*Nicotinic acid is listed on breakfast cereal boxes as Niacin.
*The month May was once known to Anglo-Saxons as Thrimilce, because during this month cows could be milked 3 times a day.
*The hottest flame known is produced with carbon subnitride (C4N2), which can generate a temperature of 4988°C.
* Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
*A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
*Marble is metamorphic.
*Calcium sulphate hemihydrate is more commonly known as Plaster of Paris.
*The ship 'QE2' requires 25 litres to move 1 metre.
*The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
*For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
*A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering a hundred square feet.
*To 'crack' a whip, the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.
*Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . . by a dentist ( William Semple)
*Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.
*Paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch.
*Tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
*Waves"break" when their height is more that seven-tenths of the depth of the water.
*The power of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952 was equal to the combined power of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan in World War Two - including the atomic ones.
*A full loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
*75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is wasted by a combustion engine.
*Paper money was first used in China.
*Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.
*Albert Einstein was thought to be suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
*The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
*Sir Isaac Newton was only twenty three years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
*A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
*No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
*Just after the first moon walk, Pan-American Airlines announced that they were willing to take enquires about future commercial flights to the moon. They received 80,000 requests almost immediately.
*When cutting a diamond with a laser, graphite dust is formed.
*The metal Gallium will melt in the heat of your hands.
*According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
*A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of petrol in its take-off climb.
*Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung while in the French resistance during World War II.
*Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.
*Mummies, are so called because of the wax (or 'mum' ) which is smeared on to the bandages for waterproofing.
*The first flight of the Wright Brothers was a distance less than the wing span of a Jumbo Jet.
*The study of soil is paedology.
*A large meteorite fell in Leicestershire on 24 December 1965. Weighing over 100 pounds it is probably the largest to have fallen in Britain in modern times.
*Its harder to reach the speed of sound at sea level than at high altitude.
*Water freezes faster if cooled quickly from a warm temperature, than it does from a cooler one.
*For reasons of security, only people who were illiterate were considered for more routine jobs at the first atomic bomb construction centre in New Mexico.
*A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.
*The Lie Detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.
*The Electric chair was invented by Dr. Alphonse Rockwell, and first used on 6 August 1890 to execute William Kemmler.
*Another term for pure china clay is Kaolin
*A car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
*The red dye 'cochineal' comes from the dried bodies of the scale insects.
*Soap was originally made by boiling fat and adding lye to it.
*The active ingredient in smelling salts is ammonia.
*The first hot air balloon was invented on 5 June 1783, it was made of paper and not entirely successful.
*The mathematician Cardano was imprisoned for doing the horoscope of Jesus Christ.
*There are more nutrients in the cornflake packet itself than there are in the actual cornflake.
*Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.
*Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.
*Light is electro-magnetic radiation.
*The sound energy is a pin drop it one quadrillionth of a watt, and moves the ear drum less than the diameter of a hydrogen molecule.
*Each increase of five decibels will half the amount of time requires for a sound to cause permanent hearing loss.
*Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.
*The Biro pen was invented by George and Lazlo Biro.
*Soda water does not contain soda.
*Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on 4 July 1934 of radiation poisoning.
*Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.
*The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
*Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
*The energy released in the ten minutes of a normal hurricane is roughly equivalent to the energy contained in all the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
*The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.
*The first taxi with metered fares were operational in 1907.
*Rubber is an impertinent ingredient in the manufacture of bubble gum.
*There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
*Pierre and Marie Currie's notebooks were sold in auction in 1984, after their radiation levels were checked.
*The zeppelin 'The Hindenburg' which exploded in a huge fireball, was filled with hydrogen.
*The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds energy.
*Speleology is the study of Caves.
*The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
*The stratosphere is higher than the troposphere.
*The search for the existence of ghosts is Eidology
* Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of thesuperflea--they are bigger than cockroaches.
* A horse can sleep standing up.
* A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
* All elephants walk on tiptoes, because the back portion of their footis made up of all fat and no bone.
* A humpback whale's milk is 54 percent fat.
* The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the north slope. Unless the bear lives in the southern hemishpere.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Hippopotamuses do eighty percent of their vocalization under water.
* A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lightingin such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.
* The snapping turtle eats carion and is used by police to find deadbodies.
* You are more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
* Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
* The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastestgrowing animal cells in nature.
* A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
* When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other forfood.
* Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
* Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
* A camel's backbone is just as straight as a horse's.
* The dolphins that live in the Amazon river are pink.
* The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
* Toads don't have teeth, frogs do.
* Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.
* The province of Alberta, Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
* The Pug dog is thought to have gotten its name from looking likethe Pug monkey.
* Hummingbirds are the only animals to fly backwards.
* A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
* Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
* All porcupines float in water.
* Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
* An iguana can stay under for water twenty-eight minutes.
* If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire townhall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
* Roosters cannot crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
* The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
* The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-redand ultraviolet light.
* Cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
* Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
* Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.
* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
* The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stingsthat would kill any other animal.
* The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
* A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
* Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
* All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
* The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claw. *
A Lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
* Rhinos are part of the same family as horses.
* The Hippopotamus does eighty percent of their vocalisations under water.
* A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
* If a shark's mouth is open to long it will suffocate

* The placement of a donkey's eyes in it's' heads enables it to see all four feet at all time
* A hippo can run faster than a man.
* An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during itslife.
* In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
* A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
* Some lions mate 50 times a day.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
* A jellyfish is 95% water.
* Cats can hear ultrasound.
* Sharks are immune to cancer.
* An estimated 80% of animals on earth have six legs.
* A giraffe can clean its ear with its 21-inch tongue.
* Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
* Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
* Rat's can't vomit.
* Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
* A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
* An ant's sense of smell is as good as a dog's.
* Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humanscan.
* The snail mates only once in its entire life.
* Mosquitos have teeth.
* The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
* The brown myotis bats young when born are equivalent to a woman giving birth to a thirty pound baby.
* You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A malegrunts, a female hisses.
* Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rockmusic.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* The distance between an alligators eyes in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator.
* Flies jump backwards when they take off.
* More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed inplane crashes.
* A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint. No two lions havethe same pattern of whiskers
* There was a prehistoric horse breed (called eohippus) that wasabout the size of a housecat
*President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.
*Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
* Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
* Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
* When Patty Hearst was kidnapped, she was watching the t.v. show "The Magician" starring Bill Bixby.
* The first letter Vanna White ever turned on Wheel of Fortune was the letter T.
* Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.
* Karen Carpenter's doorbell chimed the first six notes of "We've only just begun."
* Soccer legend Pele's real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
* Rita Hayworth's real name was Margarita Cansino.
* Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hedren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
* Shannon Hoon, the now-dead lead singer of the group Blind Melon was a back-up singer for Gun's N'Roses on their Use Your Illusion 1 CD.
* JFK Jr. and Christine Amanapour of CNN were housemates at Brown University.
* Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs' Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
* The average person swallows three spiders anually.
* Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
* Everytime Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
*Aztec emperor Montezuma had a newphew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement".
* Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
* 7'1" basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8".
* Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
* Ringo Starr was born during a WWII air raid.
* Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
* The music group "Simply Red" is named because of its love for the football team, Manchester United, who have a red home strip.
* Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
* Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
* Lucy Ricardo's maiden name was McGillicudy.
* Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
* Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
* Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
* Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.
* Genghis Khan started out as a goatherd.
* Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
* Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of "Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom."
* Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.
* Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
* Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
* Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
* Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
* John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
* All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
* Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
* Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
* Anne Boleyn (Queen Elizabeth I's mother) had three breasts.
* Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the only two left-handed Beatles.
* Cher's last name was Sarkissian, she changed it because no one could pronounce it.
* Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
* Elizabeth 1st suffered fron anthophobia (a fear of roses).
* Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
* Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother
* There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
* Odds of being killed by a dog-1 in 700,000.
* Odds of being killed in a car crash-1 in 5000.
* The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
* Nowadays, 50% of all people who get married get divorced.
* Approximately, 1 out of 25 people suffer from asthma.
* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
* Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
* 95% of food poisoning cases are never reported.
* One billion seconds is about 31.7 years.
* 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of "Happy Meals".
* 50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
* Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it--4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25.
* There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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