Assorted Facts 27
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK
The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.
Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.
The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.
The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.
The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.
In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'
Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush & Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush
Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species
January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; & on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!
You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!
You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily
The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air
A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people
Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur
Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever
A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water
If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact??
The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)
A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts
Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law
Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight
The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much
In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone
In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.
The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights
If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides
There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.
A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
Turtles can breath through their bottoms.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.
Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.
When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.
Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.
The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard.
In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000."
It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).
The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.
The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.
The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France)
The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million
Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries
Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds
The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first
During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room
The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.
When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.
When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a hinny
On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85
Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries
A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor
In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it
A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet
Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet
Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch
The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched
In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal
In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.
During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.
The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign
The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona.
The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."