Assorted Facts 26
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
If you take a jellyfish from its salt water environment and put it in fresh water it will swell and eventually burst.
If you stick a blade of grass of ur nose you will faint.
More people die eating sharks then getting eaten by them.
An ostriches eye is bigger than it's brain.
There were 20,000 oranges and sausages that sank on the titanic
China has close to 25% of the world's population.
Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.
Cows sweat through their noses.
Deer sleep only 5 minutes a day.
Despite a population of well over one billion people, there are only an estimated 250 million televisions in use in China.
Dogs can't decipher size. That's why little dogs are mean.
Cleveland law forbids you to operate a motor vehicle while sitting in another person's lap.
Dave Matthews relocated to the United States to avoid service in the South African Military.
Dentists have recommended that toothbrushes be kept at least six feet from toilets to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
Coffee was first known in Europe as Arabian Wine.
Did you know that 85.7% of statistics are made up?
During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.
China was the first country to use paper money.
During the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.
Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?
Death Valley, California, has a point that is 280 feet below sea level.
A group of Rhinoceros is called a crash.
One quarter of all creatures on the planet are beetles.
Bubble gum and fairy floss were invented by dentists.
Seaweed is used to thicken ice cream.
A giraffe's tongue is 45cm long.
An average woman consumes approximately 20kg of lipstick in her life.
Out of 20000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
You use over 70 muscles to say one word.
It's against the law for monsters to enter the town of Urbana, Illinios in the U.S.A.
Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
Only 5% of the ocean floor has been mapped as precisely as the moon.
Eels have two hearts.
In spring, a blue whale will eat up to four tonnes of food a day, that's about twice as much as a well fed human eats per year.
Lobsters have pale blue blood.
The mantis shrimp has an extending claw that can punch a hole through a glass jar.
Starfish don't have brains.
Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish.
99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Plants that are not cared for will cry for help, a thirsty plant will make a high-pitched sound that is too high for us to hear.
Snakes have one lung.
Antarctica is a desert.
Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Slugs have 4 noses.
It takes a plastic container 50,000 years to start decomposing.
The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometres long.
In Switzerland, it's against the law to slam your car door.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Koalas are excellent swimmers.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
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."
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Maine is the only state in the US whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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: "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz".
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a millisecond.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park 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 a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.