Damien's Trivia Page

Pollen lasts forever.

The average American travels a million miles in their lifetime, mostly by car.

Florence Nightengale carried a pet owl in pocket wherever she went.

The white half moon under your fingernail is an air pocket.

Norway has the lowest murder rate in the world.

It takes a shark about a week to grow a new set of teeth.

Most thieves are deterred by noisy dogs.

The average person has 1460 dreams a year. That's 4 a night.

In 19th century England, attempting suicide was a crime punishable by death.

At the present rate of erosion, Niagara Falls will disappear in 22,800 years.

Most males blame their partners after bad sex.

A butterfly can't help but stare, it has 12,000 eyes.

A hockey puck can travel up to 100 mph.

Flamingoes can only eat when their heads are upside down.

Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.

William Shakespear invented more than 1700 words.

You burn 50% more calories watching TV than you do sleeping.

The speed of a hard rain is about 20 mph.

When feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female's nose in his teeth.

The last Dodo bird died in 1681.

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

The average American opens his refrigerator 22 times a day.

The average Amercian gets 20% less sleep than 100 years ago.

Abe Lincoln signed the income tax into law to pay for the Civil War.

Donald Duck comics were banned from libraries in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

You have 45 miles of nerves in your body.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

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

It's impossible to drown in quicksand because the sand actually helps you float.

Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel hair, the inventor's name was Keml.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Chemically speaking, your blood is very close to seawater.

A television set uses the same amount of energy as an ordinary light bulb.

Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

Genghis Khan is said to have killed over 1 million people in an hour in the year 1221.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

50% of American people believe in UFOs.

Pigs are responsible for killing off the Dodo bird.

Flies can get athlete's foot.

According to experts, whale songs rhyme.

Scientists say sex can relieve arthritis pain for up to 6 hours.

Sperm whales can hold their breath for over an hour.

A teaspoon holds 120 drops of water.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

It takes 200,000 frowns to make a permanent wrinkle.

If you stub your toe, your brain will register the pain in 1/50th of a second.

There are 200 taste buds on each of the small bumps of your tongue.

American cheese actually comes from England.

A plucked eyebrow takes about 90 days to grow back.

Spectators drank more 1800 gallons of Mint Juleps at each Kentucky Derby.

You get more vitamin C from strawberries than you do from oranges.

The two things that make farts smell, skatole and indole, are commonly used in making perfumes.

You can't keep your eyes open when you sneeze.

The average duration for sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

Monkeys don't get fleas.

A week old gazelle can outrun a full grown horse.

Pound for pound, grasshoppers are three times as nutrious as beef.

Glass is considered a liquid, not a solid.

The longest recorded flight of a paper airplane is more than 1 1/4 miles.

Jellyfish have no blood.

Ounce for ounce, a bumblebee is 150 times stronger than an elephant.

There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

Humans are the only animals that cry.

Salt is the only rock that humans can eat.

One third of the U.S. is the result of unwated pregnancies.

There are more plastic flamingoes in America than real ones.

The original Gotham City was a mythical English town whose residents were extremely stupid.

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

The U.S. Government spends $79 million a day on "Intelligence".

The praying mantis is the only animal with one ear.

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

The world's first female telephone operator was named Emma M. Nutt.

Most earthworms like to eat ice cream.

There are no words in the English language that rhyme with purple.

Elephants love to eat licorice.

Man is the only animal that sleeps on its back.

Trap 40 fireflies in a jar and it will generate enough light to read by.

Ostriches yawns in groups before going to sleep.

The world population increases by the equvilent of Mexico's population every year.

The British monarcy costs taxpayers $85 million a year.

1 in 7 Americans don't speak English at home.

The baby blue whale gains 10 pounds an hour.

In 1800 there were about 1 billion people on Earth. Now there are more than 5 billion.

The Polish government rewards informants with flowers and chocolates.

99% of the universe is nothing.

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