Hitler was almost awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1932 - only a careless typo on his application kept him from winning!
Math teachers have to take an oath when they receive their degree!
In Japan, there is a 7'4" man who has eaten nothing but yogurt and Oreo cookies three meals a day for the past 15 years!
When nickels are taken out of circulation, the metal is melted down and used to manufacture hand guns!
There is no word that rhymes with Europe!
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
Barbie's measurements if she were life size is 39-23-33.
All of the clocks in  Pulp Fiction  are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down.  Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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, they got "the whole 9 yards."
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view  again.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
The first hard drive available for the Apple had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47.  Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
If you  have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.  You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
Only humans and horses have hymens.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.
Spot, Data's cat on  Star Trek:  The Next Generation , was played by six different cats.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
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.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous":  tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
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 size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.  It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes  was "Smile".
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies.  In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
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"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
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.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of theirfirst names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)
What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in  reverse order?  21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
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.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme?  It's Paul Reiser himself..  And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show  Growing Pains  wrote the theme songs for  The Facts of Life  and  Diff'rent Strokes .
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby.  It was mentioned  once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and  Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
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."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight.  Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961.
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.
Horses cannot vomit.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just 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
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Octopi have gardens.
"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else?  The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's.  The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40.  This means that when the bible -- in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.
Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would and therefore forstall curses.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The only planet without a ring is earth.
Wayne's World  was filmed in two weeks.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
In high school, Derek Jeter was in a new wave band called The Robotic Love Wizards!
Mork & Mindy was the first television show to use the word "tits" on the air! They received a $10,000 fine from the FCC which Robin Williams payed out of his own pocket, even though it was Mindy who said it. He reportedly told the the FCC they could take his check and "shove it straight up their tits."
There are only five colors of horses - can you name them all?!?
President George W. Bush once issued a formal White House invitation to Wolverine!
Vikings invented puppets!
It would take a car approximately one month to drive to the moon!
George Lucas came up with the name C3P0 while watching a baseball game in which the Cubs were shutting out the Padres 3 to 0!
Humans and bears are the only two species on Earth that have sex face to face!
A live action Smurfs movie featuring Sir Alec Guiness as Papa Smurf and Christopher Walken as Gargamel was planned in the late 80's, but production shut down when studio bosses deemed the Vanity Smurf character "too gay." When Alec Guiness refused to comprimise, the project fell apart!
Bumblebees are the only insects that feel love!
Muhammad Ali was originally considered for the role of Superman in the 1978 film!
Proportionally, the legs of an octopus are eight thousand times stronger than a human's!
A wagillion is a 1 with a trillion billion zeroes after it!
Babe Ruth couldn't stand Baby Ruth bars! He reportedly said they tasted like "what gets stuck between my cleats on a rainy double header!"
It's a little late for April Fools, but here's a terrific prank you can play on your room mates - a tiny squirt of mint toothpaste will dissolve all the alcohol in a bottle of cheap rum without affecting it's taste!
The word booger comes from the Yiddish word "boocshklempter." Rough translation: "candy of the nose!"
Norway's Eleonore Basher is the only woman to win the World Magician Championship and an olympic medal!
The Mushroom Kingdom, where most of the Super Mario Brothers games take place, is modeled after Chicago!
According to the calculations of some scientists, gravity is weakening every year!
Many claim the lottery is gender-bias, citing the fact that twice as many men win as women!
The side-airbag was invented by Keith Walker, an actor best known for his role as Mikey and Brandon's father Irving Walsh in the 80's classic The Goonies!
The first song played on MTV was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles, and the second was "Impending Death Of FM" by Johnny Accurate and the Appropriates!
MC Hammer has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame!
The notoriously superstitious Martin Lawrence eats two Big Macs for lunch every day!
Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas"
Betty Boop is a red head. She appeared in her only colour cartoon, Cinderella, with red hair
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards.)
In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box.
The stop-motion puppet for King Kong was covered with rabbit fur
Red Dawn was the first movie to have a PG13 rating
In E.T: The Extra Terrestrial, there was a matte painting which showed all the fast food restaurant chains in the world along one street, and a drive in movie theater showing Star Wars
In Star Wars the aliens playing in the band are played by members of the ILM creature shop, including Phil Tippett, and the executive producer
"Jaws" is the first movie ever to make over 100 million dollars
In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet
There are Star Wars ships hidden in Star Trek: First Contact, Space Balls, and Independence Day among others
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates
There is a statuette of R2-D2 attached to the model of the mother-ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and on the Borg ship on Star Trek: The Next Generation
The eye pieces on the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact, flash in Morse code, spelling out the names of several members of the production team
 James Bond's car had three different license plates in Goldfinger
Gary Cooper was the first Academy Award winner for best actor to make his acceptance speech on television
101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Hercules and Mulan are the only Disney movies where both parents are present and don't die by the end of the movie
Paul McCartney purchased the rights to the Happy Birthday song we all know, so if you want to use it in a production, you have to pay him royalty fees
Cheech and Chong were awarded the first Bronze Taco, on  July 24 1984
Humphery Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty"
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Gone With the Wind had the working titles Tote the Weary Load and Ba! Ba! Black Sheep
The Brothers Grimm wrote 211 fairy tales
It used to be illegal to swim by daylight
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
William Shakespeare claimed that honorificabilitudinitatibus was the longest word used in any of his plays
The words "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatossilphioparaomelitoatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolatoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", "Taumatawhakatangihangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapiikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" and "Nordosterjokustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlaggningmaerielunderhallsuppfoljknintssystemdiskussionsinlaggsforberedelsearbeten" are all in the spell checker, but not in any dictionary, yet the words ""Pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"  and "Floccipaucinihilipilification"  are in the   English Dictionary, but not in the spell checker!
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"I" is the most spoken word in the English language
"You" is the second most spoken English word
"O" is considered to be the oldest vowel in the English language
The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village"
Canada makes up 6.67 percent of the Earth's land area
Alberta is home to Canada's largest Ukrainian Easter egg
The fastest broadcaster in history is Canadian Gerry Wilmont, from Victoria B.C. He was a hockey commentator
A Canadian invented the paint roller
A Canadian was the creator of "Superman"
Canada is home to the International Federation of Bodybuilders
Nova Scotia boasts Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor
New Brunswick is the lobster capital of the world
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toenails
Deborah Ann Fountain, the 1981 Miss New York State, was disqualified from the Miss U.S.A pageant for padding her bathing suit
The only two bald Presidents were Martin Van Buren and Dwight D. Eisenhower
In a speech made in 1961, John F. Kennedy was recorded as speaking at 327 words per minute, the fastest in public history
John F. Kennedy could read four newspapers in twenty minutes
David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for only one day
The full name for Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
The bikini bathing suit was so named because it was created the same year the atomic bomb was tested on Bikini Island
Benjamin Franklin was considered to be America's first cartoonist, he was also the first to suggest that clocks may be moved forward or backward to extend the daylight hours
South Dakota is the only U.S state which shares no letters with the name of it's capital, Pierre
Maine produces more toothpicks than any other U.S state
The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu
The Florida Citrus Bowl  football game was previously named for the tangerine
The full name for Bangkok is Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok pop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivetmahasathan Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprast
You have to pay a tax in Denmark to use the back seat of your car for passengers
Dublin is home to the Fairy Investigation Society
There is a law in France against selling dolls without human faces
The KGB is headquartered at No. 2 Felix Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow
Walloons speak French
The Vatican city registered 0 births in 1983
Spain leads the world in cork production
There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
There are 269 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the worlds widest road
There is a city in Norway called "Hell"
The Anglo-Saxons called May Thrimilice because cows at that point could be milked three times a day
The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
In the first century AD, Roman doctors endorsed the brushing of teeth with urine
Ancient Romans ate flamingo tongues and considered them a delicacy
The only animal which was allowed into an ancient Roman temple was a cat
In ancient Egypt, you could be put to death for killing a cat
An Egyptian has to say "I divorce thee" three times to be legally divorced
Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, or Akhenaten, was married to Nefertiti, and was king Tutankhamen's father, he also decreed that the sun god Aten was the only god  to be worshipped by Egyptians during his reign
Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, she was Greek, not Egyptian
The plant centaury is so named because it's medicinal properties were said to have been discovered by Chiron, the mythical centaur doctor and teacher.
In ancient Greece, "idiot" meant private citizen or layman
Vincent Van Goh sold only one painting in his lifetime, Red Vineyard at Arles
Vincent Van Goh committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows
Salvador Dali once arrived at an exhibition with flies glued to his face
Salvador Dali was expelled from art school for refusing to allow professors to critique his work
Michelangelo's sculpture Pieta is the only work of his to bear his signature, it is on Mary's mantle strap
Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the other
Leonardo wrote backwards, so that the only way to properly read his writing was to hold it up to a mirror
After studying it for 47 days, the New York  Museum of Modern Art discovered that the Matisse painting Le Bateau was hanging upside down
If an equestrian statue has two legs the air, the person on the horses back died in battle, if the horse has only one 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
Ionic columns have 23 flutes
Botticelli illustrated Dante's Inferno
most peoples hair stops growing at 3 ft 91 cm
One human hair can support 3kg
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people
The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt lightbulb
The human brain is 85% water
Children grow faster in the springtime
People speak at a rate of about 120 words per minute
The average person supposedly falls asleep in seven minutes
The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet can not tan
The resolving power of the human eye is 0.0003 of a radian or an arc of one minute (1/60th of a degree), which corresponds to 100 microns at 10 in. (confused yet?) A micron is a thousandth of a millimeter, hence 100 microns is 0.00397, or less than four thousandths of an inch, the human eye can detect a bright light shining through an aperture of only three or four microns
Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
Your fingers can detect a vibration with a movement of 0.02 of a micron
The loudest snore ever recorded is 87.5 decibels
The human feet perspire half a pint of fluid a day
One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
The septum linguae is located on the tongueBabies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age
More people are killed annually by donkeys than are killed in airplane crashes
The smelliest animal in the world is the Zorilla, it can discharge a nauseous fluid from it's anal glands which can be smelled over a radius of half a mile
Crickets hear through their knees
A female ferrit is known as a "jill"
Butterflies taste through their feet
The donkey gets its name from "key" meaning color, and "dung"
An Ostrich's eye is larger than it's brain
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky
A dragonfly has a life-span of 24 hours
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
The average flight speed of a house fly is five miles an hour
Stan, the first Spanish dog ever fitted with contact lenses, was hit by a car the day after he was fitted with them
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
A frog's favorite color is blue
Butterflies can fly at 20 MPH
The hummingbird is the only bird which can fly backwards
Hummingbirds have the fastest metabolism of any animal, they require from 6,000 to 12,400 calories per day (depending on the species)
An electric eel will short circuit if put into salt wate
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Reindeer milk has three times the protein of cow milk
The dog name "Fido" comes from the Latin meaning "I trust thee"
Starfish have no brains
Porcupines masturbate
It takes 4 hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
The male earwig's rear-end pincers are curved
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have been only 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world
A jiffy is one-hundred-thousand-billion-billionth of a second
There is 1/10 of a calorie on the back of a stamp
An Olympic gold medal must contain 92.5 percent silver
Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 a gram
The toilet on the Space shuttle boasts a footrest, handholds, a seat belt and a suction fan
There is an odd number of steps in every staircase in Thailand
There are five holes in a bagpipe bag
Tarzan means "white skin"
The Wright brothers airplane boasted a whopping twelve horsepower engine
There is 1/8 of a tea spoon in a dash
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans towards the south
Harvey Kennedy invented the shoelace
Louis the XIV took only three baths in his lifetime
Adolf Hitler parted his hair on the right
Prince Charles collects toilet seats
The yo-yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines
There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
The largest existing blimp is the Fuji Film blimp
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead."
The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is  pecan nuts.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
In the 656 BC Olympics, Chionis registered a distance of 23 feet 1 1/2 inches in the long jump
Ghosts tend to deteriorate after about 400 years, the most outstanding exception to the rule being a troop of Roman soldiers marching trough the cellar of the Treasurer's House, York Minster, they are still marching through the cellar after nearly 19 centuries
No piece of paper can be folded more than twenty times
Pope Leo XIII stopped the practice of castration as a means for producing male sopranos
Pope Stephen II reigned for only one day
The only acceptable sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position. Any other sexual position is considered illegal.
There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game
The next year which will read the same way upside down as rightside up is the year 6009, the last was 1961
During the 1700's, doctors often prescribed swinging on a swing to cure ladies of such problems as melancholy and "vapours" or fainting spells.
The sandwich was created in 1762 by the Earl of Sandwich. He was playing non-stop  poker. His wife insisted that he must eat. So he told her to put a piece of meat between two pieces of bread, so that he could eat with one hand, and hold his cards with the other.
The term "slapstick" originated in renaissance Italy as Commedia del Arte', and it was the precursor to slapstick - the slapstick was a stick with a loose piece of wood tied to the end that made a loud bang when you whapped an actor without - loads o' laughs.  It had a brief resurgence in 17th century France when Moliere rediscovered the medium, and began creating new works in the same genre.
The fortune cookie was first created in 1916 at the George Jung Noodle Factory in Los Angeles
Arnold Shwarzenegger was the tallest Mr. Universe ever
In 1904, the head of the patent office said that the office should be closed down because everything that could possibly be invented had already been invented.
Sheep statistics - Body temperature: 100 degrees F- 103 degrees F, Pulse/heart rate: 70-80 beats per minute. Respiration rate: 12-20 breaths per minute, gestation: 145 days, Weight, adult sheep between 150-200lbs.
A cat is 9% skeleton, for an elephant to be as flexible as a cat, it would have to be nearly 85% skeleton, leaving almost no room for internal organs
The only person, male or female, to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting is Emma Thompson
Montreal is the worlds snowiest city
The Bates Hotel from Psycho is actually a ¾ scale miniature, Alfred Hitchcock shot it from low angles to make it look big
The Greek word for butterfly is psyche, which means soul.
In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle.
The worlds longest national road is the Trans-Canada Highway, it runs from St. Johns Newfoundland to Victoria B.C.
Katherine Hepburn and Barbera Streisand are the only two actresses to ever tie for the best actress Oscar
The word "diploma" is Greek for "folded paper"
"Caterpillar" is Roman for "hairy cat"
A large man can prespire 19 litres of water a day
King Tut is the only Egyptian Pharaoh to remain buried in his tomb
James Buchanan was the only unmarried President of the United States
Rejkjavik, Iceland is the northernmost national capital in the world
A furlong is an eighth of a mile.
Siberian huskies lack the glands that other dogs have that give bad doggie breath.
Carlos Santana is legally blind!
The porcupine is the only animal that never poops, he exudes waste from his pores!
According to close aides, Ronald Regan was a secret Madonna fan. The 40th president went as far as to order a private showing of Truth or Dare in the White House screening room. He would deny this in public, though confidential documents unsealed after his death have confirmed the rumors!
According to a recent study, 93% of police chases that aren't televized result in the criminal escaping!
Garfield and Jon Arbuckle once met Snoopy and Charlie Brown in an event comic strip done for charity in 1981. The story crossed over through both Peanuts and Garfield. It concerned Garfield and Snoopy trying to see who could sleep longer, and Jon and Charlie's obvious disapproval of the contest!
Albert Einstein didn't actually fail math as a kid, as is commonly believed. However, Hitler did however receive a C+ in physics!
The J. in Michael J Fox stands for Jamie!
The rock classic Louie Louie is based on a true story!
A sequel to the 1990 blockbuster Ghost was written and almost filmed in 1990. The film, which would have been called Ghost 2: Now Who's Ghostin' Again? would have have concerned Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore's characters Sam and Molly starting a paranormal detective agency to reunite other lovers torn apart by violence. Industry insiders report that Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore were ready to do it, but the project fell apart when Whoopi Goldberg refused to return to her Academy Award winning role of Oda Mae Brown.
Slavery is technically still legal in the state of New Hampshire!
The GPA system was invented in 1939 by George Preston Alcott!
Carrot Top's real name is Edward James Carrot!
While attending Northwestern University, Warren Beaty once rode a motorcycle into his European History class. When he turned the engine off, the class and professor were still in a stunned silence. Before anyone could say a word, Warren ripped out an electric guitar and performed what was reported to be a very rousing rendition of "Good Golly Ms. Molly." He then got back on the motorcyle, rode out of class, and never returned to the university again!
In 1983 the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show attended a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture SHow at Virginia Tech. Barry Bostwick had never actually seen the movie in theaters before and was hazed by the student president!
Crayola estimates that 90% of all of their yellow wax manufactured is used to draw suns. Thats over 4 million tons, or approximately 5% of the actual sun's mass, every year!
Kentucky Fried Chicken's headquarters are actually located in Minneapolis!
The word pornography is derived from the ancient Egyptian god of fertility "Paw Näg"!
Scientists estimate there are 7.5 to 8 billion grains of sand in the world, and almost half were formed from the same boulder on Pangea!
According to a study by the American Restaurant Association, over 60% of people who receive birthday cakes at restaurants aren't actually celebrating their birthday!
The rubber soled shoe made her first appearence at the 1896 World's Fair in Chicago, but it was overshadowed by another invention - the ice cream cone!
Denmark had the first online presidential voting system in 1992 but it backfired and the country accidentaly elected the counting machine as president. It resided for a single day before it was impeached and a human president replaced him!
The upcoming film Brokeback Mountain, which stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gylenhall as gay cowboy lovers, was recently included in the Guiness Book of World Records as "The Most Unmarketable Film of All Time"!
Rabbi Barbie was pulled off the market in 1987 after Mattell received a record number of complaints!
Johnny Depp scored an 1150 on his SATs!
In 1988, the Calfiornia Raisin characterse made more money than all the actual raisin farmers in California combined!
The Billy Joel hit, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" is based on a true story!
Items NASA astronauts have left on the moon: a letter to God from Neal Armstrong's daughter, a Mickey Mantle baseball card, an empty canister of oil (from lunar rover vehicle), a wrench (fell out of ship), two American flags and, as a very irreversible practical joke, NASA director Ted Jameson's house keys!
In an ironic twist, Abraham Lincoln always hated pennies and fought tirelessly to have them discontinued!
The first convenience store was located rather inconveniently in Ketchikan, Alaska!
Poland Spring was known as Poland Springs until 3 of the 4 springs they were using in Poland dried up!
Andy Milonakis is actually played by twins!
According to a recent poll, Americans believe the best year of the past 3 decades was 1992!
While shooting Full House Mary-Kate Olsen would act in Michelle Tanner's comedic scenes while Ashely would handle the "more dramatic" Michelle!
Little Richard recently sued for the rights to six different spellings of the domain name www.a-wap-babba-loob-op-a-wap-bam-boom.com. The matter is still in court!
In Rhode Island, if you are suspected of supporting communism in any way, the police are allowed to search your house!
In Brattleboro, New Hampshire, milk can only be sold as skim, 1% or whole... 2% is considered bad luck and is illegal!
In Rhode Island there is a 14-day waiting period on all monkey purchases!
In Melbourne, Kentrucky tornados are illegal!
In New Haven, Conneticut TV stations are still not allowed to show the episode of Beverly Hills 90210 where Scott shot himself.
In Lancaster, Michigan velcro shoes are illegal in government owned buildings such as post offices and courts!
In South Dakota it is illegal to stick jelly beans up your nose!