Words:
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Animals:
A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A elephant is the heavest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.
A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.
A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.
A monkey was once tride and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,Indiana.
A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt lightbulb
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A Penny whistle has six finger holes.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champange will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can last longer with out water than a camel.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week
A silicon chip a quarter inch square has the capacity of the orignal 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of moisture.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth
A group of toads is called a knot.
About 3,500 gallons if water is needed to produce one pound of beef.
About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.
About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A starfish can turn its self inside out.
A ten gallon hat holds three quarters of a gallon.
A toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans.
A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.
A woodchuck breathers only ten times during hibernation.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Anteaters prefers termites to ants.
Ants stretch before they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.
All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as a large ocean liner.
A group of Unicorns is called a blessing.
According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of 'clean' animal in to the ark.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates is food and then eats it again.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.
Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
A group of whales is called a pod.
Children grow more in the springtime.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.
During a life time, one person generates more than 1000 pounds of red blood cells.
Armored knights raised their visors to themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.
If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12 000 feet.
If you are chased by a crocodile, run zigzag, a crocodile is not good at making sharp turns.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured by temple priests.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for injuring a human.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.
It takes a yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.
It takes the insect eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on prey.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customer wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back teeth together for chewing.
Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Less than 7% of the population donates blood.
Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.
Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
-Misquitos are attracted to the color blue.
-There is a species of butterfly in Brazil that has the color and smell of chocolate.
-It would take 60,113 leaf cutter ants to lift a ten pound picnic basket.
-The housefly can carry more than 25 different diseases.
-A dragonfly can use its feet for perching but not walking.
-A housefly lives roughly two months.
-A field bee will fly about 50,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey.
-The most dangerous animal in Ireland is the bumblebee.
-It would take 14.3 billion fireflies to generate the visable brightness of the sun.
-Some species of ants have five noses.
-An average dairy cow produces four times its body weight in manure each year.
-Kiwis are the only bird that hunts by smell.
-A birds eye keeps everything in focus at all times.
-Elvis had a pet monkey named Scatter.
-A sheep trained to turn the lights on and off will leave them them on 82% of the time.
-A blind chameleon will still change color to match its surroundings.
-All dogs except the Chow have a pink tongue, the Chow's tongue is bluish black.
-Nine out of ten extinct species were birds.
-Lions sleep 17 hours per day.
-Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span.
-Mouse sex only lasts five seconds.
-Florida officals recieve 8,000 complaints each year about alligators.
-Pigeons have three sets of eyelids.
-Male monkeys go bald just as men do.
-Giraffes have no vocal cords, the communicate with their tails.
-About one third of all species of snakes are venomous.
-The stomach of a hippo can be up to 10 feet long and hold up to 400 pounds of food.
-An Elephant's tusks never stop growing as long as it lives.
-If left alone, a dog will spend up to 3 hours a day remarking its scent posts.
-The horseshoe crab has sky-blue blood.
-A snapping turtle can only swollow when its head is under water.
-When given unlimited access to mice, cats will kill about 15 before stopping.
-Lobsters and jellyfish never stop growing.
-The seahorse is the only fish that swims upright.
-Cat milk is 10% protein where cow milk is only 3%.
-Crocodiles can't move their tongues.
-The pouch on a pelican's beak can hold up to 2 gallons of water.
-A homing pigeon will not be able to find its way home if a magnet it attached to their neck.
-The speckles on a bird's egg are as individual as a fingerprint.
-The upstroke of a bird's wing moves it forward, the downstroke only keeps it airborn.
-A giraffe can run faster than a horse and go longer without water than a camel.
-A freshly hatched crocodile is three times longer than the egg it came from.
-Polar bears are left-handed.
-Elephants are not afraid of mice.
-A snail can sleep for three years.
-Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
-All polar bears are left handed.
-The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
-You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
-A blue whales testicles are the size of a family car.
-Robins eat three miles of earth worms in a year.
-An oyster changes sex several times during its life.
-Male monkeys loose their hair the same way men do.
-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.
-Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.
-Skunks can accurately spray their fluid up to ten feet.
-A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
-Sheep can survive up to two weeks buried in show drifts.
-A slug has four noses.
-A turtle can breath through its butt.
-An ant can detect movement through five centimeters of earth.
-A hippo can open it's mouth wide enouth to fit a four foot child inside.
-Bats always exit a cave to the left.
-A crocodile can't move it's tongue.
-When mating, a hummingbird's wings beat 200 times a second.
-Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
-Jackrabbits got their name because their ears look like a donkey's (Jackass).
-Rabbits and horses cannot vomit.
-If birds could sweat they wouldn't be able to fly.
-Sloths sneeze slowly. They also give birth upside down.... slowly.
-Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds.
-A whales heart beats about once every 6 and a half seconds.
-The average American Bald Eagle weighs about 9 pounds.
-A chicken's top speed is 9 mph.
-A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
-Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth.
-The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
-Lobsters like to eat lobster.
-To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000.
-Crocodiles can't move their tongues.
-Wolves could bark like dogs, they don't because they don't want to.
-An adult crocodile can go two years without eating.
-A roadrunner purrs when it is content.
-A cow has four stomachs.
-The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.
-The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
-A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds.
-A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.
-Both gorillas and house cats purr.
-A hibernating bear can go as long as 6 months without a bathroom break.
-The only time a turkey whistles is when it is panicking.
-Whales and Buffalos both stampede.
-The top speed of a pigeon in flight is 90 mph.
-Squirrels cannot see the color red.
-Chimpanzees will hunt ducks if given the opportunity.
-Sheep snore.
-A group of jellyfish is called a "smack."
-One humped camels run faster than two humped camels.
-Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel hair.
-Emus cannot walk backwards.
-Camel's milk does not curdle.
-Armadillos can catch malaria.
-The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil.
-Black sheep have a better sense of smell then white sheep.
-The English Sparrow is not a sparrow and it comes from Africa, not England.
-Baboons cannot throw overhand.
-Lions are the only cats that live in packs.
-To get a gallon of milk, it takes about 345 squirts from a cow's utter.
-A warthog has only 4 warts, all of which are on its head.
-The penalty for stealing a rabbit in 19th-century england was seven years in prison.
-Even bloodhounds cannot smell the difference between two identical twins.
-Cows and cats both get hairballs.
-Camels are born without humps.
-Anteaters can flick their tongues 160 times a minute.
Food:
-The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.
-Apples ripen after being picked while oranges do not.
-A peanut is one of the most concentrated source of nourishment.
-Half the people in the world will eat rice on any given day.
-Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation.
A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
-A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.
-There are 27 chemicals that can be added to bread without being listed on the label.
-Coffee is the world's most recognizable smell.
-It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of rasins.
-An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year.
Human Body:
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
-Your body requires 1000-1500 calories per day just to simply survive (breathing, sleeping, eating).
-Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells.
-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.
-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest it the male sperm.
-You use 200 muscles to take one step.
-Muscle cells live as long as you do while skin cells live less than 24 hours.
-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.
-Your brain operates on the same amount of power that would light a 10-watt light bulb.
-There are 5 million hair follicles on an average adult.
-The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.
-The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
-Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.
-Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.
-It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
-The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.
-Your brain is more active during the night than the day.
-One human hair can support 3kg.
-Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
-The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
-An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.
-The white part of your fingernail is called the Lunula.
-There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.
-A shank is the part of the sole between the heel and the ball of the foot.
-The talus is the second largest bone in the foot.
-The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.
-A 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his foot in 1977.
-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.
-A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
-Dogs and Humans are the only animals with prostates.
-It only takes 7lbs of of pressure to rip off your ears.
-There are nine muscles in your ear.
-The navel divides the body of a newborn baby into two equal parts.
-If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.
-Experts say the human body has 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
-The tongue is the only muscle attached at one end.
-Fetuses can hiccup.
-Your brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.
-Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
-The longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years.
-The longest recorded sneezing fit lasted 978 days.
-Your stomach has 35 million digestive glands.
-At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
-There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
-Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.
-There are no two tongue prints that are alike.
-Your body contains about four ounces of salt.
-Injured fingernails grow faster than uninjured ones.
-Women blink twice as much as men.
-It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
-When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dialate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
-It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
-The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are 1) frogs 2) worms 3) potted plants.
-Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.
-If they were laid end to end, the blood vessels in your body would wrap around the equator three times.
-Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.
-Bone is stronger, inch for inch, than the steel in skyscrapers.
-About one third of the human race has 20-20 vision.
-In a hot climate, you can sweat as much as 3 gallons of water a day.
-Fingernails are made from the same substance as a bird's beak.
-A runner consumes about 7 quarts of oxygen while running a 100-yard dash.
-The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body.
-Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.
-Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three.
-A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands.
-Living brain cells are bright pink.
-You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
-If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
-Your body contains the same amount of iron as an iron nail.
-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
Miscellanous:
-The average pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.
-Raindrops can fall up to 22 miles per hour.
-American Indians hardly ever go bald.
-A normal 100 ton blue whale eats its own weight in microscopic krill each month.
-Roman statues were often made with heads that could be removed and replaced with other heads.
-In ancient Rome, any house hit by lightning was considered consecrated.
-When astronauts returned from the moon they had to go through customs.
-Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
-Denmark's flag has remained the same since the 13th century.
-More cowboys died crossing swollen rivers in the old west than in gun fights.
-A boulder is a rock that is 10 or more inches in diameter.
-Hippos can run faster than humans.
-The weight of the sun's light on the Earth's surface is 2 pounds per square mile.
-Stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the world.
-With enough training an elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.
-It would take 27,000 spider webs to produce a single pound of spider silk.
-Tombstones were originally put over graves so that the dead could not escape.
-It is impossible for it to hail when ground temperature is below freezing.
-The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.
-Plants run fevers when they are sick.
-The bark of the giant sequioa can be up to 2 feet thick.
-More people die playing golf than any other sport, the leading cause of death is heart attacks and strokes.
-The kilt originated in France.
-If you work nights, you are almost twice as likely to have an accident than if you work days.
-A cubic foot of gold weighs more than half a ton.
-The geodesic dome is the only structure that becomes stronger as it increases in size.
-A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.
-A third of the Earth's land surface can be classified as desert.
-The seed cones of the cycad tree can weigh up to 90 pounds.
-Floods cause more death and destruction in the U.S. than any other natural disaster.
-Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest city when seen from space.
- Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.
-The average car contains 15,000 parts.
-The average adult has 4 dreams each night and 1 nightmare per year.
-Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
-Nearly 1,000 people each year die as a direct result of volcanic activity.
-The average person speaks 450 words in a typical 3 minute phone call.
-Columbus traveled at an average speed of 2.8 mph on his first voyage across the sea.
About 85% of the plant life on the Earth is in the ocean.
-Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA
- One man had the hiccups for 69 years.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were thirty.
