Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
Cows don't have upper front teeth
Only female mosquitoes bite
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
11% of people are left handed
August has the highest percentage of births
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
Animals/Birds
A bear has 42 teeth
A group of frogs is called an army
A group of kangaroos is called a mob
A group of rhinos is called a crash
A group of whales is called a pod
A group of geese is called a gaggle
A group of owls is called a parliament
A cats urine glows under a blacklight
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees
Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
Domestic cats dislike citrus scents
Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
Birds need gravity to swallow
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
Most lipsticks contain fish scales
Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
Rabbits like licorice
Movies/Films
The movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks
The film 'Mary Poppins' was filmed entirely indoors
All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20
Food/Stuffs
No two corn flakes look the same
Instant coffee was invented in 1901
The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold
Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population
Pearls melt in vinegar
A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don’t)
There is no butter in buttermilk
Others
The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles)
Paper originated from China
The wheelbarrow is invented in China
Tree hugging is forbidden in china
The first sailing boats were built in Egypt
Brazil is named after a tree
Mathematical
Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent
Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador
Hilton was the first international hotel chain
The brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland
Monopoly is the most played board game in the world
Jamaica has 120 rivers
The only animals that purr are cats
Numbers/Percentage
96% of candles sold are purchased by women
China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys
42% of men and women 25% don’t wash their hands after using a public toilet
8% of people have an extra rib
85% of plant life is found in the ocean
The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
Your foot has 26 bones in it
The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)
About 90% of the worlds population kisses
Toilets use 35% of indoor water use
Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
The average speed of a skydiver is 200kph (124mph)
The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
All insects have 6 legs
That 90% of an iceberg sits under water
African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
The average human brain contains around 78% water
Your brain uses between 20 - 25% of the oxygen your breathe
1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) It totals 5050
Sponges hold more cold water than hot
Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters
The average golf ball has 336 dimples
There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year
There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo
Black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact
Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961
Room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25°C (68 to 77°F)
'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy
A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
Reindeer like bananas
The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
Perth is Australia's windiest city
Elvis's middle name was Aron
The flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear
Cats spend 66% of their life asleep
Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
Money is the number one thing that couples argue about
Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
Spiders are arachnids and not insects
Each time you see a full moon you always see the same side
Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia - more than any other in the US
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
There is no such thing as a naturally blue food
Honey is the only natural food which never goes off
M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle
Your more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
A crocodile can't stick out its tongue
Rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated
Women blink twice as much as men
Ostriches don't bury their heads in sand
Scotland has the most redheads
Household dust is made of dead skin cells
The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'
Hummingbirds can't walk
Wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object
The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953
India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000)
India is home to over 200 million cows
The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble
Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora
Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13
Every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered
The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a reference to Superman
The Internet was originally called arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
Sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
The croissant was invented in Austria
In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
Australia was originally called New Holland
'Lonely Planet' for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet
Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill
Cats have over 100 vocal chords
Camel's milk doesn't curdle
Elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
It's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump
A 1/4 of your bones are in your feet
Your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body
A 'jiffy' is actually 1/100th of a second
On your birthday you share it with 9 million others
1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories
You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV
Frogs don’t drink (they absorb water through their skin)
At birth dalmations are always white
Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
A duck can't walk without bobbing its head
A hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
Dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
A crocodile can't move its tongue
A strawberry is the only fruit which seeds grow on the outside
That the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles
In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names
Pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians
An average person will spend 25 years asleep
Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature
The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression
The word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'
Crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure
Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube
Your skin is the largest organ making up the human body
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world
The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity
French fries are originally from Belgium
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky
Your most sensitive finger is your index finger (closest to your thumb)
'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
Venetian blinds were invented in Japan
The word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel
Enamel is the hardest substance in your body
In a deck of cards the king of harts is the only king without a moustache
The safest car color is white
The most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush
Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee
An octopus pupil is rectangular
The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other
The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service
The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)
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