- Lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. While doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
- Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs
- A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet
- Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
- Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle
- Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
on its axis, in an opposite direction than the rest of the planets, but it still rotates around the Sun in a counter clockwise path as the rest of the planets
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
- One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure
- Emilio Marco Palma was the first person born in Antarctica in 1978
- Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had
- The first domain name registered was Symbolics.com on 15th March 1985
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- A group of crows is called a murder
- People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke
- Turtles can breathe through their butts
- The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair
- The head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."
- The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years
- In the movie "Gandhi" 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free
- You can send a postcard from Hell. There is a place in Cayman Islands called "Hell." They even have a post office
- In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open
- Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is found in Prozac
- Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920
- Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean
- In 1681, the last dodo bird died
- Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water
- Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not
- There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland
- On average a person passes gas 14 times a day
- Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms
- An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet
- The only woman that has appeared on a U.S. paper currency is Martha Washington
- Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry
- The water inside of a coconut is identical to human blood plasma. Many lives in third world countries have been saved from coconut water fed through an IV
- The size of a raindrop is around 0.5 mm - 2.5 mm, and they fall from the sky on average 21 feet per second. To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets
- The Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy until the founder, Amedeo Giannini, changed the name in 1930
- India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century
- In Russia, when flowers are given for a romantic occasions, flowers are given in odds numbers as even number of flowers is given at funerals only
- Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva
- Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day
- Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus
- The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana
- 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
- The sun shrinks five feet every hour
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
- The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship
- A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians
- An average home creates more pollution than does the average car
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag
- There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue
- The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose
- Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
- During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times
- Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls
- Dieting can cause bad breath since less saliva is produced which leads to dry mouth
- By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved
- On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year
- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
- There are three golf balls sitting on the moon
- Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed
- Girls have more tastebud than boys
- Coca-Cola was originally green
- The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs
- Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe
- After being picked an orange cannot ripen
- A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Water expands 9% when it is frozen
- The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colours that stimulate hunger
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources
- Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun
- Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar
- On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk
- A "gelotologist" is a person who studies laughter
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men
- Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world
- Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of pollution.
- The word "America" comes from the European explorer "Amerigo Vespucci
- 215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton
- It has been medically been proven that laughter is an effective pain killer
- NASDAQ stand for, "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations."
- The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer
- In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die
- Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software
- In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour.
- Most snails are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both female and male reproductive organs
- Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people
- The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years
- Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth. He was obsessed with brushing his teeth. He used to be a truck driver before he started singing
- A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old
- Earl Dean developed the bottle design for Coca-Cola
- In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow
- Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate
- The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks
- Eating 11 pounds of apples will make you gain one pound of weight
- Mosquitoes prefer children over adults
- In America, 38% of doctors are Indians
- One tree can filter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
- On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for "Very Special Old Pale."
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
- Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 total
- Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life
- It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation
- The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag
- Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at times the farthest planet from the sun
- It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey
- A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres
- An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment
- People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin
- Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
- Every person has a unique tongue print
- Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet
- Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid
- The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation."
- Astronauts get taller when they are in space
- Women smile more than men do
- When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
- Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum
- The name of the squiggly line "~" is called a tilde
- 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
- Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion
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