Most Interesting Facts In The World

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
• 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 alphabet.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.
• The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• 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”.
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
• 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?
• When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
• 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.
• “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you’re 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.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
• Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
• 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.
• 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.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• 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 human’s neck.
• Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
• 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 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 can’t jump.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Starfish haven’t got brains.
• 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.
• 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 striped 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.
• When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
• John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• The average secretary’s 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.
• Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• 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.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in “- dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.