- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
- It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Starfish haven’t got brains.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The average secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
- 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."
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
