Radio personalities Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh were both born on January 12.

"Reltney" is archaic slang for "penis."

About 100 people a year choke to death on ballpoint pens.

There are 40,000 traffic intersections in Los Angeles.

Yellowstone was the world's first national park.

In publishing, a left-hand page is called "verso." The right is called "recto."

Cecil B. Demille's middle name was Blount.

The first known written advertisement is more than 3,000 years old. It was found in the ruins of Thebes.

A group of bears is called a "sleuth."

The decibel was named after Alexander Graham Bell.

Major League baseball teams use about 850,000 balls per season.

During Roman times, it wasn't uncommon for dice to be made from the knuckles of sheep.

"Maori" translates as "ordinary."

Of the 398 million telephones in the world, more than a third are in the United States.

Harry Houdini's motto was, "Secure knots secure not Houdini."

The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century.

"Parathesia" is the medical condition commonly referred to as "pins and needles."

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The English language has about 1,000 recognized euphemisms for "vagina."

It's estimated that armed citizens kill three times more criminals than police officers do.

The female ants are the ones that do all the work.

There are 132 Hawaiian islands.

America has just about an equal proportion of extroverts (49.3 percent) and introverts (50.7 percent).

Charles Dickens wrote under the pen name Boz.

The expression "hat trick" comes from cricket, where at one time, if a player scored three consecutive wickets, he was awarded a hat.

Bruce Lee was the 1958 Cha-Cha champ of Hong Kong.

It takes 60 seconds for blood to make one complete circuit of the human body.

A male donkey is a jackass. A female is called a jenny.

In France, the U.S. TV drama Law and Order is called New York District.


Fishermen in China train otters to herd fish into their nets.

The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

John D. Rockefeller was world's first billionaire.

King Arthur's horse was named Lamri. The word means "the foaming one."

Studies show more women talk to their cars than men do.

The perfect pickle should have seven "warts" per square inch.

The Salvation Army's motto is, "Blood and fire."

One-fifth of all of America's dairy cows are in Wisconsin.

William Shatner shared the first interracial kiss in American television history with Star Trek costar Nichelle Nichols in 1968. The episode was titled "Plato's Stepchildren."

Dairy cows can produce 125 pounds of saliva a day.

"Barf" means "snow" in the Persian language.

Ninety-eight percent of all animal species don't have a backbone.

The heat of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale.

Native Americans once used woodpecker scalps as currency.

There are about a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as automobiles.

During the course of a year, the average person walks four miles to make their bed.

It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.

The circumference of the Earth at the equator measures 24,902 miles.

"Siderodromophilia" is sexual arousal derived from riding in trains.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

Popeye was 5'6" tall.

The Chunnel, the tunnel between England and France, is 31 miles long, 23 of which are under water.

Arguments in the home most often happen in the kitchen.

In Wilton, Maine there is a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.

The word "galaxy" comes from the Greek word for milk, galacticos.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

Houdini's original name was Erich Weiss.

An Oscar weighs seven pounds.

Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick.

"Emetophilia" is arousal from vomit or vomiting.

Diamonds with strong colors like red, pink and blue are called "fancies" and are extremely rare.


By 2015, 27 of the world's 33 largest cities will be Asian.

The belly button of a typical blue whale is eight inches across.

Ten percent of female Army recruits test positive for chlamydia.

Rice has five times more DNA than human beings.

Earth is the only planet in the solar system whose name is not derived from Greek or Roman mythology.

Lutetia was the ancient name of Paris, France.

Ted Turner owns more than 1.7 million acres of land in five states, making him the largest private landowner in the United States.

In Singapore, there are an average of 26 restaurants per square mile.

The pin that holds a hinge together is called a "pintle."

It has been medically proven that laughter is an effective painkiller.

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

Fifty-four percent of Americans prefer to "fold" their toilet paper rather than "wad" it.

Kid Rock's real name is Robert Ritchie.

Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag. It's green.

There are almost 400 million bicycles in China.

The typical person goes to the bathroom six times a day.

Tycoon Donald Trump has never used an ATM.

According to their movie contracts, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance together in public.

"Chrematistophilia" is arousal from being charged for sex or robbed.

The kittens in a cat's litter can each have a different father.

Worldwide consumption of pork exceeds that of any other meat.

The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

The first CD to sell more than a million copies was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits.

People who chase after rare birds are called "twitchers."

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

Pinocchio was made of pine.

Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary.

The porn industry employs more than 12,000 people in the state of California alone.

"Pnigophobia" is the fear of choking.

Finches practice songs in their sleep.

One-third of potatoes sold are French fried.

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.

Dr. Seuss pronounced Seuss so it rhymed with "rejoice."

The largest known kidney stone weighed three pounds.

A curveball can curve up to 18 inches.

Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.

The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on Earth.


The word "ejaculation" comes from the Latin word meaning "throwing out."

According to U.S. law, a beer commercial can never actually show a person drinking beer.

The world's most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin.

The two highest IQs ever recorded on a standard test both belong to women.

A professional dancer will go through 20 or more "pointe" shoes in the course of one season of a ballet.

Benjamin Franklin invented crop insurance.

It costs about three cents to make a U.S. one-dollar bill.

Many hospitals make money by selling umbilical cords taken after patients give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his or her lifetime.

In Hawaii, the wind blows east to west.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, it's against the law to lasso a fish.

The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant.

Adolph Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" for 1938.

Topeka, Kansas is named after a Dakota Indian word meaning "a good place to dig potatoes."

Twenty million Americans watch pornography annually.

The hummingbird's brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionately the largest among birds.

It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.

The space between your eyebrows is called the "glabella."

At any one time, one in four people are daydreaming about sex.

The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons.

Reindeer herders have the most dangerous occupation in Sweden.

"Clinophobia" is the fear of beds.

There are three golf balls on the surface of the moon.

Twenty-seven percent of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bra.

Someone who is bilingual can also be called "diglot."

It takes the average person seven minutes to fall asleep.

"Taphephilia" is sexual arousal derived from being buried alive.

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."

The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.

The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size.

Seven percent of Americans eat at McDonald's on any given day.

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.

The 1951 film Quo Vadis used 32,000 costumes—the most in any one film.

The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.

Assuming Rudolph is in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.

The sport with the most number of officials with relation to players is tennis. There are 13 officials for two players.

"Nasophilia" is the arousal from the sight, touch, licking or sucking of a partner's nose.

England is smaller than New England.

Jimmy Hoffa's middle name was Riddle.

About 8.5 billion condoms are produced every year worldwide.

The act of yawning and stretching is called "pandiculation."

Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

Giraffes sleep only five minutes at a time, for a total of about 20 minutes a day.

Iolani Palace, in Hawaii, is the only royal palace in the United States.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

The hymen is named after the Greek god Hymenaeus, the god of marriage and weddings.

Girls have more taste buds than boys.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun.

According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society.

The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.

Illinois has more personalized license plates than any other state.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, found in the ear.

The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.

About a quarter of the world's population are vegetarians.

Ninety percent of men want to have children.

The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.

The Wampanoag chief invited to the first Thanksgiving feast was named Massasoit.

The first Thanksgiving took place in the fall of 1621.

The Pilgrims didn't use forks.

Only about one-third of the original colonists were Puritans.

In 1941, Congress passed a proclamation naming Thanksgiving a legal holiday to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.

The Mayflower's crossing took 66 days.


It's unclear if the Pilgrims at turkey at the first Thanksgiving. At the time, "turkey" meant any kind of fowl.

Evidence indicates that turkeys have been around for more than 10 million years.

Turkey eggs hatch in 28 days.

A baby turkey is called a "poult."

A mature turkey has about 3,500 feathers.

More than 45 million turkeys are consumed during Thanksgiving.

The average weight of a Thanksgiving turkey is 15 pounds.

The Mayflower weighed 180 tons.

The captain of the Mayflower was named Christopher Jones.

There were at least two dogs on the Mayflower.

The typical 15-pound turkey is 70 percent white meat and 30 percent dark meat.

Pilgrim children, boys and girls, wore linen or wool dresses up until the ages of seven or eight.

The Pilgrims never celebrated a second Thanksgiving.

Cranberries are also called "bounceberries."

Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

A male turkey is called a "Tom." A female turkey is called a "hen."

The Mayflower was a merchant vessel. Before transporting the Pilgrims, the ship was in the wine trade, and before that, in the fish trade.

The pet food industry uses about 13 percent of U.S. turkey production.

The Pilgrims did not eat cranberry sauce at the first Thanksgiving.

In the typical Pilgrim household, adults sat down to dinner while the children waited on them.

A nest of turkey eggs is called a "clutch."

The "caruncle" is the reddish, fleshy growth on the head and upper neck of a turkey. The red, fleshy growth from the base of a turkey's beak that hangs down over the neck is called the "snood."

The first native Americans to introduce themselves to the Pilgrims were Samoset and Squanto.

Ninety-five percent of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.

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

A recent survey revealed that wine drinkers are more successful than those who don't drink.

In ancient Greece, if a woman watched even a single Olympic event, she was put to death.

Fifty percent of all marshmallows consumed in the U.S. have been toasted.

Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights.

Casanova boasted that he made love to the same woman twelve times in one day.

According to experts, there was no punctuation until the 15th century.

There are more nuns over the age of 90 than there are under the age of 40.

Ralph Macchio played a troubled 14-year-old boy in Karate Kid. He was 22 at the time.

A restaurant in China, the Beijing Duck, can seat 9,000 people at one time.

Fifty-four percent of Americans claim to have had sex via phone, e-mail or text message.

Most heart attacks happen between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.

Almost all monkeys are near-sighted.

McDonald's uses 2,500 tons of sesame seeds a year.

From east to west, Hawaii is the widest state in the United States.

The Civil War produced more than 400,000 morphine addicts.

Eight percent of company presidents use profanity selectively and consciously.

Census details remain anonymous for 100 years.