| There are more cars in southern
california than there are cows in
india.
the two-foot long bird called a kea
that lives in new zealand likes to
eat the strips of rubber around car
windows.
the province of alberta, canada is
completely free of rats.
illinois has the most personalized
license plates of any state.
if a statue in the park of a person
on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle;
if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a
result of wounds received in
battle; if the horse has all four
legs on the ground, the person died
of natural causes.
there are two credit cards for
every person in the united states.
the international telephone dialing
code for antarctica is 672.
the average chocolate bar has 8
insect legs in it.
there are 206 bones in the adult
human body, but 300 in children
(some of the bones fuse together as
a child grows).
fleas can jump 130 times higher
than their own height. in human
terms this is equal to a 6 foot
person jumping 780 feet into the
air.
snakes are true carnivores as they
eat nothing but other animals. they
do not eat any type of plant
material.
there are no poisonous snakes in
maine.
the blue whale can produce sounds
up to 188 decibels. this is the
loudest sound produced by a living
animal and has been detected as far
away as 530 miles.
the human eye blinks an average of
4,200,000 times a year.
it takes approximately 12 hours for
food to entirely digest.
erosion at the base of niagara
falls (usa) undermines the shale
cliffs and as a result, the falls
have receded approximately 7 miles
over the last 10,000 years.
the longest living cells in the
body are brain cells which can live
an entire lifetime.
the main library at indiana
university sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built
engineers failed to take into
account the weight of all the books
that would occupy the building.
north dakota has never had an
earthquake.
alexander graham bell (who invented
the telephone) also set a world
water-speed record of over seventy
miles an hour at the age of 72.
there is enough fuel in a full tank
of a jumbo jet to drive an average
car four times around the world.
hawaii is moving toward japan 4
inches every year.
chimps are the only animals that
can recognize themselves in a
mirror.
the leg bones of a bat are so thin
that no bat can walk.
there are more living organisms on
the skin of a single human being
than there are human beings on the
surface of the earth.
ants do not sleep.
marilyn monroe had six toes on one
foot.
if you keep a goldfish in the dark
room, it will eventually turn
white.
women blink nearly twice as much as
men.
in england, the speaker of the
house is not allowed to speak.
almonds are members of the peach
family.
maine is the only state whose name
is just one syllable.
americans on the average eat 18
acres of pizza every day.
one person in two billion will live
to be 116 or older.
if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months
and 6 days, you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup
of coffee.
february 1865 is the only month in
recorded history not to have a full
moon.
more people are killed by donkeys
annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
lorne greene had one of his nipples
bitten off by an alligator while he
was host of "lorne
greene's animal
kingdom".
the dot that appears over the
letter "i" is called a
tittle.
all major league baseball umpires
must wear black underwear while on
the job (in case their pants
split).
the spanish word esposa means
"wife." the plural,
esposas, means "wives,"
but also "handcuffs."
if all americans used one third
less ice in their drinks the united
states would become a net exporter
instead of an importer of energy.
if the nile river were stretched
across the united states, it would
run nearly from new york to los
angeles.
san francisco cable cars are the
only national monuments that move.
the hoover dam was built to last
2,000 years. its concrete will not
be fully cured for another 500
years.
abraham lincoln's dog, fido,
was assassinated too.
all of david letterman's suits
are custom made - there are no
creases in his suit trousers.
cranberry jell-o is the only flavor
that contains real fruit
flavoring.
fewer than half of the 16,200 major
league baseball players have ever
hit a home run.
in comic strips, the person on the
left always speaks first.
richard versalle, a tenor
performing at new york's
metropolitan opera house, suffered
a heart attack and fell 10 feet
from a ladder to the stage just
after singing the line "you
can only live so long."
if the entire population of earth
was reduced to exactly 100 people,
51% would be female, 49% male; 50%
of the world's currency would
be held by 6 people, one person
would be nearly dead, one nearly
born.
in 1920, babe ruth out-homered
every american league team.
topless saleswomen are legal in
liverpool, england, but only in
tropical fish stores.
toxic house plants poison more
children than household chemicals.
the original name of bank of
america was bank of italy.
the ant, when intoxicated, will
always fall over to its right
side.
the california department of motor
vehicles has issued six
driver's licenses to six
different people named jesus
christ.
michael jordan makes more money
from nike each year than all the
nike factory workers in malaysia
combined.
people in china and japan die
disproportionately on the 4th of
each month because the words death
and four sound alike, and they are
represented by the same symbol.
chicago is closer to moscow than it
is to rio de janeiro.
dogs have two sets of teeth, just
like humans. they first have 30
"puppy" teeth, then 42
adult teeth.
in 1950, president harry truman
threw out the first ball twice at
the opening day washington dc
baseball game; once right handed
and once left handed.
a swiss ski resort announced it
would combat global warming by
wrapping its mountain glaciers in
aluminum foil to keep them from
melting.
the chameleon has a tongue that is
one and a half times the length of
his body.
beethoven dipped his head in cold
water before he composed.
there once was a town named
"6" in west virginia.
ten years ago, only 500 people in
china could ski. this year, an
estimated 5,000,000 chinese will
visit ski resorts.
in 1920, babe ruth broke the single
season home run record, with 29.
the same year, he became the first
major leaguer to hit 30 home runs.
the same year, he became the first
major leaguer to hit 40 home runs.
the same year, he became the first
major leaguer to hit 50 home runs.
a nigerian woman was caught
entering the uk with 104 kg of
snails in her baggage.
profanity is typically cut from
in-flight movies to make them
suitable for general audiences. fox
searchlight pictures has
substituted "ashcroft"
for "a**hole" in the
movie sideways when dubbed for
aerolineas argentinas flights.
author hunter s. thompson, who
committed suicide recently, wanted
to be cremated and his ashes to be
shot out of a cannon on his ranch.
sports illustrated magazine allows
subscribers to opt out of receiving
the famous swimsuit issue each
year. fewer than 1% choose this
option.
there is a company that will (for
$14,000) take your ashes, compress
them into a synthetic diamond to be
set in jewelry for a loved one.
the riaa sued an 83 year old woman
for downloading music illegally,
even though a copy of her death
certificate was sent to the riaa a
week before it filed the suit.
two 1903 paintings recently sold at
auction for $590,000 - the
paintings were in the famous
"dogs playing poker"
series.
russian scientists have developed a
new drug that prolongs drunkenness
and enhances intoxication.
romanian firefighters could not get
their trucks close enough to a
burning building, so they put out
the fire by throwing snowballs at
it.
a perfect sat score is 1600
combined. bill gates scored 1590 on
his sat. paul allen, bill's
partner in microsoft, scored a
perfect 1600. bill cosby scored
less than 500 combined.
motorists traveling outside salem,
oregon saw one of the "litter
cleanup" signs crediting the
american nazi party. marion county
officials had no choice but to let
that group into the adopt-a-road
program. the $500 per sign was
picked up by oregon taxpayers. the
ku klux klan is also involved in
the adopt-a-road program in the
state of arkansas.
spam filters that catch the word
"cialis" will not allow
many work-related e-mails through
because that word is embedded
inside the word
"specialist".
mcdonald's restaurants will
buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh
apples this year. two years ago,
mcdonald's purchased 0 pounds
of apples. this is attributed to
the shift to more healthy menu
options (the apple pie, which has
been at mcdonald's for years
uses processed apple pie filling).
the biggest dog on record was an
old english mastiff that weighed
343 pounds. he was 8 feet, 3 inches
from nose to tail.
mailmen in russia now carry
revolvers after a recent decision
by the government.
all of queen anne's 17
children died before she did.
there are over 87,000 americans on
waiting lists for organ
transplants.
american made parts account for
only 1% of the chrysler crossfire.
96% of the ford f-150 heritage
truck is american.
a dutch court ruled that a bank
robber could deduct the 2,000 euros
he paid for his pistol from the
6,600 euros he has to return to the
bank he robbed.
only 6% of the autographs in
circulation from members of the
beatles are estimated to be real.
the time spent deleting spam costs
united states businesses $21.6
billion annually.
60.7 percent of eligible voters
participated in the 2004
presidential election, the highest
percentage in 36 years. however,
more than 78 million did not vote.
this means president bush won
re-election by receiving votes from
less than 31% of all eligible
voters in the united states.
john quincy adams, sixth president
of the united states, loved to
skinny dip in the potomac river.
la paz, bolivia has an average
annual temperature below 50 degrees
fahrenheit. however, it has never
recorded a zero-degree temperature.
same for stanley, falkland islands
and punta arenas, chile.
41% of chinese people eat at least
once a week at a fast food
restaurant. 35% of americans do.
a wisconsin forklift operator for a
miller beer distributor was fired
when a picture was published in a
newspaper showing him drinking a
bud light.
g-rated family films earn more
money than any other rating. yet
only 3% of hollywood's output
is g-rated.
richard hatch, winner of the first
"survivor" reality
series, has been charged with tax
evasion for failing to report his
$1,000,000 prize.
the entire fleet of unicoi county
tennessee's salt trucks was
rendered out of commission in one
accident. all three trucks were
badly damaged when one of them
began skidding down a road, causing
a chain reaction accident.
officials blamed road conditions.
more people study english in china
than speak it in the united states
of america (300 million).
fast food provider hardee's
has recently introduced the monster
thickburger. it has 1,420 calories
and 107 grams of fat.
sorry it's so long lol.
something to do right?
and yes....part one!!!!
more will come....eventually...
Thanks!! I love learning random facts to tell my friends! They always wonder how I find things like that out!! |
Advertisement 
0 
In 
