. The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard laying card.
. Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food.
. Some Ribbon Worms will eat themselves if they can't find anything to eat.
. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch 3 hours of T.V.
. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
. The toothpick is the most commonly choked-on item in North America.
. The banana could become extinct in 10 years.
. The stomach of a Hippo can grow up to 10 Feet long and hold 400 pounds of food.
. Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.
. Fingernails grow up to four times faster than toenails.
2006-09-19 10:37:57 · 7 answers · asked by Big Boss the Philosopher 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Ice cream has no bones.
The Great Wall of China is long enough to stretch from New York City to Houston.
More than half of all the geysers in the world are in Yellowstone National Park.
Widest waterfall in the world: Victoria Falls in Africa (almost a mile wide).
The Statue of Liberty’s waist size is 35…feet.
The Empire State Building is only 265 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower.
It took 14 years to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
There’s a producing oil well beneath the Oklahoma State capitol building.
Two countries are actually smaller than New York's Central Park: Monaco and Vatican City.
Toilet Rock, a natural rock formation shaped like a flush toilet, is in City of Rocks, New Mexico.
The "World’s Largest Office Chair" is located in Anniston, Alabama. It’s 33 feet tall.
Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is made of 2.3 million blocks, each weighing 2 1/2 tons.
California’s Golden Gate Bridge isn’t golden—it’s “International Orange.”
If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.
Pope John XXIII installed a bowling alley in the Vatican.
Q. When did the last Roman aqueduct fall into disuse? A. It didn’t—some are still in use today.
Highest town in the U.S.: Climax, Colorado, at 11,302 feet above sea level.
World’s largest restaurant: Bangkok’s Royal Dragon (serves 5,000; waiters wear roller skates).
Reading one book a day, it would take more than 63,000 years to read every book in the U.S. Library of Congress.
The airport in Calcutta, India, is called Dum Dum.
Q. How many times was the city of Winchester, Virginia, captured during the Civil War? A. 84.
The ball that drops in Times Square every New Year’s Eve is named the “Star of Hope.”
Longest Main Street in the U.S.: The one in Island Park, Idaho. It’s more than 33 miles long.
Longest railway on Earth: the Transiberian Railway (Russia), nearly 6,000 miles long.
Deep fat: Americans eat enough ice cream each year to fill the Grand Canyon.
20 million bats live in Texas’s Bracken Cave. They eat 100 tons of insects every night.
There are 898 steps in the Washington Monument.
Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport is about one-tenth the size of Rhode Island.
Walt Disney World generates about 56 tons of trash every day.
Don’t let the name fool you: Mississippi Bay is off the coast of Yokohama, Japan.
The Great Salt Lake in Utah is six times saltier than seawater.
Oops! The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial includes the names of 38 living people.
The Battle of Waterloo wasn’t fought in Waterloo. It was fought in Pancenoit, 4 miles away.
Big Bend National Park (Texas), is home to 350 species of birds—more than any other national park.
The London Zoo reportedly employs an “entertainment director” for the animals.
Alaska's lake Iliamna is larger than the state of Connecticut.
Busiest McDonald's in the world: Pushkin Square in Moscow.
In 1999 residents of Melbourne, Australia, erected a 40-foot statue of Barbie.
Look out! Mt. Everest is moving northeast at a rate of 2.4 inches per year.
Plymouth Rock weighs about 4 tons.
World's most populous prison: San Quentin, California (5,967 prisoners).
Twice as many people visit Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park as visit the Grand Canyon.
There is a 242 foot-high temple in Bangkok made entirely of broken dishes.
The Pentagon was built with twice as many bathrooms as needed (because of segregation).
The Greek Parthenon has no straight lines and contains no mortar.
The 13th step of the state capitol in Denver, Colorado, is exactly one mile above sea level.
2006-09-19 10:51:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ratio of sheep to people in Newfoundland is 7:4. Its true!!
2006-09-19 17:41:51 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
2006-09-19 17:44:07 · answer #3 · answered by ecogeek4ever 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cockroavhs can live 4 weeks with out a head
the 100 year war lasted 116 years
the purple finch is really crimson
a jiffy is a unit of time
brazil was named after the brazil nut
the first roller coasters were russian ice sleds
the canary islands were named after dogs
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
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!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. More fears...
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
2006-09-19 17:46:35 · answer #4 · answered by ~CS~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i can beat my junk in 2 min flat
2006-09-19 17:45:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
peanut butter was made up of ants and other bugs.
2006-09-19 17:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by Nelly 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
-When you sneeze, you spray out over 1 million little viruses out of your mouth and nose.
-Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
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!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
I had a entire book full of these crazy but true facts
2006-09-19 17:45:18 · answer #7 · answered by The Raging Monkey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋