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Home Index - A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
- A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
- A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
- A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
- Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
- Cat urine glows under a black-light!
- Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
- Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
- Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
- Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
- In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
- It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
- It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
- It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales!
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
- One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
- One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
- Porcupines float in water!
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- Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
- Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
- Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
- Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
- The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
- The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
- The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
- The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
- The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
- The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
- The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
- The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
- There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
- There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
- Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
- Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
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