A jellyfish is
95 percent water, and humans around 70%
A jellyfish is
95% water.
A jumbo jet
uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A kangaroo can
jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.
A kangaroo
can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
A Kentucky
statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on
any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two
officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an
amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not
apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding
200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
A large swarm
of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
A leech is a
worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill
itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and
will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to
drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A lions roar
can be heard from five miles away.
A lump of pure
gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size
of a tennis court.
A magic potion
or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific
person, is known as a "philter."
A male emperor
moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A male moth
can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
A man and
woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at
the age of 82 yrs.
A man named
Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
A Manatee
(Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out
about haemophilia.
A manned
rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to
travel the length of England by stagecoach.
A mark twain,
a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.
A McDonald's
straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of
whatever you are drinking.
A Michigan law
states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A millipede
has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
A mockingbird
has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.
A mole can dig
a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A mongoose is
not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more
like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground
squirrel.
A monkey was
once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,
Indiana.
A mosquito
will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase
of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
A mother in
Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in
different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on
10th February'1953.
A mule is a
crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is
yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.
A murder is
committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852
murders each year.
A newborn
kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's
stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage
area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the
only compartment with digestive juices).
A notch in a
tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree
grows.
A panagram is
a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For
example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.
A peanut is
not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A penguin
swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
A perfect game
in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game
without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base
-by any means.
A person
afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or
both hands and feet.
A person has
to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.
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A person who
is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing
on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life
for a short time.
A person will
die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will
occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few
weeks.
A piano leg
went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President
Truman's term.
A pied-billed
grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.
A pig is the
only animal than can get sunburned.
A pig's orgasm
lasts for 30 minutes.
A pineapple is
a berry.
A poem written
to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A polar bears
skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears
white.
A pole vaulter,
when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square
inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
A polecat is
not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A poll of
3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most
afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated
they were afraid of heights.
A porpoise
swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A Portsmouth,
Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and
other suspicious characters."
A pound of
grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A pregnant
goldfish is called a twit
A quarter of
raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft
and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A quarter of
the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A queen bee
lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.
A raisin
dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can go
without water longer than a camel can.
A
rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it
doesn't bite itself.
A recent study
indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When
women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
A Red Giant(a
kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on
earth
A rhinoceros
horn is made of compacted hair.
A Saudi
Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.
A scientific
report form the University of California found that the steam rising
from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as
three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which
prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A scientist
who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that
the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A scrum in
rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves
all playing the forward position on both teams.
A SEAL's
weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.
A shark can
detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A shark can
grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A shark is the
only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's
heart is in its head.
A single drop
of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A single share
of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public,
would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A snail can
actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without
harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can
have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can
sleep for 3 years.
A snail can
travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.
A sneeze can
exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A soccer ball
has 32 panels.
A speleologist
studies caves.
A
Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
A spremologer
collects trivia.
A starfish can
turn its stomach inside out.
A state law in
Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not
mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
A strand of
spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
A study of pet
owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in
the bedroom during intercourse.
A teaspoon of
neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A ton of
potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are
an important source for commercial alcohol.
A total of 63
errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A traditional
dish from Savolax, called "kalakukko" (fishcock in engl.)
is made of white fish and porkfat encased in a baked crust of rye.
A two-inch
garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.
A type of
rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth
A typical
American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A typical bed
usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A typical
lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
A
vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags
A volcano can
shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.
A vulture will
never attack a human or animal that is moving.
A whale's
penis is called a dork.
A whip makes a
cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A whole
library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.
A wind with a
speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
A women's
heart beats faster than men.
A woodchuck
only breathes 10 times during hibernation.
A woodpecker
can peck twenty times a second.
A word or
sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called
a "palindrome".
A young lady
named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing
skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the
passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.
A zebra is
white with black stripes.
ABBA GOLD has
been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years
Abdul Kassam
Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his
library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the
117,000 volumes.
Abe Lincoln's
mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and
Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
About 10% of
the world's population is left-handed.
About
10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 100
people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About 20% of
bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all
of them because of human activity.
About
200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
About 24% of
the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to
automobiles.
About 55% of
all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800
in India annually.
About 70% of
Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 75% of
the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 80% of
the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About a third
of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About
one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
Abraham
Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get
news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the
White House.
Abraham
Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Absinthe is
another name for the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and the
name of a licorice-anise flavored green liqueur that was created at
the end of the 18th century, and manufactured by Henry-Louis Pernod.
Called the 'green Muse' it became very popular in the 19th century,
but was eventually banned in most countries beginning in 1908. The
reason is the presence of the toxic oil 'thujone' in wormwood, which
was one of the main ingredients of Absinthe. Absinthe seemed to
cause brain lesions, convulsions, hallucinations and severe mental
problems. Thujone was the culprit, along with the fact that Absinthe
was manufactured with an alcohol content of 68% or 132 proof.
Absolutely
pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
According to a
global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's
fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa,
Russia, and Poland.
According to a
recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any
other month.
According to
an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be
one and a half minutes.
According to
bar sales across the U.S., here are the top 15 cocktails: 1) Dry
martini, 2) Manhattan, 3) Whiskey sour, 4) Bloody Mary, 5) Gimlet,
6) Daiquiri, 7) Tom Collins, 8) Old Fashioned, 9) Margarita, 10)
Screwdriver, 11) Bacardi, 12) Stinger, 13) Harvey Wallbanger, 14)
Gin & Tonic, and 15) Rum & Coke
According to
Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard
5km (3.3 miles for u Americans) away.
According to
German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday
than any other day of the week.
According to
Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off
the doctor's hands.
According to
Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wakea
to give birth to the Hawaiian Islands.
According to
Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially
recognized language is "American."
According to
L. Frank Baum, the name Oz was thought up when he looked at his
filing cabinet and noticed one drawer marked A-G, a second tagged
H-N, and a third labeled O-Z.
According to
legend, when Burmese women are making beer, they need to avoid
having sex or the beer will be bitter.
According to
National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year:
the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions
of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each
other, causing the Himalyan peaks to grow slightly each year
According to
Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
According to
Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.
According to
Scandinavian folklore, trolls only come out at night because
sunlight would turn them to stone.
According to
statistics, Australian women are the most likely to have sex on the
first date.
According to
the 1900 U.S. Census, there were: 596,000 carpenters, 280,000
laundresses, 220,000 blacksmiths, 134,000 tailors, 102,000
shoemakers, 42,000 porters, 37,000 stonecutters, 25,000 millers,
8,000 bootblacks, and 7,000 furriers
According to
the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time
you watch 101 Dalmatians.
According to
the Guinness Book of World Records, the Finnish word
SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS a soapstone seller is the longest known
palindrome in any language.
According to
the Guinness Book of World Records, the single-seeded fruit of the
giant fan palm, or Lodoicea maldivica, can weigh 44 lbs. Commonly
known as the double coconut or coco de mer, it is found wild only in
the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
According to
the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is
someone between the age of 15 and 64.
According to
the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13
inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
According to
the Population Council, people overwhelmingly tend to marry partners
who live near them.
According to
the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United
States in the 1890s was a farmer. Today, it’s a salesman.
According to
the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, two out of five women in
America dye their hair.
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. (It's just like its better to water your plants in the early
mornings or the evenings)
According to
the United States Postal Service, each person sent on average 689
letters throughout the year of 1996.
Activated
charcoal made from coconut shells is the odor absorbing agent in
odor-eating shoe liners.
Actor Arnold
Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use
in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.
Actress Jayne
Mansfield accidentally exhaled her breast out of her dress during
the telecast of the Academy Awards in 1957.
Acupuncture
was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor
Shen-Nung.
Adding sugar
to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King
Louis XIV, the French monarch.
Adjusting for
inflation, Cleopatra, 1963, is the most expensive movie ever made to
date (mid-1999). Its budget of $44 million is equivalent to 270
million 1999 dollars.
Adolf Hitler's
mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of
it by her doctor.
Adolph Hitler
was a vegetarian, and had only 1, and i repeat, ONE, testicle.
Adolphe Sax
invented the saxophone in 1846.
Adult bears
can run as fast as horses.
Adult
Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick
as one half inch.
Advertisements
for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure
for scurvy, gout and other ills.
Africa's
8,000-year brewing history began with ancient Egyptian commercial
brewing dynasties and still includes handmade tribal beers.
After Canada
and Mexico, Russia is the nearest neighbor to the United States.
Siberia’s easternmost point is just 56 miles from Alaska. In fact,
in the middle of the Bering Strait, Russia’s Big Diomede Island
and the U.S.’s Little Diomede Island are only two miles apart.
After his
death in 896, the body of Pope Formosus was dug up and tried for
various crimes.
After six
months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater,
Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the
first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.
After spending
hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white
paper. It will probably appear pink.
After the
decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the
caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
After the sun,
the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
After they are
roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about
700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
Air pollution
may contribute to two percent of all deaths in the US, some 50,000
cases per year. A nine-year study of US cities showed a strong
correlation between death rates and periods of significant
pollution.
Airbags are
deployed at a rate of two-hundred miles per hour.
Al Capone's
business card said he was a furniture dealer.
Al Gore and
Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.
Alaska, with
8, is the US state with the most national park sites.
Alaska's
borders make it the farthest state east, west and north. Its
Aleutian Islands extends across the 180th meridian, which puts the
islands chain's end in the eastern hemisphere.
Albert
Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal
and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).
Alekthophilia
is the love of chickens.
Alexander
Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
Alexander H.
Stephens was Jefferson Davis's Vice President of the Confederacy
during the Civil War.
Alfalfa
sprouts and feta cheese contain bacteria that could be harmful to
small children and pregnant women.
Alfred
Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was
sewn up after surgery.
Alfred
Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It
was called Blackmail and was made in 1931.
All 17
children of Queen Anne died before her.
All clams
start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in
their lives.
All elephants
walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of no
bone just fat.
All gondolas
in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high
official.
All mammals
have tongues.
All mammals,
except man and monkey are color blind.
All nude
people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.
All of
Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot
springs.
All of the
clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
All of the
proceeds from James Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
All of the
roles in Shakespeare's plays were originally acted by men and boys.
In England at that time, it wasn't proper for females to appear on
stage.
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