Best Fun Facts Collection

It takes 100 pounds of rain water to produce a single pound of food from the earth.


It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.


It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year''s supply of footballs.


It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth!


It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.


It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.


It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.


It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.


It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it''s surface.


It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.


It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.


It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.


It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.


It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.


It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.


It was illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.


It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!


It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!


It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960''s car did.


It''s against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!


It''s against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!


It''s against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.


It''s illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.


It''s possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.


It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister’s daughter.


J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.


Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.


Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.


James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.


Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon ''The Flintstones.''"


Jennifer Aniston''s original name is Jennifer Anastassakis!


Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old!


Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.


Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.


Jimmy Hoffa''s middle name is, appropriately, Riddle.


John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!


John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA!


Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.


Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off .


Jupiter''s moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!


Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.


Justin Timberlake''s half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!


Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.


Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.


Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.


Ketchup was sold in the 1830''s as medicine.


Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.


King George I could not speak English!


Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.


Kittens are born both blind and deaf.


Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.


Koala Bears are not bears.


Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.


Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump!


Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).


Lenny Kravitz''s mother played the part of ''Helen'' on ''The Jeffersons''.


Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.


Leonardo DiCaprio got his first ‘onscreen kiss’ from a man!


Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.


Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!


Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!


Like fingerprints, everyone''s tongue print is different!


Lima beans contain cyanide!


Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!


Linen is actually stronger when wet.


Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.


London''s Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807!


Los Angeles''s full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"!


Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).


Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.


Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.


Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.


Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.


Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.


Males sweat 40% more than females.


Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624!


Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts.


Mark Twain didn''t even make it through elementary school.


Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states!


Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.


McDonald''s is the world''s largest distributor of toys!


McDonald''s salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!


Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.


Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots!


Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.


Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!


Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!


Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.


Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.


Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them.


Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!


Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year!


Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the United States.


Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.


Michael Keaton''s original name is Michael Douglas.


Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.


Milk is heavier than cream.


Minnows have teeth in their throat.


Moist air holds heat better than dry air.


Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ''Friday the 13th''.


More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.


More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.


More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!


More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.


More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.


More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.


More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world.


More people in China speak English than in the United States.


More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!


More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.


More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.


More than 10% of the world''s salt is used to de-ice American roads.


More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!


More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.


More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth''s atmosphere every day.


More than 25% of the world''s forests are in Siberia.


More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss!


More than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.


More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.


More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.


More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!


More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.


More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.


More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.


Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting!


Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.


Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.


Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.


Most burglaries occur during the daytime!


Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry.


Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.


Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!


Most lipstick contains fish scales!


Most lipstick contains fish scales.


Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!


Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.


Most of a hog''s sweat glands are in its snout.


Most of the world''s people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!


Most people who read the word ''yawning'' will yawn!


Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.


Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!


Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.


Muhammad is the most common name in the world.


Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.


Mussolini dodged the Italian draft.


Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.


Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.


Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.


Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.


Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.