Assorted Facts 29
Ben and Jerrys send their waste to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love all flavours except 'Mint oreo'.
Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies.
On average 12 newborn babies will be given to wrong parents every day.
Squirrels cannot contract rabies.
In ancient Rome,when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
50% of female polar bears also have a penis.
Duelling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
An adult giraffe's kick is so powerfull it can decapitate a lion.
There are more pigs than humans in Denmark.
A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.
Chocolate can kill dogs - it directly effects their brain and nervous system.
A bee can smell with it's knees.
There have been 2,036 known nuclear bomb explosions since World War two.
All human beings have four nostrils.
The steam engine was invented in ancient Greece.
Coffee is not made from beans.
Over a billion people have been killed by marmots.
The largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a grapefruit.
George Washington's teeth previously belonged to a hippopotamus.
Reindeer were the first animals ever to be domesticated.
Balsa is the world's strongest wood.
Loofahs come from trees (not the sea).
Carrots were purple in the middle ages.
Shrimps are the loudest thing in the ocean.
Hitler was not a vegetarian.
The fruit fly was the first animal in space.
The largest man made structure on earth is Fresh kills, the rubbish dump on Staten Island New York.
The moon smells like gunpowder.
The guillotine was invented in Yorkshire, England.
Chameleons do not change colour to match their backgrounds.
The mosquito is the most dangerous animal that has ever lived.
The north pole of Uranus is dark for 42 years at a time.
No part of Japan is more than 100 miles from the sea.
On average ten people a year are kiled by vending machines.
A lightning bolt strikes so fast it could circle the globe eight times in a second.
If you walk outside George Orwell's old house in London you are now captured on surveillance cameras 33 times.
Harry Houdini as the first man to fly a plane in Australia-in 1910.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Sir JM Barrie, Sir Isaac Newton and Hans Christian Anderson all died virgins.
John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from it's owner in a poker game.
Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson each grew up beleiving their mothers to be their sisters.
Chuck Berry invented the duck walk initally to hide the creases in his suit.
Pope John XII and Attilla the hun both died whilst having sex.
Mongolians put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Mountain goats are in fact small antelopes.
Gerard Depardieu and Bill Gates both have photographic memories.
The first Englishman to be killed in an aviation accident was Mr Royce of Rolls Royce fame.
The whip was the first invention to break the sound barrier.
Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated by using a bicycle lock key.
There is an average of 90 suicides a day in Japan.
All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to reptiles.
Non dairy creamer is flammable.
At any one time there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the US.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita is Hong Kong.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Charlie Chaplin once won third place in Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates clockwise.
Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
Earthworms have five hearts.
Fingerprints of Koala bears and humans are virtually indistinguishable.
Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MSRA infection.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take pennicilin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinnine to save himself from malaria.
Prostitutes in Roman times charged the equivalent price of 8 glasses of red wine.
More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon's bedroom.
Eating a packet of crisps a day is the equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.
The Himalayas cover one tenth of the Earth's surface.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately one billion gold atoms.
During World War 2, IBM the built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their concentrtion camps.