Best Fun Facts Collection

Neanderthal man had a brain capcity 100cc larger than modern man''s.


Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.


Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.


Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.


Nearly 50% of the world’s scientists are assigned to military projects.


Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.


Neither the saxophone, the tuba, the coronet, nor the valve trumpet existed before 1800.


New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.


Nike Air Soles do not actually have ''air'' in them.


Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.


No 2 cornflakes are identical!


No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.


No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.


No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.


No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.


No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.


No one knows where Mozart is buried.


No one knows who designed the first American Flag.


No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.


No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!


No president of the United States was an only child.


Non-dairy creamer is flammable.


None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)"


Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!


Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.


Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.


Oak trees can live 200 or more years.


Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.


Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.


Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!


Of all things, Andrew Jackson’s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!


Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly, and Shemp).


On average women can hear better than men.


On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.


On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.


On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.


On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.


On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.


One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.


One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.


One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!


One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.


One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!


One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.


One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!


One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.


One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.


One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.


One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant!


One out of 20 people have an extra rib.


One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood !


One percent of Greenland''s population lives in a single apartment building!


One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.


One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!


One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.


One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!


One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!


Onions have no flavor, only a smell.


Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!


Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.


Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans!


Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.


Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any state.


Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.


Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!


Only female bees work.


Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.


Only male fireflies can fly.


Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.


Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States'' national income.


Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.


Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.


Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.


Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.


Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.


Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!


Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.


Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!


Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.


Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.


Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.


Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.


Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!


Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won''t stick when smiling.


Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!


Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.


Pancakes are commonly served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Australia.


Panophobia is the fear of everything.


Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.


Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.


Pearls melt in vinegar.


Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.


People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.


People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.


People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.


People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).


People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.


People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.


Pepsi-Cola was originally called ''Brad''s drink''.


Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.


Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.


Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.


Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!


Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!


Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.


Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.


Polar bear fur is not white, it''s clear.


Polar Bears can eat more than 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.


Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.


Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.


Porcupines float in water!


Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!


President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!


President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!


President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!


President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!


Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.


Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!


Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.


Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.


Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!


Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.


Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.


Radio code Wilco (as in Roger Wilco) is short for Will Comply!


Rain contains vitamin B12.


Ralph Lauren''s original name is Ralph Lifshitz.


Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.


Rats can''t vomit, that''s why rat poison works.


Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.


Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!


Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!


Redheads require more anesthesia to ''go under'' than other hair colors do.


Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.


Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.


Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.


Rice paper does not have any rice in it!


Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.


Roosters can''t crow if they can''t fully extend their necks.


Roughly a quarter of the world''s people live in China.


Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.


Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.


Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.


Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December "


Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.


Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses!


Saturn''s rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.


Scientists are now able to grow ''beating'' heart tissue in a lab!


Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!


Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.