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Funny Facts


Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.


The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men more.

Colleen McCulloug

Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

W.C. Fields

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.

Tommy Cooper

I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.

Tommy Cooper

I slept like a log last night. I woke up in the fireplace.

Tommy Cooper

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

W.C. Fields

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Spike Milligan

My neighbor asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Eric Morecambe

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

Emo Philips

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.

Mike Wilmot

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.

Demetri Martin


Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.

Demetri Martin


I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.

Demetri Martin


Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby


If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Dave Allen

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Steven Wright

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
Tracey Ullman

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
Marilyn vos Savant

Some weird animal facts

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

An adult blue whale's heart beats about 6 times a minute.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A horse has 18 more bones than a human.

Alligators cannot move backwards.

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

A blue whale is the loudest animal.

Black cats are considered lucky in some European countries.

The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to 4 years.

A blue whale's tongue is so large that 50 people could stand on it.

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

There are more cows than people in the US.

Tiger sharks can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.

An ant can lift 50 times it's own weight.

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.

It is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. (Please get your cats fixed!)

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

For every human in the world there is 15 dogs an 45 cats. (Again, fix your pets!)

Starfish don't have brains. (how sad!)

Scared of sharks? Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. About 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth.

More people each year are killed from bees than from snakes.

A cockroach can go nine days without eating.

A giraffe's tongue is about 21 inches long.

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Snails can sleep for 3 years.

There are 200,000,000 insects for every 1 person on earth.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

330 intersting facts for you....

  1. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
  2. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
  3. A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
  4. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
  5. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
  6. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
  7. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
  8. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
  9. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
  10. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
  11. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
  12. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
  13. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
  14. Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
  15. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
  16. Cat urine glows under a black-light!
  17. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
  18. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
  19. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
  20. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
  21. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
  22. Most lipstick contains fish scales!
  23. No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
  24. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
  25. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
  26. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
  27. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
  28. Porcupines float in water!
  29. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
  30. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
  31. The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
  32. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
  33. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
  34. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
  35. The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
  36. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
  37. The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
  38. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
  39. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
  40. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
  41. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
  42. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
  43. The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
  44. The state of Florida is bigger than England!
  45. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
  46. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
  47. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
  48. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
  49. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
  50. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
  51. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
  52. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
  53. 142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
  54. A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
  55. A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.
  56. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
  57. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
  58. A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
  59. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
  60. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  61. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
  62. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  63. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  64. A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
  65. A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
  66. A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon.
  67. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
  68. A whale's penis is called a dork.
  69. According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
  70. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
  71. After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.
  72. Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
  73. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
  74. Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
  75. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
  76. All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
  77. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
  78. Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
  79. Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
  80. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
  81. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
  82. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
  83. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  84. Barbie's full name is Barbra Millicent Roberts.
  85. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
  86. Bela Lugosi died during the filming of "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE". Director Edward D. Wood Jr. used a taller relative who held a cape in front of his face so the audience wouldn't know the difference so he could complete filming.
  87. Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
  88. Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
  89. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
  90. Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
  91. Bob May played the Robot on "Lost In Space" (1965-68) and Dick Tufeld was the voice.
  92. Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
  93. Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
  94. Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.
  95. Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
  96. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
  97. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
  98. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on "Scooby-Doo."
  99. Cat urine glows under a black light.
  100. Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
  101. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
  102. Cheryl Ladd (of Charlie's Angels fame) played the voice, both talking and singing, of Josie in the 70s Saturday morning cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats."
  103. Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
  104. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
  105. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the statement "to get fired."
  106. Clark Gable used to shower more than 4 times a day.
  107. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
  108. Crickets hear through their knees.
  109. Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
  110. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
  111. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
  112. Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
  113. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the statement for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
  114. Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
  115. Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
  116. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
  117. During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.
  118. Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
  119. Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
  120. Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
  121. Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.
  122. Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."
  123. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
  124. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
  125. Former US President Ulysses S. Grant had the boyhood nickname 'Useless'.
  126. Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
  127. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
  128. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
  129. Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
  130. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
  131. Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
  132. Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
  133. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by Bayer.
  134. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
  135. Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
  136. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
  137. Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
  138. Hummingbirds can't walk.
  139. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  140. If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
  141. If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate indefinitely, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
  142. If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
  143. If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
  144. If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
  145. If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with any number you will always find the original number in the result!
  146. If you pause "Saturday Night Fever" at the "How Deep Is Your Love" rehearsal scene, you will see the camera crew reflected in the dance hall mirror.
  147. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
  148. Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
  149. In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man.
  150. In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
  151. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  152. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)
  153. In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
  154. In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
  155. In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
  156. It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
  157. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
  158. It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
  159. It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
  160. It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
  161. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  162. It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breath-alyzer to read 0.
  163. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been over mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
  164. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.
  165. James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
  166. Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original "PREDATOR" in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
  167. Jet lag was once called boat lag, back before jets existed.
  168. John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
  169. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.
  170. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
  171. June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
  172. Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
  173. King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
  174. Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply ' if you were my wife, I would drink it!'
  175. Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
  176. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
  177. Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.
  178. Lizzie Borden was acquitted.
  179. Look at the number four on a clock face that uses Roman numerals. If the clock is made correctly then the Roman numeral four is wrong. The standard and correct way to write the Roman numeral four is "IV," but the traditional way to show it on a clock face is "IIII." Legend has it that a clock was made for a British king. When he saw the clock he mis- informedly corrected the clock maker who re-did the clock face to show a "IIII" instead of an "IV" thus not risking offending the king. Other clock makers followed suit so as not to embarrass the king. Now it is the traditional way to make clocks.
  180. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
  181. Lynyrd Skynard was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."
  182. Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
  183. Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
  184. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  185. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
  186. Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
  187. More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
  188. More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
  189. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
  190. Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
  191. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
  192. Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
  193. Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
  194. No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins, which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
  195. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
  196. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
  197. Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
  198. Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
  199. On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
  200. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
  201. On the new one hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
  202. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
  203. Only female mosquitoes bite.
  204. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
  205. Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
  206. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  207. Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
  208. Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.
  209. Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
  210. Pearls melt in vinegar.
  211. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
  212. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
  213. Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
  214. Race car is a palindrome.
  215. Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
  216. Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
  217. Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
  218. Rhythm and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
  219. Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
  220. Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
  221. Russians generally answer the phone by saying, 'I'm listening.'
  222. S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
  223. Samuel Clemens's pseudonym "Mark Twain" was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilty later and adopted the nom de plume as some sort of expiation. The phrase "mark twain" from which the river pilot got his name does not mean two fathoms (twelve feet.)
  224. Sharon Stone was the first "Star Search" spokes model.
  225. Smithee is a pseudonym that filmmakers use when they don't want their names to appear in the credits.
  226. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
  227. Soda water does not contain soda.
  228. Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
  229. Soweto in South Africa was derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.
  230. Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
  231. Speak of the Devil is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention and he would appear.
  232. St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy around their necks.
  233. Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
  234. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
  235. Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
  236. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
  237. The "Grinch" singer and voice of Tony the Tiger is a man named Thurl Ravenscroft.
  238. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
  239. The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
  240. The Andy Griffth Show was the first spin-off in TV history. It was spun-off from the Danny Thomas Show.
  241. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  242. The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black haired persons have about 100,000; and blondes have the most at 120,000. (That is more than a thousand hairs in each square inch!)
  243. The band "Duran Duran" got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella."
  244. The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
  245. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
  246. The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
  247. The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Huptmobile.
  248. The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle.
  249. The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Round-The-Rosies' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century.
  250. The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof'.
  251. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
  252. The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
  253. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  254. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
  255. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
  256. The dunce cap of schoolhouse fame originates from a paper cone that was placed on the heads of accused witches during the Middle Ages. When Joan of Arc was martyred, she was wearing one of them.
  257. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
  258. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
  259. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
  260. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
  261. The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
  262. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
  263. The first safety razor was not actually invented by King Gillette himself but by a man named William Nickerson who was Kings partner. They believed that the label bearing Nickersons name would be bad for business, plus it was Kings idea anyway.
  264. The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
  265. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
  266. The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
  267. The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
  268. The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
  269. The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.
  270. The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a band-aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
  271. The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
  272. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
  273. The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
  274. The magic word "Abracadabra" was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
  275. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
  276. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  277. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
  278. The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
  279. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  280. The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
  281. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
  282. The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
  283. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
  284. The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
  285. The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
  286. The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
  287. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
  288. The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
  289. The Phillips-head screwdriver was invented in Oregon.
  290. The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
  291. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  292. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
  293. The province of Alberta in Canada has been completely free of rats since 1905.
  294. The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
  295. The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
  296. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
  297. The spaceship 'Valley Forge' from "Silent Running" (1971) actually got it's name from the location used to film some of its interiors; a decommissioned aircraft carrier named the U.S.S. Valley Forge.
  298. The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
  299. The term "Mayday" is used for signaling for help. It comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me."
  300. The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
  301. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
  302. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.
  303. There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
  304. There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.
  305. There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
  306. There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
  307. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
  308. There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
  309. There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
  310. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
  311. There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'
  312. There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
  313. There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
  314. There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
  315. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
  316. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
  317. Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would forestall curses.
  318. Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
  319. U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
  320. Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
  321. Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first video ever played on MTV.
  322. Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
  323. Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
  324. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
  325. When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
  326. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
  327. While at Havard University, Edward Kennedy was suspended for cheating on a Spanish exam.
  328. While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
  329. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  330. Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.

ANIMAL FACTS

Earwigs Facts

factsEarwigs (Order Dermaptera) are small bugs that got their name from the myth that they climb into people's ears and therein lay their eggs or tunnel into the brain. Earwigs also have two penises! Both are larger than it's body and if it needs the second one just in case one of them snaps off! "It's an interesting phenomenon," says Mike Siva-Jothy of the University of Sheffield, UK. He thinks there must be some evolutionary advantage to the earwig's "unusually long" and fragile organs.

Elephant Facts

factsElephants are well known for their intelligence and caring for each other. Elephants cry and laugh and they are largest animals that live on land. Elephants live long, between 60-70 years. Elephant's musk has more than 100,000 muscle units and elephant poops around 80 pounds a day. It is known that elephants take a great care over dead bones of their family members. However, it is the myth that they carry them to secret "elephant burial grounds". Interesting elephant fact is that periodically male elephants go through musth or extremely aggressive sexual behavior. Musth in Persian means "intoxicated" and it is recorded that male elephant in musth has 60 times higher level of testosterone than in the normal elephant. Elephant male in the musth will kill and destroy everything in his path. Take a look at this shocking vicious video to learn more about this highly aggressive elephant behavior. Again we repeat THIS VIDEO IS VERY AGGRESSIVE!

Lion And Tiger = Liger

factsWhat happens when a male lion and a female tiger breed? A Liger - the largest of all felines. A liger looks like a giant lion with diffused stripes and some male ligers grow sparse manes. These massive creatures are 10 feet long on average and weigh about 700 lb (320kg). Liger love swimming - trait common to tigers but lacking in lions. Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II. The largest liger alive today is appropriately named Hercules and lives in Jungle Island in Miami.

Facts About Marijuana

factsCannabis was first cultivated in China around 4000 B.C. and the U.S. Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Twelve Americans receive prescribed marijuana from the U.S. government. There are three main types of Marijuana: Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Ruderalis. Cannabis Sativa grows taller and it gives more of a head high. Indica is a short bushy plant and the high is more muscle relaxing throughout the body. Cannabis Ruderalis grows in colder climates (Eastern Europe and Russia). Skunk is the strong Cannabis Indica hybrid. Interesting fact about marijuana is that marijuana cures/prevents more than 100 diseases including cancer and depression. We advise you to watch following videos:

Candiru Fish In Your Penis

factsIf you ever swim in the Amazon and Oranoco Rivers of South America please think twice before urinating in the water. Fish called Candiru or Carnero is attracted by urine smell (urea and ammonia) and it can insert it self into the penis or vagina while urinating. Then penis fish lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with its spines and it uses its mouth for feeding by sucking the blood. It is almost impossible for fish to survive inside of the human body. Removal of the fish is extremely hard due to the spines and if problem is not treated it can result in removal of the genitals.

Goats That Climb Trees

factsGoats can climb trees! In Morocco goats climb Argan trees to consume delicious berries which are similar to the olives. Local farmers follow these goats because fruit of the Argan tree has the nut inside which is used to make delicious cooking oil. Interesting fact (besides the climbing goats) is that Morocco goats spit or excrete these nuts, which then farmers use to make the Argan oil. However, Argan trees are close to extinction because of the tree wood harvesting. Some organizations are trying to promote Argan oil to became marketing success in order to preserve these weird trees. We all hope that these goats will continue their climbing adventures!

Ladybird Facts

factsThere are more than 5000 ladybird species. Ladybirds usually eat plant lice. However, Asian species when introduced to the Europe attacked European ladybirds. Dots on the ladybirds have nothing to do with the years of living. Some ladybirds have up to 22 dots on the back. Average lifespan of these cute bugs is three years. Some people believe that ladybirds can predict the weather. If they fell off your hand it would rain, if they flew away it would be fine.

Praying Mantis Facts

factsAn interesting fact regarding this insect is that, while they are mating, the female praying mantis eats the males head. No one knows for sure why, but it could be that protein from male body helps the eggs develop. Praying mantis have excellent eye sight and they can see up to 18 meters (60 feet) away. Who wants to be a mantis?

Birds Commit Suicide

factsIt is believed that in a small town in North Eastern part of India (Jatinga) birds commit suicide in a particular 1.5 km long and around 200 meters wide strip of field area. These birds are not suicidal since their behavior may be attributed to heavy rains and floods and submergence of their natural habitat in the surrounding areas. Also the local villagers light torches which attract the birds migrating at night. They then clobber them to death with bamboo poles and eat them!

Lassie Facts

factsAlthough most known Scottish shepherd, Lassie, is white-brown, original Collies were mostly tricolor: white, brown and mostly black (on the back). It\'s also interesting that Collies are better known as \"Lassie\", than \"Collie\" or \"Scottish shepherd\".

Fireflies and Internal Light

factsDo you wonder where fireflies got their internal light? Fireflies actually contain the so-called Luciferin. This substance when combined with oxygen will enable them to produce light. This process is called bioluminescence and they light up to attract the mate. Same is true with angler fish which also produces light, but they use it to catch the prey.

Insects in your Chocolate

factsDid you know that the average chocolate bar in the U.S. contains at least 8 pieces of an insect in it? Harvesting of the cacao beans occurs in the tropical countries of South America with low sanitation levels. Cacao tree beans are cut and piled in the farmer's field where they ferment for 6 days. During this process, children and adults walk over the piles; insects, rodents, small animals and other living things that make their nests in the piles. Actually the The U. S. Department of Health publishes a book entitled "The Food Defect Action Levels" in which they list unavoidable defects in food (insect, rodents etc.) all allowed by FDA.

Armadillo Facts

factsA pound of armadillo meat contains 780 calories. Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air. Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos. Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day. Armadillos can walk underwater.

Tasmanian Tiger-wolf

factsTasmanian tiger-wolf is an extinct wolf like carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back. Despite its popular name, this animal is neither a tiger nor a wolf and it is closely related to the kangaroo. Tasmanian tiger-wolf has a pouch for its babies to climb in. The extinction of the Tasmanian wolf is attributable solely to activities of human beings, it was said to become extinct in 1936.

Dogs As Suicide Bombers?

factsIn the Second World War, during the Blitzkrieg campaign, German tanks were too fast and too powerful for Russian military. Russians idea was to train the dogs to carry bombs under the German tanks. The trainers would first starve the dogs, and then train them to find a food under the tank. Unfortunately, problem was that dogs trained under the Soviet tanks not the loud German diesel tanks. Plan backfired on Soviets, but they did manage to disable a reported 300 German tanks.

Octopus Facts

factsThe largest octopus weighs about 15kg (Octopus dofleini). An Octopus has three hearts and it can squeeze through a hole the size of a 10-cent coin. Hapalochlaena species can inject enough venom in one bite to kill several adult humans. They can adopt a two-tentacles "walk" that frees up their six remaining limbs and makes them look like an armed vehicle.

Hungry Female Mosquitoes

factsOnly female mosquitoes bites humans and drinks their blood. Male mosquitoes are much bigger than females, but they are harmless to the humans. Female mosquito uses blood to produce eggs since certain proteins are needed for reproduction. Actually mosquitoes are principally nectar feeders except of course for the females. However, mosquito family Toxorhynchites never drinks blood.

Hyena Most Masculine Female?

factsHyenas live in a female dominated society. Female Hyenas are the most masculine females in the animal kingdom. They have very high levels of hormones that are usually found in the males. Also many female hyenas have enlarged clitoris, to the point of looking like a penis. The female hyena urinates, mates and gives birth through this modified clitoris (it is inverted for mating).

Donkey Plus Horse Equals?

factsWhen a female horse and a male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. When a male zebra and a female donkey mate the offspring is called a ‘zedonk’ or ‘zebrass’. All of these resulting offspring are sterile (can't have babies).

Hypoallergenic Cats

factsPeople that are allergic to cats will be able to pet them without sneezing and scratching. Genetically engineered cats will be produced to help people with allergies enjoy their sneeze-free kitties Allerca, Inc., a biotechnology firm in San Diego, California, says it has bred Hypoallergenic Cats and is now taking orders from customers in the United States.

SCIENCE FACTS

Black Hole Facts

factsWhen the star ten times more massive than our own Sun, explodes (Supernova) it leaves behind the strangest phenomenon in the Universe. The Black Hole. After explosion what is left behind is heavy core of subatomic particles, a Neutron Star. It can be very small, but with enormous density. Scientists calculated that approximately one teaspoon of Neutron Star would weight around billions of tons. The gravitational pressure of this highly dense object is so large that it can bend fabric of time and space. This theory is based on Einstein's proposition that space and time are woven together in a flexible fabric. Massive objects like Sun warp the fabric of space and time and pull smaller objects like Earth. Very large Neutron Star can warp time and space fabric so much that it could create a hole where gravity is so strong that not even light could escape. Black Holes are pulling everything around them closer to the center of the hole. In some sense black holes are creators of the galaxies since they are pulling planets and stars towards the spiral center. Each galaxy has a Black Hole and occasionally galaxies collide together because of the gravitational pull from the larger black holes. It is expected that in 5 billion years Andromeda galaxy will collide and endeavor our Milky Way galaxy.

Canis Majoris Facts

factsVY Canis Majoris is the largest star known to man. It is a red Hypergiant, located in the Milky way and measuring between 1800 to 2100 solar radii. One Radius is equal to the current radius of the Sun and it is approximately 432,450 miles (695,500 kilometers). VY Canis Majoris is so large that if our Sun were replaced by it, its surface would extend to (or maybe even pass) the orbit of Saturn.

Interesting Facts About Mars

factsThis magnificent planet has been major candidate for the science fiction movies for many decades. When we consider all the facts it is impossible to imagine that any life could exist on Mars. However, scientists believe that straight lines on Mars are evidence of ice deposits underneath the planet's surface. The most concrete theory is that life on Mars existed billion years ago and some believe that there are remains of ancient civilization on Mars surface. The strange belief, based on Mayan studies, is that Martians fled their planet and landed on Earth (some believe that Mayans descended from Mars). Today Mars is made up of iron with largest volcano in our Solar system called Olympus Mons (see photo bellow) and largest canyon Valles Marineris, which is 2,500 miles long. Mars has two moons and scientists believe that the moon Phobos will crash into Mars in less than 50 years. Moon debris will stay in Mars atmosphere thus creating ring around the Mars similar to the Saturn's ring. Interesting fact about Mars is that NASA sent many missions to Mars and more than half of them disappeared without trace.

Human Brain Is Too Efficient

factsAoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl 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.

Light, Heat and God

factsDarkness is nothing but a absence of light. You can measure intensity of the light to infinity but can you do the same for darkness? Cold is nothing but absence of heat. Heat can be measured to infinity but cold maintains a steady value at a certain degree. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. It was proclaimed that Albert Einstein said: "Evil does not exist, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light." There is no proof that Einstein said this and there is no proof that he didn't. However, based on constructive thinking there is no reason to suppose that Einstein was part of this "fictive" story.

Hadron Collider Facts

factsThe large Hadron Collider is a massive particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles. Two beams of subatomic particles protons or lead ions will travel in opposite directions colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Some people are afraid that it will create strange matter which turns everything it touches into strange matter meaning everything, miniature big bangs.

Vitamin B17 Prevents Cancer

factsImagine the world without cancer. It has been proven that cancer is a deficiency disease caused by the lack of Vitamin B17 (Laetrile). Today there are more people making money from cancer than dying from it. That is the one of the main reasons why Vitamin B17 is disapproved by FDA and cancer associations. You can do research and find that pharmaceuticals companies pushed FDA to disallow sales of raw apricot seeds in the United States. Raw apricot seeds are known to have abundance of B17 vitamin. There is lots of money to make from patented drugs and if we all start eating raw apricot seeds than there will be no profit. This information is not a new breaking research, but we are trying to spread the truth about Vitamin B17 through the Internet. This fact has been proven as FICTION. Please see the comments and draw conclusions on your own research.

The Truth About Minerals

factsA lot of General Practitioners argue that a balanced diet is all we need to live healthy. They are so wrong! 50 years ago, a plate of spinach contained all the minerals we needed to live healthier, but due to over farming, even if you eat a tablespoonful of spinach, there are some minerals such as mobidium, selenium and other trace minerals that are missing. Besides, a gp only studies nutrition on one semester, while nutritionists study the whole course! Minerals are the actual tools that repair your body!

Atom Facts

factsAn atom is made of 200 or more than 200 subatomic particles because it is told that in an atom there is so much space and electrons take only 1/1000th volume of it so there left very much space. That space may have more subatomic particles in it and according to the calculations there may come more than 200 subatomic particles. Array

Fluoride Facts - Poison!

factsFluoride is the bio-accumulative toxic that we all ingest every day either through the drinking water or toothpaste. It is believed that someone has lots of benefits from making people sick (to sell pills) or to make them dumber so we can listen/obey better. It is believed that fluoride does exactly that! We ingest it in large quantities without any reason. The fact is that we can have perfectly good teeth without fluoride. US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never approved any fluoride product designed for ingestion as safe or effective. Some of the diseases/states that have direct influence from ingesting fluoride on daily basis: Osteoporosis, Dental Fluorosis, Hypoactivity or sluggishness, Reduced I.Q, Alzheimer's disease, Cancer. The list continues.

Broken Speed Of Light

factsThe speed of light was broken by two physicists, Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, in Germany from the University of Koblenz. This seriously questions Einstein's theory that no object or information can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. An example of what could happen with this is time travel, but not like you imagine: If you went for a car trip faster than the speed of light, you'd arrive at your destination before you'd even leave, theoretically, of course. As Dr Guenter Nimtz said: "The effect cannot be used to go back in time, only to reduce the time between cause and effect a little bit."

Nikola Tesla Facts

factsNikola Tesla (Serbian scientist) the greatest genius since Leonardo da Vinci. Few people even know that man who invented the 20th century even existed. His ideas and inventions were credited by others. Nikola invented X-rays (credited to Roentgen), radio (credited to Marconi), the microwave oven, speedometer, automobile ignition system, basics behind radar, fluorescent bulb, electron microscope, neon lights and on top of all Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls (invented alternating currents). Tesla had biggest competitor Thomas Edison, who did everything to prove Tesla wrong and to erase him from history books. Tesla\'s ideas were so extreme that scientist community thought he was lunatic. He believed that both voice and image could be transmitted through the air (in the late 1800\'s), which of course was true since we have wireless Internet today.

Dogs Head Lives Without Body

factsIn 1940 Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R conducted research where he experimented with dogs and proved that dogs head can live without its body for three days. Special artificial conditions were created to power the head with arterial and venous pumps. Dog's isolated head reacted to all basic external stimulants: light, sound, pain and taste. This disturbing Russian experiment helped scientist around the world to create artificial organs that are used by many medical institutes. More recently Dr. Robert White of Ohio claims that he transplanted a monkey's head onto another monkey's body.

The Age Of The Universe

factsAfter several debates, astronomers have determined the age of the universe by using a Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. By examining the microwave background radiation that WMAP provided, astronomers were able to pin down the age of the universe, accurate to 1%, to 13.7 billion years old.

Numbers And Words

factsIf you spell all the numbers and try to find letter "A" you will have to count to thousAnd. Did you know that: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321. Also 1,741,725 = 17 + 77 + 47 + 17 + 77 + 27 + 57. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

What Does WD-40 Stand For?

factsMaybe you didn’t know but WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. Name was coined by the chemist, Norm Larsen, while he was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion by displacing water. Norm\'s persistence paid off when he perfected the formula on his 40th try.

Coffee Beans Aromas

factsThe full chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine and its chemical formula is C8H10N4O2. When coffee is roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.

Andromeda Galaxy Facts

factsClosest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda and even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach it. There are 100 billion galaxies that we can observe. Prediction is that there is much more, but Hubble Space Telescope couldn't detect them. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way is predicted to merge within the next 5 billion years. In the event like this smaller galaxies are consumed by larger ones. Andromeda galaxy is twice as large as Milky Way.

POLITICS FACTS

Mao Tse-tung Facts

factsMao Tse-tung founded the People\'s Republic of China in 1949. He was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921. In 1915 Mao attended university in Changsa, China where he wrote the longest recorded graphite, criticizing the Chinese school system and current state of Chinese society. His graphite consisted of more than 4000 Chinese characters. Mao Tse-tung was married four times and he believed that having sex with virgins \"would help to restore and reinvigorate a man’s health and vigor”. Mao was responsible for more than 30 millions deaths mostly from hunger and starvation.

Peter The Great Facts

factsTsar and Emperor of Russia Peter the Great (1672-1725) was unusual ruler by many means. In the battle against the Turks in 1695 he fought as regular foot soldier believing that was the only way to beat the Turks. Peter is believed to have been six feet, seven inches in height (2.04 meters). He married twice and had 11 children, many of whom died in infancy. The eldest son from his first marriage, Czarevich Alexei, was convicted of high treason by his father and secretly executed in 1718.

Idi Amin Ate His Opponents

factsIdi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda and the former heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda was one of Africa\'s most notorious dictators. During his eight-year rule an estimated 500,000 people disappeared or were killed. He praised Hitler and said the German dictator \"was right to burn six million Jews.\" He offered to be king of Scotland if asked. It was reported that Idi Amin ate his opponents.

U.S President Trafficking Virgins

factsUnited States presidential election, 1824, Andrew Jackson emerged as winner with majority of votes. However, under the 12th Amendment, if no candidate got a majority of the college, the election went to the House and there it was decided by Henry Clay, the all-powerful Speaker, who gave it to Adams, under the secret condition that Adam makes him secretary of state. Arguments went out of control and Adams supporters claimed that Jackson is bigamist, adulterer and murderer. Adams was accused of trafficking American virgins to Russian Tsar.

Meet Turkmenbashi

factsHis Excellency Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmenbashi, president of Turkmenistan is one of the most controlling dictators in the world today. There are no churches because he knocks them down. Each year he wants to resign as the president, but congress begs him to stay. He has even rewritten the calendar and renamed the month of January to "Turkmenbashi." April is named after his mother.

George Washington Facts

factsOn February 22, 1732 George Washington was born. George Washington was the only of all Founding Fathers to free his slaves. Marijuana was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon. He was the first Mason to serve as president. Washington rejected a movement among army officers to make him king of the United States. Washington is the only president who was elected unanimously.


SPORT FACTS

Olympics Facts

factsModern Olympic Games were created in 1894, by a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin. However, Olympic Games date back to 776 B.C when they were celebrated as a religious festival. Around 393 A.D games were canceled because they represented pagan festival and celebration of the Greek God Zeus. Ancient Greek athletes performed naked that is why today we have the word gymnasium, "gymnos" in Greek means naked. The five interconnected Olympic rings represent the five significant continents of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. China won the most gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games and today's gold medals are silver covered with a thin coat of gold.

Golf Ladies And Gentlemen

factsIt is the internet myth that the name of the popular Scottish game Golf stands for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden." The word golf originates form medieval Scottish and Dutch dialects. Back in a day before the creation of dictionaries, there was no standardized spelling of any given word. So it is believed that word golf originates from Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" which meant "club." Later on old Scots dialect transformed the word into "gouf" or "golve ."

East And West Germany Sports

factsSome say that 1974 FIFA World Cup was the one of the most intense world cups ever played. Juergen Sparwasser scored the most famous goal in the German soccer history, giving East Germany a win over the West in the only meeting between the sides. That was the only lost game for West Germany in the World Cup and that year West Germany became new World Cup Champion. Juergen was arrested later on for re-painting street signs in East Germany.

Curling Sport Without Judges

factsCurling is a Olympic sport founded by Scots in the 1540\'s and it is played on ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area. It was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants and since it is played in the cold, founded by Scots surely back then alcohol was a regular part of playing. Interesting fact is that there are no judges in the Curling competition.

Berlin Marathon Cheaters

factsMarathon in Berlin is 26 miles long and it was apparently too long for thirty three runners who decided to take a shortcut by riding the subway. They obviously forgot the computer chips they were wearing, which automatically record their time every three miles. They were of course disqualified and their times were removed from the scoreboard.

Farting Contest

factsIn ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.

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