74% of American women say their biggest dating turn-off is foul language.

Frogs hop faster than toads.

The only English word that contains a triple letter is "goddessship."

The Danish flag is the oldest unchanged national flag in existence.

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

An ermine is a weasel whose coat has turned white for the winter.

70% of VCR owners say they’ve never used the timer function.

The act of sneezing is called "sternutation."

If you are over 100 years old, there is an 80% chance you are a woman.

The fine for illegally parking in Tokyo is the equivalent of $1,400.

"Smut" gets its name from the fungus that lives in corn kernels.

Experts say the portrait of George Washington on the quarter is more accurate than the portrait on the $1 bill.

Red is almost never used on ice cream packaging—it reminds people of heat.

Italy’s national flag was designed by Napoleon.

The praying mantis is the only animal on Earth with only one ear.

Purse-snatching is punishable by death in Haiti.

25% of all cookies baked in the United States are chocolate chip.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

The eye in the end of a lariat is called a "honda."

The first traffic light was installed in England in 1868 in front of the Houses of Parliament.

More Americans die in January than in any other month.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, also invented the polygraph.

There are 336 dimples in a regulation golf ball.

A married man is four times more likely to die during sex if his partner isn’t his wife.

The only President to remain a bachelor was James Buchanan.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Benjamin Franklin invented swim fins.

Nevada has more out-of-work dancers than any other state.

Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.

General Douglas MacArthur’s mother dressed him in skirts until he was eight.

Men get hiccups more often than women.

King Louis XIX ruled France for about 15 minutes.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds—more than any other animal.

The name of the dog on Cracker Jack boxes is "Bingo."

Moths have no stomach.

There are 6,500 windows in the Empire State Building.

It costs about $6,400 to raise a medium-size dog to age 11.

There are no photos in existence of Abe Lincoln smiling.

Cats have more than 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.

Mr. Potatohead was the first toy advertised on TV.

Pregnant mothers who eat heavily spiced foods or foods with lots of seasoning are more likely to have children born with hair on their head.

The most popular pizza topping in South Korea is tuna.

George Washington loved to play marbles.

Margaret Higgins Sanger, a pioneer of birth control, was one of 11 children.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.

What kind of wood is used to make Scrabble letters? Vermont Maple.

The albatross can sleep while in flight.

The "save" icon in Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk—with the shutter on backwards.

The abbreviation for one pound, "lb.," comes from the astrological sign Libra, meaning balance.

Pollen lasts forever.

Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket wherever she traveled.

The MGM Grand's 170,000 square foot casino is larger than the playing field at Yankee Stadium.

The Andy Griffith Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from The Danny Thomas Show.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

At 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.

At the height of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, one U.S. dollar was equal to four quintillion German marks.

Birds don’t fly south for the winter to keep warm—they do it for food.

Playboy's Playmate of the Month was originally called the Sweetheart of the Month.

A cluster or bunch of bananas is called a "hand." Individual bananas are called "fingers."

Due to erosion, Niagara Falls will disappear in 22,800 years.

Dwight D. Eisenhower wore two watches on his left arm and one on his right—even to bed.

Early models of vacuum cleaners were powered by gasoline

Toto was paid $125 a week during the filming of the Wizard of Oz.

Queen bees only sting other queen bees.

Blue neckties sell best. (Red ties come in second.)

An Italian deck of cards has no queens.

Drunk ants always fall over on their right side.

More babies are conceived in December than in any other month. (It makes sense, then, that more babies are born in September than in any other month.)

The thing that casts a shadow on a sundial is called a gnomon.

Thomas Jefferson was the first president to shake hands as a greeting—before that, they bowed.

The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.

French fries are the most-ordered item in American restaurants.

Fetuses can hiccup.

The heel of a sock is called the "gore."

Rabbits and horses can’t vomit.

The only tree from which we eat the flower is the fig.

Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.

Bloodhounds can’t smell the difference between two identical twins.

Black sheep have a better sense of smell than white sheep.

The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil.

Olives are fruits.

A group of jellyfish is called a "smack."

None of the passengers of the Mayflower had middle names.

Quotation marks have only been around for 300 years.

The most common plastic surgery performed on American men is breast reduction.

An indocannibal eats only friends. An exocannibal eats only enemies.

Whales stampede.

Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons

People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don’t.

It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter.

The medical term for earwax is cerumen.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows—shaved eyebrows were a fad at the time.

3% of all photos taken in the U.S. are taken at Disney World or Disneyland.

A misomaniac is someone who hates everything.

99% of India’s truck drivers can’t read road signs.

If you refrigerate rubber bands, they’ll last longer.

The king of Siam, who died in 1910, fathered 370 children.

Baboons can’t throw overhand.

A gozzard is a person who owns geese.

A warthog only has four warts—all of them on its head.

Poison oak and poison ivy are members of the cashew family.

There is a company in Taiwan that makes dinnerware out of wheat--so you can eat your plate.

The first man to die during construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction.

North Dakota is the only state that has never had an earthquake.

Christopher Columbus was blonde.

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

Electrical storms will make a person dream more frequently in sleep.

In 1910, magician Harry Houdini was the first solo pilot to fly a plane in Australia. He taught himself to drive an automobile just so he could drive out to the airfield--and he never drove again.

Las Vegas has more churches per capita than any other U.S. city.

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones--Bhutan.

Your feet may be as much as five to ten percent larger at the end of the day.

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, men's shoes had a square tip, like a duck's beak, a fashion launched by Charles VIII of France to hide the imperfection of one of his feet, which had six toes.

The Academy Awards were first broadcast in color in 1966.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

Leonardo da Vinci was the first to suggest using contact lenses to see back in 1508.

Hitler was claustrophobic.

The lyricist of the song Keep the Home Fires Burning, Lena Gilbert Ford, burned to death in her home.

While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.

Mozart never went to school.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one--that's because it's bigger. The left is smaller to accomodate the space taken up by your heart.

Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

A group of geese on the ground is a "gaggle," a group of geese in the air is a "skein."

A jogger's heel strikes the ground about 1,500 times per mile.

Humans have 639 muscles--caterpillars have over 4,000.

Pound for pound, locusts contain 30 percent more protein than a T-bone steak.

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book The Naked Lunch.

Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

A bee has 5,000 nostrils.

Even though it's widely attributed to him, Shakespeare never actually used the word "gadzooks."

Research indicates mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

"Q" is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn't appear in the name of any of the United States.

President Garfield could simultaneously write in Latin with one hand and in Greek with the other.

Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet.

The inhabitants of Papa New Guinea speak about 700 languages, about 15% of the world's total.

After 27 years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flinstones vitamin in 1996.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Pope Paul IV, elected on May 23, 1555, was so outraged when he saw the naked bodies on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that he ordered Michelangelo to paint over them.

If you could drive to the sun--at 55 miles per hour--it would take about 193 years.

Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.

The brother of Popeye's girlfriend Olive was named Castor Oyl.

The initials on "BVD" brand underwear stand for the firm owners' names--Bradley, Voorhees and Day.

"Strengths" is the longest English word with only one vowel.

Granny's full name on The Beverly Hillbillies was Daisy Moses.

A horse expends more energy lying down than standing up.

There are 167 women in prison in Norway, and 2,500 men.

A "femtosecond" is one quadrillionth of a second.

The actor who portrayed the "Marlboro Man" in print and television cigarette ads died of lung cancer.

John Lennon was legally blind all of his life.

The Green Hornet is the Lone Ranger's grandnephew.

"Vader" (as in Darth) means "father" in Dutch.

Popeye's friend Wimpy's full name is J. Wellington Wimpy.

There is no synonym for "thesaurus."

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

"Nice" is derived from the Latin "nescius", ignorant (from "nescire", "not to know.") Its meaning in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries commonly was "foolish" or "wanton."

Cashews are botanically classified as the seed of a tropical and semitropical fruit called the cashew apple.

There is a phenomenon called the "last laugh." A bullet shot through a victim's heart sometimes precipitates a final laugh before death.

The Earth weighs 5.972 sextillion metric tons.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

The gorilla's scientific name is "Gorilla gorilla gorilla."

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

In ancient Greece, women counted their age from the date on which they were married, not from the day they were born.

Icelanders read more books per capita than any other people in the world.

Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Pound for pound, earthworms make up half of all animal life.

Albert Einstein's last words will never be known. He spoke them in German, and the attending nurse did not speak German.

In 1924, an eighteen-foot-high candle weighing three tons was erected in honor of the singer, Enrico Caruso, in Naples.

The female angler-fish weights up to half a ton. The male, however, is only a few millimeters long, and spends his whole life attached to her nose.

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

If they all lived, two ordinary house flies could produce 5,000,000,000,000 offspring in one season.

Milk from young coconuts was successfully used as blood plasma during World War II.

The durian fruit is a Asian delicacy. Unfortunately, it smells like the flesh of rotting corpses.

Ladles are older than spoons.

In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.

It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.

The Anopheles mosquito, which carries the malaria parasite Plasmodium is estimated to have been responsible for half of the human deaths in history, outside of war and accidents, since the Stone Age.

Snails can sleep for three years without eating.

The word "byte" is a contraction of "by eight."

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.

The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. It had no Hitlers after WWII.

A vulture throws up on its own feet to cool off in the desert heat.

Beavers have orange teeth.

By age 60, most people have lost half their taste buds.

Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. Most of it is paper.

Most collect calls are made on Father's Day.

Winston Churchill was born in a women’s restroom during a dance.

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

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

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

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

The phone book in Iceland is alphabetic--by first name.

Donald Duck lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are 50 years of age or older.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

Switzerland is the only European country without a single head of state.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.