Factoid
Did You Know?
- There are more stars in the universe, than grains of sand on all the
beaches in the world? There is proof that there are over 100 billion
billion as of 1982.
- If there were ever an ocean big enough, Saturn would be the only
planet that could float? This is because its density is lighter than
that of water (it is mostly gas).
- There are over 500,000 craters on the moon that can be seen from the
planet Earth? It would take over 400 hours to count them all, not
including the ones on the far side of the moon.
Factoid
The Human Body
- The human brain is 80% water.
- Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
- The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
- Podobromhidrosis is more commonly known as 'smelly feet'.
- The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.
Quote
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
- - Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973)
Living World Trivia
-- Hummingbirds can't walk.
-- A zebra is white with black stripes.
-- Crocodiles swallow stones to help them diver deeper.
-- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of it's body.
-- Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
-- It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.
Factoid
Science and Technology Trivia
-- Pearls melt in vinegar.
-- The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
-- Soda water does not contain soda.
-- The Lie Detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.
-- According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one
and a half minutes.
Factoid
Human World Trivia
-- Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the
world. The largest is petrol.
-- The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the
specific purpose of curing hay fever.
-- Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor.
-- The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong
to women.
Here are some very interesting but absolutely true facts, enjoy them!
--> Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning!
--> It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
--> Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
--> Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
--> About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
--> A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h! Wow!
--> The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
--> Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
--> Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue!
--> A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
--> The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
--> The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
--> America once issued a 5-cent bill!
--> Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
--> Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
--> A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
--> Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
--> Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
--> Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
--> You blink about 84,000,000 times a year!
--> In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
--> A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
--> Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
--> The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
--> A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
--> The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
--> A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
--> The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
--> Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that paws?!
--> The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
--> Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
--> Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
--> Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is be it red or neon yellow!
--> Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
--> Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
--> After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! Yuk!
Some more Trivia :))
--> Coca-Cola was originally green.
--> Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
--> It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
--> Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collie, 2) Poodle, 3) Golden
retriever -- Dumbest: Afghan hound.
--> Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
--> Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
--> Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served first class: $40,000
--> City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
--> State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
--> Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
--> Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
--> Average number of days a West German goes without washing his
underwear: 7
--> Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they
had it to do all over again: 80% -- Percentage of American women who say
they'd marry the same man: 50%
--> Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
--> Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
--> Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World:
70%
--> Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
--> Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in
Courage
--> Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
--> The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
--> The youngest pope was 11 years old.
--> Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
--> First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
--> A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
--> In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile
services two-way radios (in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number
the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels two and
up, but no channel one.
--> The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
--> The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.
--> Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
--> Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
--> The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
--> The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the
name of the Don McLean song.)
--> When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
--> 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.
--> Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts -
Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
--> 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
--> If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
--> Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."
--> Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but
the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
--> "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
--> The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the
South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being
loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a
target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
--> Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
--> The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your
thumb.
--> An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
--> The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
--> The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five
must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.
--> David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He
spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed
over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
--> In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
--> The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the
"General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
--> The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as
is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still
had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks
and whites.
--> The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each
gallon of diesel that it burns.
--> Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
--> The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.
--> Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
--> If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being able to make change for a dollar.
--> No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.
--> The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
--> The only two days of the year in which there are no professional
sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after
the Major League all-stars Game.
--> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
--> The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."