Best Fun Facts Collection

The Greek National anthem has 158 verses!


The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.


The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute!


The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.


The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime!


The height of a bowling pin is equal to its circumference.


The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.


The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!


The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers founded in 1744, is the world''s oldest golf club!


The human brain is insensitive to pain.


The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.


The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.


The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!


The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.


The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.


The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients.


The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!


The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!


The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!


The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.


The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.


The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person''s life.


The life boat was patented in 1845!


The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years!


The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.


The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called ''mantles'') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.


The longest cave in the world is the ''Mammoth Cave System'' in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep!


The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!


The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!


The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!


The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.


The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away!


The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.


The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.


The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.


The mask used by Michael Myers in the original ''Halloween'' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.


The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day!


The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!


The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!


The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!


The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.


The most collect calls are made on Father''s Day.


The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.


The most popular Campbell''s Soup in Hong Kong is watercress and duck gizzard.


The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!


The most popular sport as a topic for a film is boxing.


The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.


The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.


The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.


The most used letter in the English alphabet is ''E'', and ''Q'' is the least used!


The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named ''Janet Jackson''.


The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its stars was a pig.


The name "Wendy" was made up for the book Peter Pan!


The name Joshua is Hebrew for ''Jesus''.


The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.


The Nestles haven''t run Nestle since 1875.


The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!


The Niagara Falls moves upstream at an average rate of about 295ft a century!


The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.


The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!


The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.


The octopus'' testicles are located in its head.


The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.


The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.


The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.


The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers!


The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68.


The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!


The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!


The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!


The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.


The original name for the butterfly was ''flutterby''!


The original title of Jane Austen''s novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression!


The original Toby jugs were modelled on Harry ''Toby'' Elwes a Yorkshireman!


The Pacific island of Nauru’s economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.


The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.


The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.


The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!


The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size!


The phrase ''rule of thumb'' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn''t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.


The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.


The placement of a donkey''s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!


The placement of a donkey''s eyes in its'' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.


The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!


The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.


The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.


The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.


The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!


The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!


The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.


The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.


The right lung takes in more air than the left.


The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does NOT grow branches until it is 75 years old.


The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!


The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!


The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long!


The song ''Strawberry Fields Forever'', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.


The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.


The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.


The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it''s stomach inside-out!


The state of Florida is bigger than England!


The state of Florida is bigger than England.


The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.


The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.


The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.


The sting from a killer bee contains less venom than the sting from a regular bee!


The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.


The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.


The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!


The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.


The symbol on the ''pound'' key (#) is called an octothorpe.


The Taj Mahal took 20 years and 20 thousand men to finish!


The temperature of the earth''s interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.


The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.


The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.


The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.


The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.


The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.


The U.S. founding fathers'' name for the American Revolution was ''The War with Britain''.


The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.


The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.


The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.


The U.S. military’s dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine!


The U.S. motto, ''In God We Trust'', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.


The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.


The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.


The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.


The United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world''s mail volume.


The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.


The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.


The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.


The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.


The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.


The volume of the Earth''s moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.


The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.


The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.


The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.


The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.


The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!


The word ''gymnasium'' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means ''to exercise naked.''"


The word ''Indiana'' is Native American for ''Land of the Indians'', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.


The word ''News'' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!


The word ''set'' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.


The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.


The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ''To Insure Prompt Service''.


The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.


The world''s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.


The world''s termites outweigh the world''s humans 10 to 1!


The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!


The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.