| A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A elephant is the heaviest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.
A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles
away.
A man had the hiccups for 69 years.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.
A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in
South Bend, Indiana.
A noisy restaurant is 100,000 times louder than a watch ticking, Rock
Concert 1,000,000,000 times louder, Loud headphones 10,000,000,000 times louder
and a Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000 times louder.
A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt light bulb
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A Penny whistle has six finger holes.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can last longer with out water than a camel.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the
animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give
her coffee
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week
A silicon chip a quarter inch square has the capacity of the original
1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off
28,000 gallons of moisture.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth
A group of toads is called a knot.
About 3,500 gallons if water is needed to produce one pound of beef.
About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were
thirty.
About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.
About 85% of the plant life on the Earth is in the ocean.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still
sitting on it.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A starfish can turn its self inside out.
A ten gallon hat holds three quarters of a gallon.
A toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans.
A Walla Walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the
background when they say walla walla it looks like they are actually
talking.
A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.
A woodchuck breathers only ten times during hibernation.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Anteaters prefers termites to ants.
Ants stretch before they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very
human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a
spacesuit damages them.
Albert Brook's real name is Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when
he was sewn up after surgery.
All 17 children of Queen Anne dies before she did.
All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment
weighs as much as a large ocean liner.
A group of Unicorns is called a blessing.
According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of
'clean' animals in to the ark.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore were freshman
roommates at Harvard.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates is food and then eats it again.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He
changed it every 2 innings.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.
Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
10.
A group of whales is called a pod.
Abraham Lincoln was the only US president ever granted a patent.
According to Genesis 1:2022 the chicken came before the egg.
Children grow more in the springtime.
Chop suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was crafted in California
by Chinese immigrants.
Chrysler built B29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros
that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint
plant called Diamond Star.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon
is directly over head.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
During a life time, one person generates more than 1000 pounds of red
blood cells.
At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.
Armoured knights raised their visors to themselves when they rode past
their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.
If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to
a depth of 12 000 feet.
If you are chased by a crocodile, run zigzag, a crocodile is not good
at making sharp turns.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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 4:20.
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' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los Angeles de Porciuncula"
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, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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 life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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.
In Greene, New York, you cannot walk backwards and eat peanuts on the
sidewalk during a concert.
In Hardford, Connecut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross
the street walking on your hands.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were
sometimes devoured by temple priests.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on
their finals.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never
rained.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said Play it again, Sam.
In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet
high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated
with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model
ships.
In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an employee
whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially
married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20
people.
In 1976 Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK
for only three hours because of a computer error.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when
patients would die.
In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in
the US
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the
superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The
Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday,
commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday.
Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans
would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her
wedding gown was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all
she had to do was rip up her dress.
In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone
caught drinking coffee was put to death.
IN the film 'Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is
orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. But
new Zealand is missing.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but
only 6 people were injured.
In the heart of the Antarctic winter, temperatures drop to as low as
-127 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the Marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca
Indians of Peru, the Couple was considered officially wed when they took
off their sandals and handed them to each other.
In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution
of a cow for injuring a human.
In the past 100 years only 12 people have been attacked by mountain
lions in the state of California. Five died and two of those were
because of rabies in 1909
In the United States there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death
every 14 seconds.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks, and spoons.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
In Toy Story, the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the
carpet designs in The Shining.
In Vermont, USA, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without
the written permission of their husbands.
Ireland is the only place where windmills turn clockwise.
Irving Berlin, who was born on 11 May 1888 and who composed three
thousand songs in his lifetime, couldn't read music.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey decimal
category.
It costs $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to age eleven.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it
cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and
from the New World.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only
been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
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.
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally
planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is
Mary.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It is illegal to own a dog in Reykjavik.
It is illegal to swim in central park.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not downstairs.
It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.
It takes a yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
It take a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon
to clean the pot.
it takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut
butter.
It take the insect eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to
shut its trap on prey.
It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law
against selling dolls with out human faces.
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
It is against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha,
Nebraska
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the
soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customer
wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated
ever since.
J.S.Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his
second.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance
during World War II
James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the US
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek,
is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back
teeth together for chewing.
Jean Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original Predator in
almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a
hospital.
John Cage composed 'Imaginary Landscaper No.4', which was scored for
twelve radios tuned at random.
John has a long moustache was the coded signal used by the French
Resistance in WWII
John Larroquette of Night Court And the John Larroquette Show was the
narrator of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a
warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found
in a theatre.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's
son.
Judy Jetson is a Libra.
June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone
episode Living Doll, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel
from Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar
module landed on the moon.
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was
her singing voice.
Kemo Sabe, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger means Soggy Shrub in
Navajo Indian.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a
pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and
spit out the pill.
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) replaced
the same year (1933)
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated
back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I
would poison your coffee'. His reply 'if you were my wife, I would drink
it'
Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969, there by
setting a new world's record for runners in the 100 years or older
class. He was 101.
Lawsuits filed by California inmates cost the taxpayers more than 25
million dollars in 1994.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more
than 24,000 new teeth every year!
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one had and draw with the other at
the same time.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent
twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this
planet.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkeys) mother,
Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while
he was host of Lorne Green'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,
LA
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
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