No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys
kill more people annually than plane
crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 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.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Richard
Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters
from the word
"criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's
physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
(but i know after you read
this you will give it a try!)
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.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric
chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Go. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
"THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIFE"
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.
Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
If Wal-Mart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?
You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box.
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
People will not always remember what you said. People will not always remember what you did.But people will always remember how you made them feel.