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.