Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
No 81⁄2 by 11 piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
U.S. Presidents Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe all died on the 4th of July.
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people
Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter.
In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
“Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The very first dictionary “The American” took Noah Webster 20 years to put together.
The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E. Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.
An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.
Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
If you counted for 24 hours a day, it would take over 31,000 years to reach one trillion.
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
In 1885 the Home Insurance Company of Chicago was the tallest building in the world. It was only 9 stories tall.
There’s 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to 55,000.
The first minimum wage to be established in America was 25 cents an hour, it was in 1938.
In 1980 the yellow pages listed a funeral Home under “frozen foods”.
Sunglasses became popular in the 1920’s when movie stars began wearing them to cut the camera’s bright lights.
In 1915 a telephone call from New York to San Francisco cost $20.70 for the first three minutes.
The first sound recording ever made: “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in 1877.
This is a mid 1800’s help wanted sign for the Pony Express:
“Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be excellent riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages are $25.00 a week.”
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
In ancient China doctors would only receive fees if the patient stayed in good health. Sometimes if the patients health became to bad, the doctor had to pay them.
Married women could not view the Olympic Games in ancient Greece under penalty of death.
Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
Pluto (the dog from Disney) was originally called “Rover”.
Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has 300.
A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per hour.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
Laugh and you’ll burn up three and a half calories.
The human brain is 80% water.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia, schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the world’s fair in St. Louis.
The Toilet Lid Lock, to prevent unauthorized access to the toilet.
Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Folding money was invented by the Chinese, it was made of deerskin.
When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
The average human brain weighs three pounds.
The digestive track in a person’s body is about 30 feet long.
The fastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
Babies start dreaming even before they’re born.
If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.