494 Odd Facts!

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1.) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is called a google , they say that’s how many things you can find on google. There are 36 zeros.

2.)Any computer that you buy that has Windows installed in it , Bill Gates gets 10.00$ . Bill Gates founded Microsoft , he is the third richest person in the world and the richest person in America!

3.)If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. ( That’s Crazy!)

4.)The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)

5.)A cockroach can live up to nine days without it’s head before it starves to death.(Eww gross!)

6.)The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

7.)Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

8.)The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

9.)Starfish have no brains.

10.)Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

11.)Right-handed people live, on an average, live nine years longer than left-handed people. (Glad to be right handed.)

12.)The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.(gross)

13.)Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter “e.”

14.)If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

15.)Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

16.)Blue and white are the most common school colors.

17.)There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

18.)Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

19.)Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

20.)The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

21.)Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

22.)Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

23.)Only 7% of the population are left handed.

24.)A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

25.)When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop … even your heart! ( don’t sneeze to long )

26.)40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

27.)Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.

28.)The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

29.)The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

30.)40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. ( 😆 )

31.)The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

32.)Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

33.)Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.

34.)The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

35.)If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green

36.)Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

37.)Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

38.)There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

39.)The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

40.)A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

41.)No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple

42.)”Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

43.)Almonds are a member of the peach family.

44.)Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

45.)There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

46.)Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”

47.)A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

48.)Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

49.)It takes more muscles to frown then to smile.

50.)In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

51.)A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

52.)A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

53.)It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

54.)The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

55.)The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar  tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

56.)The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

57.)There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

58.)Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

59.)Slugs have 4 noses.

60.)Camels have 3 eyelids.

61.) A honey bee can fly at 15 mph.

62.)A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day.

63.)A bee has 5 eyes.

64.) Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.

65.)Cats have over 100 vocal chords.

66.)All porcupines float in water.

67.)The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.

68.) A hummingbird weighs less then a penny.

69.)A jellyfish is 95% water.

70.) Children grow faster in the spring.

71.)Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

72.) The only food that does not spoil is honey.

73.)I’m a girl!

74.)Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying. ( sometimes I’ve tried it )

75.) On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.

76.) The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping.

77.)There is one million ants to every human in the world. ( that means for every person there’s a 1,000,000 ants so 2 people = 2,000,000 ants.)

78.) If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.

79.) Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day.

80.) A snail breathes through its foot.

81.)Shrimp can only swim backward.

82.) Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.

83.) A cat’s lower jaw cannot move sideways

84.)Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.

85.)Giraffes have no vocal chords.

86.)Cats can hear ultrasound.

87.)Despite its hump…camels has a straight spine.

88.)Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

89.)There is 63,360 inches in a mile.

90.)The average women consumes 6 lbs. of lipstick in her lifetime.

91.)A human brain weighs about 3lbs.

92.)You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

93.)The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.

94.)The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days.

95.)The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

96.)Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day. ( all togther)

97.)The average person spends 2 weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change.

98.)You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world.

99.) The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year.

100.)The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime .( I spend about ahour and a half a day on the phone.)

101.)About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet.

102.)August has the highest percent of births.

103.)Oysters can change genders back and forth.

104.)The average American walks 18,000 steps a day.

105.)Fish can drown.

106.)Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

107.)The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime (Dang)

108.)When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less.

109.)You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum.

110.)In a year, the average person walks 4 miles making their bed.

111.)Bob and Fred are the most common names for stick people.

112.)Cambodia has the largest alphabet with 74 letters.

113.)The Solomon islands located near the southern part of the Pacific Ocean only has 11 letters in their alphabet which is the shortest amount.

114.)Hawaii is the second shortest with 12 letters in their alphabet.

115.)E is the most common letter in the alphabet.

116.)W is the only letter in the alphabet with more than 1 syllable.

117.)In almost every language  the word ‘ mother ‘ always starts with  a m.

118.)In Kentucky 50% of people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

119.)Einstein,one of the greatest scientist , couldn’t speak fluently when he was 9 , his parents thought he might be mentally ill.

120.)In Los Angeles there are fewer people then there are cars.

121.)Every person has a unique tongue print , just like their thumb.

122.)Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s heart.

123.)You are most likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than you are in any other weather.

124.)The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

125.)Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

126.)A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at 600 miles per hour (mph)

127.)Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark , the famous guy who created the lightbulb.

128.)A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee! 😆

129.)Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants!

130.)The average bank teller loses 250.00$ a year.

131.)Bubblegum contains rubber.

132.)The sound of E.T walking (E.T is a movie) was made by someone squishing their hands in jell-o.

133.)The world population of people is about the same as the population of chickens.

134.)In 75% of American households the women handle the money and the bills.(That’s true at my house)

135.)It’s against the law to catch fish with your hands in Kansas.

136.)Some toothpaste contains anti-freeze.

137.)Only 55% of humans know that the sun is a star.

138.)Most lipstick contains fish scales.

139.)Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

140.)Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

141.)When snakes are born with two heads they fight each other for food.

142.)Most cows give more milk when listening to music.

143.)Most of the dust in your house is actually dead skin flakes.

144.)A hippopotamus even though looks huge , can still run faster than a man.

145.)Even if a analog clock is broke it at least shows the right time twice a day.

146.)It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.

147.)Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.

148.)The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear. The staples (or stirrup) bone is only 2.8 millimetres long.

149.)Hawaii is moving towards Japan at the speed of 10cm a year. This is because they are on different tectonic plates.

150.)Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.Dang (that means that from just 2 rats a mom and a dad they could’ve created over 1 million in RELATIVES!)

151.)Horses and cows sleep while standing up.

152.)Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.

153.)Sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world.

154.)Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

155.)Unlike humans, sheep have four stomachs, each one helps them digest the food they eat.

156.)Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin

157.)Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it’s only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.

158.)Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for them to fit through or not.

159.)U.S dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

160.)Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks so it doesn’t digest itself.

161.)The dot over the letter ‘ i ‘ is called  a tittle.

162.)In Italy 17 is considered an unlucky number.

163.)In Japan 4 is considered an unlucky number.

164.)Triskaidekaphobia means the fear of the number 13.

165.)Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs 1-3 times a year)

166.)40% of McDonald’s profits come from their sales of Happy Meals . (That’s the best they can do , get like Wendy’s!)

167.)315 entries into Websters 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

168.)On average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

169.)Chocolate can kill dogs;it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

170.)Orcas(killer whales)kill sharks by torpedoing into their stomach from underneath, which causes the shark to explode.

171.)Dr.Seuss pronounced his name as “soyce”.

172.)Ketchup was sold in the 1830s has medicine.

173.)33%of women lie about their weight.

174.)At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weight about 4 ounces.

175.)Taking a cellphone while driving is against the law in Israel.

176.)Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

177.)Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

178.) Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

179.)On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

180.)The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design. (That sign is famous now!)

181.)Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

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

183.)There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month. (Fatal=death)

184.)There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world. (EWWWWWW!)

185.)In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!

186.)If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

187.)Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

188.) In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog! (EW i would never even think about marrying that filthy animal.)

189.)You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark

190.)One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

191.) Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

192.)Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

193.)It is impossible to lick your elbow.

194.)Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

195.)Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:

Spades – King David
Hearts – Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds – Julius Caesar

196.) What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
All invented by women.

197.)In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight.”

198.)I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweorof the hamun mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

199.)At least 75% of people who read , it is impossible to lick your elbow , try it anyways.

200.)North Dakota has never had an earthquake.

201.) 9 out of 10 people you know will never see your house.

202.)A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of it’s body.

203.)The penalty (what would happen) for killing a cat , 4,000,years ago in Egypt was death!

204.)Humans are the only primate (mammal) that doesn’t have pigment (color) in their palms.

205.)The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the alphabet.

206.)The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand weighing less then a penny.

207.)Two animal rights’s protesters were protesting about sending pigs to a slaughter house in Bonn , suddenly , all 2,000 pigs  broke through a fence and trampled the two protesters to death.(I know I’m mean but I laughed when I first read it )

208.)Hippos have killed 400 people in Africa , largest number of people killed by a wild animal.

209.)Women blink nearly twice more than men.

210.)Babies’ eyes don’t produce tears until the baby is around 6-8 weeks old.

211.)Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

212.)Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain – your brain on average weighs around 3lbs. , so that means all the skin on your body weigh around 6lbs.EWW

213.)A crocodile cannot stick it’s tongue out.

214.)The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

215.)Europe is the only continent without a desert.

216.)Hiccups that won’t go away, most likely will go away by massaging your ear lobes.(usually where most people get there ears pierced.)

217.)The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

218.)In Ancient Rome it was a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose. (LoL it was also a sign of ugliness , who wants a crooked nose? )

219.)Rhythm is the longest English word without a vowel.

220.)Women wash their hands in the bathroom more than men . Women 88% Men 50%.

221.)Oklahoma is an Indian word for ” Red Man ” . Okla = Red . Homa = Man

222.)”Whats it all mean man ” was a common phrase used in the 70’s by the hippies.

223.)Charles King Spaniels were bred purely for royalty.

224.)Charles King Spaniels are most happy when sitting in someone’s lap.

225.)It is a proven fact that children under 2 and animals can see ghosts better than anyone else.

225.)The “Hundred year war” actually lasted for 116 years.

226.)Catgut comes from sheep and horses. (YUCK!)

227.)A purple finch ( bird) is actually crimson.(crimson is red)

228.)Fed Ex delivers 6,000,000 million packages a day.(6 million)

229.)Seven Lego sets are sold every second world wide by retailers.

230.)Most accidents occur between 3pm and 6pm on Fridays.

231.)The most-lopsided game in the history of college football occurred on October 7, 1916 when the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets met the Cumberland College (now University) Bulldogs of Tennessee. Final score: Georgia Tech – 222 Cumberland College – 0 (WOW Cumberland College sucks!)

232.)The average length of a player’s career in the NFL is 3 ½ years.

233.)American women, on average, spend 55 minutes a day getting showered, dressed, and groomed.That sounds about right.

234.)1 in every 100 American ADULTS is now in jail or prison (91% are male and 9% female)

235.)Out of every 1,000 people 844 of them have TV Sets in the U.S

236.)Walmart is the second largest employer is the U.S. (The U.S. Government is #1).

237.)You have a 300-3,600 word conversation with yourself every minute , inside your head of course.

238.)The take your dog to work day was made in 1999.

239.)Fever is a lame and I hate his new website 😳 😆

240.)The English Bulldog is the national and most common dog in England.

241.)The average person throws away 5 lbs. of trash a day.

242.)A regular aluminum can (usually pop cans) can run your T.V. for 4 hours.

243.)There is no limit to the amount of how many times an aluminum can can be recycled.

244.)We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.

245.)At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!(CRAZY ISN’T IT!)

246.)To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.(That’s sad)

247.)If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!

248.)Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.

249.)Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!

250.)Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

251.)American throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.

252.)Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!

253.)More than 20,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.

254.)A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That’s a lot of containers — make sure they’re recycled!

255.)Households purchasing school uniforms generally spent less on children’s school clothes than households buying clothing for children who attend schools with no dress codes ($103.50 versus $184.60.)

256.)In a group of 23 people atleast 2 have the same birthday.

257.)A polar bear’sfur reflects sunlight.The sunlight ‘bounces’ off of it making it seem white.Really underneath their skin is black.

258.)A Guinea Pig isn’t from Guinea nor is it a pig.

259.)The word up is one of the most used 2 letter words in world.

260.)The word ‘up’ has over 30 definitions in the English dicitonary.

261.)A hamburger doesn’t have any ham in it.

262.)The U.S.A has a 97% literacy rate.That means 97 out of 100 people can read.Over the age of 15.

263.)In the U.S.A out of 1000 people , 849 of them own a T.V , where in some countries out of 1000 people only 17 own a T.V.

264.)55% of all deaths including a firearm (gun) is a suicide.

265.)Americans throw out 27% of the 350,000,000 pounds of food they buy each year.

266.)47% og dogs in America sleep in a family member’s bed.

267.)2.4% of all NEWlyweds (first time getting married) are over 65.

268.)20% of all accidents in sweden involve an elk.

269.)Americans don’t use 78% of the minutes they have payed for.

270.)98% of Irish people can read , over the age of 15.

271.)The great great grandfather of Barack Obama came from Moneygall, County Offaly.He was from Ireland)

272.)On average a person living in Ireland drinks about 3KG of tea.

273.)While the Old Legend says that Christ will judge all nations on Judgement day , it also says Saint Patrick will judge Ireland! (I think that’s pretty cool.)

274.)Catherine Kelly, who died in 1785, was allegedly the smallest Irish woman ever. With a total height of just 34 inches and a weight of 8 pounds, she was known as “The Irish Fairy.”

275.)Did you know that Bill Clinton had a pet named Socks?

276.)The Mona Lisa is missing her eyebrows in her painting!

277.)The most common last name in the US is Smith.

278.)Penguins can grow up to 6 feet high!

279.)Usually when your asleep you don’t react to funky weird smelling odors.

280.)Clubpenguin is #1 on http://miniclip.com which is where I found it.It has almost got knocked off though by a horrible war violence game!It did get knocked off for two whole weeks though!  =,-(  it makes me sad to say that.

281.)Eleanor Roosevelt , former first lady , used to eat three chocolate covered garlic balls every morning.Her doctor said it would help her keep her memory longer , she also did it for most of her adult life!

282.)California was the state with the most abortions in 2003.It tripled most states twice with a 305,000 babies being aborted.It is probably the most aborted state till this day.

283.)Ronald Reagan , former president , was the only president who starred in a Hollywood feature film.

284.)The Pittsburgh field (Steeler’s) is named Heinz.LoL.It is named after the best ketchup in the world.

285.)Cats can see in yellow , green , and blue.Scientists thought they could only see in black and white.

286.)A liger is an animal that is half tiger and half lion.Duh’ liger.

287.)Guinea pigs only have 4 fingers and 3 toes.LOL I wonder how they run around.

288.)Jamie,Jo,Chris,Sam,Jordan,and Tyler can all be boy and girl names.

289.)Monopoly was invented in 1933 by the Parker Bros.I love that game and it is so crazy that it was made when my great-grandma was about 15.

290.)When koalas are born they are the size of a jellybean!No wonder we never hear about baby koalas.

291.)When a baby kangaroo is born it is the size of a bee!

292.)A shrimp’s heart is in its head!EWW DISGUSTING!

293.)Bathophobia is the fear of depth the opposite of the fear of heights.

294.)When Guinea pigs are happy they make snuffling noises like piggies do.

295.)A hummingbird’s body is mainly runned from nectar out of flowers.

296.)The oldest known rock lies in Canada.The Acasta Gneiss , a metamorphic rock is 3.96 billion years old!

297.)70% of rocks are sedimentary , since so mcuh of the world is water , and sedimentary rocks are formed underwater.

298.)Up to 100,000 tons (200,000 lbs.) of rock a year fall to earth from space.the largest meteorite in the world lies in the ground in Africa and weighs more than 60 tons (120 lbs.)!

299.)The diamond is the hardest natural substance found on earth.

300.)The earth is approximately 4.8 billion years old!

301.)You can roll a piece of gold as big as your thumbnail , to stretch out into the size of an average sized tennis field!

302.)The largest Topaz crystal was found in 1940.It weighs 596 lbs.It is on display in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

303.)The most common mineral on earth is Quartz.

304.)Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

305.)Smartest dogs: 1) Border Collie – 2) Poodle – 3) Golden Retriever. Dumbest dog: 1) Afghan

306.)First novel ever written on a typewriter was “Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain.

307.)It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs

308.)Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better .

309.)Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $440,000

310.)City with the most Rolls Royce cars: Hong Kong (Chinese people are like freaking rich)

311.)Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver(gun): Eleanor Roosevelt (She must’ve been scared)

312.)The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

313.)An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it .(Wow that eagle must be strong!)

314.)In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees .

315.)The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.(That’s sick)

316.)The youngest pope was 11 years old.(Smart kid!)

317.)Mark Twain didn’t graduate from elementary school.(Stupid kid!)

318.)Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.

319.)The symbol on the ‘pound’ key (#) is actually called an octothorpe.

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

321.)Donald Duck’s middle name was Fauntleroy.

322.)The mouth of a lion is like a fingerprint or a tongue , no two lion have the same whisker pattern.

323.)Betsy Ross was born with a full set of teeth.

324.)A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

325.)The dragonfly has the lifespan of 24 hours.

326.)The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

327.)The shortest verse in the bible is “Jesus wept”.

328.)Quicksand actually goes slow.

329.)A group of unicorns is called a blessing.(Unicorns aren’t real , or are they?)

330.)Jerusalem-after a man suffered the loss of his 70 year old mother he kept her body cold in a refrigerator until science could bring her back to life.It was hard for me , but it was her wish claimed the man.

331.)Key West , Florida – one restaurant owner killed another man while arguing over how to put silverware in correctly.

332.)Monkeys fling poop at each other when agitated or mad.

333.)Christopher Columbus , the guy who discovered the New World (American , U.S.A.) , thought when he landed in the New World that he landed in Japan.

334.)Christopher Columbus thought the world was round , no one else believed him! (The world is round people!)

335.)90% of marriages are arranged in India!Not true love people , I don’t even understand why they still do that stuff.

336.)Arizona has 80+ trains running through it everyday!probably because of the Grand Canyon , very popular tourist attraction.

337.)Babe Ruth stuck a piece of lettuce under his hat , he said it gave him the ‘coolness’ (as in temperature) of the lettuce.He changed it every 2 innings! (Can You Say Freak? , LoL , J/P , No Disrespect For My Main Man Babe Ruth!)

338.)Ralphie is in movie ‘A Christmas Story’ says he wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas 28 times throughout the movie.That’s means he said it approximately every 3 minutes and 2o seconds!

339.)American Idol is the most popular TV Show in America.(if I don’t recall wrong , they stole the show idea from the Japanese.)

340.)Snoop Dogg has said the worst gift he has ever received was 10.00$ for Christmas in 1995.

341.)When Selena Gomez was 8 , her aunt from out of town got her Barney pajamas for Christmas.She said her aunt must’ve thought she was 2 or something.

342.)You can get your tongue stuck to a frozen pole!Don’t try triple dog daring your friends to that one , it could edn up serious!

343.)The actual house from the movie ‘The Christmas Story’ is in Cleveland , Ohio!You can visit it for 7.50$.it was sold on eBay in 2004 for 150.00$.Collector Brian Jones bought the house.

344.)-read fact above-In the house they have their own Gift Shop.They sell leg lamps , lifebuoy soap , and the decoder pin , and even variant parts from the house that was shown in the movie!

345.)A snail can sleep for over three years!

346.)TYPEWRITER is the longest word made by only 1 row of the Qwerty keyboard.

347.)We call our keyboards ,  keyboards.But they are actually Qwerty keyboards.They are called Qwerty because the first six letters on the top row spell Qwerty!

348.)There is an alarm clock pillow!It looks pretty weird , and there is a tab that sticks out the side of the pillow , which is where you enter the numbers.

349.)On average 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens.(I woul’ve though pen caps , not the whole thing lol.)

350.)Scientists have scientific proof that Jesus was born in either June or July!Thats makes some real sense to me!What baby survives on December 25th sleeping in a manger!

351.)If you were found with a drug , yours or not , you could be automatically sentenced to death in Malaysia.

352.)A cheetah doesn’t roar like a lion , it purrs like a cat.

353.)The opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7.

354.)The original name for a ‘butterfly’ was a ‘flutterby’.

355.)No two zebras have the same stripes.

356.)You’d have to dig a hole somewhere 4,000 miles long , to reach the core of the Earth!

357.)A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

358.)A zebra is White with Black stripes.Yea not Black with White Stripes Ha!

359.)Dolphin’s sleep with one eye open.

360.)Dark colors absorb light energy and light colors reflect them.When you wear a black jacket , you stay warm , when you wear a white jacket , the warmness wears off.

361.)1 out of 8 men snore while they’re sleeping.

362.)1 out of 10 men grinds their teeth while sleeping.

363.)The whistle of the Blue Whale is the loudest sound made by any animal , at 188 decibels.

364.)A cat sees about 6 times better than a human at night time.They have this cell in their eye , which absorbs light , that lasts all day.

365.)A cat uses its whiskers to determine whether it fits through a space or not.

366.)A girzzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!

367.)The FEMALE lion does 90% of the hunting , while the man prefers to rest!LAZY MAN!

368.)Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.

369.)A jellyfish is 95% water.

370.)Of all the words in the English language the word ‘set’ has the most definitions.

371.)Cat’s jaws cannot move sideways.

372.)The vocabulary of the average person is 5,000 to 6,000 words.

373.)No word in the English language rhymes with ‘month’.

374.)The average person walks around the world twice in a lifetime.(They’re talking about how many steps you take)

375.)’a man a plan a canal panama’ is the same spelled backwards ‘a man a plan a canal panama’

376.)Ants don’t sleep.

377.)The most meanest thing an Iraqian person can do to you , is for them to throw their shoe at you.

378.)Iraqians believe a throwing a show at someones face is the nastiest thing you can do , seeing you sweat over 2 cups of sweat in it everyday!

378.)The five dirtiest foods are peaches , pre-packed salad mixes , scallions , eggs , and melons.

379.)660,000 people eat a Salmonella (food-poisoned) filled egg every year!Killing by the least 300! (wouldn’t that be weird to say Susie Q. died from an egg , lol )

380.)Pre-packaged salad mixed are triple washed! (must be really dirty!)

381.)Heat kills more Americans than earthquakes do every year.

382.)Thunderstorms kill more Americans than hurricans do every year.

383.)Earthquakes , wildfires and hurricanes combined were responsible for fewer than 5 percent of all hazard deaths in America.

384.)Connecticut could fit into Alaska 117 times!

385.)In Connecticut 1908 the first lollipop was made!(Wow , they’re so famous!)

386.)If you had 10 billion $1 bills and spent one bill every second, it would take you 317 years to spend it all!

387.)Folding a bill back and forth 4,000 times will make it tear apart. (Don’t try this at home!)

388.) About only 33 cars race each year. (In racing contests ofcourse)

389.)In 1952, Cleveland hosted the first rock concert.

390.)Saguaros (cactuses) take about 10 years to grow an inch tall (OMG that’s slow!)

391.)The Earth spins around the sun at 68,000 miles per hour!Thats insane!

392.)Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues.

393.)Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble.

394.)It takes about one hundred Monarch Butterflies to weigh an ounce.Wow and an ounce isn’t even a lot.

395.)Honeybees have to make about ten million trips to collect enough nectar for production of one pound of honey.Happy I’m not a honeybee.

396.)Insects have been present for about 350 million years, and humans for only 130,000 years.

397.)The term “honeymoon” comes from the Middle Ages, when a newly married couple was provided with enough honey wine to last for the first month of their married life.

398.)There are nearly as many species of ants (8,800) as there are species of birds (9,000) in the world.That’s pretty cool I didn’t even know there were different types of ant species.

399.)Nearly 50% of the bacteria in your body lives on your TONGUE!Thats why mommy-kisses are better than mommy-licks on boo boos lol.

400.)By the time a person is 35 years old they start losing 7,000 brain cells a day , which are never replaced.

401.)Electric lights for Christmas trees were first invented by The Edison Company in 1882. Up until then, if trees were lit, candles were used-and then, usually only on Christmas Eve night.

402.)An ant brain has about 250,000 brain cells.A human brain has 10,000 million.So a colony of 40,000 ants has a brain collectively of a human.

403.)Ants usually only live for 45-60 days.

404.)Syrian hamsters are only pregnant for 16-18 days and can have as many has 20 young , but usually only 8 young on average.

405.)An ant has two stomachs.One stomach is for the ants food and the other is for food that the ant is sharing with its colony.

406.)It takes around 3,000 cows to supply the 22,000 footballs, the NFL uses every season.

407.)The average cow’s temperature is 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

408.)A cow can’t vomit.

409.)Cows have 32 teeth.

410.)There are more than 800,000 cows producing milk in California.

411.)A Jersey cow weighs between 700 and 1,000 pounds.

412.)No two cows have the same spots.

413.)The cow must be a mother before she will produce milk.

414.)Cows eat 100 lb. of feed a day, 20 lb. of grain, and drink a bath tub full of water a day.

415.)Cows can weigh 1,350 lb., and 85 lb. at birth. Eww 85lbs. at birth , thats gross I only weighed 7 lbs. and 6 ounces.

416.)A cow spends 13 hours a day lying down and up to 8 hours a day eating.

417.)The heaviest born calf was 225lbs. when they were first born.

418.)Dairy cows can produce up to 200 lbs of farts and flatus (burps) a day!SICKENING!

419.)Dairy cows can produce up to 125lbs of spit a day.

420.)One fourth of the worlds population lives on 200$ a year.

421.)Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

422.)Birds don’t sleep in their nests.They may nap in them , but they actually sleep in other places.

423.)Some ancient stories give credit to mice or rats for punishing evil people.

424.)A baby mouse is called a kitten or a pinky.Aww pinky come here.

425.)Mickey Mouse was born in 1928.

426.)A mouse only lives 1-2 years.

427.)Mice are constant eaters , and will eat anything practically!

428.)Ginger cats are mostley male , and tortoiseshell cats are mostly female.

429.)Cats can jump up to 5 times as tall as they are.

430.)Normal body temperature for a cat is 102 degrees F.

431.)Crocodiles can hold their breath for two hours.

432.)A ring-tailed lemur’s tail is longer than its body.

433.)Lions are the second largest cats , tigers are the largest. -Thanks for telling me about typo-

434.)The first manned flight was in 1783 by the Montgolfier Brothers.They were in a hot air balloon.

435.)The fastest animal is a Peregrine falcon it can reach up to 270mph flying downward.

436.)The polar star is 50 times larger than the sun.

437.)The movie ‘Unrest'(8 films to die for movie) is the first horror movie to use real dead human bodies!EWWWWWWW

438.)Pirahnas can swim 5 feet in 1 second.Fast little things!

439.)Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow down the movie so they could see his moves.

440.)Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) once said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”.Not an Odd fact but it is true.

441.)Krill  is the most common animal of the ocean in Antarctica.

442.)Seven from the seventeen penguin species live in the Antarctica.

443.)Owls can’t be heard when they fly.

444.)Alektorophobia is the name given to “The Fear of Chickens”.

445.)China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most Horses with 10,000,000 and chickens with over 3,000,000,000.

446.)To give poultry CPR you need to pump the legs up and down.

447.)Cows can see color.

448.)Basenji ( African wolf dog) is the only dog that cannot bark.

449.)Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.

450.)World’s oldest dog was 29 years, 5 months old.

451.)Dogs are responsible for most drug busts.Good Ol’ Dogs.

452.) A dog’s heartbeat is 70-120 times per minute.

453.)Female dogs are more likely to bite you.

454.)Dogs can sense Cancer in people.

455.)Dogs can predict Epileptic Seizures in people.

456.)Chihuahua is the oldest breed of dog native to North America.

457.)Longest jump by a dog was a Greyhound, 30 feet in 1849.

458.)A purring cat doesn’t always mean its happy. Cats also purr if they’re in pain.

459.)In one year an elephant can drink 15,000 gallons of water.

460.)Most elephant communication is infrasonic. We can’t hear it.

461.)An elephant’s tummy growling can be heard 600 feet away.

462.)Elephants can lose and replace teeth 6 times.

463.)Elephants have only FOUR teeth.

464.)Elephants are pregnant for 22 months!

465.)Ferrets can catch our colds and flu from humans.

466.) Florida produces and supplies 95 percent of the tropical fish sold in North America.

467.)Arowana (fish) babies live in their fathers’ mouth until they are big enough to be on their own.

468.)Well cared for Goldfish can live to be as much as 70 years old.

469.)Babies laugh when they’re born [submitted by cutiecat27]

470.)Most frogs do in fact have teeth.

471.)Most people watch the NFL on CBS than any other program.

472.)Toads don’t have teeth.

473.)The longest mane for a horse was 18 ft long

474.)Horses cannot vomit.

475.)Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.

476.)Some pigs have straight tails. Others have curly tails.I thought they all had curly tails.

477.)Fatty acids from a pig and glycerine are used for insecticides, floor waxes, weed killers, water-proofing agents, cement, rubber, crayons, cosmetics, chalk, antifreeze, plastics, putty, cellophane.

478.)Pigs have four toes on each hoof. Pigs walk on only two of their toes on each foot. They look like they are walking on tiptoe.

479.)A Rabbit’s teeth grow during their entire life

480.)The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

481.)The king cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world.

482.)1 lb of wool can make 10 miles of yarn.

483.)Two weeks after Barack Obama got elected most of the kids in this hospital in Kenya were either name Barack or Michelle (his wife).23 boys were name Barack and 20 girls were name Michelle.

484.)9 out of 10 times when someone tries to flatter you (constantly saying nice things about) it is because they want something from you.

485.)When you see sunlight , it is sunlight from eight minutes ago.It takes sunlight eight minutes just to reach the Earth.

486.)98% of people marry their 7th-12th grade sweethearts.

487.)Every baby is born with blue eyes,they change afterwards.

488.)Most kids in America don’t like school. – told by Casey Balajadia

489.)Glue has calories.

490.)The Taco Bell dog is a girl and her name is Gidget. -told by cutiecat27

491.)America opened over 100 Wal-Marts in China. -told by fierrycold

492.)Your odds of being killed in a tornado are 1 of 2 million. -told by Chloe

493.)You have a better chance at being struck by lightning 3 times then winning the lottery once!

494.)By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)

Please tell me if I repeated a fact and if you have one you would like me to add tell me and I’ll give you credit!

Please don’t copy all of them,you can copy some and give me credit.

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