i know a few :P
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters in it.
Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.
The average number of days that a West German goes without washing his underwear is 7. (I wonder how they found this out!)
The cost of raising a medium-sized dog to age 11 is $6,400.
The average lifespan of a major league baseball is seven pitches.
Intelligent people have more zinc than copper in their hair.
Iceland drinks more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A pregnant goldfish is called a "twit".
Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
A baby eel is called an "elver", a baby oyster is called a "spat".
There are four cars and ten light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry will dribble like a
basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The L.A. Rams were the first U.S. football team to use emblems on their helmets.
The average caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
"Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.
"Facetious" and "abstemious" both contain all of the vowels in the correct order.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long, if straightened.
"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends with "mt".
The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The volume of the Earth's moon is about the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the
conveyor belt.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest
amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The first toilet ever to appear on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
There are three times as many cows as people in Montana.
Hawaii is the only U.S. state where coffee is grown.
Monkey's don't get fleas.
On average, Nevada gets only 7 1/2 inches of rain per year.
It's illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.
The ice covering Antarctica averages 6500 feet thick.
In 16th century Turkey, drinking coffee was punishable by death.
Training a seal to balance a ball on its nose is illegal in Sweden.
Experts say the best time to study is right before bed.
A week-old gazelle can outrun a full grown horse.
Six billion pens are thrown away every year in the U.S.
Pound for pound, grasshoppers are 3 times as nutritious as beef.
The first advertisement to discuss body odor was a 1919 ad for the deodorant Odo-Ro-No.
The Washington Monument is sinking at the rate of 6 inches a year.
Groundhog predictions are correct only about 28% of the time.
Americans throw away around 10% of the food they buy at the supermarket.
There are 600 million phones on Earth.
Horses use 17 muscles to twitch their ears. Humans use only 9.
There are enough stones in the Great Wall of China to build an 8 foot wall around the equator.
The golden eagle can spot a rabbit from almost 2 million miles away.
The letters "J" and "V" are the youngest letters in the alphabet. They are about 350 years old.
42% of U.S. men and 31% of U.S. women say they clean their belly buttons every day.
2.5 % of American adults sleepwalk regularly.
Dr. Seuss designed the first animated color TV commercial in 1949, for Ford.
George Washington's false teeth were made of Hippopotamus ivory.
The silkworm can spin a thread more than 1/2 mile long.
Sea lions can swim at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
The longest recorded flight of a paper airplane is more than 1 1/4 miles.
White House meals were cooked over a fireplace until 1850.
Researchers say that more than 90% of all Americans bite their fingernails.
The elephant tree sprays a foul smelling spray at animals that try to eat its leaves.
The average American uses 8 pounds of newspaper every month.
There are an estimated 1,000,000,000,000,000 ants on earth.
Nearly half of all psychiatrists have been attacked by their patients.
It takes at least 60 chinchillas to make a chinchilla coat.
Jellyfish have no blood.
Armadillos can walk under water.
19 million Americans own bowling balls. 15 million own bowling shoes.
Einstein's brain is stored in a mason jar in a Wichita, Kansas laboratory.
If you floss regularly, you'll probably use about 5 miles worth in your lifetime.
The all-aluminum can was introduced in 1964.
The sperm whale can hold its breath for 82 minutes.
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