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It is only appropriate to fly the US flag upside down in emergencies. It means "Help Me, I am in Trouble!"

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

It is possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down.

It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.

It is unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place in the District of Columbia.

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

It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

It takes 20 different muscles to form a kiss.

It takes 25 muscles to swallow.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver 15; fox 15 to 25; ermine 150; chinchilla 60 to 100.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

It takes about 1.25 seconds for moonlight to reach the Earth.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago

It takes seven years for a lobster to weigh one pound.

It takes, on average, 345 squirts from a cow’s udder to yield one gallon of milk.

It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

It took over 4 years to film milo and otis to get the animals to do what they are suppose to.

It was claimed that a Tiger shot dead by colonel Jim Corbett in 1907 had killed 436 people in India.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

It was during the 1600's that the first coffee mill made its debut in London.

It was proposed in the Rhode Island legislature in the 1970s that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse.

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his

It was the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, CT, whose name -and lightweight pie tins -gave birth to the modern Frisbee.

It was the law in Scotland in 1288 that for each year known as "lepe yeare" any maiden lady could ask the man she liked to be her husband. If he refused and didn't have a good excuse he would be "mulcted of ye sum of one pound or less" (essentially, he would owe her a dollar). France enacted a similar law a year later.

It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.

It wasn't until 1913 that sports teams started using numbers on players' jerseys for identfication. It first happened during a football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.

It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.

Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.

Italians in Italy consume a million and a half tons of spaghetti every year.

Italy now has over 200,000 coffee bars, and still growing.

It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate -even frequent daily dietary intake -had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.

It's a diverse world we live in. In the U.S., football, basketball and baseball are the three most watched sports on TV. In England, the top three most viewed are soccer, Formula One auto racing and boxing. In Russia, it's soccer, ice hockey and boxing. And in China, it's soccer, table tennis and swimming.

It's a good thing lemmings are promiscuous, they produce 4 times as many females as males.

It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

It's been estimated that man have been riding horses for over 3,000 years.

It's been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.

It's been said that Adolph Hitler was a coprophiliac, which means he had a fetish for women's feces. He also had a thing for being urinated on by women.

It's believed that India gets its name from the Indus River. The interesting thing is that none of the river is actually in India...it's in Pakistan.

It's estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

It's illegal in Newcastle, WY to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.

It's illegal in Wilbur, Washington, to ride an ugly horse.

It's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle in London.

It's illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas in that state.

It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.

It's impossible to lick your elbow.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.

It's safe to make love while parked in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren't allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.

It's strange that a city with a two letter abreviation (LA) was named after a river called "EL RIO DE SENORA LA REYNA DE LOS ANGELES DE PORCIUNCULA".

Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.

Jaguars are frightened by dogs

Jamaica Blue Mountain is often regarded as the best coffee in the world.

James Buchanan was certainly a good host. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit in the fall of 1860, so many guests came with him, it's said the president slept in the hallway.

James Madison, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, was the shortest president of the US. Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at six feet, 4 inches.

James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.

James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington.

Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all died at the young age of 27.

Japan is the world's leading importer of iron ore.

Japan ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption.

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.

Jayne Mansfield decorated her "Pink Palace" by writing to 1,500 furniture and building suppliers and asking for free samples. She told the donors they could then brag that their goods were in her outlandish mansion. The pitch worked, and Jayne received over $150,000 worth of free merchandise.

Jellyfish are 95% water

Jellyfish can sense a storm 10 to 15 hrs. before it actually occurs and leaves the shore and go into the deep sea.

Jergens Lotion was created by Andrew Jergens, a former lumberjack, in 1880.

Jerry Garcia only had four fingers on his picking hand, he lost one of his fingers when he was a boy.

Jerry Seinfeld's first sitcom wasn't Seinfeld. He played the governor's speechwriter on three episodes of Benson (he was fired from the job).

Jerry West was the model for the official NBA logo. His silhouette appears dribbling a basketball.

Jessica Tandy is the oldest winner of an Academy Award. She won the 1989 Best Actress award for Driving Miss Daisy at the age of 80 years and 9 months. She beat George Burns for that distinction by just a few months.

Jethro Tull is not the name of the rock singer responsible for such songs as "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick." Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The singer is Ian Anderson. The original Jethro Tull was an English horticulturalist who invented the seed drill.

JFK Jr. and Christine Amanapour of CNN were roommates at Brown University.

JFK's golf clubs sold for $772,500 at a 1996 auction. The buyer was Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise owner in Uniontown, PA, invented the Big Mac in 1968. He originally named it the Big Mac Super Sandwich. The following year McDonald's sold it nationwide.

Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

Jimmu, the legendary first ruler of Japan, began his reign in the year 660. Akihito, the current emperor, is said to be the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu to rule Japan.

Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.

Joan of Arc was actually burned alive as a witch in 1431, and only considered a saint in the 20th century. (Them folks must be pissed to hear that)

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."

John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."

John Paul Jones' real name was John Paul. In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, he admitted he'd killed a sailor in the West Indies and changed his name to escape punishment. The "Jones" comes from Mrs. Willie Jones of North Carolina, whom he "admired."

John Tyler was the first president to be married in office on June 26, 1844.

John Wayne’s real name was Marion Michael Morrison.

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

Johnson & Johnson created the Band-Aid in 1899 because Robert Wood Johnson attended a lecture concerning the prevention of infection in wounds during surgical operations. The company created the zinc oxide adhesive bandage for surgeons, and launched the consumer version, Band-Aids, in 1921.

Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine.

Joseph Priestly is credited with discovering oxygen, ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first to isolate chlorine.

Joseph Swan invented the light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison did. However, Swan didn't patent the idea and was widely accused of copying Edison who did patent the idea and was therefore recognized as its inventor. Swan continued to be denied recognition until some time later when it was shown that both light bulbs were produced using different processes. Edison and Swan later formed a joint company using the best of both technologies.

Judy Scheindlin ("Judge Judy") has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.

Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.

Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.

Julius Caesar, Martin Luther and Jonathan Swift all suffered from Ménièr's disease. It is a disorder of the hearing and balance senses causing hissing, roaring or whistling sounds to be perceived.

Julius Caesar's autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Although it has a circumference of 280,000 miles compared with Earth's 25,000 Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

Kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

Ketchup was once sold as a patented medicine. In the 1830s it was marketed in the United States as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Key West, Florida is the southernmost point in the continental United States. South Point, Hawaii is the country's southernmost point overall.

Kikkoman soy sauce was originated in 1630 in Japan.

Killer whales (Orcas) kill sharks by torpedoeing up into the shark;s stomach from underneath causing the shark to explode.

Kim Basinger fears large crowds. She even locked herself in her house for 4 months, because of this fear.

King Henry III of France, Louis XIV of France, and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia the fear of cats.

Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets.

Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, nicely: the first hotel there was called The Slaughter House.

Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt only by smell.

Koala bears also have finger prints that are almost identical to ours

Koala bears have fingerprints so similar to humans that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Koalas have twin thumbs

Kodak is the first chain store to open in Antarctica.

Korea's poshintang dog meat soup is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.

Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).

L.L. Cool J is the only rap star to have performed at a presidential inaugural concert. He performed at Bill Clinton's gala in 1993.

La Pax, Bolivia is a virtually fireproof city. At an altitude of about 12,000 feet above sea level, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is barely able to support fire.

La Paz, Bolivia is the highest capital city in the world.

Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.

Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.

Lady Godiva's horse was named Aethenoth.

Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child and would be about 100,000 miles in an adult - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times.

Laika the dog, was the first living thing which was sent to space.

Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes located entirely within the United States.

Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway at New Orleans, Louisiana, is the world's largest bridge. It is almost 24 miles (about 38 kilometers) long.

Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.

Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

Larger Stingrays have the power to drive their stingers or tail-spines through the hulls of wooden boats

Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.

Laser stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation." Developed 1950s 1960s.

Lassie was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.

Lassie, the TV collie, first appeared in a 1930s short novel titled Lassie Come-Home written by Eric Mowbray Knight. The dog in the novel was based on Knight's real life collie, Toots.

Latin Americans have two last names.

Latin is a dead language.

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.

Laws forbidding the sale of sodas on Sunday prompted William Garwood to invent the ice cream sundae in Evanston, IL, in 1875.

Lee De Forest, the inventor of the radio tube, was tried for fraud in 1913. He was accused of tricking the public into buying stocks in his company, the Radio Telephone Company, by making "absurd and deliberately misleading" claims about the possibility of transmitting the human voice across the Atlantic Ocean.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 992.

Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot on North America in the year 1000. (No, it wasn't Columbus)

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

Leonard da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.

Leonardo Divinci made sketches of a tracked armored vehicle to be used as an offensive weapon. It was pedal powered.

Leopards are so stealthy that they can roam around a city like Manhattan with the chances of not being seen!

Leopards were originally called Pard, Pardus and Panther

Let us look at the possible origin of 'banana'. 'ba', in Egyptian mythology is the soul. 'Nana', as we all know, is another word for grandmother. So, is a banana, the grandmother of the soul?

Levi Strauss blue jeans with copper rivets were priced at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.

Levi's 501 jeans got its number from its original stock number in the first Levi's store.

Lice is the plural of louse.

Light travels at the rate of 186,200 miles a second.

Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F)

Lightning puts 10,000,000 tons of nitrogen into the earth each year.

Lightning strikes 6,000 times every minute on the entire planet

Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

Linoleum was patented in 1860 by Frank Walton, who also made up the name for his product.

Lions are the only truly social cat species, and usually every female in a pride, ranging from 5 to 30 individuals, is closely related.

Listerine mouthwash can be used as a deoderant. Douse your armpits with it and the smell vanishes within a couple minutes.

Little Jackie Paper was the name of Puff the Magic Dragon's human friend.

Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is the actual name of a village in northern Wales

Lloyd's of London began as Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse.

Local calls using a coin-operated phone in the U.S. cost only 5 cents everywhere until 1951.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."

Lou Gehrig earned a total of $316,000 during his 17 year career with the New York Yankees. In 1992, a fan paid $363,000 for a Yankee jersey that Gehrig wore during the 1927 season.

Louis XVI of France was captured at Varennes in June 1791 while trying to flee his country. He was stopped at an inn when he tried to pay with a coin that carried his likeness.

Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, was the first and only foreign-born first lady.

Lovebirds are small parakeets who live in pairs. Male and female lovebirds look alike, but most other male birds have brighter colors than the females.

Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.

Luther Crowell invented the paper bag in 1867.

Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.

MacDonalds fries are made with beef flavoring. mmmmmmm.

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, preceded by Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo.

Madonna suffers from garophobia (the fear of thunder).

Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.

Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.

Male feral rabbits urinate on the females to state their ownership

Male horseflies can fly over 90mph.

male lions somtimes kill their own kids if they seem a threat or take the attention of their mate.

Male seagulls have red legs.

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

Man O' War lost only one race in his career. It happened in 1919 to a horse named Upset.

Manhattan Island from end to end is less than one million inches long.

Manta Rays have no external organs for urination, therefore they release the urine from their pores

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Many koalas are killed in sanctuaries by cars of visitors. 2. A newborn koala finds its way to the mother's pouch by following a trail of saliva.

Many scholars believe that an earthquake caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, referred to in the Bible as "the smoke of the country." Earthquakes produce massive clouds of dust that resemble billowing smoke.

Many scientists believe that birds evolved from reptiles. Both species lay eggs, and they both have egg teeth that serve only one purpose: to help the babies break the egg and enter the world. Egg teeth fall off within hours of birth.

Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind between 1926 and 1929. In her early drafts, the main character was named "Pansy O'Hara" and the O'Hara plantation we know as Tara was called "Fountenoy Hall."

Marie and Irene Curie are the only mother and daughter to win Nobel prizes with their husbands. Marie and Pierre Curie won the Physics prize in 1903. Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie won in 1935 for chemistry. Incidentally, Marie Curie also won the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4, 1934 of radiation poisoning.

Marie Owen was the first policewoman in the United States. She started her career in Detroit in 1893.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Marilyn Monroe used to cut down the heel on one of her shoes to achieve her butt-wiggling walk in films.

Marilyn Monroe's real name was Norma Jean.

Mark Twain was the first to have written a novel [Tom Sawyer] on a typewriter.

Marseilles is the oldest city in France. It was settled in about 6,000 B.C. by Ionian Greeks, who called it Massilia.

Martha Washington in the only woman whose portrait has ever appeared on a US currency note. Her portrait was on the face of the $1 silver certificate issues of 1886 and 1891, and on the back of the $1 silver certificate of 1896. Sacagewea and Susan B. Anthony are the only women represented on a US coin. Both were honored on a dollar coin.

Mary Queen of Scots was a skilful billiards player

Massachusetts law declares that peanuts may not be eaten in court.

May and June are the most popular months to get married. January is the least popular.

Mayonnaise is said to be the invention of the French chef of the Duke de Richelieu in 1756. While the Duke was defeating the British at Port Mahon, his chef was creating a victory feast that included a sauce made of cream and eggs. When the chef realized that there was no cream in the kitchen, he improvised, substituting olive oil for the cream. A new culinary masterpiece was born, and the chef named it "Mahonnaise" in honor of the Duke's victory.

McDonald's "Big Mac" slogan, introduced in 1975, is: "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun."

McDonalds and Burger King sugar-coat their fries so they will turn golden-brown.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) hated carrots.

Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits.

men are 6 times more likely to get struck by lightning then women

Men are a lot more streamlined than women for swimming, because the female's mamaries create a lot of drag. Enough, in fact, that racing suits have been developed with tiny pegs above the breasts to cause disturbance, which decreases the drag.

Men are more likely to be left-handed(10%) than females(8%)

Men can read smaller print than women.

Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.

Men's three pound is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe.