinese.
The fastest animal is the Peregrine falcon, which can dive at speeds up to 240 miles per hour.
Giraffes can go longer without water than camels can.
Esther is the only book of the Bible in which God is never mentioned.
An ostrich can outrun a racehorse.
Only female mosquitos bite.
The superstition of knocking on wood originally was done to summon or wake up wood spirits.
In reality, ostriches rarely put their heads in the ground, and when they do, they are not scared; they are looking for water below the surface.
Beef jerky should actually be called charqui, which is what it was originally called; it means "dried beef" in Spanish.
Bulls are colour-blind. Was causes them to charge at the matador is the waving of the cape. The cape is red to excite the audience.
Sound travels about five times faster through water than through air.
In parts of Africa, you can eat up to three human fingers without being prosecuted for cannibalism.
Lemons are composed of more sugar than strawberries.
The Bajou tribespeople of Malaysia live their whole lives in boats. When they go on land they become landsick just as we become seasick.
In Egypt, it is considered impolite to eat everything on your plate.
In Bolivia, it is considered impolite to not eat everything on your plate.
You can feed 24 people with one ostrich egg.
Marrara, a raw meat dish served in southern Sudan, includes urine and bile as flavouring ingredients.
The word "Kangaroo" literally means "I don't understand".
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Over 2,500 left-handed people a year are killed from using products made for right-handed people.
In the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, the Spiny-tailed Iguana is eaten as a cure for depression.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A "jiffy" is not just a made up word; it is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
Porcupines float in water.
When fried, a murre's egg turns bright blue, while the yolk becomes red.
Camels have three eyelids.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside.
The state of Florida is larger than England.
Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark.
About 3,000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the age of 30.
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles per hour.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
The largest and strongest animals on earth are vegetarians.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongueprint is different.
Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years. :(
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land, but they are not agile, so, if you find yourself chased by one, just run in a zigzag line, and you'll lose them within seconds.
Celery has negative calories; It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will go mad and sting itself to death.
Coca-Cola is good for accomplishing the following tasks:
cleaning lime stains and buildup in a toilet bowl
cleaning chrome car bumpers
cleaning corrosion from car battery terminals
loosening a rusted bolt
cleaning road haze from your windshield.
Polar bears are left-handed.
There is a bowling center in Tokyo that has 504 lanes
The world's smallest tube is 6,500 times narrower than a human hair and is used by scientists to work on living cells.
Conical baskets, made by Native Americans in California's San Joaquin Valley, were so tightly woven that they were used to transport water.
The world's largest church organ is located in the Church of Passau, Austria; it has 208 stops and 16,105 pipes and it is a truly beautiful piece of artwork, as well.
The city with the most Rolls Royce's per person is Hong Kong.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
If you see a statue of someone mounted on a horse, the legs of the horse have meaning, based on their position: both front legs in the air mean the person on the horse died in battle; one front leg in the air means that the person died as the results of wounds received in battle; all legs on the ground mean that the person died of natural causes.
"Ring around the Rosy"- refers to round sores on the body
"Pocket full of Posies"- refers to flowers that were used to cover the stench of the sores
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down"- refers to Plague victims being burnt, so as to not let the disease spread so easily
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
The 57 on a Heinz 57 ketchup bottle represents the number of ingredients in the sauce.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
A male emporere moth can smell a female 7 miles away.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
Never give a dog any chocolate; it affects a dog's heart and nervous system. Just a few ounces is enough to KILL a small dog.
I don't know if I believe this one: Money isn't made from paper; it's made from cotton.
Orcas (killer whales) kills sharks by "torpedoing" up into the shark's stomache from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Babe Ruth kept a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep him cool. He would change it every two innings.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
Achy muscles from a bout of the flu? Mix 1 tablespoon of horseradish in a cup of olive oil. Let the mixture sit for 30 minutes, then apply it as a massage oil, for instant relief of aching muscles.
Cover a skin blemish with a dab of honey and place a band-aid over it. Honey kills the bacteria, keeps the skin, sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight.
Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine mouthwash.
To prevent troublesome hair balls, apply a dollop of Vaseline petroleum jelly to your cat's nose. The cat will lick off the jelly, lubricating any hair in its stomach so it can pass easily through the digestive system.
The "black box" in airplanes is orange.
English Muffins were not invented in England.
Spray perfume on a lightbulb in any room to create a pleasant scent when you turn on a lightswitch.
Cut a lime in half and rub it on your forehead to remove the throbbing of a bad headache.
