Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants....
most toilets flush in E flat
In the late 1800's, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills.....
In the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats were not disciplined enough to do this.
The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, "Mary had a little lamb."
Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory...
The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.
Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got the idea after noticing burrs were sticking to his pants after his regular walks through the woods, invented Velcro.
Iguanas have two penises!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave......(does this automatically mean that Batman should turn left when he comes out of the Batcave?)
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew
Austria was the first country to use postcards
In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring
There were 101 tornadoes in the UK on November 21st, 1981
10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute"!
Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients. .
A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever. Orgasms are also supposed to boost your immune system
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
In the 1920's, Cotton wool buds were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
If a lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one...this is also applicable to their claws (usually anyhow).
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116...
Dolphins nap with one eye open.....(so did my Granny!)
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.......
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears...
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
55.2% of us will let someone else come in the bathroom while they're using the toilet.
Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland...(
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.
Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel's back.
In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male.
Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph.
The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
Cold water weighs more than hot water.
Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.
Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.
One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving....
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
Gloucestershire Airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
45.2% of people pee in the shower.
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.
An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.
X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.
In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot off a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
Kittens are born both blind and deaf.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A male baboon can kill a leopard.
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.
10% of us switch tags in the store to pay less for an item.
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.
A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
Every Alaskan citizen over the age of 6 months receives an oil dividend check of about $1000 per year!
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In Nebraska, It is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
The official name of India is not India. It is Bharat.
Spiders have transparent blood.
It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.
Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.
Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
Alaska has a sand desert with dunes over 100 feet high.
Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar.
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.
Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
Your brain is 80% water.
In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
The lifespan of the common goldfish is over 20 years
Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .
Traces of cocaine were found on 99% of UK bank notes in a survey in London in 2000.
In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Black Whales are born white.
Insects outnumber humans by 1 million to one.
On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting!
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Some species of fish have voices!
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. This is the equivalent of a human jumping the entire length of a football field.
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