200 things you never knew!

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

200 things you never knew!

Did you know... More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes? Read all 200 amazing facts! Expand you knowledge of incredible and pointless information!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
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.
Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
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.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
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 average person laughs 15 times a day.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
All porcupines float in water.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the maths and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

Wow, thats quite a bunch to chew at one go.

The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

Very well done, RT.

Most of that I've already seen. Good work on expanding the list.

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

"A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes."

They claim pigs are unclean animals...
That one touched me the most.

The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

RT,

Believe it or not that one statement caused one uncle and one aunt of mine to refuse my family snewsletter I write. I happened to have used a scaled-down version of that which was sent to me by one of my cousings who basically wrote right under that, "When I come back. I want to reincarnate as a pig."

I simply put her email to me in the snewsletter thinking it was just a funny comment. The next thing I knew I had an uncle and an aunt calling me to complain and saying that they didn't want any future copies of me newsletter.

OH well.

I still think it's funny.

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056