- 1,157 gallons of water is saved in a year by peeing in the shower
- wayne allwine, the voice of mickey mouse, was married to russi taylor, the voiceof minnie
- the lightsaber sound effect is a combination of the hum of an idling 35mm movie projector and the feedback generated by passing a stripped microphone cable by a television.
- many traffic lights and lift buttons are actually placebo buttons – in other words, they do nothing at all when pressed. they exist to give the presser the feeling of control.
- august 2009 had 5 saturdays, 5 sundays and 5 mondays, all in one month. this only happens once in 823 years.
- the average child recognizes 200 company logos by the time he enters elementary school.
- a shark does not have one bone in its body. Its skeleton is made up of cartilage.
- it takes one ton of water to make one pound of refined sugar.
- stressed is desserts spelled backwards.
- the elephant is the only mammal with 4 knees.
- if you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
- “101 dalmatians” and “peter pan” are the only disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie.
- in “silence of the lambs”, hannibal lector (anthony hopkins) never blinks.
- every person has a unique tongue print.
- a hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
- a whale's penis is called a dork.
- the first couple shown in bed together on prime time tv were the flintstones.
- horses can't vomit.
- months that begin on a sunday will always have a "friday the 13th."
- males sweat 40% more than females.
- no word in the english language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
- a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- sperm is the smallest single cell in a mans body.
- venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- if an amish man has a beard, he is married.
- fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
- music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
- the total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
- it takes 32 glasses of water to flush the acid from 1 can of soda out of your system.
- a mcdonald's drinking straw holds 7.7 ml (over 1.5 teaspoons) of fluid.
- ocean water must reach a temperature of 82 degrees fahrenheit for a hurricane to form.
- 60% of men spit in public.
- leonardo da vinci invented the scissors.
- on a canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the parliament building is an american flag.
- rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- it takes 17 facial muscles to smile, but 42 to frown.
- only 6% of women fail to cry at least once a month, while 50% of males fail to cry that often.
- if saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
- women blink twice as often as men.
- human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
- it takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
- the name wendy was made up for the book peter pan. there was never a recorded wendy before it.
- more people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
- the 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA, and BUDWEISER, in that order.
- the octopus has three hearts.
- koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
- only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.
- when a porcupine is born, its quills are soft and mostly white, but harden within hours.
- being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
- it is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
- iguanas can and do commit suicide.
- the largest toy distributor in the world is mcdonalds.
- non dairy creamer is flammable.
- 1/4 of russia is covered in forest.
- the voice of alice in alice in wonderland is also the voice of wendy from peter pan.
- half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
- large doses of coffee can be lethal. 10 grams, or 100 cups over four hours can kill the average human.
- grapes explode when put in the microwave.
- the average car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute, while .5 ounces is used to start the vehicle.
- about 25% of all adolescent and adult males never use deodorant.
- there are approximately 350 "squirts" of a cow's udders in a gallon of milk.
- one pound of tea can make nearly three hundred cups.
- humans are the only species who drink milk from the mother of other species.
- horses can't vomit.
- if you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
- annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
- annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
- approximately 55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. reading about yawning makes most people yawn.
- if you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
- wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence the tinted bottles.
- beer foam will go down if you lick your finger and then stick it in the beer.
- beer is the second most popular beverage in the world, coming in behind tea.
- polar bears are hunted for their meat but their livers are poisonous.
- chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- a jellyfish is 95% water.
- wednesday is the most popular day on which babies are born.
- if you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- they are approximately 1,750 O's in every can of spaghettios.
- when you are snoring, you are not dreaming.
- it would take 80 moons to equal the weight of the earth.
- the cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- the record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon.
- every year the moon moves about 3.8cm further away from the earth.
- if two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
- the average raindrop falls at 15 mph.
- work kills more people than war.
- coyotes mate for life.
- there are three times as many insects on the planet as there are all other animals combined.
- rhode island is the only state in the united states in which prostitution is legal.
- male hospital patients tend to fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
- dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it reflects less light.
- a full page color ad in vouge is seen by 1.2 million people, and costs $80,000.
- the slowest growing nail is the thumb; the fastest is the middle finger.
- there are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker cookie zoo.
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