1. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
3. 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
4. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
5. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
6. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
7. A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
8. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off – it dies from starvation!
9. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
10. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
11. A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
12. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.
13. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
14. A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
15. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
16. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
17. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein!
18. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there, though!
19. A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
20. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
21. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
22. A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.
23. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
24. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
25. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
26. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
27. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
28. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
29. A rhinoceros’ horn is made of compacted hair.
30. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
31. A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
32. A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
33. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
34. A whale’s penis is called a dork.
35. According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!
36. According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
37. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
38. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
39. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
40. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came — head to toe.
41. Albert Brook’s real name is Albert Einstein.
42. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
43. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
44. Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
45. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
46. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.
47. All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
48. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
49. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
50. Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
51. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
52. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country
53. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
54. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
55. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
56. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
57. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
58. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
59. Barbie’s full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
60. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
61. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
62. Bela Lugosi died during the filming of “PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE”. Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn’t know the difference so he could complete filming.
63. Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
64. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
65. Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
66. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
67. Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
68. Bob May played the Robot on “Lost In Space” (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
69. Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
70. Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
71. Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don’t seem to have this problem.
72. Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
73. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
74. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windshields all have been invented by women.
75. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is-be it red or neon yellow!
76. Butterflies taste with their feet.
77. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
78. Camels are called "ships of the desert" because of the way they move, not because of their transport capabilities. A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. Thus, an undernourished camel will not have a hump.
79. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
80. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on “Scooby-Doo.”
81. Cat urine glows under a black light.
82. Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
83. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
84. Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie’s Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon “Josie and the Pussycats.”
85. Chess was invented in India.
86. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
87. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
88. Chrysler built B-29’s that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
89. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down — hence the statement “to get fired.”
90. Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
91. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
92. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
93. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
94. Crickets hear through their knees.
95. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
96. Dalmatians are born without spots.
97. Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
98. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
99. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!
100. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
101. Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
102. Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
103. During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.
104. During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany ‘in case the little bastard wins’.
105. Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
106. Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
108. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
109. Every single citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
110. Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
111. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
112. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
113. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
114. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
115. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
116. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
117. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
118. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
119. Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
120. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries
121. Henry Fisel, an American was the first to introduce Test and Exam.
122. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
123. Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.
124. Hindu men believe (d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree (his third wife) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
125. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, runs his government in exile from Dharmashala in northern India.
126. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
127. Hot water is heavier than cold.
128. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
129. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
130. Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
131. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
132. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
133. Humans and dolphins are the only animal species that have sex for pleasure.
134. Hummingbirds can’t walk.
135. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
136. If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
137. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
138. If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it.
139. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
140. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
141. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
142. If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.
143. If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!
144. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
145. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
146. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
147. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
148. Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
149. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!
150. In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ‘ugly’ potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
151. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said “Play it again, Sam.” Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Captain Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty,” but he did say, “Beam me up, Mr. Scott.”
152. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
153. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!
154. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it’s smiling.)
155. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).
156. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
157. In the 40’s, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it ‘Bitch.’
158. In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
159. India exports software to 90 countries.
160. India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.
161. India is the largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest Country in the world, and one of the most ancient civilizations.
162. India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
163. India provides safety for more than 300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka, Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who escaped to flee religious and political persecution.
164. India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
165. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
166. Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
167. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
168. It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
169. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
170. It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
171. It is impossible to lick your elbow
172. It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
173. It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
174. It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
175. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
176. It’s physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
177. It’s rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
178. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing 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.
179. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
180. Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.
181. Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
182. Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and 52 A.D. respectively
183. June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll”, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from “Rocky & Bullwinkle”.
184. Kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
185. Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
186. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
187. Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill ‘if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee’. His reply ‘ if you were my wife, I would drink it!’
188. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
189. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
190. Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors and parachute.
191. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
192. Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith’s (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
193. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of “Lorne Greene’s Wild Kingdom.”
194. Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, “You boys ain’t never gonna amount to nothin’.”
195. Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
196. Melanie Griffith’s mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
197. Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
198. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
199. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
200. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
201. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
202. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
203. More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
204. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
205. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
206. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
207. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
208. Most Americans’ car horns beep in the key of F.
209. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
210. Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
211. Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
212. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
213. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
214. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
215. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
216. Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
217. Of all the words in the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions!
218. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
219. 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.
220. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
221. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
222. On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
223. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers — they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
224. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
225. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
226. Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
227. Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
228. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
229. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
230. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
231. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
232. Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
233. Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
234. Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
235. Pearls melt in vinegar.
236. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.
237. Pigs are the fourth intellegent animal in the world.
238. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eyes.”
239. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
240. Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.
241. Polar bears are left-handed.
242. Porcupines float in water!
243. Race car is a palindrome.
244. Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
245. Rats and horses can't vomit.
246. Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
247. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
248. Rhythm is the longest English words without vowels.
249. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
250. Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks.
251. Russians generally answer the phone by saying, ‘I’m listening.’
252. S.O.S. doesn’t stand for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls” — It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
253. Sharon Stone was the first “Star Search” spokes model.
254. Sikhism originated in the Holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. Famous for housing the Golden Temple, the city was founded in 1577.
255. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
256. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
257. Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don’t want their names to appear in the credits.
258. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
259. Soda water does not contain soda.
260. Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
261. Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
262. Spain literally means ‘the land of rabbits.’
263. Speak of the Devil is short for “Speak of the Devil and he shall come”. It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.
264. Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
265. Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
266. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
267. The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.
268. The ‘Screwdriver’ was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
269. The “Grinch” singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
270. The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
271. The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
272. The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
273. The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
274. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
275. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
276. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
277. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
278. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
279. The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)
280. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
281. The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
282. 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.
283. The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
284. The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
285. The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler’s Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
286. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
287. The childrens’ nursery rhyme ‘Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies’ actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
288. The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof’.
289. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
290. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
291. The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”
292. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
293. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
294. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
295. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
296. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson’s day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
297. The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
298. The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
299. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
300. 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.
301. The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
302. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
303. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
304. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
305. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
306. The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “Plato’s Stepchildren”.
307. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
308. The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.
309. The first time the word “hell” was spoken on TV was in an original “STAR TREK” episode entitled “City on the Edge of Forever”. The exact quote was “…let’s get the hell out of here…”, spoken by William Shatner.
310. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.
311. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
312. The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
313. The game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat'. The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. In time, the game underwent several modifications, but its meaning remained the same, i.e. good deeds take people to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
314. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
315. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
316. The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
317. The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
318. The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.
319. The largest religious building in the world is Angkor Wat, a Hindu Temple in Cambodia built at the end of the 11th century.
320. The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
321. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for “My Sharona,” and Jack Kevorkian’s lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
322. The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
323. The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
324. 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.
325. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
326. The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
327. The longest word that can be typed with the left hand only is stewardess.
328. The magic word “Abracadabra” was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
329. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
330. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
331. The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
332. The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
333. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
334. The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence – he invented dynamite.
335. The numbers ‘172′ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
336. The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
337. The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
338. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
339. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
340. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
341. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
342. The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
343. The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
344. The Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood, because metal was scarce.
345. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids
346. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name 'Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
347. The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
348. The phrase ‘ The 3 R’s ‘ ( standing for ‘reading, writing and arithmetic’ ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
349. 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.
350. The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
351. The placement of a donkey’s eyes in it’s heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
352. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
353. The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
354. The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
355. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
356. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
357. The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
358. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
359. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is ‘Live Free or Die’. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
360. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
361. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
362. The spaceship ‘Valley Forge’ from “Silent Running” (1971) actually got it’s name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
363. The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn its stomach inside-out!
364. The state of Florida is bigger than England!
365. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
366. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
367. The term “devil’s advocate” comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil’s advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
368. The term “Mayday” is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term “M’aidez” which is pronounced “MayDay” and means, “Help Me.”
369. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
370. The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it’s country of origin.
371. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
372. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
373. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
374. The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
375. The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
376. The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. This magnificent temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
377. The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
378. The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
379. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
380. There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
381. There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
382. There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
383. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
384. There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
385. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
386. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
387. There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
388. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
389. There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
390. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: month, orange, purple, and silver!
391. There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
392. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
393. There is a town in Texas called ‘Ding Dong.’
394. There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
395. There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
396. There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
397. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
398. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
399. To “testify” was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
400. Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi’s noses off would forestall curses.
401. Turkey’s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
402. U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
403. Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).
(Source: Gemological Institute of America).
404. Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
405. Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
406. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
407. Varanasi, also known as Benaras, was called "the Ancient City" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C., and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
408. Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.
409. Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
410. Walt Disney’s autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
411. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
412. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
413. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
414. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
415. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
416. When opossums are playing opossum, they are not “playing.” They actually pass out from sheer terror.
417. When you sneeze, your heart stops for a mille-second.
418. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
419. While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
420. While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
421. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
422. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Irelad!
423. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
424. Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
425. Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
426. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
427. You can get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
428. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
429. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
430. You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
431. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
432. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
433. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
434. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
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