Interesting Facts

The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

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

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Several well documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.

The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 meters in length.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

Carrizozo. It's forbidden for a female to appear unshaven in public.

In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.

An old law in Bellingham, Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

Sex is the safest tranquiliser in the world. It is 10 times more effective than Valium.

25% of women think money makes a man sexier

There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a five-card poker game.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana

The queen of England has two birthdays.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are currently more $100 bills in Russia then there are in the United States.

Bill Bowerman, founder of the shoe company Nike, got his first shoe idea after staring at a waffle iron. This gave him the idea of using squared spikes to make the shoes lighter.

It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

In the late 1960's, Mountain Dew bottles featured a hillbilly on them. These are now collector items worth five to ten dollars.

In 1945, a seven ounce bathroom cup was the first item Tupperware marketed.

Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

The largest iceberg ever was sighted in the south Pacific Ocean in 1956. It was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide, about the size of Belgium.

Every year, Dunkin' Donuts serves an estimated 650 million cups of coffee.

There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

60% of all email sent is spam.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

Arachibutyrophobia, is a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.

Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.

Chionophobia- Fear of snow.

Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Eskimos never gamble.

Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7 Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

1/3 of all potatoes sold are French fried.

1/3 of all ice cream sold is Vanilla.

Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Coca-cola was originally green

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

In the Philippines the Yo Yo was used as a weapon.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

You'll drink about 75,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of water in your lifetime.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people.

Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet.

Try this yourself: purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: no flies will go near it... it does not rot or smell differently...because it has no nutritional value, nothing will grow on it...even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...Avoid anything hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

There is a stream running under the Empire State Building.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

It is impossible to lick your elbow

A nuclear powered aircraft carrier can run for up to 18 years.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in thier lifetime.

The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Why is the third hand on a watch called the second hand?

If airplanes are so safe, why are airports called terminals?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Is apathy worth worrying about?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why do they call them apartments if they're all stuck together?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?

Where do forest rangers go to 'get away from it all'?

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

Is there another word for thesaurus?

Can you be sure you are indecisive?

Do they toast the bride and groom at cannibal weddings?