posted on Oct, 18 2008 @ 05:08 PM
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Bees can recognise human faces.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan",there was never a recorded Wendy before.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The U.S. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28%~the percentage of North America that is wilderness is 38%.
The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $ 16,400.
The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour is 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
A rat can swim for 72 hours non-stop and jump down 50 feet without injury.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
On average,men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red-hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.
Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found himself
in the city prison.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
A jellyfish is 95% water.
Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.
Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
A leech has 32 brains.
In Minnesota it is illegal to mock skunks.
A shrimps heart is in its head.
Deer urine can turn blue when they become dehydrated in the winter.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
On average, 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimp each year.
In 1471, a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was accused of being 'a devil in disguise' after laying a brightly colored egg. The chicken stood trial,
was found guilty and burned at the stake.
According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The offense was punishable by hanging.
Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle."
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (President #32) was related in some way to 11 former U.S. Presidents.
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest computer software producing country in the world.
Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Only in 1956 was the phrase "In God We Trust" adopted as the U.S. national motto.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
Punctuation was not invented until the 1500's.