A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

Cats urine glows under a black light.

Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

You cant kill yourself by holding your breath.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal humans neck.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The average secretarys left hand does 56% of the typing.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

On a Canadian two dollar bill the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp youre consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

In ancient Egypt Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27000 taste buds that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.

An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish havent got brains.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.

315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be setin individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.