Best Fun Facts Collection

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.


A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.


A bird ''chews'' with its stomach.


A blue whale''s aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.


A blue whale''s heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!


A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!


A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.


A broken clock is always right twice a day.


A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.


A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.


A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.


A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.


A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.


A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!


A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!


A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!


A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.


A comet''s tail always points away from the sun.


A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!


A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.


A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.


A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.


A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!


A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.


A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.


A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!


A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!


A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.


A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.


A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!


A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.


A group of frogs is called an army.


A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!


A group of kangaroos is called a mob.


A group of officers is called a mess.


A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.


A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it''s there, though!


A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or softboiled egg will not.


A hedgehog''s heart beats 300 times a minute on average!


A hedgehog''s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.


A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!


A jellyfish is 95 percent water


A jellyfish is 95 percent water!


A jellyfish is 95 percent water.


A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.


A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.


A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.


A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.


A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun''s surface!


A lion''s roar can be heard from more than five miles away.


A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.


A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!


A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.


A male baboon can kill a leopard.


A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)


A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!


A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.


A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than the doctor predicted.


A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.


A million dollars'' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!


A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.


A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!


A moth has no stomach.


A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.


A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.


A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.


A pig''s penis is shaped like a corkscrew.


A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.


A polar bear''s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.


A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.


A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!


A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.


A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.


A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.


A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.


A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.


A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!


A roach can live up to nine days without its head.


A rodent''s teeth never stop growing.


A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.


A shrimp''s heart is in its head.


A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.


A small airplane can fly backwards.


A snail can sleep for three years.


A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour.


A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!


A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.


A spider''s silk is stronger than steel.


A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah''s wife.


A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.


A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!


A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.


A tuna fish can swim 100 miles in a single day!


A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!


A woman''s sense of smell is most sensitive during ovulation.


A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.


About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.


About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!


About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.


About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.


About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!


About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!


About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body.


About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.


According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism!


According to Gaming Law, casinos have to stock enough cash to cover all the chips on the ''floor''.


According to legend, there’s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.


According to scientific studies, a rat''s performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.


According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.


According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.


According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.


Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.


Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.


Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!


Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers'' ranch.


Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master''s degree in Special Education.


After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!


Al Capone died in prison from syphillis - despite being the first sufferer to be treated with antibiotics!


Al Capone''s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.


Albert Einstien never wore any socks.


Alfred Hitchcock didn''t have a belly button.


All bonobo chimpanzees are bisexual!


All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.


All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.


All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.


All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job!


All of the Earth''s continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.


All polar bears are left handed


All species of beetles are edible.


All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.


All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930!


All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!


All the swans in England are property of the Queen.


Almonds are a member of the peach family.


Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.


Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!


America once issued a 5-cent bill!


Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.


Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.


Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that''s approximately 350 slices per second!.


Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year!


Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.


Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell.


An ''aglet'' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.


An adult giraffe''s tongue is 17 inches long.


An albatross can sleep while it flies!


An American urologist once bought Napoleon''s penis for $40,000.


An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.


An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.


An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!