Thomas Alfa Edison, the inventor of electric lamp, was afraid of dark

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

In high school, Robin Williams was voted ‘Least Likely to Succeed.’

Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.

The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.

During the filming of ‘Apocalypse Now’, director Francis Ford Coppola threatened suicide several times and lost 100 pounds.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant!

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

During his lifetime, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

King Kong was Adolf Hitler’s favorite movie.

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world’s first billionaire.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

Malcolm X’s original name is Malcolm Little.

At age 47, the Rolling Stones’ bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother’s blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill’s 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father’s father-in-law and his own grandpa.

The famous Russian composer Aleksandr Borodin was also a respected chemistry professor in St. Petersburg.

At age 4, Mozart composed a concerto for the clavier.

Adolf Hitler’s great-great-grandmother was a Jewish maid.

Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the centre of a bed facing directly north.

Elvis Presley failed his music class at school.

Jennifer Aniston’s original name is Jennifer Anastassakis!

President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!

President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!

James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.

Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.

During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had only one testicle.

Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

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

Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.

At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.

In the 1930’s, American track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master’s degree in Special Education.

When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name ‘Allota Warmheart’ so that nobody will recognize her.

Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an ‘Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.’

Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.

Albert Einstien never wore any socks.

Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!

Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.

Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him!

Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon ‘The Flintstones.’

Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

No president of the United States was an only child.

When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.

Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

Michael Keaton’s original name is Michael Douglas.

Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!

Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.

Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)

Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.

91% of us lie regularly.

29% of people admit they’ve intentionally stolen something from a store.

6% of men propose over the telephone!

Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.

There are 23 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!

For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.

When nobody else is around, 47% of people drink straight from the carton.

22% of us skip lunch daily.

45.2% of people pee in the shower.

28.1% of people pee in the pool !

More than 150,000,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!

Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.

One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.

About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.

There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.

Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were mispelled.
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
There are no penguins in the North Pole.

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.

The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!

Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.

Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.

The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans!

Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.

The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.

15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.

Nearly 50% of the world’s scientists are assigned to military projects.

Approximately one-third of the population can’t snap their fingers!

The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.

35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.

The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.

The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.

There are 11 towns in the U.S. named Moscow!

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.

The Japanese national anthem is expressed in only four lines. The Greek anthem runs 158 verses.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Finland has the greatest number of islands in the world: 179,584.

A “hairsbreadth away” is 1/48 of an inch.

About two-thirds of the world’s population have no regular contact with newspapers, television, radio or telephones.

One pencil can write about 50,000 English words before it wears out.

At age 70, more than 70 percent of men are still potent!

The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.

You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.

85% of all Valentine’s Day cards are purchased by women!

An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.

The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.

10 percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.

One percent of Greenland’s population lives in a single apartment building!

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth’s atmosphere each second.

In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!

Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off .

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

McDonald’s salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!

In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!

In the movie ‘The Wizard Of Oz’, Toto the dog’s salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.

In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik’s Cube in 22.95 seconds.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.

Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world’s oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.

An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.

In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960’s car did.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

A married man is four times more likely to die during sex if his partner isn’t his wife.

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood !

According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!

Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.

There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.

About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.

In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.

More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day.

One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.

A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people!

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States’ national income.

90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk.

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.

Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.

2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world’s mail volume.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

The cruise liner, ‘Queen Elizabeth 2′, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.

In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.

Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.

Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.

More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.

Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.

Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.

There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!

Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Clinophobia is a phobia of bed
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
Windmills are always rotate counter clockwise with one exception, windmills in Ireland

Most car horns honk in the key of ‘F’.

It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.

At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.

Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

Antarctica is a desert.

The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City’s Manhattan Island.

Florida has more tornados per square mile than any other state.

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.

If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you still have a 50% chance of survival.

In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male.

Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.

Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac.

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don’t .

Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.

Most toilets flush in E flat.

The angle between the main branches of a tree and its trunk remains constant in each species - and this same angle is found between the principal vein of the tree’s leaves and all its subsidiary branching veins.

Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.

Panophobia is the fear of everything.

A broken clock is always right twice a day.

A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.

To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

Forensic scientists can determine a person’s sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.

You can start a fire with ice.

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.

Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.

A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!

Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.

People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it’s surface.

With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.

Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.

Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.

Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.

To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.

Apotemnophilia is a desire to become an amputee.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!

Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.

Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.

If you cut a ‘V’ shape into your toe nails, you can prevent ‘in-grown’ toe nails.

The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!

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

The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.

The Earth’s atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!

A small airplane can fly backwards.

Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.

Today’s top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.

Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.

The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference.

It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.

A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.

Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car’s gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.

Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there’s no air pressure.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

Dating back to the 1600’s, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.

Linen is actually stronger when wet.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

Nike Air Soles do not actually have ‘air’ in them.

Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world’s oxygen supply.

By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.

You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.

Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry.

The best diamonds are colored blue-white.

The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13th’.

Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.

If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.

Saturn’s rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.

Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.

Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.

It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.

No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.

Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.

Astronauts cannot burp in space.

One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!

Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined!

The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.

X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.

In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel’s back.

You may not mortgage your teeth in Las Vegas

It was forbidden to have a dog in Iceland

In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.

In Michigan, a woman isn’t allowed to cut her own hair without her husband’s permission.

In Oblong, Illinois, it’s punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.

In Texas it’s illegal to put graffiti on someone else’s cow.

It’s illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

You’re subject to fines and/or imprisonment for making uglyfaces at dogs in Oklahoma.

By law, in Bourbon, Miss., one small onion must be served with each glass of water in a restaurant.

On Sunday, it is illegal to sell cornflakes in Columbus, Ohio.

Unless you have a doctor’s note, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6 p.m. in Newark, New Jersey.

In America in 1977, the punishment for smuggling marijiuana was 15 years less than the punishment for smuggling coffee!

In Idaho, it is illegal to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds!

Until 1834, it was illegal for any soldier of the U.S. Army to carry the American flag into battle.

It is illegal NOT to smile in Pocatello, Idaho!

In Louisiana, you can be jailed for ten years for stealing an alligator.

In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.

The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

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

It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel’s Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!

In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and cook it for dinner!

In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store!

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!

First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!

Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!

It is illegal for unmarried couples to have sex in a hotel room in North Carolina.

In Kentucky, It’s illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana Fishing License.

In Florida, It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.

In Massachusetts, It is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.

In Athens, Greece, a driver’s license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its stars was a pig.

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.

According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the ‘floor’.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).

It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

It is illegal for tourists to enter Mexico with more than 2 CD’s!

The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ‘To Insure Prompt Service’.
The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter in alphabet.

A 15 letters word which has no repeated letter is “uncopyrightable”

A group of frogs is called an army.

A group of officers is called a mess.

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles?that’s where the word “testimony” comes from.

The word ‘News’ is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

The word ‘Indiana’ is Native American for ‘Land of the Indians’, yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

‘Vodka’ is Russian for ‘little water’.

People who are modestly overweight have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight!

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

All babies are color blind when they are born.

Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.

The human brain is 2% of the body’s weight but uses a hungry 20% of its energy.

Some people who have two or more different kinds of fillings in their teeth are able to hear high-power AM broadcast stations when located within a few hundred feet of the stations.

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.

Womens’ hearts beat faster than mens’.

Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.

Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.

According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.

The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

On average women can hear better than men.

Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.

Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.

Girls have more tastebuds than boys.

The average human body contains .1 mg of uranium, .2 mg of gold, and 7 mg of arsenic!

Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.

The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person’s life.
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Our heart beats more than 100000 times each day
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the Immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!

One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.

People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.

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

The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.

Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.

The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.

Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.

Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.

The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.

Young children can entirely regrow lost fingertips above the top joint, including the bone, skin and nail!

The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.

City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.

Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.

Generally, blondes have more hair than any others colors

In average, our skindhead has about 1000 hairs per square inches

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

The octopus’ testicles are located in its head.

An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

A blue whale’s aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.

Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.

A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.

Snails breathe through their feet.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Kittens are born both blind and deaf.

Lima beans contain cyanide!

Only female bees work.

Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.

Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off.

Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.

A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.

The sting from a killer bee contains less venom than the sting from a regular bee!

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

Cats cannot taste sweet things.

A male baboon can kill a leopard.

In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.

Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the poors on their feet.

It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk!

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.

An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.

If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.