When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
here are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
Dr. Seuss is supposed to rhyme with "noise."
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
During World War II, Uncle Ben's was the exclusive supplier of rice to the U.S. Armed Forces.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'
Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the United States.
O.o I was so content at looking at the facts I for got to look at the pic's.... I so aprove Of this thread. Sorry dont have any pics so.."Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
>>240438Double fun!
>>240438Likewise, "Adios" is literally "To God" (A Dios), i.e., "Go with God" :)(aw, image limit..)