Assorted Facts 28
Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.
Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey
Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet
The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change!
The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston
The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
China has more English speakers than the U.S.
Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world
The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too
You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
There are no public toilets in Peru.
Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again
The number or hash character '#' (US: pound sign) is called an 'octothorp.'
The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day
A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout
The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away
A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe is called "a lunt"
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy
It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.
Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour & if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.
Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."
The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch)
More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world
The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows".
The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.
Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.
Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.
Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses
The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world
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)
Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott"
The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked
Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres
Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."
The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!!
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."
The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal."
Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired!"
The water we drink is 3 billion years old.
Everything weighs one per cent less at the equator.
Only two female mammals possess hymens; humans and horses.
Ants dont sleep.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Sheep buried in snowdrifts can survive for up to 2 weeks.
Strawberries are members of the rose family.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Birmingham(UK) has 22 more miles of canals than Venice.
If an Amish man has a beard, hes married.
Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
The Coca-Cola company is the largest consumer of vanilla in the world.
Millions of trees are accidentaly planted by squirrels that bury their nuts and then forget where they left them.
9 out of every 10 living thing lives in the ocean.
Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
'Puffs' tissues didnt sell well in Germany because 'Puff' in German means brothel.
Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world.
There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has ever been mined.
The Wright brother's first flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747.
The Sanskrit word for 'War' means 'Desire for more cows'.
Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than it's army.
About 70 per cent of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.
The Zambian authorities dont allow tourists to take pictures of Pygmies.