"The sugar from the urine of a diabetic is identical with grape sugar. Discovery of this fact by the French chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul in 1815 was the first step in the direction of recognizing diabetes as a disease of sugar metabolism."
"The first song played on Armed Forces Radio during operation Desert Shield was Rock the Casbah by the Clash."
"The average person swallows seven spiders a year while they sleep."
"I've heard of Chanel No.5, but what happened to 1-4? Ernst Beaux created the first "designer perfume" for legendary Paris couturier Coco Chanel while they were staying in Biarritz. And what about Chanel #'s 1-4? They never existed. The "5" was coined because the perfume was launched in 1921 on the fifth day of the fifth month."
"Officially, the space shuttle program is known as the SpaceTransportation System (STS). The first shuttle was actually the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise, named after the famous star ship in the Star Trek television series. It was a drop-test vehicle released from a Boeing 747 in midflight. Enterprise made five successful free-flight tests prior to Columbia's history-making maiden flight into space."
"The famous French prophet and astrologer Nostradamus (1503-1566) predicted the world would end when Easter fell on April 25. This has happened in 1666, 1734, 1886, and 1943. It will occur again in 2038."
"Is there such a word as alright? No such word as alright is recognized in modern English usage. It is branded by reputable English dictionaries as an erroneous form of the phrase "all right." For a period during the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, before the invention of printing, "alright" was employed to some extent by English writers, but all right had been previously preferred and it has been regarded as the correct for ever since."
"It would take 8,781.173164735 years for your hair to grow to be a mile long."
"A cockroach can live 10 days without it's head at which point it dies of starvation"
"The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
"If you are in the ocean and a shark comes up to you you should pea because the scent will scare it away."
"The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo."
"For every cockroach that you see, there's 1000 more crawling around in the world."
"The Giraffe has the longest tongue in comparison to it's body, ranking in at 13 inches."
"The average fingernail grows at a rate of about .00000036 inches per second. The thumbnail is slightly sowler, while the middle fingernail grows slightly faster."
"Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day"
"If Snapple is made from the best stuff on Earth. What is the best stuff on earth?"
"Some larger dinosaurs had two brains: one in their head and one near their tail so that they could react to an attack from behind quickly."
"What is the speed of dark?"
"Why are there locks on 7-11 doors when they're opened 24 hours a day"
"Male sea horses give birth instead of female sea horses"
"The venom on the spurs of the Duck-Billed Platypus is potent enough to kill a wild dog, and can make a human miserable with partial paralysis and pain for several weeks"
"Despite the many rat-infested slums in New York City, rats bite only 311 people in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers."
"A Sperm Whale's "Mr. Happy" (penis) is eleven feet long....the NBA basketball rim is only 10 feet tall"
"Over 5000 years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel, "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the promised land" Nearly 5000 years later, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses and light up a Camel, this is the promised land"' Now , Bill Clinton is going to steal your shovels ,kick your asses, raise the price of Camels and mortgage the promised land. "
"The electric chair was invented by a dentist"
"A Platypus has no bellybutton"
"The average person farts 13 times a day"
"For the first two years of your life your pearents teach you how to walk and talk, for the next eighteen years they tell you sit down and shut up!"
"At one time in Holland, it took four years to train to be a hatmaker, but only three years to train to be a surgeon"
"Coca-Cola was originally green"
"There are traces of insects in all the food you eat"
"Every 2 seconds someone dies and every 5 seconds someone is born"
"Goldfish only have a memory of 3 seconds"
"The most common place to be biten by a black widow spider is on the tip of the penis"
"Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States."
"Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church."
"If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom."
"Kermit the Frog is left-handed."
"Nondairy creamer is flammable."
"The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile."
"Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with 20 drawings of his characters."
"If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it."
"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."
"It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. You can try this one out yourself!"
"Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates."
"The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy.' This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink doubleword squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and 'Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go."
"Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer."
"The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."
"The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
"In the four major US professional sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey), there are only seven teams whose nicknames do not end with an "S." Basketball: The Miami Heat, The Utah Jazz, The Orlando Magic. Baseball: The Boston Red Sox, The Chicago White Sox. Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche, The Tampa Bay Lightning. Football: None."
"Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for Lord of the Flies, and this is where the book's title comes from."
"It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear."
"The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen."
"There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989."
"The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is, "and the rest of the day to yourself."
"The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a Band-Aid in every episode, either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing."
"Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church."
"When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city."
"John Larroquette of "NightCourt" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
"In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run."
"Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union."
"When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio."
"The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat."
"The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia."
"The shortest unit of distance is the "Planck Length," which is the distance scale at which the known laws of physics break down, and we can no longer describe the structure of space and time.The Planck Length is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000016 centimeters. In other words, one centimeter is about 625 million trillion trillion Planck Lengths"
"Beethoven's 5th symphony, considered to be the masterpiece of his lifetime, was bought for under 20 dollars"
"Chimpanzees are the only other animal, besides humans, that can recognize themselves in mirrors"
"Polar Bears are left handed"
"Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds"
"Taco Bell's most fattening food (shockingly) is its 'Taco Salad' because of its fatty shell"
"When Bob Marley died there were 62 species of living creaters found in his hair"
"Male mosquito does not bite. Only in the female is the proboscis fitted for biting and blood-sucking. The mouth parts of the male are rudimentary and he could not bite no matter how hard he tried."
"Male cats have barbs on their genitals, which cause the females to cry out in pain on withdrawal"
"The toilet was invented in 1596, 32 years before shakespeare was born"
"Ancient Spaniards use to dip their toothbrushes in urine before there was tooth paste"
"The average home telephone rings 55 tims a day"
"Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie"
"If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb."
"The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood That it can squirt blood 30 feet."
"Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour."
"On average, people fear spiders more than they do death."
"The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue."
"It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open."
"You can't kill yourself by holding your breath."
"Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do."
"In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes."
"A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out."
"An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated."
"A catfish has over 27,000 taste buds."
"A flea can jump 350 times its body length."
"The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by decapitating the male."
"Butterflies taste with their feet."
"Elephants are the only animals that can't jump."
"A cat's urine glows under a blacklight."
"An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain."
"There is a whole ecosystem under most beds which include Balls of dust and hair, along with fibers from furniture, collect into habitats for a variety of creatures mainly dust mites"
"Most Middle Eastern countries recognise the following Islamic law: "After having sexual relations with a lamb, it is a mortal sin to eat its flesh."
"In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death."
"In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror."
"Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times."
"The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation."
"There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry."
"In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)"
"Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores."
"In Cali, Columbia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens her mother must be in the room to witness the act."
"In Santa Cruz, Bolivia it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time."
"In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines -- with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises."
"A Pontiac Sunfire has less air resistance than a stealth bomber"
"Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barney the Dinosaur are all left-handed"
"All the Rugrats babies voices are voiced by women, even Tommy, Chucky, and Phil"
"Only 30% of Americans can flare their nostrils."
"In the Middle Ages it was customary for one to tip the executioner when one was going to be beheaded, to ensure their death would be a quick one"
"Male calico cats are sterile"
"When you step on a cockroach the white stuff that comes out is its liver"
"Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated."
"Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite."
"The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses."
"There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar."
"The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing."
"A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes."
"There are more chickens than people in the world."
"Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey."
"The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." "
"On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag."
"All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 420."
"No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple."
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
"All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill."
"Almonds are a member of the peach family."
"Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance."
"Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable."
"There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous."
"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."
"A cat has 32 muscles in each ear."
"An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain."
"Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur."
"In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 1010."
"Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer."
"The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross."
"When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city."
"The characters Bert and Ernie, on Sesame Street, were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
"A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours."
"A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds."
"A dime has 118 ridges around the edge."
"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."
"It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open."
"The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world."
"Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself."
"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak."
"The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw AN, and OZ, hence "Oz."
"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."
"Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister."
"John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles."
"The average person falls asleep in seven minutes."
"There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball."
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand"
"The "father" of sliced bread is Otto Rohwedder, a former jewelry store owner."
"91% of Americans lie regularly"
"All sharks sink unless they swim"
"In Iowa it is a crime to watch a one armed piano player"
"Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy"
"A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
"A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes !
"A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
"A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
"A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
"A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
"Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
"Starfishes haven't got brains.
"The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
"The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
"An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
"Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)
"On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
"Polar bears are left handed.
"Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
"Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
"The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
"The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
"The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
"Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
"John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
"The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
"Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
"A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
"All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
"Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
"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.
"All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
"Almonds are a member of the peach family.
"Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
"Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class $40,000.
"Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
"Coca-cola was originally green.
"Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
"Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
"If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
"If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
"It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
"Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
"The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
"The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
"The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
"The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
"You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
"Children concieved in cool months average higher IQs then those concieved in warm months.
"Babies have more bones then adults. We start with 350 and in adulthood have 206 because many infant bones fuse.
"Humans have a tail between the fourth and eighth weeks of development. It then disappears.
"Newborns are legally blind with vision less then 20/500. .
"A newborn sees red and green but not blue. .
"A baby learns to smile in the womb but does not learn to frown until six months old.
"Humans are the only animal that suffer headaches.
"The phenomenon called Exploding Head Syndrome refers to people who hear loud explosions in their head at night, which prevents sleep.
"If your head is cut off, your eyes will blink up to 20 times afterwards.
"The most powerful muscle in your body moves your jaw.
"Smiling is labour saving, requiring 17 muscles. Frowning requires the movement of 43 muscles.
"Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.
"Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2.
"Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
"In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
"Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.
"Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
"No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
"The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
"The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
"In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
"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 in the US whose name is just one syllable.
"State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
"When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
"Typical eyebrows contain 550 hairs
"You would need to walk 80km to give your legs the equivalent excerise your eye muscles get in a normal day.
"Crying can prevent hives, headaches, and even heart attacks.
"Each year you blink 7,884,300 times.
"During violent dreams your muscles are paralysed. Otherwise you could injure a person next to you.
"Your sinuses are hollow, but if they were solid your neck would have to be twice as thick to support the added weight.
"If blindfolded you can guess the sex of somebody 95% of the time by the smell of the person's breath.
"During an average lifetime, a person produces about 38,000 litres of saliva.
"The woman who uses lipstick every day will use her height in lipstick every fix years.
"A woman's skin is only two-thirds as thick as a man's.
"When you blush your stomach blushes as well.
"It is true that men prefer blondes - and so do mosquitoes.
"Most humans feel uneasy if not covered when they sleep because in primitive times our bodies were covered with hair. \
"Models have fewer eyelashes because they lose so many when removing false eyelashes.
"The average woman's thighs are 3.8cm larger than the average man's.
"To replace every body part that can be replaced with artificial parts would cost about $50 million.
"The blood in your body travels 270km to 370km a day.
"The risk of heart attack is 33% greater on a Monday.
"You cannot catch a cold at the North or South Pole because temperatures are so low standard viruses cannot survive.
"Stomach acid is so strong it can dissolve razor blades.
"The odds of being in a shark attack are on in a million, but if attacked you have a 30% of survival.
"in 2004 there were 666 christian churches in Illinois.