Best Fun Facts Collection

An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.


An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.


An elephant''s tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.


An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.


An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!


An ostrich''s eye is bigger than its brain.


An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.


Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!


Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.


Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.


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Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike!


Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world''s oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.


Anteaters prefer termites to ants.


Ants don''t sleep


Ants don’t sleep.


Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.


Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth''s gravitational pull.


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Apple seeds are poisonous!


Apples are 25% air.


Apples are actually part of the rose family.


Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.


Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!


Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.


Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth''s atmosphere each second.


Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.


Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.


Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!


Approximately one-third of the population can''t snap their fingers!


Armadillos can get leprosy.


Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, in the movie ''Hercules'', was dubbed.


Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!


Astronauts cannot burp in space.


At one ''feeding'', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.


At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.


At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal


At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British Military.


At age 70, more than 70 percent of men are still potent!


At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.


At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!


At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.


At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart.


Atilla the hun was a dwarf!


Attics were invented in Attica.


Australia''s Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!


Austria was the first country to use postcards.


Avocados are poisonous to birds.


Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.


Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!


Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third.


Babies are born without knee caps.


Babies start dreaming even before they''re born.


Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.


Baby beavers are called kittens.


Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!


Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.


Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour!


Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.


Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!


Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.


Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.


Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac.


Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.


Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.


Barbie''s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.


Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.


Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.


Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!


Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.


Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.


Beavers have orange teeth!


Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.


Beelzebub is Hebrew for ''Lord of the Flies''.


Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.


Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15!


Bill Gates'' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.


Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.


Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.


Black Whales are born white.


Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.


Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found


Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.


Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.


Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don''t seem to have this problem.


Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!


Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.


Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador''s waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!


Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.


Butterflies taste with their feet.


By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.


By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks.


By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can''t sink in quicksand.


By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.


By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.


C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.


California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.


Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!


Canada''s new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!


Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons!


Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.


Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.


Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin.


Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!


Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.


Cat urine glows under a black-light!


Catgut comes from sheep not cats.


Cats cannot taste sweet things.


Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.


Cats’ urine glows under a black light.


Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.


Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.


Chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs.


Che Guevara suffered from asthma!


Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.


Check your map! Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.


Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!


Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!


Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears.


Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.


Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.


Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.


China has more English speakers than the United States.


Chop Suey was invented in New York!


Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.


Chrysler built B-29''s that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.


City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.


Cleopatra wasn''t Egyptian; she was Greek.


Cleopatras real name was Auletes!


Clinophobia is the fear of beds!


Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.


Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.


Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.


Coca-Cola''s ''Super Pure'' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!


Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.


Coffee beans aren''t beans - they''re fruit pits.


Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.


Cold water weighs more than hot water.


Colgate''s first toothpaste came in a jar.


Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).


Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the poors on their feet.


Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.


Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.


Contrary to popular belief, London Broil is not a cut of beef but rather a method of cooking.


Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies.


Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car''s gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.


Contrary to popular belief, the first ironclad warships were built by Korea in the 16th century.


Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.


Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.


Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.