Cini mi se da mnoge od ovih jos nisu bile...

• Macka ima po 32 misica u svakom uvu.

• Bubasvaba ce ziveti devet dana bez glave, tj. dok ne umre od gladi.

• Novcic ima 118 ureza na ivici.

• Vilin konjic zivi najduze 24 sata.

• Orgazam kod svinja traje 30 minuta.

• Ajkula je jedina riba koja moze da namigne sa oba oka.

• Krokodil ne moze da isplazi jezik.

• Na vizit karti Al Kaponea je pisalo da je prodavac namestaja.

• Svih 50 SAD drzava je ispisano pri vrhu Linkolnovog spomenika, na poledjini novcanice od 5 $.

• Svi satovi u filmu "Petparacke price" su stali na 4:20.

• Badem spada u porodicu Breskvi.

• Amerikanci prosecno pojedu 18 ari pica dnevno.

• Avio kompanija "American Airlines" je 1987. godine, servirajuci samo jednu maslinu manje u
porciji salate za prvu klasu, ustedela 40 000 $.

• Nojevo oko je vece nego njegov mozak.

• Lupanjem glave o zid, svakog sata gubite 150 kalorija.

• U New Yorku je sansa da na Bozic padne sneg 1 : 4.

• Grad sa najvise Rols Rojseva po stanovniku je Hong Kong.

• Desnjaci zive prosecno 9 godina duze od levaka.

• Coca Cola je prvobitno bila zelena.

• Veca je sansa da vas ubije cep od sampanjca nego otrovni pauk.

• Slonovi su jedine zivotinje koje ne mogu da skacu.

• Kompanije koje prave "Monopol" dnevno nastampaju vise novca nego americka drzavna blagajna.

• Svaki put kada liznete postansku markicu, unesete 1/10 kalorije.

• Ljudi i delfini su jedine zivotinje koje vode ljubav zbog zadovoljstva.

• Ako neprekidno prdite 6 godina i 9 meseci, stvoricete dovoljno gasa da razvije energiju
  atomske bombe.

• Zlatna ribica pamti nesto najduze 3 sekunde.

• U starom Egiptu, svestenici su morali da odstrane SVE dlake sa tela, ukljucujuci i trepavice i
  obrve.

• U vecini reklama, ukljucujuci i one u novinama, vreme na satovima je 10:10.

• Nemoguce je kinuti otvorenih ociju.

• Puno ime Los Andjelesa je "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula",
  i moze da se skupi na 3.63% svoje duzine: "L.A.".

• Mejn je jedina americka drzava cije se ime sastoji iz samo jednog sloga.

• Muskarci bolje vide na blizinu od zena. Zato zene bolje cuju.

• Ni jedna rec u engleskom jeziku se ne rimuje sa recima mesec (month), narandzasto (orange),
srebro(silver) i purpurno(purple).

• Na novcanici od 2 kanadska dolara se nalazi americka zastava.

• U proseku, ljudi se vise plase pauka nego smrti.

• Kikiriki je jedan od sastojaka dinamita.

• Polarni medvedi su levaci.

• Neki lavovi se pare preko 50 puta dnevno.

• Aljaska je zemlja sa najvecim procentom ljudi koji peske idu na posao.

• "Stewardesses" (stujardese) je najduza engleska rec koja se, na tastaturi, kuca samo levom
  rukom.

• Havajski alfabet ima 12 slova.

• Zvezdane ribe nemaju mozak.

• Mrav moze da podigne 50 i da povuce 30 puta vecu tezinu od sopstvene, a kada se otruje,
uvek padne na desnu stranu.

• Covek zaspi za prosecno 7 minuta.

• Prilikom kucanja na tastaturi, odnos rada leve i desne ruke je 56% : 44%.

• Riba-macka ima najvise culnih kvrzica za ukus: 27 000.

• Buva moze da preskoci duzinu 350 puta vecu od sopstvene. To je isto kao kad bi covek mogao da
  preskoci fudbalski teren.

• Mackina mokraca sija u mraku.

• Gigantska sipa ima najvece oci na svetu.

• Ljudsko srce stvara dovoljno veliki pritisak da izbaci krv do visine od 10 m.

• Ako neprekidno vicete 8 godina, 7 meseci i 6 dana, stvoricete dovoljno zvucne energije da
  skuvate kafu.

• Sex kod bogomoljki pocinje tako sto zenka otkida glavu muzijaku.

• Mikrotalasna pecnica je izmisljena kada je istrazivac prosao pored radarske cevi koja mu je
  istopila cokoladicu u dzepu.

• Ime "Oz" u "Carobnjaku iz Oza" je izmisljeno kada je autor, Frenk Baum, pogledao svoj ormaric
  sa dokumentima, na kome je pisalo A-N i O-Z, dakle "Oz".

• Grcka himna ima 158 verzija. Do sada, niko u Grckoj nije uspeo da zapamti sve verzije.

• Ima tacno 336 rupica na loptici za golf.

• Jedina stvarna osoba koja se nasla na kutijici "Pez" bombona je Betsi Ros.

• Najjaci misic u ljudskom telu je jezik.

• Sansa da prosecan Amerikanac zivi na manje od 50 milja od mesta gde se rodio je 1 : 2.

• Postoji 293 nacina da se usitni dolar.

• Na svetu ima vise pilica nego ljudi.

• Tigrovima su i krzno i koza podeljeni na strafte.

• Vinston Cercil se rodio u zenskom WCu, za vreme igranke.

• Niko ne moze da izvrsi samoubistvo prosto zadrzavajuci dah.

• Beba sivog kita pije toliko mleka, da se s'njim moze puniti 2000 flasa dnevno.

• Na deklaraciji o nezavisnosti se nalazi 56 potpisa.

• Kamila moze da izgubi i 30% telesne tezine dok ide kroz pustinju. Covek bi umreo od srcanog
  udara posle gubitka od samo 12% telesne tezine.

• Zaba sa otrovnim strelicama ima dovoljno otrova da ubije 2 200 ljudi.

• Prva 4 americka predcenika su imala 57 godina kada su bili izabrani.

• Jedan od deset dalmatinaca se rodi gluv.

• Spanija je ulozila samo 6 000 $ u Kolumbovo putovanje. To nije bila pogresna investicija, jer
  se Spaniji, samo preko zlata iz Amerike, vratilo 1 750 000 $ u sledecih sto godina.

• Najbrza cetvoronozna zivotinja je gepard. On moze da trci do 120 km/h na sat na kratkim
  distancama, a od 0 do 70km/h na sat ubrzava za 2 sekunde.

• Mary Stuart je postala kraljica Skotske kada je imala samo 6 dana.

• Pande provedu 12 sati dnevno jeduci bambus.

• Medicinski tretman u 17-om i u 18-om veku se sastojao uglavnom iz povracanja i pustanja krvi.
  Mnogi pacijenti su zbog takvog tretmana i umirali usled nedostatka krvi.

• Nojevi trce brze od konja a muzijak moze da rice kao lav.

• Svaka kraljica koja se zvala Jane je ili bila ubijena, uhapsena i svrgnuta sa vlasti ili je
  poludela.

• Beba zirafe je visoka oko 2 metra kad se rodi

• Prvim puskama je trebalo toliko vremena da se ponovo napune da su lukovi i strele (u rukama
  profesionalca) bili 12 puta efikasnije oruzije

• Bizon moze da skoci preko metar i po.

• Kralj Francuske Fransis I je platio 4000 zlatnih kruna Leonardu da Vinciju za njegovo remek
  delo "Mona Lisa". Kralj nije odmah dobio vlasnistvo nad slikom vec je ona visila na zidu
  Leonarda da Vincija sve do njegove smrti.

• Svinje su neverovatno glasne zivotinje. One skvice jacinom od 100 do 115 decibela, dok mlazni
  avion, pri uzletanju proizvodi nekih 112 decibela.

• Medved izgubi 25% svoje tezine za vreme zimskog sna.

• Na vrhuncu moci, 400 godine pre nove ere, Sparta je imala 25 000 gradjana i 500 000 robova.

• Kada je zedna, kamila moze da popije 115 litara vode za manje od 3 minuta.

• Na pocetku prvog svetskog rata, americka avijacija je imala samo 50 ljudi.

• Kada je pod velikim stresom, kao sto je drzanje u zatocenistvu, neki oktopusi mogu da pojedu
  sopstvene pipke, koji ce im kasnije opet izrasti.

• Edi Arkaro, jedan od najvecih dzokeja u istoriji konjskih trka, je izgubio 250 trka pre nego
  sto je prvi put pobedio. Ukupno je dobio 4779 trka.

• Morski krastavci imaju jedinstven odbrambeni sistem. Kada ih neko napadne oni izbacuju lepljive
  niti iz usta koje onesposobljavaju neprijatelja. Posle toga morski krastavac moze brzo da
  pobegne.

• Pre nego sto su Kinezi osvojili Tibet 1952 godine, 25% muskaraca u zemlji su bili budisticki
  svestenici.

• Zenka kondora izleze samo jedno jaje u dve godine.

DA LI ZNATE...

...da stanovnici Nevade potrose 846 dolara na kockanje...

...da je Isak Njutn bio izbacen iz skole! Bio je izbacen kao tinejdzer na zahtev njegove majke
koja se nadala da ce biti farmer...

...da je svaka kraljica po imenu Dzejn bila ubijena, zatvarana, poludela ili osudjena na
smrt...

...da ni u jednom kazinu u Las Vegasu nema casovnika...

...da se godisnje sirom sveta potrosi oko 50 biliona tableta aspirina...

...da je kineski jezik po populaciji koja ga govori najrasprostranjeniji jezik u svetu. Drugi je
spanski, a tek na trecem mestu se nalazi engleski jezik...

...da preko 60 posto muskaraca pljuje na javnim mestima...

...da jednocasovnim lupanjem glave o zid trosite 50 kalorija. A ako zvacete zvaku ceo dan
trosite 200 kalorija...

...da pokvareni sat dnevno dvaput pokazuje tacno vreme...

...da bi 24% posto radnika otpustilo svoje sefove...

...da je 10% muskaraca levoruko, dok je to  samo 7% zena ...

...da preko 60% hokejasa ostane bez najmanje jednog zuba...

...da lopta posle udara profesionalnog igraca odbojke moze da se krece neverovatnom brzinom od
120km/h...

...da su americki predsednici bili veoma privrzeni sportu. Dzordz Vasington je izuzetno voleo
lov na lisice, Abraham Linkoln rvanje, Franklin D. Ruzvelt plivanje, Dzon F. Kenedi jedrenje,
Ricard Nikson fudbal, a Ronald Regan jahanje...

100 zena - 200 sisa 

A zato ja ne mogu da se ugojim ....

Autor: SerbianFighter




In champagne bottles, the dent in the bottom is called the"kick" or "punt."

The average age of a new grandparent in the U.S. is 47.

Olive trees can live to be 1,500 years old.

The average water temperature of showers in the U.S. is 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

Blackbeard's pirate ship was named Queen Anne's Revenge.

"Amateur" comes from the Latin "amator," meaning "lover."

Dr. Jeckyll's first name was Henry. Mr. Hyde's was Edward.

Mail carriers in Great Britain report fewer dog bites than mail carriers in any other country.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Kevlar is the brand name for poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, a molecule created by DuPont.

Hair grows more slowly at night.

Blondie, Dagwood's wife in the "Blondie" comic strip, had a maiden name. It was Boopadoop.

"Nostophobia" is the fear of returning home.

The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.

The full name of Chucky, star of Child's Play and the sequels that followed, is Charles Lee Ray. It's a mix of Charles Manson, James Earl Ray and Harvey Oswald.

"Jolly green," "ashes," "Indian boy," and "laughing grass" are all street terms for marijuana.

Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.

The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands.

Catherine the Great relaxed by being tickled.

The average American eats 46 slices of pizza a year.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

The average man spends about 3,500 hours of his life shaving, removing about 30 feet of whiskers.

Buckingham Palace has more than 600 rooms.

The production number assigned to The Wizard of Oz by MGM was 1060.

Twinkies are 68 percent air.

The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India. The school has more than 25,000 students, with grades ranging from kindergarten to college.

The Grateful Dead were a one-hit wonder. Their only top 10 hit was "Touch of Gray."

Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers.

The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour.

There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest states.

At age 12, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued, every single day, for 91 years.

A rhinoceros produces up to 60 pounds of droppings in the course of a day.

There are 24 flowers on each Oreo cookie.

When Egyptian conquered Libya in the 13th century B.C., they took possession of 13,320 penises of their defeated enemy.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

One out of four children in the U.S. is overweight.

The average canary has about 2,200 feathers.

Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

The black lines on a basketball are called the "channels."

The average bank robbery yields just $4,400 for the criminal.

Napoleon had an enema every day.

Americans have sex 132 times per year, on average.

In Maryland, it's illegal to play the novelty hit, Short People, by Randy Newman, on the radio.

Each employee at Ben & Jerry's headquarters gets three pints of free ice cream a day.

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

It costs .81 cents to mint a penny.

When McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, the drive-through line was seven miles long.

Popeye's hometown was Sweethaven.

The average person speaks 125 to 150 words per minute.

The first vertebra is called the "atlas," because it holds up the head.

"Stygiophobia" is the fear of hell.

Shaggy from Scooby-Doo's real name is Norville Rogers. His home address is 224 Maple Street, Coolsville.

Hares and rabbits never mate with each other.

The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces about 37 million notes a day.

Jimmy Hendrix was a "one-hit wonder." He only cracked the top 20 one time, with "All Along the Watchtower."

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.

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

Mata Hari's real name was Margaretha Zelle. She took the stage name Mata Hari when she became an exotic dancer, prior to becoming a spy during World War I.

Robin Hood's real name was Robert Fitz Ooth.

March 9 is "Useless Facts and Trivia Day."

The common silkworm has eleven brains, but it only uses five of them.

English has 26 letters in its alphabet. Tamil has 248.

Wallpaper was first used as a decoration for Chinese tombs.

Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.

There are 3,000 types of lice.

Vibrators are illegal in Alabama. A law makes it illegal to "produce, distribute or otherwise sell sexual devices that are marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

The first Olympic games to be televised were the 1936 games in Berlin.

Room temperature is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.

The word for a misheard lyric is "mondegreen."

Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL.

All spiders are cannibals.

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers—Moe, Curly and Shemp.


Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

Thirty-seven percent of all Christians describe themselves as born-again or evangelical.

"Scelerophibia" is the fear burglars.

The original name for Mickey Mouse was Mortimer Mouse.

There is a species of moth that lives entirely on cow tears.

Iguanas have two penises.

Eighty percent of millionaires drive secondhand cars.

Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses.

"Fraternity" was once a term used by thieves to describe themselves.

Australians are the heaviest gamblers in the world.

"Menophobia" is the fear of menstruation.

Seven percent of Americans think Elvis is still alive.

The mass of the Sun is about two trillion, trillion, trillion tons.

Every hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso.


According to the polls, the most disliked animal in the world is the snake.

In 1916, Georgia Tech's football team beat Cumberland University 222 to 0.

The average human brain accounts for two percent of a person's total body weight.

The American Automobile Association (AAA) was founded with the sole purpose of warning drivers about police speed traps.

A group of peacocks is called an "ostentation."

The name of the Wicked Witch of the West's head winged monkey in The Wizard of Oz was named Nikko.

Elephant trunks can hold four gallons of water.

India is also known as Bharat. Bharat was the name of an ancient Hindu king.

The average age of Forbes magazine's 400 wealthiest individuals is 63.

In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10-to-1.

Smokey the Bear has his own zip code. It's 20252.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a "frog."

The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.

The average resident of Nevada gambles $846 each year in casinos.

Sir Isaac Newton was born the same year Galileo died.

In an early draft of Star Wars, the character of Luke Skywalker was called Dirk Starkiller.

Of the 17,000 poems Emily Dickenson wrote, only seven were published during her lifetime.

Stalin loved Tarzan movies.

President James Monroe spent the last 50 years of his life with a bullet in his shoulder.

Twenty percent of all publications sold in Japan are comic books.

The Sun is at least 94% hydrogen.

The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is seven hours and 10 minutes.

More redheads are born in Scotland than other part of the world.

"Shambles" used to mean "slaughterhouse."

The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

Bill Gates gets four million e-mails each day, but only about 10 make it to his in-box because of his anti-spam software.

Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic.

Eighty percent of migraine sufferers are female.

When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

When antelopes become excited and leap vertically into the air, it is called "pronking."

The human tooth has about 55 miles of canals in it.

The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

The foreign city Americans visit most is Tijuana.

Leonardo da Vinci knew how to make a camera. However, he didn't know how to make the film.

There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.

The planet Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon.

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

When in the shower, 75% of people wash from top to bottom.

The average American has $104 in their wallet.

In poker, a pair of queens is also referred to as a "Siegfried & Roy."

Actor Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas.

The practice of misperceiving random shapes as specific things—such as when we see the face of Jesus on a tortilla, or animals amongst the clouds—is called "pareidolia."

"Dipsomania" refers to an insatiable craving for alcohol.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

According to the experts, December 23 is the most dangerous day of the year to drive.

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

The army controlled by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz were called the Winkies.

"Hoplophobia" is the fear of guns.

The average mall Santa weighs 218 pounds and has a 43-inch waist.

Fifty-two percent of Americans drink coffee.

The one physical act that's recognized in every known society is the shrug of shoulders to mean, "I don't know."

An execution by hanging takes 21 feet of rope.

The flesh that dangles from the back of the human throat is called a "uvula." The word comes from the Latin, meaning "little grape."

The average cat can reach speeds of nearly 30 miles an hour over a short distance.

In 1836, Alabama was the first U.S. state to declare Christmas a legal holiday.

Thirty percent of women who engage in oral sex swallow their partner's ejaculate every time.

New Orleans is the US city that, per capita, consumes the most ketchup.

A bolt of cloth is 120 feet long.

"Hybristophilia" is arousal derived by having sex with people who have committed crimes.

About 75 percent of stage and screen actors change their names.

If you're American, you'll move an average of 11 times in your lifetime.

Russian Czar Peter the Great had a morbid fear of crossing bridges.

The Union army lost about 360,000 men during the Civil War. Just 110,070 were killed in battle. The rest died of disease or other causes.

Paris was once the world's biggest city—for one year. The year was 1684.

Forty percent of batteries are purchased during the holiday season.

Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS during World War II, was once a chicken farmer.

In Canada, if a debt is more than 25 cents, it's illegal to pay it with pennies.

There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes. Their scientific name is Lycopersicon lycopersicum, which means "wolf peach."


There were seven pairs of ruby slippers used during the filming of The Wizard of Oz.

It's estimated that 40 percent of players in the NBA have a criminal record.

Experts claim the color combination that has the most visual impact is black on yellow.

The medical term for a nosebleed is "epistaxisis."

Only 0.1 percent of animal species that have ever lived are still alive today.

In poker, a card combination of 9 and 5 is called a "Dolly Parton," in reference to the film in which Parton starred, 9 to 5.

Actor Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four times removed, to Abraham Lincoln.


Mallard ducks have 360-degree vision.

Two hundred million atoms placed in a row would measure one inch.

Just 14 percent of Chinese women believe having sex with an animal should be illegal.

During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" only sold about 3,000 copies.

Robert E. Lee was the only person to graduate from West Point without a demerit.

Ninety percent of Brazilian women classify beauty products as an essential rather than a luxury (the average worldwide is 77 percent).

"Cainophobia" is the fear of newness.

Since Neptune was discovered in 1846, it has made about three-quarters of one revolution of the Sun.

Julius Caesar hated cats.

In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.

The set of glasses filled with different levels of water used to make different musical tones is called a hydrodaktulopsychicarmonica.

"Judo" translates as "the gentle way."

About 130,000 freed slaves became Union soldiers during the Civil War

Lower back pain is the most commonly reported physical complaint in the U.S.

The largest sex orgy in recorded history, involving 7,000 participants, took place in the year 200 B.C. in Rome.

Almost every cell in your body contains six feet of DNA.

The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

A group of foxes is known as a "leash."

The dark meat on a roast turkey has more calories than the white meat.

The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old.

"Alektorophobia" is the fear of chickens.

The southernmost city in the United States is Na'alehu, Hawaii.

Davy Crockett was a Congessman.

In poker, a combination of 4 and 5 is called a "Jesse James," presumably because the notorious outlaw was killed by a Colt .45.

The real name of Dorothy's dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz was Terry.

In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be sentenced to death by firing squad.

The "f" word is used 246 times in Goodfellas.

Lina Medina from Peru became the youngest mother at the age of five, when she delivered a baby boy in 1936.

The U.S. has the most violent weather in the world.

Two books in the Bible are named after women. Ruth and Esther.

"Scrump" is archaic slang for sex. Ben Franklin referred to prostitutes as "scrumpets."

Rabbits are immune to the venom of black widow spiders.

In 1894, there were only four automobiles in the United States.

Autor: SerbianFighter




The base salary for a NASA astronaut is $50,000 per year.

The "number of the beast" mentioned in the Bible's book of Revelation, 666, was actually a mathematical representation of the name Caesar Nero.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

The skeleton of an average 160-pound body weighs about 29 pounds.

Soccer and water polo were the first team sports added to the Olympics. That was in 1900.

The blood of a honeybee never clots.

An "undecennial" is an 11th anniversary.

Without the benefit of modern instruments, Eratosthenes measured the radius of Earth in the third century B.C. His calculations were within one percent of the measurement determined by today's technology.

The highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow is 465,224 pounds.

The sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a "skirl."

During the 5,000 years of recorded human history, polygamy has been much more common than monogamy.

America's first nudist organization was founded by three men in 1929.

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

Thirty-five percent of Americans feel a "unibrow" is a turn-off.

In Japan, you can rent a dog as a companion for $20 an hour.

The chair was invented in about 2,500 B.C.

"Anasteemaphilia" is an attraction to a person because of a difference in height.

About one in every 3,000 births results in a baby with both male and female genitalia.

Navajos use the same word for green, blue and purple.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

Roulette was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The popular game of chance was a byproduct of his experiments with perpetual motion.

All cheerleaders were male in 1898. Now, about three percent are.

The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.

Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.

The U.S. motto, E pluribus unum, means "out of many, one." It first appeared in a Roman poem as part of a recipe for making a salad.

In Latin, the word "disco" means "I learn."

Forty-two percent of American women are able to belch on command.

In scientific terminology, the Sun is considered a "Yellow G2 Dwarf."

The saying "the sky's the limit" originated in Don Quixote.

Because of outrageously high costs in California during the Gold Rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Hawaii for washing and pressing.

Two-thirds of the world's lawyers practice in the United States.

A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum.

Before the year 1000, the word "she" did not exist in the English language.

A group of moles is called a "labor."

"Dacryphilia" is arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner.

Mosquitoes hibernate.

Twinkies got their name when their inventor, James Dewar, was inspired by a billboard he saw advertising Twinkle Toe Shoes.


Originally, MCI stood for Microwave Communications, Inc.

Kangaroos can't walk.

The name Rasputin means "debauched one." Rasputin's real name was Grigory Efimovich Novykh.

Red and blue are the most popular tie colors in the U.S.

A mother kangaroo is called a "flyer."

Fingernails are made out of the same stuff as horse hooves, bird talons, bull horns, and bear claws.

In Great Britain, rummage sales are called "jumble sales."

In the opening procession of the Olympics, the team representing the host nation always marches last.

"Horripilation" is the medical term for goosebumps.

Thirty-four percent of Microsoft employees are Indian.

American electric razors hum in the key of B flat. Razors in England, however, buzz in the key of G.

The pilgrims took apart the Mayflower and used the wood to build a barn.

Forty percent of people in America have never been to see a dentist.

A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the Sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way. That's about 225 million years.

Major league baseball bats are made of ash.

Just about half of the people charged with homicide in the U.S. are convicted of the crime.

Toys R Us was originally the Children's Supermart.

The first portable calculator placed for sale by Texas Instruments, in 1972, weighed 2.5 pounds and cost $150.

Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba.

Sixty percent of Americans can name all Three Stooges. Just 17 percent can name three Supreme Court judges.

The back of the human hand is the "opisthenar."

Norway has won more total medals at the Winter Olympic Games than any other nation.

The official name of Rhode Island, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Baby seals are called pups, but they're also referred to as "weaners."

The average American male has seven erections per day.

The White House, and its grounds, takes up 18 acres of land.

It takes light eight and a half minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

One in five people on Earth are Chinese.

In Spain, the TV drama Beverly Hills, 90210 is called Sensation of Living.

According to the official rules of baseball, no umpire may be replaced during a game unless he is injured or becomes ill.

The name for a teddy bear collector is "archtophilist."

The ferret is the third most popular companion mammal behind the dog and cat.

Captain Kangaroo was the first TV network kids show in the United States.

The egg of the typical hen has 7,000 tiny pores in its shell.

Snow White's sister's name is Rose Red.

Catnip not only has an affect on house cats. It can also affect cougars and lions.

The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933.

The study of lightning is called "keraunopathology."

Albert Einstein married his first cousin.

P.T. Barnum was responsible for the very first international beauty contest.

Hors d'oeuvre, translated literally, means "outside of work."

If a lobster loses an eye, it will grow a new one.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

On average, four people a day call Graceland and ask for Elvis.

Dolphins jump out of the water to conserve energy. It is easier to move through air than water.

A rat can tread water for three days straight.

Collectors of dolls are called "plangonologists."

Giants baseball catcher Roger Bresnahan introduced shin guards in 1907.

It is illegal in Pacific Grove, California, to threaten or kill a butterfly.

Wonder Woman's bracelets were made of a substance called feminum.

Julio Iglesias was a lawyer before he became a music star. Comedian John Cleese is a lawyer, too.

"Tonsurphobia" is the fear of haircuts.

George Washington was the only President never to live in the District of Columbia.

Earlier penguins were capable of flight.

In drug parlance, "Baby T," "Kokomo," "Beemers," "Hotcakes," and "Bad" are all slang for crack cocaine.

The average human eye can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray.

The expressions "pipe down," "kick the bucket," "over the top," and "ticked off" were first coined by soldiers in the trenches during World War I.

The Amish never initiate lawsuits, and won't defend themselves against them.

The maximum lifespan of a goldfish in captivity is 25 years.

A group of cobras is called a "quiver."

The only continent without reptiles is Antarctica.

Manorama, a comic actress in India, has had more leading roles than any other actor or actress in the history of film. Her career started in 1958, and by 1985 had appeared in her one-thousandth movie.

Fifty-one percent of turns are right turns.

The average American eats 23 quarts of ice cream during the course of a year.

The "bumpers" on the bottom of toilet seats are called "buculets."

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is considered the most difficult national anthem on Earth to sing.

The Sumerians had a goddess of beer. Her name was Ninkasi.

In a fire station in Livermore, California, there is a light bulb that has been burning since 1901.

The only continent without a desert is Europe.

"Uranophobia" is the morbid fear of heaven.

The real name of the Tin Man in the "Wizard of Oz" books was Nick Chopper.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

Most NASCAR teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.

In the eighth grade, Elvis Presley got a "C" grade in music.

About 97 percent of the water on Earth is saltwater.

Basketball is the most popular sport among college women.

Among other things, ninjas were trained to tell what time it was by looking into a cat's eye.

"Morning dew" is slang for "gonorrhea."

The highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit at Al'Aziziyah, Libya, in 1922.

There are currently more than seven million millionaires in the world.

The average person will grow 590 miles of hair during their lifetime.

Singer John Denver's real name was Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.

The Bank of America started as the Bank of Italy.

In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

According to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, only about 17 percent of adult film performers use condoms.

Porphyrophobia is a morbid fear of the color purple.

Dubai is home to the first and only seven star hotel, the Burj Al-Arab.

At birth, country singer Garth Brooks was named Troyal Garth Brooks.

Shakespeare was the first to use certain words that are now common, including "hurry," "bump," "eyeball" and "anchovy."

Americans spend more on cat food every year than on baby food.

The average lifespan of a $50 bill is five years.

Cows have a total of 32 teeth.

Tornadoes happen more often in the United States than anywhere else in the world.

Shaquille O'Neal wears size 22 shoes.

There is no record that Jesus either laughed or smiled.

A female ninja is called a "kunoichi."

The jewelry industry uses about 1,000 tons of gold per year and dentistry uses 87 tons.

The first college on record to use the word "campus" to describe its grounds was Princeton. "Campus" is Latin for "field."

In the early days of motion pictures, "movies" were the people who worked on films.

The longest alphabet is Cambodian. It has 74 letters.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

"E" is the most frequently used letter in the English alphabet, "Q" the least.

Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable

A James Bond debuted in Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale in 1952.

Ian Fleming based James Bond on Dr. John Dee, the first British secret agent.

Fleming picked the name James Bond because he was looking for a "flat, quiet" name. James Bond was the author of a book Fleming was reading, "Birds of the West Indies."

The first Bond movie, Dr. No, was made for just under a million dollars.

Ursula Andress' voice in Dr. No was not her own. It was dubbed by Monica Van der Syl.

In the early Bond films, Bond pretended to work for a company called Universal Exports.

Dr. No was titled License to Kill in Italy.

In James Bond movies, the armorer who supplies Bond with all his gadgets, is referred to as Q. The Q stands for "Quartermaster."

Desmond Llewellyn, who played gadget-master Q, appeared in 17 Bond films.

In the novel upon which Goldfinger was based, the character of Pussy Galore is a lesbian.

Director Garry Marshall made a cameo appearance in Goldfinger as one of the American gangsters who gather to hear about the plot to break into Fort Knox.

Sean Connery starred in seven Bond movies.

In his seven appearances as Bond, Sean Connery says "shaken, not stirred" only once, in Goldfinger.

The first 007 movie to be filmed in Panavision was Thunderball.

Tom Jones recorded the Thunderball theme, and fainted after singing the sustained high note at the song's climax.

The longest James Bond film was On Her Majesty's Secret Service, at 140 minutes.

George Lazenby, who starred in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, was the only one who played James Bond once.

Smirnoff is the brand of vodka used in all of James Bond's martinis.

The first 007 movie in which Bond kisses Moneypenny was On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

The evil organization Bond is often pitted against is SPECTRE. It stands for SPecial Executive for Counter Intelligence Terrorism Revenge Extortion.

Another nefarious enemy of Bond is an organization called SMERSH. It's a Russian acronym for SMERt SHpionam, meaning "Death to Spies."

The Man With the Golden Gun was the first James Bond film to be shown at the Kremlin.

Moonraker is the only Roger Moore Bond film where he does not draw his Walther PPK.

Roger Moore's contract demanded that he be provided an unlimited supply of hand-rolled Monte Cristo cigars.

Steven Spielberg was in discussions to direct For Your Eyes Only when George Lucas offered him the opportunity to direct Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Steven Seagal was the martial arts instructor for Never Say Never Again. 

The practice of using a disclaimer in movies stating "no animals were mistreated during production" got its start in Never Say Never Again. The disclaimer was the result of controversy over a horse jumping off a cliff in the film.

The villain in A View to a Kill, Max Zorin, was originally going to be played by David Bowie.

Christopher Walken was the first Academy Award-winning actor to star in a Bond film. He co-starred in A View to a Kill.

The satellite dish used at the end of Goldeneye was the same used in the film Contact.

Pierce Brosnan's contract for Goldeneye specified that he could not appear in any other film wearing a tuxedo.

Goldeneye is the nickname of Bond creator Ian Fleming's beachfront house in Jamaica where he wrote the James Bond novels.

The first James Bond film to ever be released on DVD was Goldeneye.

According to Goldeneye, Bond's parents were killed in a climbing accident.

The pre-credits action sequence in The World is Not Enough runs about 15 minutes, the longest in any Bond film to date.

"Moonraker" contains excerpts the themes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Magnificent Seven.

Among the places where James Bond has made love are on a train, in a forest, in a plane, in a submarine, on a motorized iceberg, and in a hospital.

Bond films have been nominated 10 times for Academy Awards, five times in technical categories and five times in musical categories.

A baseball has exactly 108 stitches.

Cockroaches can run up to three miles per hour.

"Hussy" originally meant "housekeeper."

The bar symbol used on slot machines is derived from a Bell Fruit Gum logo.

"Peladophobia" is the fear of becoming bald.

The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.

About 26 percent of the land in Melbourne, Australia is reserved for parks.

Earth is the densest planet in our solar system.

The name Jeep came from the military abbreviation GP, short for the army's General Purpose Vehicle.

Thirty-eight percent of doctors in America are Indian.

A new car depreciates 20 to 30 percent the moment it's driven off the dealer's lot.

Thomas Jefferson died of chronic diarrhea.

Ancient Egyptians could be put to death for mistreating a cat.

Fidel Castro once worked as a Hollywood extra.

In Texas, it is illegal to curse in front of a corpse.

Pain travels through your body at 350 feet per second.

Hawaii has three interstate highways.

If a rhino has two horns, it's from India. If it has one horn, it's from Africa.

A cow can't vomit.

"Resistentialism" is the theory that inanimate objects demonstrate hostile behavior against us.

The world's termites outweigh humans 10-to-1.

The two most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.

Erect giraffe penises are about four feet long.

"Hockey" is archaic slang for "semen."

The average person spends about five years of their life eating.

The world's shortest river, the D River in Oregon, is just 121 feet long.

Protestants tend to have lower incomes than Catholics.

The bumps on a basketball are called "pebbling."

Ice covers 10 percent of the Earth's surface.

A group of ferrets is called a "business."

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

The sport that's most often the subject of movies is boxing.

Seventy percent of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World.

The worst traffic bottleneck in the U.S. is at the juncture of the I-10 and 405 freeways in Los Angeles.

"Allodoxaphobia" is the fear of opinions.

Stevie Nicks does most of her songwriting in the bathroom.

Denny's restaurants were originally called "Danny's."

The first Social Security check was issued by the US government on January 31, 1940 to Ida Fuller of Brattlesboro, Vermont. Her check number was 00-000-001 and it was for $22.54.

"Myomancy" is the practice of predicting the future based upon the movements of mice.

Crocodiles sometimes swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Beaver Cleaver's locker number was 9.

The first man to distill bourbon whiskey in the United States, in 1789, was a Baptist preacher.

"Squiff it" and "pull a cluck" are euphemisms for dying.

Bolshoi (as in the Bolshoi Ballet) means "big" in Russian.

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The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school.

In Germany, there is a flea that lives and breeds only in beer mats.

"Panophobia" is the fear of everything.

At age 70, an impressive 73 percent of men are still potent.

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.

In Elizabethan slang, the term "to die" meant to have an orgasm.

The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.

In Alabama, it's illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

In China, the number four is unlucky because the Mandarin word for four, "shi," sounds like the word for death.

Aluminum can be spun into a filament so fine that 1.5 pounds of it could encircle the Earth.

The world's most expensive coffee is called Kopi Luwak. It is made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of a palm civet, a tree-dwelling, cat-like animal found throughout Southeast Asia.

The magician's words "hocus-pocus" have been around since the 17th century. A conjurer called Hocus Pocus used the chant during his performances. It's a play on a Latin phrase used during Roman Catholic mass when wafer and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ, hoc est enim corpus meum ("for this is my body").

In Medieval Times, a spider was rolled in butter and swallowed as a cure for plague and leprosy.

According to one study, 24 percent of lawns have some sort of ornament.

An alligator will go through as many as 3,000 teeth during its lifetime.

The holes in Swiss cheese are called "eyes."

Five hundred Americans are injured in their bathtubs each day.

There have been 47 Charlie Chan movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese.

The formula for cold cream has hardly changed at all in the 1,700 years since it was originally made by the Roman physician Galen

"Mucophagy" is the medical term for "snot-eating," the consumption of the nasal mucus obtained from nose-picking.

There are about 10,000 parts in an average upright piano.

The term "skyscraper" was first used in 1888. It was used to describe an 11-story building.

Couples that marry in January, February or March have the highest divorce rate.

In some parts of Thailand, the organs of dogs are used to make drum tops.

"Genophobia" is the fear of sex.

The U.S. has more laws governing sexual behavior than all the countries in Europe combined.

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

The martini was first made in 1862.

The Roman emperor Nero would dress up young boys in his dead wife's clothes and make love to them.

Seventy people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives.

Ninety percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right. No one knows why.

The final words of H.G. Wells were, "Go away. I'm all right."

Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.

Adults average just one nightmare a year.

King Mongut of Siam had 9,000 wives. Before dying of syphilis, he was quoted as saying he only loved the first 700.

America exports 25 times more movies than it imports.

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a Korean word meaning "capital."

Mr. T's real name is Lawrence Tureaud.

An "agalmatophiliac" is someone who has a fetish for statues or mannequins.

The average bra is designed to last for 180 days of use.

"Oculolinctus" is a fetish in which people are sexually aroused by licking a partner's eyeball.

President Lyndon Johnson nicknamed his penis "Jumbo."

The male gypsy moth can "smell" a virgin female gypsy moth almost two miles away.

Black women are 50 percent more likely than white women to have an orgasm during sex.

During an 18-year study at the Center for Marital and Sexual Studies, the most orgasms recorded during a one-hour period were 134 for a female and 16 for a male.

According to a study by Niagara Spray Starch, 46 percent of men and 34 percent of women do their ironing while naked.

In ancient Greece, young aristocratic women were deflowered by having their hymen pierced by a stone penis before marrying.

According to one study, 25 percent of Americans claim they would sleep with their boss.

There has never been a sex change operation performed in Ireland.

Ninety percent of movies released in the United States are porn films.
   

Ninety percent of movies released in the United States are porn films.

Studies show that the higher the level of education, the more men tend to have wet dreams.

According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.

What do Alan Alda, Prince William, Billy Idol, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Bill Cosby, Ron Howard and Jesse Jackson have in common? They're all uncircumcised.

A female orgasm has been determined to be a powerful painkiller.

Sixteen percent of people in Japan have had sex in a car, compared to 80 percent of Americans.

The vagina and the eye are self-cleaning organs.

A "frotteur" is a person who becomes sexually aroused by rubbing against strangers (often in crowds).

Seventy percent of Dutch women say their first sexual experience occurred while "under the influence."

The "s" shaped opening in a violin is called the "f-hole."

Eighty-two percent of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from malaria.

Before American football players go onto the field, they put on about 13 pounds of protective clothing.

Every 10 to 13 seconds someone gets divorced.

"Parthenophobia" is the fear of virgins.

Edward III passed a law stopping people from eating more than two meals a day.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Victoria Woodhall was the first woman to run for President of the U.S.—in 1872.

During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat.

Ninety percent of Irish women claim they have had sex outdoors. (The global average is 58 percent.)

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
   

A recent study revealed that one-third of cats enjoy watching television.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Dustin Hoffman's fake breasts in Tootsie weighed four pounds.

Ninety percent of Americans describe themselves as shy.

Every year in France there is a "Thieves Fair" where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls.

The average piano has 230 strings.

One out of five pieces of the world's garbage is generated in the United States.

In circus parlance, a "Joey" is a clown with at least five years of experience.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag was sold at an auction for $6,600.

Alec Guinness' name was incorrectly spelled as "Guiness" in the opening credits of the award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai.

There are 1,943 names listed in the closing credits of The Matrix Reloaded.

A recent study found that one in 300 births in the U.S. occurs in a vehicle.

Americans spend more at strip clubs than at Broadway productions, regional theater productions and classical orchestra performances combined.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

At age 14, actor Tom Cruise enrolled in seminary school to become a priest. He dropped out at age 15.

Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand—an hour hand.

The average person walks 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.

Eighty percent of American men say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again. Fifty percent of women say they would marry the same man.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

America once issued a five-cent bill.

In 1221, Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.

Toy-breed dogs live an average of seven years longer than large breeds.

The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet long.
   

The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet long.

The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is "Quartzy."

The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.

If Charlie Brown were a real person, he would be four and a half feet tall. His head would take up two of those feet.

More steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.

Six percent of American men propose marriage by phone.

Reportedly, Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.

People have eaten 450 billion Oreo cookies since they were introduced in 1912.

The poorest country in the world is Mozambique. (Switzerland is the richest.)

Rembrandt died a poor man.

In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter "m."

Benjamin Franklin was America's first newspaper cartoonist.

The most common dog names in Russia are Ugoljok (Blackie) and Veterok (Breezy).

A recent survey found that 25 percent of Swedish women have had sex with more than 50 men.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
   

In America, 22 percent of all restaurant meals include French fries.

The most commonly used word in English conversation is "I."

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.

The six official languages of the United Nations are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Coconuts kill more people worldwide than sharks do. About 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

King Louis XIV bathed three times during his lifetime.

Elvis Presley's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."

Sixty-eight percent of teenage girls say if they could change just one part of their body, it would be their stomach.

Sharks can detect the heartbeats of other fish.

On average, each person uses 54 feet of dental floss each year.

Sixty-nine percent of Swedish women have participated in a threesome.

Forty percent of Americans say the theory of evolution is "probably not true."

The world's most popular car color is red.

A face-off in hockey used to be called a "puck-off," but was soon changed for obvious reasons.

The average person walks 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.

Toy-breed dogs live an average of seven years longer than large breeds.

The water we drink is three billion years old.

Americans spend more at strip clubs than at Broadway productions, regional theater productions and classical orchestra performances combined.

Four Popes have died while having sex.
   

The word "laser" stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

The little bumps on the surface of a table tennis paddle (or "racket") are called "pips."

Four Popes have died while having sex.

When a waitress draws a happy face on a check tips rise 18 percent. When a waiter does the same thing, tips rise three percent.

Only 30 percent of humans can flare their nostrils.

The first person to refer to a coward as a "chicken" was William Shakespeare.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Instead of wishing each other luck with the common theatrical phrase, "Break a leg," circus clowns say, "Bump a nose."

A recent survey showed 42 percent of Americans say they don't use the Internet.

The most common pub name in Britain is "The Red Lion."

The average reader can read 275 words per minute.

Flies take off backwards.

No one in the U.S. has died from SARS. In an average year, more than 3,500 people in the U.S. will die from the flu.

The average American consumes 1,500 pounds of food each year.

The original title of Annie Hall was Anhedonia.

Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in one race.

Nearly 50 percent of all bank robberies take place on Fridays.

A wild tiger is easier to train than one born in captivity.

The first footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater (now Mann's), were made by Norma Talmadge in 1927.

Women end up ingesting about half of the lipstick they apply.
   

Women end up ingesting about half of the lipstick they apply.

Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other—at the same time.

New York was the first state to require license plates on cars.

Most dogs run an average of 19 miles per hour.

A "vamp" is the upper front top of a shoe.

About 845 languages are spoken in India.

The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

Thomas Edison had a collection of 5,000 birds.

Houdini trained his dog to escape from a pair of miniature handcuffs.

A moth has no stomach.

The Roman word for "secretary" meant "one who keeps a secret."

There is a mineral called cummingtonite.

The first recorded car theft was in 1896, just 10 years after the introduction of the gas-powered engine.

Scotland exports sand to Saudi Arabia.

A person weighing 150 pounds on Earth would weigh two tons on the sun.

A 16th century English law allowed men to beat their wives—but only before 10 p.m.

There are 898 steps in the Washington Monument.

It is estimated that there are nearly a half million sauna baths in Finland.

Parus caeruleus is the scientific name for the bird called the Blue Tit.

Every year, Americans dispose of 1.6 billion pens.

Around the world, nine Viagra tablets are dispensed every second.
   

Cats spend more than half of their lives asleep.

The average soldier of World War II was three-quarters of an inch taller than the average soldier of World War I.

There are 15,000 Hooters Girls working in 335 Hooters restaurants in 43 U.S. states and 10 countries.

Around the world, nine Viagra tablets are dispensed every second.

Sean Connery once worked as a coffin-polisher.

The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.

In 1976, a South American guppy became the first fish in space.

The Soma plant is thought to be sacred in India, and has over 100 hymns dedicated to it.

A dog can suffer from tonsillitis, but not appendicitis. They don't have an appendix.

Greyhounds have the keenest eyesight of any dog breed.

Dogs that reside in cities live about three years longer than dogs that live in the country.

In Brooklyn, N.Y., it's illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub.

A dog can't hear the lowest key on a piano.

Dog food is the most profitable food on the market. People spend four times as much on dog food as they do on baby food.

Every hour, 12,500 puppies are born in the United States.

Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.

The word for "dog" in the Australian aboriginal language Mbabaran happens to be "dog."

The first year of a dog's life is equal to 21 years of human life (the dog grows to adulthood.) Each additional year is equivalent to four human years.

Nose prints are the most reliable way to identify dogs.

The five most popular dog tricks in the U.S. are sit, shake (paw), roll over, speak and lie down.

Crab was the only named dog in any Shakespearean play. The play was Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Dogs like squeeze toys because they sound like animals in distress.
   

Dogs like squeeze toys because they sound like animals in distress.

A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, claim the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, dogs rely more on smell.)

A U.N. survey revealed fewer British mailmen are bitten by dogs than postal carriers in any other nation.

Scientists insist that no dog has ever been bored.

Calling a puppy to punish it teaches the dog not to come when it's called. It's best to reward your dog by bringing it to you, and to punish it by sending it away.

There are one million stray dogs in the New York City metropolitan area.

There's a law in International Falls, Minnesota, that states it's illegal for cats to chase dogs up telephone poles in that city.

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When George Washington was President, there were about 350 federal employees.

The name of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the original draft for the "Star Trek" TV series was the U.S.S. Yorktowne.

Five percent of men and 11 percent of women claim they have never masturbated.

Eighty-five percent of men don't use the front opening in their underwear when they urinate.

Moose intercourse typically lasts about five seconds.

Half the world's population has seen at least one James Bond movie.

The average beard grows five inches a year.

On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.

There are 49 different kinds of food mentioned in the Bible.

During World War II, it cost the United States $225,000 to kill an enemy soldier.

In printer's jargon, a "bang" is an exclamation mark.
   

In printer's jargon, a "bang" is an exclamation mark.

The typical American is exposed to 1,600 and commercials and advertisements every day.

The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their lifetime.

Each weekday, the White House receives 40,000 letters.

In competition, Ping-pong players are prohibited from wearing white shirts—they interfere with the players being able to see the ball.

More than one million condoms are sold each day in the United States.

The average dairy cow produces four times its weight in manure each year.

A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.

Santa's North Pole home faces south.

It is estimated that 400,000 people become sick each year from eating tainted Christmas leftovers.

More diamonds are purchased at Christmas time (31 percent) than during any other occasion during the year.

An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas morning is thought to bring good luck.

Kris Kringle is German for "Christ's Child."

According to the experts, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter—usually late November to mid December. Female reindeer retain their antlers till after they give birth in the spring. Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, every single one of them had to be a female.

Alabama was the first state to legalize the celebration of Christmas.

In Norway, on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the house are hidden. Norwegians long ago believed that witches and mischievous spirits came out on Christmas Eve and would steal their brooms for riding.

During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States.

"Silent Night" was first played on a harp.

Forty percent of Americans say they expect to gain weight during the winter holiday season.
   

The first electric Christmas tree lights were lights from a telephone switchboard.

Forty percent of American adults say they expect to gain weight during the winter holiday season.

In Britain, the Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 (which hasn't been repealed) states every citizen must attend a Christian church service on Christmas Day, and must not use any kind of vehicle to get to the service.

In 1907, Oklahoma became the last U.S. state to declare Christmas a legal holiday.

Poinsettias are the most popular Christmas plant and are the number one flowering potted plant in the United States.

In Syria, Christmas gifts are distributed by one of the Wise Men's camels.

Charles Dickens took a mere six weeks to write "A Christmas Carol."

There is a town named Santa Claus in Indiana.

More than three billion Christmas cards are sent annually in the United States.

Barnum's Animal Crackers and their distinctive box were introduced in 1902 as a Christmas ornament. The box's string was designed so the box could be hung as a Christmas ornament. The box still sports the string.

Dutch children don't put out stockings at Christmas time—they use shoes.

"Jingle Bells" was originally written as a song for Thanksgiving.

In the cartoon that first depicted Santa Claus with a sleigh and reindeer, by Thomas Nast, Santa was delivering Christmas gifts to soldiers fighting in the US Civil War.

In France, Christmas is called Noel.

During the Christmas/Hanukkah season, more than 1.76 billion candy canes are made.

In Japan, people believe Christmas Eve is a good day to eat strawberry shortcake and fried chicken.

In 1856, President Franklin Pierce decorated the first White House Christmas tree.

In Caracas, Venezuela' capital, it's customary for the streets to be blocked off on Christmas Eve so people can roller-skate to church.

According to one survey, 70 percent of dogs in Great Britain receive Christmas gifts from their owners.

According to one survey, 70 percent of dogs in Great Britain receive Christmas gifts from their owners.
   

In Greek legend, malicious creatures called Kallikantzaroi sometimes play pranks at Christmas time. According to the legend, to get rid of the pests, you should burn either salt or an old shoe.

Experts claim that an average of only nine minutes are spent by the average parent playing with his or her children on Christmas morning.

"Hot Cockles" was a popular Christmas game in medieval times. In the game, players took turns striking the blindfolded player who had to guess the name of the person delivering each blow.

The average American household wraps 30 Christmas gifts each year.

According to a Gallup poll, 29 percent of Americans found the Christmas holidays more stressful than enjoyable.

When writing "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens considered several names before using Tiny Tim. Other possible names for the character were Small Sam, Little Larry and Puny Pete.

In Brazil, Christmas is celebrated with fireworks.

The first Christmas greeting card is believed to have been designed in England in 1843 by an artist named John C. Horsley for a friend, Sir Henry Cole.

It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are stirred clockwise.

America's official national Christmas tree is located in King's Canyon National Park in California. It's a giant sequoia called the "General Grant Tree," and is more than 300 feet tall.

According to one study, an average of 10 hours are spent during the last week of December bickering with family members about holiday-related activities.

Charlie Chaplin died of natural causes on Christmas Day, 1977, in Switzerland.

When Robert Louis Stevenson, author of "Treasure Island," died on December 4, 1894, he willed his November 13th birthday to a friend who disliked her own Christmas birthday.

An average American household will mail 28 Christmas cards each year.

If you do the math, a total of 364 gifts are given during "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

Christmas trees are grown much like any other agricultural crop. About 112,000 acres in the northwest United States are planted with about 11 million trees.

In Guatemala, Christmas day is celebrated on October 31st.

Nearly one in four people claim to have more headaches during the Christmas season than any other time of the year.

The heart beats faster during a brisk walk or heated argument than during sexual intercourse.

There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the United States.

The size of a mosquito penis is 1/100th of an inch.

The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

A baby oyster is called a spat.

Menstrual cramps have been known, in rare cases, to induce orgasm.

Each year, 55,700 people in the U.S. are injured by jewelry.

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

Mexico once had three presidents in one day.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.

There are approximately 550 hairs in the human eyebrow.

The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Periwinkle Blue.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
   

The snow scenes in "It's A Wonderful Life" were shot during a record heat wave in Southern California.

A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.

On average, a four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

Because of Animal Crackers, many kids—until they reach the age of 10—believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.

A recent survey found the typical driver will swear or blaspheme 32,025 times behind the wheel of their car during their lifetime.

Women have a higher incidence of tooth decay than men.

Rod Stewart once worked as a gravedigger.

A dragonfly's penis has a shovel on the end that scoops out a rival male's semen.

On average, worldwide, people have sex 138 times a year.

Jazz fans and gun owners are among the most sexually active Americans.

For every 35 pounds of weight a man carries over his ideal weight, his penis will appear to be one inch smaller.

Most turkeys and giraffes are bisexual.

The average single woman has sex 72 times a year. It's 111 times a year for married women.

About one percent of the adult female population are able to achieve orgasm solely through breast stimulation.

The Roman punishment for adultery was often amputation of the nose.

A "buckle bunny" is a woman who goes to rodeos with the express intent of having sex with a rodeo cowboy.

Fourteen percent of males say they did not enjoy sex the first time. Sixty percent of women feel that way.

The largest pornography collection in the world is located at The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. It contains 80,000 pornographic books and more than 150,000 films.

"Oneirogmophobia" is the fear of wet dreams.

A typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.
   

Up until 1884, a Victorian-era woman could be sent to prison for denying her husband sex.

The typical person spends about 600 hours having sex between the ages of 20 and 70.

It takes a sperm one hour to swim seven inches.

A recent survey revealed the average driver will have sex in a car six times during their lifetime.

Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a rare medical problem that occurs during or just after sex. It can erase short-term memory for up to six hours, including all traces of the sexual event itself.

Couples attempting to conceive average 5.5 months of unprotected intercourse before succeeding.

Women were discouraged from having orgasms during the Middle Ages because it was thought that orgasms made women less capable of getting pregnant.

In Ancient Greece, women would expose their vaginas to ward off storms at sea.

Four percent of American women own no undergarments.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio phobia is the fear of long words.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote an operetta about coffee.

Kielbasa is the Polish word for sausage. So, kielbasa sausage literally means "sausage sausage."

The Harvard Library subscribes to 160,000 periodicals.

When a giraffe's baby is born, it falls from a height of six feet—usually without being hurt.

Drivers tend to drive faster when other cars are around.

Bart Simpson is left-handed.

Nearly a quarter of the population of Poland was killed in the Second World War.

Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses.

Experts say that once you file something, there's a 98 percent chance you'll never look at it again.

Once you file something, there's a 98 percent chance you'll never look at it again.
   

More than half of the time spent in U.S. courtrooms involves cases concerning automobiles.

Nearly a quarter of all the bones in the human body can be found in the feet.

Kodak founder George Eastman hated to have his picture taken.

There are more than one million full-time prostitutes working in the Unites States.

Kool-Aid is the official soft drink of the state of Nebraska.

About 70 percent of all organisms in the world are bacteria.

The elephant is the only mammal with four knees.

According to the ancient Chinese, swinging your arms cures headache pain.

Ships can travel faster in cold water than warm.

Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.

Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents for her eighth birthday.

At any one time there are 1,800 thunderstorms taking place in the world.

Forty percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.

Ukulele means "jumping flea" in Hawaiian.

The game Simon Says was originally called Do This, Do That.

The Oscars were held twice in 1930. There was no ceremony at all in 1933.

Only six percent of coupons printed are ever redeemed.

More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

The Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first.

The approximate cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11 is $6,400.

On average, we forget 80 percent of what we learn on any given day.

On average, we forget 80 percent of what we learn on any given day.
   

Anyone who felled a hazel or apple tree was sentenced to death in ancient Ireland. Those trees were considered sacred.

The major export of Lichtenstein is false teeth.

Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President, was independently wealthy before entering politics. For his entire 47 years in government, Hoover turned over each of his Federal salary checks to charity.

Mia Farrow was the first person to appear on the cover of People magazine.

One in four compulsive gamblers are women.

Kiwis are the only birds that hunt by smell.

Hallmark makes cards for 105 different familial relationships.

It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.

Humans and dolphins are the only creatures that have sex for pleasure.

Some Persian rugs may last as long as 500 years before wearing out.

Pierre Michelin, inventor of Michelin tires, died in a car accident.

One-third of phone numbers in Los Angeles are unlisted.

Research shows that college graduates live longer than people who did not complete high school.

Human beings have been around for only 0.0002 percent of the Earth's history.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Tuesday is the most productive day of the workweek.

The largest bell on Earth is the Tsar Kolokol, in Moscow. It weighs 222 tons and has never been rung.

If a man's tie is too tight, his vision gets worse.

Every year, about 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats.
   

The cashew nut is a member of the poison ivy family.

Every year, about 6,500 Americans are injured by their toilet seats.

A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500,000 baths.

The average car has 15,000 parts.

Bhumibol Adulyadej, the king of Thailand, came to power in 1946. He is the longest reigning monarch in the world.

If a mackerel stops swimming, it dies.

Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that was once a kingdom.

Howard Hughes insisted on storing his urine in large glass bottles in a garage near his home. He employed an assistant to count and look after them.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

The hair of women is about half the diameter of men's.

James Earl Jones was the first celebrity to appear on Sesame Street.

The semicolon, as it appears in English today, was used by the ancient Greeks as a question mark.

Seventy percent of people fantasize about someone else while making love.

Illegible handwriting is known as "griffonage."

About six million tourists visit California each year. About 58,000 visit Mississippi.

The first sperm banks opened in 1964—they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City.

According to the Bible, there were two windows on Noah’s Ark.

Rin Tin Tin was voted the most popular film performer of 1926.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

Ducks have six eyelids—three in each eye.

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

The first victim of the electric chair took eight minutes to die.

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 American states.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

The first man to be convicted on fingerprint evidence was Harry Jackson in 1902.

According to Aristotle, wind direction determined whether a baby would be a boy or a girl.

There is enough fuel in the tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car around the world four times.

More than two billion pencils are used in the United States every year.

Statistics show that nearly 75 percent of American women wear a bra that is the wrong size.

It’s against the law to stare at the mayor of Paris.

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

It takes about 12 ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.

Chinese gooseberries didn’t sell well in the U.S. until grocers renamed them kiwis.

The federal government owns 20 percent of the land in America.

All 10 of the 10 largest hotels in the U.S. are in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The average newborn cries 113 minutes a day.

The phrase "What’s up, Doc?" was first spoken by Bugs Bunny a 1940 cartoon called A Wild Hare.

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

Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae—seven.

Chaetophobia is the fear of hair.

An estimated one in five Americans don't like sex.
   

A eunuch can't grow a beard.

In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.

The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

Blue-eyed, white cats are often deaf.

The population of the entire world in 5000 B.C., according to the National Population Council, was five million.

An estimated one in five Americans don't like sex.

Twenty percent of all road accidents in Sweden involve a moose.

Residents of the United Kingdom consume more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

The first word spoken on the moon was "okay."

Aphallatosis is a mental disorder resulting from a lack of sex life.

Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.

The Ouija board got its name from the combination of the German and French words for "yes"—oui and ja.

The average person can live 11 days without water.

In Idaho, is forbidden by law to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

Male patients fall out of hospital beds twice as often as female patients.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
   

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Every regulation baseball in the world is sewn by hand.

Cleopatra took her first lover at the age of 12.

Americans spend twice as much money on pornography than they do on cookies.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on primetime television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Technically, a tomato is a fruit, since it is the ripened ovary of a plant. But it 1893, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of "Nix v. Hedden" tomatoes were to be considered vegetables.

A baby eel is called an "elver."

One pound of $50 bills would be worth $24,500.

Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.

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