The smallest frog in the world is the Eleutherodactylus iberia. It measures a mere 3/8 of an inch.

The Titanic was never christened.

The bark of the redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside the trees.

According to a recent survey, 80 percent of British college students have never washed their own clothes.

A "coward" was originally a boy who took care of cows.

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450 degrees.

Cleopatra had stones inserted in her vagina to prevent her from getting pregnant.

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

"Fat Bastard Chardonnay" is a French wine label.

An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
   

An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.

The earliest known illustration of a man using a condom during sexual intercourse is painted on the wall of a cave in France. It is dated between 12,000 and 15,000 years old.

A Skittle candy fresh from the production line could break your teeth.

The costume of Sesame Street's Big Bird is made of turkey feathers, dyed yellow.

The word "bozo" derives from the French slang term bouseaux (meaning "hick or yokel"). However, bouseaux literally means "cow turds."

In the adult human body, there are 46 miles of nerves.

One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

The word "sex" was coined in 1382.

Lipstick is believed to have been invented in ancient Egypt for women who specialized in oral sex. They wanted their lips to look more inviting.

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

The origin of the English word "orgasm" derives from the Greek, "orgaein," meaning "to swell" or "be excited or lustful."

During orgasm, the heart averages 140 beats per minute.

An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing in a store's walk-in meat freezer.

A parthenologist is someone who specializes in the study of virgins and virginity.

If you were a female citizen of the church of Aphrodite in Paphos, Cyprus, before you could be married you had to prostitute yourself to a stranger.

Among sexually active adults, lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.

A capon is a castrated rooster.

In some places in Ecuador, the husband can return the bride to her family if he determines she is not a virgin.

Chimps produce almost three times more sperm than humans relative to body weight.

About 40% of workplace romances lead to marriage or a long-term relationship.
   

According to researchers, if a man spends the day with his female partner, then has sexual intercourse with her, he will ejaculate far fewer sperm than would be the case if the pair had spent the day apart.

In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.

Trobriand (off the coast of New Guinea) islanders have a euphemism for having sex that translates as "scraping the tapioca."

The first striptease dance was performed in Paris, France on March 13, 1894.

According to a survey done by the American Management Association, about 40% of workplace romances lead to marriage or a long-term relationship.

Two of the main causes of temporary impotence are tight pants and prolonged cigarette smoking.

Gorillas purr.

During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.

It is a Hindu custom not to cut a child's fingernails before they are a year old.

Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States.

Linda Boreman (a/k/a Linda Lovelace) was never paid for her part in Deep Throat. The film has grossed more than $600 million.

The asteroid believed to have killed the dinosaurs was named Chixalub.

The inventor of chewing gum, a dentist named William Semple, intended it mainly as a means of exercising the jaws.

Government by a woman or women is called a "gynarchy."

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

The 52 cards in a standard deck represent the 52 weeks in a year—the four suits represent the four seasons.

William Shakespeare had 11 different ways of spelling his surname.

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

An atomic clock can be made accurate to one second in every 150,000 years.

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.

There are an average of 61,000 people airborne over the U.S. at any given hour.

The chemical responsible for a cat’s reaction to catnip is nepetalactone.

Every continent in the world contains a city called Rome.

While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.

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

Abraham Lincoln held a liquor license and operated several taverns.

Because steel expands when it gets hot, the Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in the summer than in the winter.

A woman's arthritic pain will almost always disappear as soon as she becomes pregnant.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

In the 1940s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear Americans would pronounce it "bitch."

The first episode of Sesame Street was sponsored by the letters W, S and E.

The blinking warning light on top of the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood spells out "Hollywood" in Morse code.

The largest living animal, the blue whale, also has the largest penis, measuring about 10 feet long and a foot in diameter.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

The smell of Crayola crayons has been proven to lower blood pressure.

There were five Jell-O flavors that flopped—celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.

Mexico City has more taxicabs than any other city in the world.

Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.

The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.
   

Magnetic ants are so-named because they always build their nests pointing north and south.

The title role of Beetlejuice was written for Sammy Davis, Jr.

The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.

The Yequina Indians of Amazonia consider it normal to have infants present during lovemaking.

For a while Frederic Chopin, the composer and pianist, wore a beard on only one side of his face. "It does not matter," he explained. "My audience sees only my right side."

The medical term for the condition known as writers' cramp is "chirospasm."

Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers.

The idea of painting fingernails originated in China, where nail color indicated their social rank.

Fifty percent of pizzas sold in the U.S. have pepperoni on them.

One out of every three people can’t snap their fingers.

Houdini was 5’1" tall.

Colgate faced a an obstacle marketing its toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries—Colgate translates as "go hang yourself."

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.

Plants are 90 percent water.

According to researchers, eating is the favorite pastime of American adults. Sex is eighth on the list—after fishing.

The shortest "ology" (study of) word is oology—or the study of eggs.

The forward slash character on your keyboard is also known as a slant, virgule or solidus.

Sesame Street’s Snuffle-upagus' first name is Aloysius.

The average Las Vegas resident spends $846 on gambling each year.
   

About 50% of the world’s scientists are working on military projects.

The California ground squirrel is immune to rattlesnake bites.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

The average Las Vegas resident spends $846 on gambling each year.

On The Simpsons, the mouse is Itchy and the cat is Scratchy.

The stall closest to the door in a public bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.

McDonald’s milkshakes contain seaweed.

The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.

The Guiness Book of World Records lists a movie called The Cure for Insomnia as being the longest film ever. It's 80 hours long.

Dog bites rank second behind sexually transmitted diseases as the most costly health problem in the United States.

Shakespeare invented the expression, "Laugh it off."

A woman’s sense of smell is most acute during ovulation.

According to the FBI, 70% of sports autographs are fake.

There are 42 spots on a pair of dice.

Every U.S. President that has had a beard has been Republican.

Licorice can raise your blood pressure.

Oprah Winfrey’s first name was the result of a typo. Her parents wanted to use the biblical name Orpah, but the midwife couldn't spell, so it became Oprah.

There are seven loops in the curly design on the top of every Hostess cupcake.

In early drafts of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, the main character was named Pansy O'Hara, not Scarlett. The plantation we know as Tara was called Fountenoy Hall.

More than a third of all adults hit their alarm clock's "snooze" button each morning—an average of three times before they finally get up.

The show business group with the lowest rate of divorce? Comedians.
   

There are 1,218 peanuts in a 28-ounce jar of Jif peanut butter.

Table skirts were invented during the Victorian era. It was feared that a glimpse of a table leg could drive a man into a sexual frenzy.

On a Bingo card (with 90 numbers), there are approximately 44 million ways to make Bingo.

Thirty million men in the U.S. suffer from erectile dysfunction.

Psalms 118 is at the exact center of the Bible.

America’s top three condiments—ketchup, mustard and salsa.

In the days when people were tarred and feathered, the preferred combination was pine tar and goose feathers.

The show business group with the lowest divorce rate? Comedians.

A black eye, in medical terminology, is called a "bilateral periorbital hematoma."

About fifty percent of female lawyers are married to other lawyers.

The blood pressure of a healthy human is about the same as a spider’s.

Volleyball is the most popular sport played in American nudist camps.

Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

The word "dude" was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words "duds" and "attitude."

Most cats do not have eyelashes.

Before surgery, ancient Egyptian doctors put their patients under by hitting them on the head with a mallet.

The maximum federal penalty for "whale harassment" is a $10,000 fine.

The mechanical shark used in the movie Jaws was nicknamed Bruce.

The first and last time the Roadrunner spoke was in the 1951 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Operation: Rabbit.

One out of every three snake bit victims is intoxicated.

The Italian favorite "manicotti" translates as "small muff."

The Italian favorite "manicotti" translates as "small muff."
   

The Pacific island of Nauru’s economy is based almost entirely on bird droppings.

During World War II, it was against the law in Germany to name a horse Adolf.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The opening act for the 1967 Monkees Summer Tour was Jimi Hendrix.

Klingons don’t have tear ducts.

The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm.

Under the law, you need at least three people to constitute a "riot."

It takes an average of 345 squirts to get a gallon of milk from a cow's udder.

Americans use more than 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

The five favorite U.S. school lunches nationwide, according to the American School Food Service Association, are, in order, pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos and hamburgers.

The District of Columbia has one lawyer for every 19 residents.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.

Twelve percent of U.S. teens had their first sexual intercourse in an automobile.

The shoestring was invented in England in 1790. Prior to this time all shoes were fastened with buckles.

Studies show women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be aroused by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor's degree.

If you are afraid you might die laughing, you are suffering from cherophobia.
   

If you are afraid you might die laughing, you are suffering from cherophobia.

Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.

The highest known score for a single word in competition Scrabble is 392. In 1982, Dr. Saladin Khoshnaw achieved this score for the word "caziques," which means "Indian chief."

Rome has more homeless cats per square mile than any other city in the world.

Half the peanuts grown in America are used for peanut butter.

An old custom in Holland was the basis of our modern piggy banks. At the beginning of the year, children were given pig-shaped earthenware containers (known as "feast pigs") to save their pennies in. The following Christmas, they got to open them.

President Chester Arthur was the only president to ever hold a garage sale on the White House lawn.

Female dog bites are twice as numerous as bites inflicted by male dogs.

A cow spends 18 hours a day chewing.

Lucille Ball has appeared on the cover of TV Guide magazine a record 29 times.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, backpack-related injuries send almost 5,000 students each year to emergency rooms nationwide.

Most pencils sold in Europe don't have erasers.

There are an estimated three million lakes in Alaska.

In the military, when soldiers refer to a "klick," they're talking about one kilometer (or .62 of a mile).

The lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, next to your temple, is called a "tragus."

Mozart wrote the music for the song Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star when he was just five years old.

The first time the color khaki was used for uniforms in a war was in 1880, during the Afghan War.

The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve fibers, twice as many as the penis.

The most popular name for high school sports teams in the U.S.—Eagles.

One hundred and twenty drops of water are needed to fill a teaspoon.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.

The Danish word gift means both "married" and "poison."
   

A local ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut, prohibits people from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.

The first miniature golf course in the U.S. was named the Tom Thumb Golf Course.

When Herbert Hoover and his wife did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese. The Coolidge family spoke in sign language when they did not want to be overheard.

The Danish word gift means both "married" and "poison."

The CIA, desperate to undermine Fidel Castro’s popularity, once planned to put hair-remover inside his shoes during an oversea trip so his famous beard would fall out.

"Steatopygia" means an accumulation of fat in the buttocks.

In 1935, the first automatic parking meter in the U.S. was installed in Oklahoma City. It was called the Park-O-Meter and was invented by Carlton Magee. It took nickels.

There are 20 matches in a standard pack.

The video game Pac-Man has been played more than 10 billion times worldwide during the last 20 years.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

Men laugh longer, more loudly, and more often than women.

"Teen" is a Scottish word meaning "grief."

On The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson had 124 guest hosts. Jay Leno has had none.

Merry-go-rounds turn counterclockwise.

Thunderstorms have been known to curdle milk.

79% of Americans say they always sit at the same place at the table during mealtimes.

All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).

Cadillac introduced cruise control in 1958.

Isaac Newton's only recorded utterance while he was a member of Parliament was a request to open the window.

The ancient Mayan calendar lists the end of time precisely at December 12, 2012.

It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to tip the scale at one ounce.

If you order a Mae West in a diner, you’ll get a figure eight cruller.