Best Fun Facts Collection

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.


The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.


The ‘Big Dipper’ is known as ‘The Casserole’ in France.


There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!


There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.


There are 206 bones in the human body!


There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.


There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.


There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.


There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.


There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.


There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.


There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.


There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.


There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.


There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.


There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!


There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.


There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.


There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!


There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!


There are more than one million animal species on Earth!


There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.


There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.


There are no hog lips or snouts in SPAM.


There are no penguins in the North Pole.


There are no rental cars in Bermuda.


There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch


There are only 14 blimps in the world.


There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!


There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.


There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.


There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!


There have been over 7,200 acts of terrorism against the US over the last 15 years.


There is a city called Rome on every continent.


There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.


There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan!


There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.


There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.


There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.


There was no punctuation until the 15th century.


There wasn''t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!


Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!


Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!


Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.


Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.


Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!


Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.


To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.


To escape the grip of a crocodile''s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.


To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.


To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!


To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles…that’s where the word “testimony” comes from.


Today''s top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.


Tomatoes were originally thought to be poisonous.


Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.


Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany''s had the middle name of Stucklefuss!


Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.


Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.


Turkey''s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.


Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.


Turtles can live for more than 100 years.


U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.


Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.


Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.


Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it''s known as Tennessee!


Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.


Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!


Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President.


Until the 1960''s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.


Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.


Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.


Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.


Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.


Vultures fly without flapping their wings.


WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!


Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.


Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.


Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!


Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!


We blink 25 times a minute.


Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.


Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.


What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.


When a giraffe''s baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.


When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.


When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the name ''Allota Warmheart'' so that nobody will recognize her.


When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.


When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!


When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.


When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.


When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.


When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.


When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.


When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.


While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.


Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.


Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.


Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!


Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!


Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.


With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.


Women blink nearly twice as much as men.


Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.


Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.


Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.


Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.


Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!


Womens'' hearts beat faster than mens''.


Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.


Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.


World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.


Worms reportedly taste like bacon.


Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.


X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.


Yahoo! was originally called ''Jerry''s Guide to the World Wide Web''.


You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!


You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!


You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.


You can start a fire with ice.


You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.


You have no sense of smell when you''re sleeping!


You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.


You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!


You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.


you''re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!


Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!


Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.


Your brain is 80% water.


Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.


Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!


Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!


Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.


Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!


Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!


Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.


Your skin is actually an organ.