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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles?that?s where the word ?testimony? comes from.

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!

Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.

Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.

There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.

There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!

There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.

There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.

There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!

There are only 14 blimps in the world.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!

There are no rental cars in Bermuda.

There are no penguins in the North Pole.

There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.

There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 206 bones in the human body!

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!

The ?Big Dipper? is known as ?The Casserole? in France.

The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.

The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.

The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.''

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.

The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.

The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

The U.S. military?s dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.

The U.S. founding fathers' name for the American Revolution was 'The War with Britain'.

The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.

The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.

The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.

The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!

The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

The sting from a killer bee contains less venom than the sting from a regular bee!

The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.

The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.

The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!

The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.

The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.

The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.

The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.' uses every letter of the alphabet!

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.

The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.

The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.

The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size!

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!

The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

The Pacific island of Nauru?s economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.

The original Toby jugs were modelled on Harry 'Toby' Elwes a Yorkshireman!

The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression!

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'!

The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.

The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!

The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.

The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.

The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.

The octopus' testicles are located in its head.

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.

The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!

The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!

The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.

The name 'Wendy' was made up for the book Peter Pan!

The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its stars was a pig.

The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.

The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.

The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

The most popular Campbell's Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck gizzard.

The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.

The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.

The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!

The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day!

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.

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 male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.

The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away!

The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.

The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years!

The life boat was patented in 1845!

The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.

The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.

The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.

The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.

The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.

The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!

The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.

The human brain is insensitive to pain.

The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world's oldest golf club!

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!

The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.

The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference.

The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!

The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.

The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute!

The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

The Greek National anthem has 158 verses!

The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.

The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!

The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.

The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.

The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.

The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.

The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.

The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!

The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!

The first patented condom was meant to be reused!

The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!

The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!

The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The first baseball caps were made of straw.

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

The filming of the movie 'Titanic' cost more than the Titanic itself!

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.

The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns!

The famous aphrodisiac 'Spanish Fly' is made from dried beetle remains!

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.

The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!

The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.

The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.

The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.

The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!

The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.

The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!

The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.

The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!

The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.

The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

The best diamonds are colored blue-white.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!

The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.

The bagpipe was first made from the liver of a sheep.

The average U.S. farm has 467 acres; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.

The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.

The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.

The average person laughs 13 times a day!

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.

The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.

The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

The average life span of a hermit crab is 75 years!

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!

The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.

The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.