- STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand on the keyboard.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is UNCOPYRIGHTABLE.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in -DOUS: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ABSTEMIOUS and FACETIOUS.
- The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
- The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
- When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
- The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
- On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
- Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- 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.
- The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
- 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
- A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
- Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
- Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
- The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
- World Tourist day is observed on September 27.
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
- American car horns beep in the tone of F.
- St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
- The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
- The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
- Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
- Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
- A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
- The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
- Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
- The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
- The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
- Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
- Children grow faster in the springtime.
- On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
- Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
- The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
- Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- 7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
- 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.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
- The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
- The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
- The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- 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.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a super bowl.
- In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
- Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
- There are more collect calls on Father's day than any other day of the year.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
- Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
- One googol written out is: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
- The world’s most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay
- The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
- The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
- Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
- A can of SPAM™ is opened every 4 seconds.
- A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
- Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
- In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
- 4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
- The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game is called a tucket.
- Dungarees is another word for Denim.
- Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
- There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.
- In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
- If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China.
- In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow.
- An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
- A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.
- A giraffe's heart weighs an incredible 24 pounds.
- You lose 60 hairs a day.
- During warm weather hippopotamus's secrete sweat that is pink.
- There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
- If you unfolded and flattened a set of human lungs they would cover a tennis court.
- Three years of a person's life is spent on the toilet.
- There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- There are 336 dimples in a regulation golf ball.
- In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
- 96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
- Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.
- Cat urine glows under a black-light.
- Men get hiccups more often than women.
- It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- There is 293 different ways to give back change on a dollar.
- Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.
- There are more pigs than humans in Denmark.
- More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.
- On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day.
- Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet.
- The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
- Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
- The world record for finishing the Rubik's cube is 16.5 seconds.
- The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965.
- 1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.
- 31% of employees skip lunch entirely.
- 53% of women in America would dump their boyfriend if they did not get them anything for Valentine's Day.
- 70% of the poor people in the world are female.
- 96% of candles that are purchased are by women.
- Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.
- 40% of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked.
- Rats and horses can’t vomit.
- Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
- Human hair is almost indestructible, only fire can destroy it.
- An eyelash lasts 150 days.
- By age 20 we lose 20% of our sense of smell. By age 60 it is 60%.
- An average person farts 16 times a day.
- It's physically impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
- It only takes 7 pounds of pressure to rip your ear off.
- New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.
- Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
- The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
- There is a city called Rome in every continent.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
- A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
- The human brain is 80% water.
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
- The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
- If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old.
- Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
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