1. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
2. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
3. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
4. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
5. It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
6. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
7. KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
8. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
9. Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine 6 to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.
10. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
11. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
12. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
13. Like a bat, dolphins use echolocation to navigate and hunt, bouncing high-pitched sounds off of objects, and listening for the echoes.
14. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
15. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
16. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
17. Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
18. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
19. Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885. The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on November. 7, 1857.
20. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
21. Monarchs have been known to migrate over 3000 km. In fact a Monarch tagged at Presqu'ile, here in southern Ontario, was recovered in Mexico and is on record as being the longest insect migration.
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
23. More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California.
24. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
25. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
26. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
27. More people use blue color tooth brushes as compared to red one.
28. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
29. More than 50 million Americans said they had a disability; for 32.5 million of them, the disability was severe.
30. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
31. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
32. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
33. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
34. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
35. North American Real Christmas Trees are grown in all 50 states and Canada. Eighty-five percent (85%) of artificial trees sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China.
36. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
37. Of the more than 600 million school-age children in the developing world, 120 million primary school-age children are not in school, 53 percent are girls.
38. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
39. Oils from the orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, a deep-sea fish from New Zealand, are used in making shampoo.
40. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
41. One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.
42. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
43. One eye of dolphins remains open while sleeping.
44. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
45. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
46. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
47. One quart of the bones in human body are in feet.
48. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
49. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
50. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
51. OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.
52. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
53. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
54. Mosquitoes have teeth.
55. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
56. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
57. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
58. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
59. Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane
60. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
61. OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
62. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
63. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
64. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
65. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
66. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
67. Polar bears have more problems with overheating than they do with cold. Even in very cold weather, they quickly overheat when they try to run.
68. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
69. Polar bears have two layers of fur for further protection from the cold.
70. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
71. Polar bears know how to pack on the fat, a single bear can consume 100 pounds of blubber at one sitting.
72. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
73. Porcupines float in water.
74. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building looks like an American flag, but is actually the flag that flew over to Dominion of Canada before the Maple Leaf .
75. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
76. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
77. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
78. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
79. Russia is the largest country in area.
80. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
81. Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.
82. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
83. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
84. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
85. Self-employment, part-time and home-based work have expanded opportunities for women's participation in the labor force but are characterized by lack of security, lack of benefits and low income.
86. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
87. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
88. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
89. Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
90. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
91. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
92. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
93. Slugs have 4 noses.
94. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
95. Some butterflies, such as the Northern Pearly Eye, will fly at night.
96. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
97. Some scientists call Greenland an island, others say it's a continent, but it's only about one-third the size of Australia.
98. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
99. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
100. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
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