Best Fun Facts Collection

Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine.


Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!


Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.


Sheryl Crow''s two front teeth are fake.


Slugs have 4 noses!


Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!


Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.


Snails breathe through their feet.


Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California.


So that''s how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.


Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs!


Some lions mate over 50 times a day.


Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can''t find any food.


Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!


Some species of fish have voices!


Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.


SONY was originally called ''Totsuken''.


Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.


Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.


Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.


Spiders have transparent blood.


Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.


Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.


St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called ''Pigs Eye''.


Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.


Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.


Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.


Streets in Japan do not have names.


Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don''t .


Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.


Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.


Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!


Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.


Take your height and divide by eight. That’s how “tall” your head is.


Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!


Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.


Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.


Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.


The ''L.L.'' in L.L. Bean stands for ''Leon Leonwood''.


The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach!


The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world''s oxygen supply.


The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!


The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.


The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.


The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.


The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood''s ''Walk of Fame''.


The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.


The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.


The average 1 1/4 lb. lobster is 7 to 9 years old.


The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.


The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.


The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.


The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!


The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!


The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!


The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.


The average chocolate bar has 8 insects'' legs in it.


The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.


The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.


The average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted!


The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.


The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.


The average housefly lives only two weeks.


The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.


The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.


The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.


The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.


The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!


The average life span of a hermit crab is 75 years!


The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!


The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.


The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.


The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.


The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.


The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!


The average person laughs 13 times a day!


The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.


The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime


The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.


The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.


The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.


The average U.S. farm has 467 acres; the average Japanese farm has 3 acres.


The bagpipe was first made from the liver of a sheep.


The ball on top of a flagpole is called a ''truck''.


The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.


The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!


The best diamonds are colored blue-white.


The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.


The Bible is the most-shoplifted book in the world.


The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!


The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.


The Blue Whale''s tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!


The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.


The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!


The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.


The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.


The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!


The Chinese ideogram for ''trouble'' depicts two women living under one roof.


The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.


The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.


The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.


The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!


The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.


The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.


The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.


The cruise liner, ''Queen Elizabeth 2'', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City''s Manhattan Island.


The distress code ''Mayday'' comes from the French for help me, M''Aide!


The dot over the letter ''i'' is called a tittle.


The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.


The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.


The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.


The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.


The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.


The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!


The Earth''s atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.


The electric chair was invented by a dentist!


The elephant is one of the few mammals that can''t jump!


The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.


The estimated number of M&M''s sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.


The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.


The famous aphrodisiac ''Spanish Fly'' is made from dried beetle remains!


The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns!


The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.


The filming of the movie ''Titanic'' cost more than the Titanic itself!


The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.


The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.


The first baseball caps were made of straw.


The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.


The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!


The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!


The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.


The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.


The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today''s money!


The first patented condom was meant to be reused!


The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!


The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!


The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School


The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!


The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.


The first TV commercial showed a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.


The first two years of a dog''s life are equal to 24 human years.


The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.


The G in ''g-string'' stand for groin.


The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.


The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.


The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.


The Grateful Dead were once called ''The Warlocks''.


The great wall of China is 1,400 miles long!


The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.