Best Fun Facts Collection

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.


Crocodile babies don''t have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.


Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.


Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.


Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute.


Dating back to the 1600''s, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.


Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.


Despite the hump, a camel''s spine is straight.


Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.


Diet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.


Dirty snow melts faster than clean.


Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!


Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!


Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!


Dolphins nap with one eye open.


Dolphins sleep with one eye open!


Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.


Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!


Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.


Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph.


Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk!


Drew Carey once worked at a Denny''s.


Drivers kill more deer than hunters.


Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.


Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.


Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.


During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.


During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.


During his lifetime, Herman Melville''s Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.


During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.


During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman''s middle finger is reduced.


During the 1600''s, boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.


During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!


During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.


During your lifetime, you''ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that''s the weight of about 6 elephants!


During your lifetime, you''ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that''s the weight of about 6 elephants.


Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!


Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!


Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.


Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.


Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.


Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.


Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.


Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.


Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.


Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!


Eagles mate while airborne.


Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.


Eddie Cochran''s last recording before he died was Three Steps to Heaven!


Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.


Elephants are the only animals that can''t jump.


Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.


Elvis Presley got a ''C'' in his eighth grade music class.


Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.


Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.


English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!


Enrico Caruso and Roy Orbison were the only tenors this century capable of hitting e over high c!


Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!


Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!


Eskimos don''t gamble.


Europe is the only continent without a desert.


Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.


Even Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.


Everton FC used to be called St Domingo''s FC!


Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!


Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year!


Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.


Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.


Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate


Every three seconds, a new baby is born.


Every time you lick a stamp, you''re consuming 1/10 of a calorie!


Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.


Every workday, 6.7 million people commute to Manhattan!


Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.


Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!


Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.


Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.


Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!


February 1865 is the only month in recorded history to not have a full moon.


Female canaries cannot sing.


Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.


Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.


Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor.


Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!


Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.


First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.


First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!


Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.


Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off.


Florida has more tornados per square mile than any other state.


Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.


Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.


For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.


For every ''normal'' webpage, there are five porn pages.


For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.


For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.


Forensic scientists can determine a person''s sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.


Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.


Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.


Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!


Forty percent of Americans have never visited a dentist.


French was the official language of England for over 600 years.


Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.


Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.


From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!


Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!


George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their plantations!


German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.


German soldiers, both heterosexual and homosexual, are allowed to have sex with each other!


Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda!


Giraffes are unable to cough.


Girls have more tastebuds than boys.


Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana.


Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.


Goat''s milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow''s milk.


Goats do not have upper front teeth.


Gold leaf is attached to paper or plaster with egg whites, the same now as in ancient times!


Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.


Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.


Goodyear Rubber Company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.


Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.


Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.


Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.


Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.


Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.


Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.


Halle Berry’s stunt double, in the movie “Catwoman”, is a man.


Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him!


Harrods have three private wells to supply their water!


Harry S. Truman was the last U.S. President with no college degree.


Heineken beer is designed to ''foam'' for exactly five minutes.


Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.


Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh''s first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.


Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette.


Honey is the only food that will not spoil.


Honey is used sometimes for antifreeze mixtures and in the center of golf balls.


Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!


Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.


Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!


Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.


Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.


Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .


How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.


Human birth control pills work on gorillas.


Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!


Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!


Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.


Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!


Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!


Hummingbirds can''t walk.