1. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
2. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
3. The 73% of people who buy Valentine's Day flowers are men, while only 27 percent are women.
4. 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.
5. The average American or Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
6. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
7. The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
8. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
9. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
10. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
11. The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
12. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
13. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
14. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
15. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
16. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
17. The Boston Tea Party" took place in 1773, that was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor”.
18. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
19. The chemical pectin, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling.
20. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
21. The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
22. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
23. The compound carotene gives the carrot its color.
24. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
25. The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.
26. Slugs have 4 noses.
27. The creosote bush, which grows in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ. Some of these plants may endure 10,000 years, scientists say. If only they could talk.
28. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
29. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).
30. Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
31. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
32. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
33. The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump.
34. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
35. The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
36. 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.
37. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
38. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
39. The focusing muscles of the eye move about 100,000 times a day. To give the leg muscles the same exercise would involve walking 80km (50 miles) a day.
40. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
41. The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).
42. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
43. The height of Mt. Everest (29,035 feet) was revised upward by 7 feet based on measurements made in 1999 using the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
44. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
45. The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
46. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
47. The Jules Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel in Key Largo, Florida and is the only such hotel in the United States. It is 30 feet (9 m) deep on the ocean floor and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms.
48. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
49. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
50. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
51. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
52. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
53. The largest quantity of fish in the world is produced by Japan & Russia.
54. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
55. The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
56. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
57. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
58. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
59. The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.
60. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
61. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
62. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
63. The most beautiful and incredible gift of love is the monument Taj Mahal in India. Built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan as a memorial to his wife it stands as the emblem of the eternal love story. Work on the Taj Mahal began in 1634 and continued for almost 22 years and required the labor of 20,000 workers from all over India and Central Asia.
64. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice.
65. The most commonest English nouns are time, person, and year.
66. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
67. The most commonest English word in writing around the world is "the".
68. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
69. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
70. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
71. The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.
72. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
73. The most prominent topographic feature on Earth is the immense volcanic mountain chain that encircles the planet beneath the sea -- the chain is more than 30,000 miles (48,000 kilometers) long and rises an average of 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) above the seafloor.
74. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
75. The most prominent topographic feature on Earth is the immense volcanic mountain chain that encircles the planet beneath the sea, the chain is more than 30,000 miles (48,000 kilometers) long and rises an average of 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) above the seafloor.
76. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
77. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
78. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
79. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.
80. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
81. The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar.
82. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
83. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
84. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
85. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
86. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
87. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
88. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
89. The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day.
90. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
91. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
92. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
93. The polar bear's compact ears and small tail also help prevent heat loss.
94. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
95. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
96. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
97. The retina inside the eye covers about 650mm2 (1 sq in) and contains 137 million light-sensitive cells: 130 million rod cells for black-and-white vision and 7 million cone cells for colour vision.
98. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
99. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
100. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
