Each square inch of your human skin has: 19 million cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000 sensory cells? Seventy percent of your household dust is made up of dead skin flakes.
The first telephone directory was published in 1878, two years after the invention of the telephone. In 1883 a Wyoming printer ran out of white paper and put the business listings in yellow. The public liked it, and AT&T soon switched to yellow pages nationwide and has been ever since.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
All porcupines float in water.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as
does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic.
"Hang On Snoopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall,
you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services
(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the
other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and
up, but no channel 1.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he
was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los
Angeles de Porciuncula"-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size:
"L.A."
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or
purple.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament Building is an American flag.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the
front upper right-hand corner.
Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby
born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at
the same height as the U.S. flag.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter
on backwards.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name
of the Don McLean song.)
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the
cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after
falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and
a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence
"Oz."
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece
has memorized all 158 verses.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A"
is Afghanistan.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
By age 70 half of your taste buds are gone.
Camel's milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when boiled.
The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is the word "subcontinental".
Dwight D. Eisenhower's (a five-star general) parents were pacifists.
Your brain is more active sleeping while watching television.
Roman statues were made with detachable heads so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
Since 1978, at least 370 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines.
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
The first T.V. sitcom couple to ever share the same bed on a regular basis were Lily and Herman Munster.
The popsicle was invented by an 11-year old boy named Frank Epperson in 1905. He accidentally left a container of soda and a stirrer outside overnight and in the morning discovered them frozen together.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are
antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually
pass out from sheer terror.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser
himself.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but
more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The human brain is so complex; that it would cost over 8 billion for
anyone to program, and sell a computer(s) to do all the things it
does!
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order,
spell
the name JASON.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a
watch is 10:10.
The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of
gas bursting.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy ) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don t die throughout the movie.
The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely
solid.
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstone Chewables.
It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
In the United States there are more 2nd streets than there are 1st
streets, and Main street is not the most common; Pine is.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed
people do.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Polar bears are left handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human
jumping
the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it s head, before it starves
to
death.
More capital cities begin with B than any other letter: Berlin,
Berne,
Bonn, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Brasilia,
Baghdad, Bratislava, Brussels, Belgrade, Bogato and of course
Belfast.
The Detroit Red Wings in 1997 hold the most Stanley Cup wins for a United
States Hockey Club in the NHL.
In Japan meat from the 'Fugu' or spiny puffer fish is considered a
rare
delicacy, however the liver and intestines contain a
powerful neurotoxin and the slightest contamination during
preparation
can be deadly. Restaurants who serve fugu must have 'Fugu
certified' chefs. In Japan about one hundred people on average die
annually
from fugu poisoning.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and
England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is
why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
registered
blood donors.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
plane
crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes (not that anybody really noticed).
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed
people do.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start
with.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not
being able to remember the word you want.
(try to remember this word for future reference)
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using
the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
If the population of China walked past you in single file,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they
are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
one olive from each salad served in first-class.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world,
with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other
people
in the world.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
(what about "I do" ?)
The longest word in the English language is 1909
letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
No president of the United States was an only child.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile
in every five must be straight. These straight sections are
usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
