Amazing Fun Facts

1. "60 Minutes" on CBS is the only TV show to not have a theme song or music.
2. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
3. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
4. 1 pound of lemons contain more sugar than 1 pound of strawberries.
5. 1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.
6. 100% of all lottery winners gain weight.
7. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
8. 20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.
9. 23% of employees say they have had sex in the office.
10. 3,400,000 Americans are considered "Extreme Commuters". These people commute over 90 minutes round trip every day to work.
11. 3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.
12. 32 out of 33 samples of well-known brands of milk purchased in Los Angeles and Orange counties in California had trace amounts of perchlorate. Perchlorate is the explosive component in rocket fuel.
13. 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.
14. 40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
15. 41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.
16. 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz ?
17. 55% of Americans claim they would continue working even if they received a $10,000,000 lottery prize.
18. 60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
19. 60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.
20. 61,000 people are airborne over the US at any given time.
21. 65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
22. 71% of office workers stopped on the street for a survey agreed to give up their computer passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar.
23. 72% of Americans sign their pets' names on greeting cards they send out.
24. 82% of Americans made a purchase at Wal-Mart in 2002.
25. 85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex.
26. 90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
27. A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.
28. A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger's cat, who got out of its travel bag.
29. A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
30. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
31. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
32. A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 annually. The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year.
33. A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled".
34. A Dutch court ruled that a bank robber could deduct the 2,000 Euros he paid for his pistol from the 6,600 Euros he has to return to the bank he robbed.
35. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
36. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
37. A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.
38. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
39. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
40. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
41. A house in Baghdad worth $15,000 before the Iraq war now sells for $120,000 to $150,000.
42. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
43. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
44. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
45. A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 30 calories.
46. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
47. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
48. A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.
49. A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.
50. A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.
51. A private elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia, accidentally served margaritas to its schoolchildren, thinking it was limeade.
52. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
53. A snail can also sleep for three years.
54. A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
55. A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )
56. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
57. A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.
58. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
59. A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.
60. A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.
61. A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day. Good night!
62. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
63. A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.
64. A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.
65. A zebra is white with black stripes.
66. About 20% of gift cards never are redeemed at the full value of the card.
67. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
68. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
69. Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
70. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
71. According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
72. According to market research firm NPD Fashionworld, fifty percent of all lingerie purchases are returned to the store.
73. Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.
74. Actor Bruce Willis has filed a lawsuit against the movie studio that produced his film "Tears of the Sun", alleging he was struck in the forehead by a fake bullet. Since 2002 (when the movie was in production), the lawsuit claims he has endured "extreme mental, physical, and emotional pain and suffering".
75. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
76. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
77. Airport security agents at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts caught a passenger trying to sneak a severed seal head onto a plane inside a cooler. The man said he was a biology professor and had found the dead animal on the beach.
78. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
79. Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.
80. Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
81. Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.
82. All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).
83. All of David Letterman's suits are custom made - there are no creases in his suit trousers.
84. All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
85. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
86. All polar bears are left handed.
87. All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) "rotten imperialist reactionary culture".
88. All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
89. Almonds are members of the peach family.
90. Almost 20% of the billions of dollars American taxpayers are spending to rebuild Iraq are lost to theft, kickbacks and corruption.
91. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
92. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
93. American made parts account for only 1% of the Chrysler Crossfire. 96% of the Ford F-150 Heritage Truck is American.
94. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
95. Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation. In France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation.
96. Amusement park attendance goes up after a fatal accident. It seems many people want to ride upon the same ride that killed someone.
97. An average American will spend an average of 6 months during his lifetime waiting at red lights.
98. An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.
99. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
100. An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.
101. An estimated 800,000 senior citizens voluntarily give up their driving privileges each year. The average age at which they surrender the wheel is 85.
102. An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.
103. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
104. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
105. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
106. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
107. Armadillos can be housebroken.
108. As of January 1, 2004, the population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds. There is a birth every eight seconds, an immigrant is added every 25 seconds, but a death every 13 seconds.
109. As of January 2004, the United States economy now borrows $1,500,000,000 each day from foreign investors.
110. As part of a charity event, 500 cats were spayed and neutered in the cafeteria of an elementary school. School was cancelled for days and $10,000 was spent on cleaning and sterilizing the room.
111. At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.
112. Austin High School in Texas has removed candy from its vending machines. Now some enterprising students are earning $200 per week dealing in black market candy.
113. Author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide recently, wanted to be cremated and his ashes to be shot out of a cannon on his ranch.
114. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
115. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
116. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
117. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
118. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
119. Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
120. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
121. Before he had his own show, Jerry Seinfeld appeared on three episodes of the TV show "Benson" as the governor's speechwriter.
122. Between 1942 and 1944, Academy Awards were made of plaster.
123. Billboard magazine has recently launched a top 20 chart of cell phone ringtones.
124. Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
125. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
126. Burt Reynolds was originally cast to be Han Solo in the first Star Wars film. He dropped out before filming.
127. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
128. Cats can hear ultrasound.
129. CBS's fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast.
130. Cell Phone Etiquette - It is considered rude to talk aloud while on the cell-phone
131. Chances that a burglary in the United States will be solved: 1 in 7
132. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
133. Chicago is closer to Moscow than it is to Rio de Janeiro.
134. Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
135. China is the world's largest market for BMW's top of the line 760Li. This car sells for $200,000 in China - more than almost all people in China make in a lifetime.
136. Chocolate kills dogs! . A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
137. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
138. Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million.
139. Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
140. David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.
141. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
142. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).
143. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
144. Dogs have two sets of teeth, just like humans. They first have 30 "puppy" teeth, then 42 adult teeth.
145. Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.
146. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
147. During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.
148. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
149. Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
150. Each year, over 1,000,000 people fail to itemize out the mortgage interest deduction on their income taxes. Last year, this amounted to $473,000,000 in taxes.
151. Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.
152. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
153. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
154. Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves.
155. Eric Clapton did not play the very famous first riff on the song "Layla". That was Duane Allman. Clapton comes in later.
156. Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result, the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
157. Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
158. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
159. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
160. Fast food provider Hardee's has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.
161. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
162. Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
163. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
164. Five years ago, 60% of all retail purchases were made with cash or check. Now it's 50%. By 2010, 39% of purchases will be made by cash or check.
165. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
166. For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
167. For every ton of fish that is caught in all the oceans on our planet, there are three tons of garbage dumped into the oceans.
168. For the first time in history, the number of people on the planet aged 60 or over will soon surpass those under 5.
169. Former keyboard player for Jethro Tull David Palmer is now a woman named Dee Palmer. He waited until his wife died before going through with his longtime desire for a sex change.
170. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
171. French author Michel Thaler published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.
172. George W. Bush and John Kerry are 16th cousins, three times removed.
173. George W. Bush is probably going to be the eighth president in US history to have completed a term in office without ever having issued a single veto.
174. George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week.
175. George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
176. Gerald Ford once worked as a cover model for Cosmopolitan magazine.
177. Gillette spent $1,000,000 to place razor samples in the welcome bags handed out at the Democratic National Convention, only to have them confiscated as they were considered a threat. This caused huge delays at all security checkpoints.
178. G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
179. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
180. Harry S Truman's middle name was S. Just S, without the period. (thanks to Eric Snyder)
181. Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
182. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
183. 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
184. Homing pigeons use roads where possible to help find their way home. In fact, some pigeons followed roads so closely that they actually flew around traffic circles before choosing the exit that led them home.
185. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
186. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
187. Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
188. Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage.
189. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
190. Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
191. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
192. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
193. If all Americans used one third less ice in their drinks the United States would become a net exporter instead of an importer of energy.
194. If current trends continue, Medicare costs will absorb 51% of all income tax revenues by 2042.
195. If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
196. If the Nile River were stretched across the United States, it would run nearly from New York to Los Angeles.
197. If the recent U.S. election was held in Canada, John Kerry would have beaten George Bush in a landslide - 64% to 19%.
198. If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
199. If you have three quarters, four dimes and four cents, you have $1.19. But you cannot make exact change for a dollar.
200. If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.
201. If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
202. If you know a (male) millionaire who happens to be married, The most likely profession of his wife is a teacher.
203. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
204. If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".
205. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
206. Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
207. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
208. In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
209. In 1920, Babe Ruth broke the single season home run record, with 29. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 30 home runs. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 40 home runs. The same year, he became the first major leaguer to hit 50 home runs.
210. In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
211. In 1950, President Harry Truman threw out the first ball twice at the opening day Washington DC baseball game; once right handed and once left handed.
212. In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.
213. In 1965, auditions were held for the "Monkees" TV show. Some of the people who responded (but were not hired) were Stephen Stills, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams and Charles Manson.
214. In 1993, David McLean developed lung cancer. He died on October 12, 1995. McLean's death made him the second Marlboro Man to die of lung cancer. Another actor, Wayne McLaren, died in 1992 at the age of 51 from lung cancer.
215. In 1993, the board of governors at Carl Karcher Enterprises voted (5 to 2) to fire Carl Karcher. Carl Karcher is the founder of Carls Jr. restaurants.
216. In 1997, a woman in Bradenton, Florida lost her cat. In 2004, she got a call from the local animal shelter. The cat turned up wandering the streets in San Francisco, California. The cat's identity was proven with a microchip that had been implanted prior to 1997.
217. In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
218. In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.
219. In 2003, the Transportation Security Administration dropped a requirement that air marshals pass a marksmanship test. Some applicants were even hired after they repeatedly shot flight attendants in mock hijacking episodes.
220. In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan.
221. In 2004, Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a double bed for first class passengers who fly together.
222. In 2015, it is estimated that half the federal budget will be spent on programs for the elderly.
223. In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
224. In a nod to astronauts, Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
225. In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell.
226. In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon.
227. In an effort to encourage the use of nuclear energy, the United States lent highly enriched uranium to countries all over the world between 1950 and 1988. Enough weapons-grade material to make 1,000 nuclear bombs has still not been returned by such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Israel and South Africa.
228. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
229. In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
230. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
231. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
232. In February 2004, a Disney World employee was killed when he fell from a parade float and was trapped between two float sections. OSHA termed this a serious workplace violation, but Disney was fined only $6,300.
233. In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
234. In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph.
235. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
236. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
237. In the film Forrest Gump, all the still photos show Forrest with his eyes closed.
238. In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?
239. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
240. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
241. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
242. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
243. Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
244. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
245. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
246. It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( We know you gonna try this !!! )
247. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
248. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
249. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
250. It is really bad to a smoke cigarette..
251. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
252. It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.
253. It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.
254. Japanese and Chinese people die on the fourth of the month more often than any other dates. The reason may be that they are "scared to death" by the number four. The words four and death sound alike in both Chinese and Japanese.
255. Jim Carrey voted in 2004 at the Beverly Hills City Hall. He had an assistant wait in line for him, however.
256. Jim Gordon, drummer of Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), killed his mother with a claw hammer.
257. Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia.
258. John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president in 2004. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004.
259. John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
260. John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.
261. June Foray did the voice for Rocky the Flying Squirrel and the Chatty Cathy dolls.
262. Kevin Spacey's older brother is a professional Rod Stewart impersonator.
263. La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.
264. La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
265. Last December, the House of Representatives earmarked $50,000,000 to create an indoor rain forest in Iowa.
266. Legislators in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are considering a law that would require pets to wear seat belts when traveling in a car.
267. Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.
268. Life Savers got their shape by a malfunctioning machine, which mistakenly punched a hole in the center of each candy.
269. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
270. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
271. Mailmen in Russia now carry revolvers after a recent decision by the government.
272. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
273. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
274. Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
275. Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men.
276. McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options (the Apple Pie, which has been at McDonald's for years uses processed Apple Pie Filling).
277. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
278. Mel Gibson has personally earned almost $400,000,000 from his movie "The Passion of the Christ".
279. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
280. Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.
281. Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.
282. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
283. Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capitol without a McDonald's.
284. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
285. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
286. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
287. More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last, an increase that may be a result of the abuse of substances purchased with benefit checks that come at the beginning of each month.
288. More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).
289. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
290. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
291. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.
292. More than 8,100 US troops are still listed as missing in action from the Korean war.
293. Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name requested is Obsession.
294. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
295. Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.
296. Motorists traveling outside Salem, Oregon saw one of the "litter cleanup" signs crediting the American Nazi party. Marion County officials had no choice but to let that group into the adopt-a-road program. The $500 per sign was picked up by Oregon taxpayers. The Ku Klux Klan is also involved in the adopt-a-road program in the state of Arkansas.
297. Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
298. Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day worldwide.
299. North Dakota has never had an earthquake.
300. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
301. On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
302. On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night.
303. On EBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
304. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
305. One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
306. One of pitcher Nolan Ryan's jockstraps recently sold at auction for $25,000
307. One out of five people in the world (1.1 billion people) live on less than $1 per day.
308. One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
309. One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
310. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
311. One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government.
312. Only 14% of Americans say they've skinny dipped with the opposite sex.
313. Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.
314. Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
315. Only 6% of the autographs in circulation from members of the Beatles are estimated to be real.
316. Only 939 of the 1,400,000 high school seniors who took the SAT in 2004 got a perfect score of 1600. Two of them are twin brothers Dillon and Jesse Smith from Long Island, NY.
317. Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.
318. Orthodox rabbis warned that New York City drinking water might not be kosher; it contains harmless micro-organisms that are technically shellfish.
319. Oslo, Norway is the world's most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms.
320. Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
321. Over 8 years, this happened 284 times: "Cosmo" Kramer went through Jerry Seinfeld's apartment door.
322. Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
323. Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
324. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
325. People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the same symbol.
326. People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT.
327. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
328. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80
329. Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
330. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
331. Percentage of mammal species that are monogamous: 3
332. Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
333. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
334. Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
335. Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!
336. Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.
337. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
338. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
339. Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including both Canadian and U.S. customs.
340. Pope John Paul II is the world's Scrabble champion in the over-70 category.
341. Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter" in 2000.
342. Profanity is typically cut from in-flight movies to make them suitable for general audiences. Fox Searchlight Pictures has substituted "Ashcroft" for "A**hole" in the movie Sideways when dubbed for Aerolineas Argentinas flights.
343. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
344. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
345. Quebec City, Canada, has about as much street crime as Disney World.
346. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
347. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
348. Researchers have found that doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make about 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery than surgeons who didn't play video games.
349. Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.
350. Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
351. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
352. Romanian firefighters could not get their trucks close enough to a burning building, so they put out the fire by throwing snowballs at it.
353. Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.
354. San Francisco cable cars are the only National Monuments that move.
355. Slugs have 4 noses.
356. Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
357. So far, Congress has authorized $152,600,000,000 for the Iraq war. This is enough to build over 17,500 elementary schools.
358. Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything !!
359. Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.
360. Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio.
361. Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure, and even protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack.
362. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
363. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
364. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.
365. Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".
366. Sports Illustrated magazine allows subscribers to opt out of receiving the famous swimsuit issue each year. Fewer than 1% choose this option.
367. Superman is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld", either by name or pictures on Jerry's refrigerator.
368. SUV sales are up 18% in the first quarter of 2004 vs. the same period of 2003, even though gas prices are skyrocketing. Consumer surveys show that gas prices would have to hit $3.75 per gallon before there will be any real impact on SUV sales.
369. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
370. Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.
371. Television stations hung banners at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, including Al-Jazeera, until it was noticed and taken down.
372. Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
373. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
374. The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
375. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
376. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
377. The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
378. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
379. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English .....
380. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
381. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
382. The average person laughs 10 times a day!
383. The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
384. The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
385. The biggest dog on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet, 3 inches from nose to tail.
386. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
387. The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve.
388. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
389. The chameleon has a tongue that is one and a half times the length of his body.
390. The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.
391. The Chicago Cubs are suing former Hartford Courant newspaper carrier Mark Guthrie to get back $301,000 in pay that was intended to go to a Cubs pitcher with the same name. The Tribune Company owns both the Hartford Courant and the Chicago Cubs.
392. The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
393. The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
394. The company that manufactures the greatest number of women's dresses each year is Mattel. Barbie's got to wear something.
395. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
396. The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.
397. The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
398. The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.
399. The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.
400. The Eiffel Tower shrinks 6 inches in winter.
401. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
402. The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee's salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions.
403. The entire town of Capena, Italy (including children as young as 2 years old) lights up cigarettes each year in honor of St. Anthony's Day. This tradition is centuries old.
404. The estates of 22 dead celebrities earned over $5 million in 2004. These celebrities include Elvis Presley, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon.
405. The fertility rate in states that voted for George Bush is 12% higher than states that favored John Kerry.
406. The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
407. The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.
408. The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
409. The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.
410. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
411. The greenhouse effect causes trouble by raising the temperature of the planet.
412. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
413. The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. Its concrete will not be fully cured for another 500 years.
414. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
415. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
416. The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
417. The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.
418. The largest ocean liners pay a $250,000 toll for each trip through the Panama Canal. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.
419. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug and Jeffrey Feiger.
420. The leading cause of on-the-job deaths in workplaces in America is homicide.
421. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
422. The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a "porcelator."
423. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
424. The longest words in the English language with only one syllable are the nine-letter "screeched" and "strengths".
425. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
426. The Mars Rover "Spirit" is powered by six small motors the size of "C" batteries. It has a top speed of 0.1 mph.
427. The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.
428. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
429. The mother of all European languages is Sanskrit, which is considered the most suitable language for computer software - Amazing India facts
430. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
431. The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
432. The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world's armies.
433. The New York City subway system, in an effort to raise revenue, is considering selling sponsorships of individual stations to corporations. Riders could soon be getting off at Nike Grand Central Station or Sony Times Square.
434. The New York Jets were unable to find hotel rooms for a game in Indianapolis recently because they had all been booked up by people attending Gencon, a gaming convention.
435. The New York Times reports that in February 2004, 62% of all e-mail was spam.
436. The New Yorker magazine now has more subscribers in California than New York.
437. The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.
438. The number of US college students studying Latin is three times the number studying Arabic.
439. The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
440. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
441. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
442. The only people whose likenesses adorn Pez dispensers are Betsy Ross and Paul Revere.
443. The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
444. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
445. The Pentagon has twice as many restrooms as necessary. When it was built, segregation was still in place in Virginia, so separate restrooms for blacks and whites were required by law.
446. The Pentagon in Washington, D. C. has five sides, five stories, and five acres in the middle.
447. The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
448. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
449. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
450. The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
451. The prison system is the largest supplier of mental health services in America, with 250,000 Americans with mental illness living there.
452. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
453. The remains of 125 people will be launched into space where they will orbit the Earth for centuries.
454. The RIAA sued an 83 year old woman for downloading music illegally, even though a copy of her death certificate was sent to the RIAA a week before it filed the suit.
455. The richest self-made American under 40 is Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computers. He is worth $18 billion.
456. The second Saturday in September is usually a popular time for weddings. Not in 2004, as most couples did not want their anniversaries on September 11.
457. The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
458. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
459. The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."
460. The spring thaw finally allows cemeteries in Alaska to start digging graves for those who died during the winter.
461. The Starbucks at the highest elevation is on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado.
462. The State of Florida is bigger than England.
463. The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
464. The Swedish pop group ABBA recently turned down an offer of $2 billion to reunite.
465. The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.
466. The thong accounts for 25% of the United States women's underwear market.
467. The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.
468. The treasury department has more than twenty people assigned to catching people who violate the trade and tourism embargo with Cuba. In contrast, it has only four employees assigned to track the assets of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
469. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
470. The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season.
471. The UK's best selling hiking magazine published faulty coordinates for descending Scotland's tallest peak (Ben Nevis), and recommended a route that leads climbers off the edge of a cliff.
472. The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
473. The US Army is handing out $2,500 to Fallujah residents whose property was destroyed by US planes and artillery.
474. The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
475. The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.
476. The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of an aspirin tablet.
477. The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
478. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
479. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
480. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
481. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
482. The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.
483. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
484. The world's smallest winged insect is the Tanzanian parasitic wasp. It's smaller than the eye of a housefly.
485. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
486. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
487. The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington is Mount St. Helens.
488. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
489. There are 1,008 McDonald's franchises in France.
490. There are 150,000,000 cell phones in use in the United States, more than one per every two human beings in the country.
491. There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.
492. There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
493. There are an average of 18,000,000 items for sale at any time on EBay.
494. There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States.
495. There are less than 100 surviving American World War I veterans.
496. There are more 100 dollar bills in Russia currently than there are in the United States.
497. There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
498. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
499. There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.
500. There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
501. There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all three are deadly poisonous.
502. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
503. There are over 87,000 Americans on waiting lists for organ transplants.
504. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
505. There has been no mail delivery in Canada on Saturday for the last thirty five years.
506. There is a bar in London that sells vaporized vodka, which is inhaled instead of sipped.
507. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
508. There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
509. There is a new television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite.
510. There is a regulation size half-court where employees can play basketball inside the Matterhorn at Disneyland.
511. There is a Starbucks in Myungdong, South Korea that is five stories tall.
512. There is an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
513. There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
514. There once was a town named "6" in West Virginia.
515. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
516. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
517. They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.
518. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
519. To help reduce budget deficits, several states have begun reducing the amount of food served to prison inmates. In Texas, the number of daily calories served to prisoners was cut by 300, saving the state $6,000,000 per year.
520. Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
521. Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
522. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
523. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
524. Two 1903 paintings recently sold at auction for $590,000 - the paintings were in the famous "Dogs Playing Poker" series.
525. Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts - an hourglass and a sundial.
526. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
527. U.K. telecom provider Telewest Broadband is testing a device that hooks to your PC and wafts a scent when certain e-mails arrive.
528. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
529. Van Halen singer David Lee Roth trained to be an EMT in New York City, and planned to be certified by November 2004.
530. Villanova University's commencement speaker this year is the actor who plays Big Bird.
531. What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
532. When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
533. When Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen turned 18 in mid-2004, they took official control of a company worth more than the gross national product of Mongolia. Their earnings in 2003 topped $1 billion.
534. When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
535. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
536. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
537. World War II veterans are now dying at the rate of about 1,100 each day.
538. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
539. You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.
540. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
541. Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
542. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
543. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
544. Zeppo Marx (the unfunny one of the Marx Brothers) had a patent for a wristwatch with a heart monitor.