Shirley Temple made $1 million by the age of 10.
The first U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
Mystery writer Agatha Christie acquired her extensive knowledge of poisons while working in a hospital dispensary during World War I.
Lillian Gish has the longest movie career of any actress, having debuted as a 19 year old in An Unseen Enemy (1912), and making her last appearance in Whales of August (1987). Miss Gish was born in 1893.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
While at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Early in his career, William F. Buckley, Jr. was employed as a Spanish teacher at Yale.
Anthea Turner, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Susan Hampshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Edison, Henry Winkler, Cher, Brian Conley, and Leonardo DaVinci are, or were, dyslexic.
Before beginning his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Canada.
The opera singer Enrico Caruso practiced in the bath, while accompanied by a pianist in a nearby room.
Before coming to the White House, Nancy and Ronald Reagan were actors. During their earlier careers each was involved in a performance that foreshadowed their later lives. In 1939, the then Nancy Davis had one line in a high school play called, eerily enough, "First Lady." It was, "They ought to elect the First Lady and then let her husband be president." She and her future husband also appeared in an episode of the "General Electric TV Theater" called "A Turkey for the President".
Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
In 1996, Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for applesauce, which coincidentally is what his name means in Japanese.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
Adam Sandler and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male college freshmen.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Thomas Jefferson anonymously submitted design plans for the White House. They were rejected.
Salvador Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips.
Robert Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman became the first U.S. President to take office in the midst of a war.
At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.
At the 1970 Oscar ceremonies, buxom Raquel Welch presented the award for best "special visual effects."
Arnold Schwarzenegger began his transition from Austrian bodybuilder into an American film star when he made his screen debut in 1970 under the name "Arnold Strong" in "Hercules Goes Bananas."
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
The famous Impressionist painter Claude Monet won 100,000 francs in the state lottery. The money made him financially independent.
Before he became famous for his TV comedy work, the late Phil Hartman worked as a talented and respected graphic designer. In fact, he was the designer of the logo for Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
Michael Jackson was black. :)
The founder of JC Penny had the name of James Cash Penny.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing his entire middle finger on his right hand.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place, for which he was ridiculed by his political opponent, James G. Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing himself.
Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall.
President John Tyler had fifteen children.
William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.
Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. vice-president, once remarked "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
Howard Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA.
The Taco Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget.
Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein.
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."—Erica Jong
Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach have been cathedral organists.
Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals.
Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.
When 7-year-old Shirley Temple’s life was insured with Lloyd’s, the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.
Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to the poor in India, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Herman Melville shipped aboard the whaler "Acushnet," at age 21. He later wrote a book from the experience.
At age 13, Carl Sandburg quit school to work as a day laborer.
Marvin Hamlisch became the youngest pupil ever at the Julliard School of Music - at age 7.
Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory at age 12.
The first U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
Meg Ryan turned down plum lead parts in the films "Steel Magnolias," "Pretty Woman," and "Silence of the Lambs." A few years after her rejection of "Silence of the Lambs," which earned Jodie Foster a Best Actress Oscar, Ryan disclosed to Barbara Walters in a television interview that she had felt the role "was dangerous and a little ugly. I felt it was too dark - for me."
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Bette was married four times, her last to actor Gary Merrill which lasted ten years, longer than any of the previous three.
On her tombstone is written "She did it the hard way."
Bette Davis appeared in more than 100 films between 1931 and 1989. She made her first film called Way Back Home in 1931.
She passed away from cancer October 6, 1989.
Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1908.
Gerald Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Pepin the Short, King of the Franks from 751 to 768 AD was four feet six inches tall. His wife was known as Bertha of the Big Foot.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were all avid collectors and players of marbles. In their day, marbles were called "small bowls" and were as popular with adults as with children.
According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
William Howard Taft is the only man ever to be President AND Chief Justice. The US Supreme Court appointment came second and was a job Taft enjoyed much more than the presidency.
The first Michelin Man costume (Bidenbum) was worn by none other than Col. Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.
Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch conservationist, banned Christmas trees in his home, even when he lived in the White House. His children, however, smuggled them into their bedrooms.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Prince Harry and Prince William are uncircumcised.
Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.
Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa and grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska.
James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
Mary Todd once dated both Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. She chose Lincoln because he showed more promise, and she was right - he was good at everything but ducking.
I suppose someone should mention that Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."
Actor Robert De Niro played the part of the Cowardly Lion in his elementary schools production of The Wizard of Oz. De Niro was 10 at the time.
Vincent Van Gogh painted his last painting, "Cornfield with Crows," and shot himself at age 37.
Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.
O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child.
Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle.
One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
Rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor suggested this to improve her memory.
David Atchison, as president pro tempore of the Senate in 1849, was U-S president for one day - Sunday, March 4th - pending the inauguration of President-elect Zachary Taylor on Monday, March 5th.
Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band.
Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.
Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on "The Tonight Show" guest couch during a first appearance.
Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. is the birth name of American President Gerald. R. Ford. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. When his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, he adopted the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
James Garfield often gave campaign speeches in German.
Lincoln was shot on Good Friday.
President McKinley was shot while shaking hands with spectators.
Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."
JFK was the first president born in the 20th century.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go underwater in a submarine.
George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
Warren Harding was the first US president who could drive a car.
Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London.
Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office by his own father.
Grover Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally.
Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.
George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration.
Paul Cezanne had a parrot who he taught to say, "Cezanne is a great painter."
When John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage after shooting the President, he tripped—on the American flag.
Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.
Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.
When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.
The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.
Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, here I come" to be the last piece of music played (slowly and softly) were he to die in office.
James Buchanon is said to have had the neatest handwriting of all the Presidents.
Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.
George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.
Roosevelt was the most superstitious president—he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.
On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0.
President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."
President Woodrow Wilson wrote all of his speeches in longhand.
Money man Cornelius Vanderbilt was an insomniac and a believer in the occult. He was not able to fall asleep unless each leg of his bed was planted in a dished filled with salt. He felt this kept out the evil spirits. It also kept out the snails, ants, and anyone with high blood pressure.
President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."
Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.
At last check, the governor of Arkansas makes $60,000 a year. His salary is the lowest of all 50 states. A dozen or so states pay their governors more than $100,000 year, generally the more populous states. California pays its governor $131,000. Illinois comes in second at $130,000 and change, with New York, a close third at $130,000 even.
The ichneumon fly has a sense of smell so keen that it can locate a caterpillar deep inside a tree trunk.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.
Crickets hear through their knees.
The berry butterflies (hypsa monycha) of Singapore, in their caterpillar stage, group around the top of a stem to foil predatory birds by imitating the appearance of a poisonous berry.
A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.
A bee has four wings.
Insects make up two thirds of known species.
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons.
Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
The largest insect in the world, the meganeuron, a prehistoric dragonfly, measured 29 inches from wingtip to wingtip.
The silkworm moth has lost the ability of flight due to domestication.
A typical Mayfly only lives one day.
Little Miss Muffet was arachnaphobic.
The katydid has supersonic hearing. It can hear sounds up to 4-5,000 vibrations per second.
Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head.
Moths have no stomach.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Maggots were once used to treat a bone infection called osteomyelitis.
If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth.
Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.
Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
The dragonfly has about 30,000 lenses covering the retina of its eye, and thus sees many, many images where we see only one.
Worms can have up to ten hearts.
Scientists turn up as many as 10,000 new species of insects every year.
Tropical ants, when a flood sweeps down on them, roll themselves into a huge living ball which drifts upon the water, with the young safe and dry at the core.
Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.
The leaf bug of ceylon (phyllum sicci folium) has legs and antennae the color and shape of leaves, has indentations on its body like the vein marks on a leaf, and hangs from branches, swaying in the breeze exactly like a leaf.
The beautiful but deadly Australian sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) is the most venomous jellyfish in the world. Its cardiotoxic venom has caused the deaths of 66 people off the coast of Queensland since 1880, with victims dying within 1-3 minutes if medical aid is not available.
March 14 is "Save a spider day."
Ladybugs bleed to protect themselves. When alarmed, they release drops of a reddish or yellowish bitter tasting liquid from their mouths and from the pores at their joints. This repels prospective attackers.
Female mosquitos will obtain blood from humans and animals, but only to nourish their eggs. Their food actually consists of nectar and other plant juices.
The longest species of centipede is the giant scolopender (Scolopendra gigantea), found in the rain forests of Central and South America. It has 23 segments (46 legs) and specimens have been measured up to 10.5 inches long and 1" in diameter.
Any Female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters.
Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Bees have been known to cure rheumatism.
On an average day, a queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her partner and devours him. The female may dispatch as many as twenty-five suitors a day in this manner.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.
Some spiders have as many as eight eyes.
A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.
A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.
Spiders have transparent blood.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
Until very recently, no centipede was found that did not have an ODD number of leg pairs. Usually the number varies from 15 to 191 pairs, all odd. No one knows why. However, Chris Kettle, a doctoral student in ecology, recently found a centipede with 48 pairs of legs, an even number. The remarkable discovery was presented to the International Congress of Myriapodology in Poland and featured in the science journal Trends in Genetics. Mr. Kettle suspects a genetic mutation is responsible for the even number of leg pairs.
The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November.
There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.
Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days—he has no sting. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly p to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph.
The social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk: a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer.
Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length.
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.
The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
Scientists have identified more than 300 viruses capable of bringing fatal diseases to insects. The organisms are believed to be entirely different than those that cause disease in humans, and are thus harmless to man.
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus".
The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
Certain species of male butterflies produce scents that serve in attracting females during courtship.
The natural diet of Lady Beetles consists of soft bodied insects such as aphids, spider mites, and young caterpillars. Adults can consume up to 100 aphids a day.
There are about 5,000 species of coral known. Only about half of them build reefs.
A bison can jump 6 feet.
There are about 40 different muscles in a birds wing.
A 4-inch-long abalone can grip a rock with a force of 400 pounds. Two grown men are incapable of prying it up.
Gorillas do not know how to swim.
Unlike most cats, tigers love the water and can easily swim three or four miles.
A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of teats or nipples, usually twelve.
While there are hundreds of species of sharks, only about seven are marketed and eaten with any regularity in the United States.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal.
The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker’s cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion’s body, pincers and all.
Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a 5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
The more that is learned about the ecological benefits of bats, the more home gardeners are going out of their way to entice these amazing winged mammals into their neighborhoods. Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4 to 6 hours a night. They can eat from one-half to three-quarters their weight per evening. Bats are also important plant pollinators, particularly in the southwestern U.S.
Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while underground in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
Gorillas beat their chests when they get nervous.
The kakapo is a nocturnal burrowing parrot of New Zealand that has a green body with brown and yellow markings. Its name is from Maori and means "night parrot."
The white elephant is the sacred animal of Thailand.
The whistling swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.
Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of Paris.
Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes, and humans all have seven neck vertebra.
The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is 12 years.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Apus Australiensis, a shrimp-like crustacean of arid central Australia, survives where other water animals would perish because its eggs hatch only after they have been dried out in the sun.
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. That means one shark will go through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year.
A parrots beak can close with a force close to 350 pounds per square inch.
The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.
The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.
A woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour, but it only breathes ten times an hour while it is hibernating.
Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout.
The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. She must be able to see another pigeon in order for her ovaries to function. Her own reflection will work if no other pigeon is available.
Fish can be susceptible to seasickness.
The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.
Penguins only have sex once a year.
Australia has the largest sheep population.
Beavers do not eat fish.
The only place in Europe where monkeys live free is Gibraltar.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.
The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest animal which can be heard clearly for distances of up to 3 miles.
Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
Birds do not have sweat glands, so their bodies cannot cool down through perspiration. Their bodies cool by flight or, when at rest, panting.
The sea lion can swim 6,000 miles, stopping only to sleep.
Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just to handle the substance can put one in a coma.
To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.
The only venomous British snake is the adder.
A castrated rooster is called a capon.
A house cat has 18 claws.
The jackrabbit is not a rabbit; it is a hare.
Since housecats are clean and their coats are dry and glossy, their fur easily becomes charged with electricity. Sparks can be seen if their fur is rubbed in the dark.
Because birds carrying messages were often killed in flight by hawks, medieval Arabs made a habit of sending important messages twice.
Mussels can thrive in polluted water because of an inborn ability to purify bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
The blow of a whale has a strong, foul odor. It apparently smells like a combination of spoiled fish and old oil. Because whales have such terrible breath, sailors believed at one time that a whiff of it could cause brain disorders.
The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans.
There are about 500 different kinds of cone snails around the world. All have a sharp, modified tooth that stabs prey with venom like a harpoon. Most cone snails hunt worms and other snails, but some eat fish. These are the ones most dangerous to people. The nerve toxin that stops a fish is powerful enough to also kill a human.
A camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight.
The largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches.
While there are hundreds of species of sharks, only about seven are marketed and eaten with any regularity in the United States.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal.
The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker’s cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion’s body, pincers and all.
Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a 5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
The more that is learned about the ecological benefits of bats, the more home gardeners are going out of their way to entice these amazing winged mammals into their neighborhoods. Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4 to 6 hours a night. They can eat from one-half to three-quarters their weight per evening. Bats are also important plant pollinators, particularly in the southwestern U.S.
Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while underground in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
The golden tree frog has a croak that sounds like a mallet chipping rock, but in summer it sounds like a tinkling bell.
Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
Chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
A pelican consumes about 33 and 1/3 percent of its body weight in a single meal.
The Dalmatian dog is named for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where it is believed to have been originally bred.
The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
A typical day for a gorilla is to get up early and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap, they resume eating until the sun goes down.
When two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions. They say this is so they can keep an eye out for predators.
A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
The Penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.
The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.
The penculine titmouse of Africa builds its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesman use their nests for purses and carrying cases.
The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.
The Pastern is the part of a horse located on the foot between the fetlock and the hoof.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to being female; it may go back and forth many times.
Weighing approximately 13 pounds at birth, a baby caribou will double its weight in just 10 days.
Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Flamingoes live remarkably long lives: up to 80 years.
Flamingoes feel safest when they are crowded together, hundreds in a group.
Of the 250-plus known species of shark in the world, only about 18 are known to be dangerous to man.
Fish travel in schools, whales travel in pods or gams.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.
February is the mating month for gray whales.
Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.
The crocodile is a cannibal; it will occasionally eat other crocodiles.
In Wales, there are more sheep than people. (In 1996 the population for Wales was 2,921,000 with approximately 5,000,000 sheep)
A jynx is a woodpecker, also know as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck.
A winkle is an edible sea snail.
Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.
A trout swims at about 4 miles per hour which is faster than you or me.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.
Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
A quarter of the horses in the U.S. died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve.
Out of all the animals a circus animal trainer works with, none are deadlier than the elephant. More deaths are caused by the elephants than the large cats circus tamers train with.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
Dogs mature very fast in their early years. However, most of their growth occurs during the first two years. After that, development slows down. A one-year-old dog is like a teenage human and a two-year-old dog is like an adult in his mid-twenties. Only when the dog is older—more than ten—does a single dog year equal about seven human years.
An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.
The flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.
Gorillas and cats sleep about fourteen hours a day.
Rabbits never walk or trot, but always hop or leap.
The flamingoes of East Africa have few natural enemies. In general, the only predators an adult flamingo need fear are the fish eagle and the marabou stork.
Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.
Shock treatment for epilepsy was once administered by electric catfish.
Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
The black bear is not always black. It can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes a bluish color.
The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic.
The largest order of mammals, with about 1,700 species, is rodents. Bats are second with about 950 species.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
One species of antelope, the Sitatunga, can sleep underwater.
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
The beluga whale is often referred to as the "sea canary" because of the birdlike chirping sounds it makes.
The oldest know breed of domesticated dog is the saluki. Carvings of animals resembling the saluki have been found in excavations of the Sumerian Empire believed to date from between 6000 and 7000 B.C.
Marcel Prousthave had a swordfish at home.
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
While drug-sniffing dogs are trained to bark like crazy, go "aggressive" at the first whiff of the right powder... Bomb-sniffing dogs are trained to go "passive" lest they set off a motion sensor or a noise sensor or any number of other things that might go "kablooie."
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
The bottle-nosed whale can dive to a depth of 3,000 feet in two minutes.
The ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The "snood" is the fleshy projection just above the bill on a turkey.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it.
No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City metropolitan area.
The Bateleur eagle of Africa hunts over a territory of 250 square miles a day.
There are 1,600 known species of starfishes in the world.
In the air, puffins are powerful flyers, beating their wings 300 to 400 times a minute to achieve speeds up to 40 miles per hour.
Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm.
Minnows have teeth in their throat.
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.
Pigs can become alcoholics.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The Platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day.
Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".
In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1.
The heaviest dog on record is an Old English Mastiff named Zorba, who weighed 343 pounds and measured 8 feet and 3 in. from nose to tail.
In 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County, Missouri.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Lobsters are scared of octopuses. The sight of one makes a lobster freeze.
In Budapest, they control the pigeon population by mixing birth control chemicals with the birdseed.
A large kangaroo would make a great long-distance jumper, covering more than thirty feet with a single jump.
A few species of monkeys and apes see the full spectrum of color, as well as some birds and possibly fish. Most animals, however, perceive the world in shades of gray, including the bull. A bull who charges a bright red cape is charging because of the movement of the cape, not the color.
Young birds such as ducks, geese, and shore birds are born with their eyes open.
The average minimal speed of birds in order to remain aloft in flight is reported to be about 16½ feet per second, or about 11 miles per hour.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
The king crab walks diagonally.
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high.
Sharks never stop moving, even when they sleep or rest.
The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.
The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
The world camel population is 19,627,000.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
To a human, one giant octopus looks virtually the same as any other of the same size and species. This explains why divers claim to have seen the same octopus occupy a den for ten or more years. But an octopus seldom lives longer than four years.
78% of cats never travel with their owner.
The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months.
Ergonomic waterbeds are the latest must-have on the bovine circuit. The beds, listing at $175, are said to enhance cattle health by reducing joint damage.
It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.
The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.
In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.
Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
The pekingese is the royal dog of China.
The giant tortoise can live longer in captivity than any other animal.
Greyhound dogs can see better than any other breed of dog.
Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.
You can house break an armadillo.
The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.
Penguins generally mate once and produce one egg per year.
More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.
The giant Pacific octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.
Some birds from the rain forests of South America actually breed in Canada in the summer, before returning south for the winter.
The average giraffe has a blood pressure two or three times that of the average human.
Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.
Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals, surprisingly. They come a close second only to primates. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like a dog.
Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.
The Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
Some species of dinosaur were the size of chickens.
The March Hare from Alice In Wonderland portrays the actual antics of real hares during springtime, when they jump around and hit their large hind feet on the ground.
All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature.
Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.
Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food.
Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers.
Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
All your base are belong to us.
The plastic tips on shoelaces are called 'aglets'!
If you buy a lottery ticket on Monday you are a hundred times more likely to die before the draw is held on wednesday, than win the Jackpot!
Your skin is actually an organ.
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
Your brain is 80% water.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you become an adult, you only have 206!
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
You breathe mostly from only one nostril at a time!
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
You can start a fire with ice.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
Worms reportedly taste like bacon.
World?s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Whoopi Goldberg?s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.
When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name 'Allota Warmheart' so that nobody will recognize her.
When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
We blink 25 times a minute.
Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!
Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
Vultures fly without flapping their wings.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn?t a federal crime to assassinate the President.
Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's had the middle name of Stucklefuss!
Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles?that?s where the word ?testimony? comes from.
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!
Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!
There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
There are no penguins in the North Pole.
There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 206 bones in the human body!
There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.
There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!
The ?Big Dipper? is known as ?The Casserole? in France.
The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
The first U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
Mystery writer Agatha Christie acquired her extensive knowledge of poisons while working in a hospital dispensary during World War I.
Lillian Gish has the longest movie career of any actress, having debuted as a 19 year old in An Unseen Enemy (1912), and making her last appearance in Whales of August (1987). Miss Gish was born in 1893.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
While at Harvard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
Early in his career, William F. Buckley, Jr. was employed as a Spanish teacher at Yale.
Anthea Turner, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Susan Hampshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Edison, Henry Winkler, Cher, Brian Conley, and Leonardo DaVinci are, or were, dyslexic.
Before beginning his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Canada.
The opera singer Enrico Caruso practiced in the bath, while accompanied by a pianist in a nearby room.
Before coming to the White House, Nancy and Ronald Reagan were actors. During their earlier careers each was involved in a performance that foreshadowed their later lives. In 1939, the then Nancy Davis had one line in a high school play called, eerily enough, "First Lady." It was, "They ought to elect the First Lady and then let her husband be president." She and her future husband also appeared in an episode of the "General Electric TV Theater" called "A Turkey for the President".
Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.
In 1996, Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for applesauce, which coincidentally is what his name means in Japanese.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
Adam Sandler and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male college freshmen.
Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).
Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
Thomas Jefferson anonymously submitted design plans for the White House. They were rejected.
Salvador Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips.
Robert Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman became the first U.S. President to take office in the midst of a war.
At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.
At the 1970 Oscar ceremonies, buxom Raquel Welch presented the award for best "special visual effects."
Arnold Schwarzenegger began his transition from Austrian bodybuilder into an American film star when he made his screen debut in 1970 under the name "Arnold Strong" in "Hercules Goes Bananas."
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
The famous Impressionist painter Claude Monet won 100,000 francs in the state lottery. The money made him financially independent.
Before he became famous for his TV comedy work, the late Phil Hartman worked as a talented and respected graphic designer. In fact, he was the designer of the logo for Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
Michael Jackson was black. :)
The founder of JC Penny had the name of James Cash Penny.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing his entire middle finger on his right hand.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place, for which he was ridiculed by his political opponent, James G. Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing himself.
Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall.
President John Tyler had fifteen children.
William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.
Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. vice-president, once remarked "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
Howard Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA.
The Taco Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget.
Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein.
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."—Erica Jong
Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach have been cathedral organists.
Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals.
Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.
When 7-year-old Shirley Temple’s life was insured with Lloyd’s, the contract stipulated that no benefits would be paid if the child film star met with death or injury while intoxicated.
Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to the poor in India, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Herman Melville shipped aboard the whaler "Acushnet," at age 21. He later wrote a book from the experience.
At age 13, Carl Sandburg quit school to work as a day laborer.
Marvin Hamlisch became the youngest pupil ever at the Julliard School of Music - at age 7.
Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory at age 12.
The first U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
Meg Ryan turned down plum lead parts in the films "Steel Magnolias," "Pretty Woman," and "Silence of the Lambs." A few years after her rejection of "Silence of the Lambs," which earned Jodie Foster a Best Actress Oscar, Ryan disclosed to Barbara Walters in a television interview that she had felt the role "was dangerous and a little ugly. I felt it was too dark - for me."
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Bette was married four times, her last to actor Gary Merrill which lasted ten years, longer than any of the previous three.
On her tombstone is written "She did it the hard way."
Bette Davis appeared in more than 100 films between 1931 and 1989. She made her first film called Way Back Home in 1931.
She passed away from cancer October 6, 1989.
Bette Davis was born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts, on April 5, 1908.
Gerald Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Pepin the Short, King of the Franks from 751 to 768 AD was four feet six inches tall. His wife was known as Bertha of the Big Foot.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams were all avid collectors and players of marbles. In their day, marbles were called "small bowls" and were as popular with adults as with children.
According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.
Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.
William Howard Taft is the only man ever to be President AND Chief Justice. The US Supreme Court appointment came second and was a job Taft enjoyed much more than the presidency.
The first Michelin Man costume (Bidenbum) was worn by none other than Col. Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.
Theodore Roosevelt, a staunch conservationist, banned Christmas trees in his home, even when he lived in the White House. His children, however, smuggled them into their bedrooms.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
Prince Harry and Prince William are uncircumcised.
Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.
Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa and grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska.
James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
Mary Todd once dated both Abe Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. She chose Lincoln because he showed more promise, and she was right - he was good at everything but ducking.
I suppose someone should mention that Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."
Actor Robert De Niro played the part of the Cowardly Lion in his elementary schools production of The Wizard of Oz. De Niro was 10 at the time.
Vincent Van Gogh painted his last painting, "Cornfield with Crows," and shot himself at age 37.
Mark Twain first learned to ride a bicycle at age 55.
O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child.
Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.
Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle.
One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
Rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor suggested this to improve her memory.
David Atchison, as president pro tempore of the Senate in 1849, was U-S president for one day - Sunday, March 4th - pending the inauguration of President-elect Zachary Taylor on Monday, March 5th.
Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band.
Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.
Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on "The Tonight Show" guest couch during a first appearance.
Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. is the birth name of American President Gerald. R. Ford. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. When his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, he adopted the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
James Garfield often gave campaign speeches in German.
Lincoln was shot on Good Friday.
President McKinley was shot while shaking hands with spectators.
Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."
JFK was the first president born in the 20th century.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go underwater in a submarine.
George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
Warren Harding was the first US president who could drive a car.
Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London.
Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office by his own father.
Grover Cleveland answered the White House phone, personally.
Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.
George Washington had to borrow money so he could travel to his inauguration.
Paul Cezanne had a parrot who he taught to say, "Cezanne is a great painter."
When John Wilkes Booth leaped onto the stage after shooting the President, he tripped—on the American flag.
Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word "I". Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using "I" only once in their inaugural addresses.
Benjamin Franklin lived at 141 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.
When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.
The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.
Richard Nixon left instructions for "California, here I come" to be the last piece of music played (slowly and softly) were he to die in office.
James Buchanon is said to have had the neatest handwriting of all the Presidents.
Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.
George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.
Roosevelt was the most superstitious president—he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.
On April 14th, 1910, President Howard Taft began a sports tradition by throwing out the first baseball of the season. That happened at an American League game between Washington and Philadelphia. Washington won, 3-0.
President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."
President Woodrow Wilson wrote all of his speeches in longhand.
Money man Cornelius Vanderbilt was an insomniac and a believer in the occult. He was not able to fall asleep unless each leg of his bed was planted in a dished filled with salt. He felt this kept out the evil spirits. It also kept out the snails, ants, and anyone with high blood pressure.
President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."
Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.
At last check, the governor of Arkansas makes $60,000 a year. His salary is the lowest of all 50 states. A dozen or so states pay their governors more than $100,000 year, generally the more populous states. California pays its governor $131,000. Illinois comes in second at $130,000 and change, with New York, a close third at $130,000 even.
The ichneumon fly has a sense of smell so keen that it can locate a caterpillar deep inside a tree trunk.
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.
Crickets hear through their knees.
The berry butterflies (hypsa monycha) of Singapore, in their caterpillar stage, group around the top of a stem to foil predatory birds by imitating the appearance of a poisonous berry.
A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.
A bee has four wings.
Insects make up two thirds of known species.
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons.
Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
The largest insect in the world, the meganeuron, a prehistoric dragonfly, measured 29 inches from wingtip to wingtip.
The silkworm moth has lost the ability of flight due to domestication.
A typical Mayfly only lives one day.
Little Miss Muffet was arachnaphobic.
The katydid has supersonic hearing. It can hear sounds up to 4-5,000 vibrations per second.
Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head.
Moths have no stomach.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Maggots were once used to treat a bone infection called osteomyelitis.
If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth.
Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.
Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
The dragonfly has about 30,000 lenses covering the retina of its eye, and thus sees many, many images where we see only one.
Worms can have up to ten hearts.
Scientists turn up as many as 10,000 new species of insects every year.
Tropical ants, when a flood sweeps down on them, roll themselves into a huge living ball which drifts upon the water, with the young safe and dry at the core.
Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.
The leaf bug of ceylon (phyllum sicci folium) has legs and antennae the color and shape of leaves, has indentations on its body like the vein marks on a leaf, and hangs from branches, swaying in the breeze exactly like a leaf.
The beautiful but deadly Australian sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) is the most venomous jellyfish in the world. Its cardiotoxic venom has caused the deaths of 66 people off the coast of Queensland since 1880, with victims dying within 1-3 minutes if medical aid is not available.
March 14 is "Save a spider day."
Ladybugs bleed to protect themselves. When alarmed, they release drops of a reddish or yellowish bitter tasting liquid from their mouths and from the pores at their joints. This repels prospective attackers.
Female mosquitos will obtain blood from humans and animals, but only to nourish their eggs. Their food actually consists of nectar and other plant juices.
The longest species of centipede is the giant scolopender (Scolopendra gigantea), found in the rain forests of Central and South America. It has 23 segments (46 legs) and specimens have been measured up to 10.5 inches long and 1" in diameter.
Any Female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters.
Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Bees have been known to cure rheumatism.
On an average day, a queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her partner and devours him. The female may dispatch as many as twenty-five suitors a day in this manner.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.
Some spiders have as many as eight eyes.
A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.
A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.
A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
Some crickets burrow megaphone-like tunnels that help transport the sound of their chirps as far as 2,000 feet away.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.
Spiders have transparent blood.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.
Until very recently, no centipede was found that did not have an ODD number of leg pairs. Usually the number varies from 15 to 191 pairs, all odd. No one knows why. However, Chris Kettle, a doctoral student in ecology, recently found a centipede with 48 pairs of legs, an even number. The remarkable discovery was presented to the International Congress of Myriapodology in Poland and featured in the science journal Trends in Genetics. Mr. Kettle suspects a genetic mutation is responsible for the even number of leg pairs.
The tarantula spends most of its life within its burrow, which is an 18-inch vertical hole with an inch-wide opening. When male tarantulas are between the ages of 5 to 7 years, they leave the burrow in search of a female, usually in the early fall. This migration actually signals the end of their life cycle. The males mate with as many females as they can, and then they die around mid-November.
There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.
Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days—he has no sting. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly p to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph.
The social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk: a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer.
Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length.
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.
The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
Scientists have identified more than 300 viruses capable of bringing fatal diseases to insects. The organisms are believed to be entirely different than those that cause disease in humans, and are thus harmless to man.
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus".
The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
Certain species of male butterflies produce scents that serve in attracting females during courtship.
The natural diet of Lady Beetles consists of soft bodied insects such as aphids, spider mites, and young caterpillars. Adults can consume up to 100 aphids a day.
There are about 5,000 species of coral known. Only about half of them build reefs.
A bison can jump 6 feet.
There are about 40 different muscles in a birds wing.
A 4-inch-long abalone can grip a rock with a force of 400 pounds. Two grown men are incapable of prying it up.
Gorillas do not know how to swim.
Unlike most cats, tigers love the water and can easily swim three or four miles.
A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of teats or nipples, usually twelve.
While there are hundreds of species of sharks, only about seven are marketed and eaten with any regularity in the United States.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal.
The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker’s cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion’s body, pincers and all.
Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a 5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
The more that is learned about the ecological benefits of bats, the more home gardeners are going out of their way to entice these amazing winged mammals into their neighborhoods. Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4 to 6 hours a night. They can eat from one-half to three-quarters their weight per evening. Bats are also important plant pollinators, particularly in the southwestern U.S.
Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while underground in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
Gorillas beat their chests when they get nervous.
The kakapo is a nocturnal burrowing parrot of New Zealand that has a green body with brown and yellow markings. Its name is from Maori and means "night parrot."
The white elephant is the sacred animal of Thailand.
The whistling swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.
Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of Paris.
Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes, and humans all have seven neck vertebra.
The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is 12 years.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Apus Australiensis, a shrimp-like crustacean of arid central Australia, survives where other water animals would perish because its eggs hatch only after they have been dried out in the sun.
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. That means one shark will go through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year.
A parrots beak can close with a force close to 350 pounds per square inch.
The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.
The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.
A woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour, but it only breathes ten times an hour while it is hibernating.
Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout.
The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. She must be able to see another pigeon in order for her ovaries to function. Her own reflection will work if no other pigeon is available.
Fish can be susceptible to seasickness.
The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.
Penguins only have sex once a year.
Australia has the largest sheep population.
Beavers do not eat fish.
The only place in Europe where monkeys live free is Gibraltar.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.
The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest animal which can be heard clearly for distances of up to 3 miles.
Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
Birds do not have sweat glands, so their bodies cannot cool down through perspiration. Their bodies cool by flight or, when at rest, panting.
The sea lion can swim 6,000 miles, stopping only to sleep.
Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just to handle the substance can put one in a coma.
To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.
The only venomous British snake is the adder.
A castrated rooster is called a capon.
A house cat has 18 claws.
The jackrabbit is not a rabbit; it is a hare.
Since housecats are clean and their coats are dry and glossy, their fur easily becomes charged with electricity. Sparks can be seen if their fur is rubbed in the dark.
Because birds carrying messages were often killed in flight by hawks, medieval Arabs made a habit of sending important messages twice.
Mussels can thrive in polluted water because of an inborn ability to purify bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
The blow of a whale has a strong, foul odor. It apparently smells like a combination of spoiled fish and old oil. Because whales have such terrible breath, sailors believed at one time that a whiff of it could cause brain disorders.
The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans.
There are about 500 different kinds of cone snails around the world. All have a sharp, modified tooth that stabs prey with venom like a harpoon. Most cone snails hunt worms and other snails, but some eat fish. These are the ones most dangerous to people. The nerve toxin that stops a fish is powerful enough to also kill a human.
A camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight.
The largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches.
While there are hundreds of species of sharks, only about seven are marketed and eaten with any regularity in the United States.
Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.
Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal.
The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air.
At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour.
The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
The smallest of American owls, the elf owl, often nests in the Gila woodpecker’s cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion’s body, pincers and all.
Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds have the mental abilities of a 5-year-old human child. Should a neglected parrot go mad, there is little that can be done to restore it to normalcy. In England, there are "mental institutions" for such unfortunate creatures.
Mother-of pearl is not always white. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body.
The more that is learned about the ecological benefits of bats, the more home gardeners are going out of their way to entice these amazing winged mammals into their neighborhoods. Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as 600 bugs per hour for 4 to 6 hours a night. They can eat from one-half to three-quarters their weight per evening. Bats are also important plant pollinators, particularly in the southwestern U.S.
Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while underground in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
The golden tree frog has a croak that sounds like a mallet chipping rock, but in summer it sounds like a tinkling bell.
Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
Chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
A pelican consumes about 33 and 1/3 percent of its body weight in a single meal.
The Dalmatian dog is named for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where it is believed to have been originally bred.
The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
A typical day for a gorilla is to get up early and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap, they resume eating until the sun goes down.
When two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions. They say this is so they can keep an eye out for predators.
A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.
The Penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.
The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.
The penculine titmouse of Africa builds its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesman use their nests for purses and carrying cases.
The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.
The Pastern is the part of a horse located on the foot between the fetlock and the hoof.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to being female; it may go back and forth many times.
Weighing approximately 13 pounds at birth, a baby caribou will double its weight in just 10 days.
Snakes continue to grow until the day they die.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Flamingoes live remarkably long lives: up to 80 years.
Flamingoes feel safest when they are crowded together, hundreds in a group.
Of the 250-plus known species of shark in the world, only about 18 are known to be dangerous to man.
Fish travel in schools, whales travel in pods or gams.
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.
February is the mating month for gray whales.
Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.
The crocodile is a cannibal; it will occasionally eat other crocodiles.
In Wales, there are more sheep than people. (In 1996 the population for Wales was 2,921,000 with approximately 5,000,000 sheep)
A jynx is a woodpecker, also know as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck.
A winkle is an edible sea snail.
Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.
A trout swims at about 4 miles per hour which is faster than you or me.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.
Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.
Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
A quarter of the horses in the U.S. died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve.
Out of all the animals a circus animal trainer works with, none are deadlier than the elephant. More deaths are caused by the elephants than the large cats circus tamers train with.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
Dogs mature very fast in their early years. However, most of their growth occurs during the first two years. After that, development slows down. A one-year-old dog is like a teenage human and a two-year-old dog is like an adult in his mid-twenties. Only when the dog is older—more than ten—does a single dog year equal about seven human years.
An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.
The flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.
Gorillas and cats sleep about fourteen hours a day.
Rabbits never walk or trot, but always hop or leap.
The flamingoes of East Africa have few natural enemies. In general, the only predators an adult flamingo need fear are the fish eagle and the marabou stork.
Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.
Shock treatment for epilepsy was once administered by electric catfish.
Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
The black bear is not always black. It can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes a bluish color.
The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic.
The largest order of mammals, with about 1,700 species, is rodents. Bats are second with about 950 species.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
One species of antelope, the Sitatunga, can sleep underwater.
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
The beluga whale is often referred to as the "sea canary" because of the birdlike chirping sounds it makes.
The oldest know breed of domesticated dog is the saluki. Carvings of animals resembling the saluki have been found in excavations of the Sumerian Empire believed to date from between 6000 and 7000 B.C.
Marcel Prousthave had a swordfish at home.
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
While drug-sniffing dogs are trained to bark like crazy, go "aggressive" at the first whiff of the right powder... Bomb-sniffing dogs are trained to go "passive" lest they set off a motion sensor or a noise sensor or any number of other things that might go "kablooie."
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
The bottle-nosed whale can dive to a depth of 3,000 feet in two minutes.
The ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The "snood" is the fleshy projection just above the bill on a turkey.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it.
No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the New York City metropolitan area.
The Bateleur eagle of Africa hunts over a territory of 250 square miles a day.
There are 1,600 known species of starfishes in the world.
In the air, puffins are powerful flyers, beating their wings 300 to 400 times a minute to achieve speeds up to 40 miles per hour.
Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter. Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm.
Minnows have teeth in their throat.
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.
Pigs can become alcoholics.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
The Platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day.
Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".
In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1.
The heaviest dog on record is an Old English Mastiff named Zorba, who weighed 343 pounds and measured 8 feet and 3 in. from nose to tail.
In 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County, Missouri.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Lobsters are scared of octopuses. The sight of one makes a lobster freeze.
In Budapest, they control the pigeon population by mixing birth control chemicals with the birdseed.
A large kangaroo would make a great long-distance jumper, covering more than thirty feet with a single jump.
A few species of monkeys and apes see the full spectrum of color, as well as some birds and possibly fish. Most animals, however, perceive the world in shades of gray, including the bull. A bull who charges a bright red cape is charging because of the movement of the cape, not the color.
Young birds such as ducks, geese, and shore birds are born with their eyes open.
The average minimal speed of birds in order to remain aloft in flight is reported to be about 16½ feet per second, or about 11 miles per hour.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
The king crab walks diagonally.
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high.
Sharks never stop moving, even when they sleep or rest.
The snapping turtle eats carrion and is used by police to find dead bodies in lakes, ponds and swamps.
The giant crab of Japan can be as large as 12 feet across.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
The world camel population is 19,627,000.
September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.
To a human, one giant octopus looks virtually the same as any other of the same size and species. This explains why divers claim to have seen the same octopus occupy a den for ten or more years. But an octopus seldom lives longer than four years.
78% of cats never travel with their owner.
The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months.
Ergonomic waterbeds are the latest must-have on the bovine circuit. The beds, listing at $175, are said to enhance cattle health by reducing joint damage.
It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.
The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.
In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.
The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.
Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
The pekingese is the royal dog of China.
The giant tortoise can live longer in captivity than any other animal.
Greyhound dogs can see better than any other breed of dog.
Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.
You can house break an armadillo.
The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.
Penguins generally mate once and produce one egg per year.
More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.
The giant Pacific octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.
Some birds from the rain forests of South America actually breed in Canada in the summer, before returning south for the winter.
The average giraffe has a blood pressure two or three times that of the average human.
Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.
Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals, surprisingly. They come a close second only to primates. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like a dog.
Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.
The Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
Some species of dinosaur were the size of chickens.
The March Hare from Alice In Wonderland portrays the actual antics of real hares during springtime, when they jump around and hit their large hind feet on the ground.
All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature.
Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.
Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food.
Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers.
Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
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The plastic tips on shoelaces are called 'aglets'!
If you buy a lottery ticket on Monday you are a hundred times more likely to die before the draw is held on wednesday, than win the Jackpot!
Your skin is actually an organ.
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!
Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
Your brain is 80% water.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you become an adult, you only have 206!
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
You breathe mostly from only one nostril at a time!
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
You can start a fire with ice.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
Worms reportedly taste like bacon.
World?s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Whoopi Goldberg?s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.
When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name 'Allota Warmheart' so that nobody will recognize her.
When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
We blink 25 times a minute.
Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!
Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
Vultures fly without flapping their wings.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn?t a federal crime to assassinate the President.
Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's had the middle name of Stucklefuss!
Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.
Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles?that?s where the word ?testimony? comes from.
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!
Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.
Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!
There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.
There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
There are no penguins in the North Pole.
There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 206 bones in the human body!
There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.
There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!
The ?Big Dipper? is known as ?The Casserole? in France.
The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
The world?s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.