1. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur.
2. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
3. The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
4. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
5. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
6. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
7. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet and one inch long.
8. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
9. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, its plural.
11. The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
12. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
13. The top selling Christmas Trees are: balsam fir, Douglas-fir, Fraser fir, noble fir, Scotch pine, Virginia pine and white pine.
14. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
15. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
16. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math 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.
17. The United Nations University is located in Tokyo.
18. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
19. The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
20. 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."
21. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
22. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
23. The word 'set ' has the most number of definitions in the English language: 192.
24. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
25. The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
26. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
27. The Worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
28. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
29. The world's population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.
30. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
31. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
32. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
33. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.
34. The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
35. There are 292 species of butterflies in Canada. Most of which are found in British Columbia (176) and the fewest on Prince Edward Island (42). In Ontario we have 142 species.
36. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
37. There are approximately 30-35 million Real Christmas Trees sold in the U.S. every year.
38. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
39. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
40. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
41. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
42. The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
43. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
44. 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.
45. There are more than one million animal species on Earth.
46. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
47. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
48. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
49. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month. Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
50. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
51. There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.
52. 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.
53. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
54. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
55. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
56. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
57. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
58. 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.
59. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
60. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
61. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
62. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
63. Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car.
64. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
65. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
66. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
67. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
68. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
69. Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.
70. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
71. A normal person laughs five times in a day.
72. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
73. When a Norwegian scientist, Nils Oritsland, studied a polar bear on a treadmill, he found that his subject would move off for short periods of time at higher speeds and would sometimes lie down and refuse to walk at all.
74. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
75. When curled up in a ball, polar bears sometimes cover their muzzles - which radiate heat - with one of their thickly furred paws.
76. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
77. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
78. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
79. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
80. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
81. When you sneeze air rushes out your nose at a rate of 100 miles per hour.
82. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
83. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
84. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
85. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
86. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
87. Women produce half the world's food, but own only one percent of its farmland.
88. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
89. You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.
90. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
91. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime. Wow.
92. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
93. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
94. There are more chickens than people in the world.
95. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
96. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
97. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
98. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
99. you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
100. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.
101. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
102. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
103. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
104. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
105. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
106. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
107. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
108. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
109. 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.
110. When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
111. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
112. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
113. White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
114. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
115. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
116. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
117. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
118. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
119. You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
120. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
121. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
122. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
123. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
124. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
125. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
126. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
127. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
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