The venom in a Daddy Longlegs spider is more poisonous than a
Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their
jaws won't open wide enough.
A pig's
orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
On
average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The
strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
If you
toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like
4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Only one
person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Mel
Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Humans
and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
The pop
you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
101
Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with
both parents who are present and don't die throughout the movie.
The
winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara
Falls froze completely solid.
There's
no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
It's
impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
Banging
your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Did you
know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider?
In Minnesota it is illegal
to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
In Indiana it is illegal to
ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
Right-handed
people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
A
crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Polar
bears are left-handed.
A
cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Some
lions mate over 50 times a day.
The
average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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
bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
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.
Stewardesses
is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare
invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
Marilyn
Monroe had six toes.
If you
keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women
blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
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
electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the
smallest country in the world, with a population of 1,000 and a size 108.7
acres.
The
longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
You
share your birthday with at least 9 million other 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.
No
president of the United
States was an only child.
The
Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be
straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or
other emergencies.
The
average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
the bible is the biggest selling publication, although there is now 1 publication that has made more copies than it; the IKEA catalogue.
