Weird Facts

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

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

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

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 

The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction 

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 

A snail can sleep for 3 years. 

China has more English speakers than the United States. 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world. 

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. 

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. 

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. 

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 

Cat's urine glows under a black light. 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. 

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.  

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. 

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

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 9metres. 

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. 

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. 

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. 

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 

Polar bears are left-handed. 

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. 

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. 

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. 

Starfish haven't got brains. 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. 

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

There are more chickens than people in the world. 

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched." 

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 

Almonds are members of the peach family. 

There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time
displayed on a watch is 10:10. 

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz." 

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Flamingos in zoos have to drink pink food colouring to retain their colour

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

In 10 minutes, a cyclone releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time.  
 

In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.
 

The first person to die in the electric chair was William Kemmler, an axe murderer from New York on August 6, 1890.  
 

A 27 year old heir to a sausage empire was handed a ticket for $272,951 for driving at 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This is because the speeding tickets in Finland are based on how much money a person makes.
 

A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.
 

A surfer once sued another surfer for "stealing his wave." The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on "pain and suffering" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride "his" wave.
 

In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.
 

In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.
 

In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.
 

In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.
 

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
 

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
 

The majority of burglaries occur during the daytime when people are not home.
 

The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in, is protected by law.

Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water

45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

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

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight and can pull 30 times its own weight

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

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

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray
blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

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.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Betsy Ross is the only real person
to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929;
"7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces.
"UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

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

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

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

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special
desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess salt.

In Clarendon, Texas, there is reportedly a law on the books that lawyers must accept eggs, chickens, or other produce, as well as money, as payment of legal fees.

Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.

A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion
but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all:
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

All porcupines float in water.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

When possums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing."
They actually pass out from sheer terror

 

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

 

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

 

A group of frogs is called an army.

 

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

 

A group of kangaroos is called a mob

 

A group of whales is called a pod.

 

A group of crows is called a murder.

 

A group of officers is called a mess.

 

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

 

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celsius degrees

There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice.

When a man died in ancient Egypt, the females in his family would smear their heads and faces with mud and wander through the city beating themselves and tearing off their clothes.

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

142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142

Antarctica is a desert because it doesn’t rain there