• 11% of people are left handed

• August has the highest percentage of births

• Unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it

• The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes

• A bear has 42 teeth

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain

• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

8% of people have an extra rib

85% of plant life is found in the ocean

Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz

Rabbits like licorice

The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters

‘Topolino’ is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy

A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue

Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex

Reindeer like bananas

The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds

Birds need gravity to swallow

The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E

The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English

Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt

The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

Perth is Australia’s windiest city

Elvis’s middle name was Aron

Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light

The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear

Cats spend 66% of their life asleep

Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year

Money is the number one thing that couples argue about

Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs

When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)

Spiders are arachnids and not insects

Each time you see a full moon you always see the same side

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand

Honey is the only natural food which never spoils

M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie

That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)

The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia

The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)

About 90% of the worlds population kisses

Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine

The Internet was originally called arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense

Toilets use 35% of indoor water use

The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco

Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day

The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954

All insects have 6 legs

The croissant was invented in Austria

In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas

African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue

Australia was originally called New Holland

‘Lonely Planet’ for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia

The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet

The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs

All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes

Your foot has 26 bones in it

The average human brain contains around 78% water

1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)

If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3…) It totals 5050

Sponges hold more cold water than hot

Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute

Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill

Cats have over 100 vocal chords

Camel’s milk doesn’t curdle

Elephants sleep between 4 – 5 hours in 24 period

It’s possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down

Frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open

Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump

A 1/4 of your bones are in your feet

Your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body

On your birthday you share it with 9 million others

1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros

A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories

You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV

Frogs don’t usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin)

At birth dalmations are always white

Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards

A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head

A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute

Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk

A crocodile can’t move its tongue

That the first MTV video played was ‘Video killed the radio star’ by the Buggles

In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names

Pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians

An average person will spend 25 years asleep

Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal

An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world

The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression

The word laser stands for ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’

Crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure

Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube

Your skin is the largest organ making up the human body

Cows don’t have upper front teeth

Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world

The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity

French fries are originally from Belgium

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year

There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo

In a deck of cards the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache

Black on yellow are the 2 colors with the strongest impact

The safest car color is white

The most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush

Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961

Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee

Room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25C (68 to 77F)

An octopus pupil is rectangular

The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other

The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service

The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor’s salaries

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in ‘dous’ (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous)

The oldest word in the English language is ‘town’

Cats can’t move their jaw sideways

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave

Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky

Your most sensitive finger is your index finger (closest to your thumb)

‘Bookkeeper’ and ‘bookkeeping’ are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters

Venetian blinds were invented in Japan

The average golf ball has 336 dimples

The word ‘Strengths’ is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel

The movie ‘Wayne’s World’ was filmed in two weeks

The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply

A group of frogs is called an army

A group of rhinos is called a crash

A group of kangaroos is called a mob

A group of whales is called a pod

A group of geese is called a gaggle

A group of owls is called a parliament

The first sailing boats were built in Egypt

Brazil is named after a tree

Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent

Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador

Hilton was the first international hotel chain

The brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland

Monopoly is the most played board game in the world

96% of candles sold are purchased by women

42% of men and women 25% don’t wash their hands after using a public toilet

If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court

Jamaica has 120 rivers

A cats urine glows under a blacklight

White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf

Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees

Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds

Domestic cats dislike citrus scents

Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length

China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys

The Great Wall of China is approximately 6,430 Km long (3,995 miles)

Paper originated from China

The wheelbarrow is invented in China

Tree hugging is forbidden in china

The film ‘Mary Poppins’ was filmed entirely indoors

All of the clocks in the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ are fixed to 4:20

Instant coffee was invented in 1901

The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold

Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population

Pearls melt in vinegar

A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don’t)

There is no butter in buttermilk

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels

The dot on top of the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

You’re more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue

Rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated

Women blink twice as much as men

Ostriches don’t bury their heads in sand

Only female mosquitoes bite

Scotland has the most redheads

Household dust is made of dead skin cells

The past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is ‘durst’

Hummingbirds can’t walk

Wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object

The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953

India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000)

India is home to over 200 million cows

The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble

Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora

Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13

Every single possible 3 character .com domain has been registered

The word ‘uncopyrightable’ is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter

The word ‘testify’ derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles

The word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard

That you can spell the word ‘level’ the same backwards

Madonna and Michael Jackson were both born in 1958

Almonds are members of the peach family

An egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C

Owls can’t move their eyes from side to side

You take over 23,000 breaths everyday

Gold never erodes

Scorpions glow under ultra violet light

When water freezes it expans by 9%

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning

Your foot and your forearm are the same length

Diamonds are the hardest natural substance

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes

Halley’s comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062)

There is no sound in space

Tennis was originally played with bare hands

The Olympic flag was designed in 1913

A bowling pin will fall at a tilt of 7.5 degrees

There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year

A piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times

The opposite sides of a die always adds up to 7

VHS stands for Video Home System

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer

The electric toothbrush was invented in 1939

Porsche also builds tractors

The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps

Isaac Newton invented the cat door

The Titanic was built in Belfast

Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms

Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands

Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year

Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee

Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day

Einstein slept 10 hours a night

Germany borders 9 other countries

Peru has more pyramids than Egypt

Christmas trees originated from Germany

More people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks

The original design of Monopoly was circular

The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second

Over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products

Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day

The lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years

The stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair

The word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards

A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel

You burn more calories sleeping than watching television

The word ‘underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters ‘und’

56% of typing is completed by your left hand

There are more chickens than people

For every human there are 200 million insects

The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes

Emus can’t walk backwards

The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets

Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla

The doorbell was invented in 1831

There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown

The oldest known vegetable is the pea

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays

The average hen lays 228 eggs a year

The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps

Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country

Oak trees don’t produce acorns until they are 50 years old

The word ‘almost’ is the longest word spelt alphabetically

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete

Earth is the only planet not named after a god

Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th

More people are allergic to cows milk than any other food

More people are killed from bees than snakes

The average person laughs 10 times a day

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific

Your mouth produces 1 litre of saliva a day

Your head contains 22 bones

The coloured part of your eye is called the iris

If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times

Everyone has a unique tongue print

You begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water

Hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes

Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks)

The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days

A dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)

The smallest dog is the Chihuahua

A sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)

There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)

The worlds smallest bird is the ‘bee hummingbird’ found in Cuba

African elephants only have 4 teeth

The first English dictionary was written in 1755

The rarest type of diamond is green

Mastercard was originally called mastercharge

The US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states)

Men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women

Tokyo was once known as Edo

Women make up 49% of the worlds population

Wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light

The tea bag was invented in 1908

Carrots contain 0% fat

1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year

Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970

The $ sign was introduced in 1788

The meaning of ‘Blue Chip’ comes from blue casino chips which have a high value

Dvds are physically the same size as a cds but can store 13 times more data

The term ‘disc jockey’ was first used in 1937

Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air

The average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches

Soccer is the most followed sport

Volleyball was invented in 1895

That in developed countries 27% of food is thrown away

The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1

The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph)

Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second

It takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots

Your most active muscles are in your eye

A banana contains 75% water

13 people die every year from vending machines

Rain contains vitamin B12

Your liver has over 500 functions

Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe

After Hawaii, New York is the state surrounded by the most water

Ice skating rinks always go counter clock wise (for the majority of people that are right handed needing to hang onto the rail)

A flea can jump 350 times its body length

Cucumbers are 96% water.

A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon

A honeybee’s top speed is 24kph (15mph)

A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)

Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway

Horses have 18 more bones than humans

A cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph)

Horses sleep standing up

A jellyfish is 95% water

Bats are the only mammals that fly

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through

Every day 7% of the US eats at mcdonalds

A snail can sleep for 3 years

Tigers have striped skin as well as fur

Crocodiles are colour blind

A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body

Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet

Hippopotamuses are born under water

Bananas grow pointing upwards.

Whales can’t swim backwards

Camels are born without humps

Only female mosquitoes bite

The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes

Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food

Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river

There are more insects in the world than all other animals combined

Giraffes can’t swim

Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper

An elephant’s trunk can hold over 5 litres of water

Bull’s can run faster uphill than down

A shark’s teeth are literally as hard as steel

A moth has no stomach

Grasshoppers have white blood

It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg

New York was once called New Amsterdam

There is 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans than has been mined

Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around)

The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days

More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator

2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.)

Hawaii officially became apart of the US in 1900

The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia

New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline

The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia

The largest exporter of sugar is Cuba

Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow

Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames)

1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years

The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink

Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January

The Moons diameter is 3,476km

New York’s Central Park was opened in 1876

The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess

The word old English word ‘juke’ meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box

EMI awards stands for ‘Electrical and Musical Instruments’

The most sung song is happy birthday

The first rugby club was formed in 1843

The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb

The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines

Draughts (checkers) is older than chess

Orienteering originated from Sweden

Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards

When recognising a persons face you use the right side of your brain

The human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels

The hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail

On average you blink 25,000 a day

Men have 10% more red blood cells than women

You have fewer muscles than a caterpillar

New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843

When your face blushes so does your stomach lining

1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands

Your normal body temperature is 37C (99F)

Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow

You shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks

That after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold

The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907

The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700

A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure

The revolving door was invented in 1888

Minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F

Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949

To crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound

There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world

Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity

The lie detector was invented in 1921

The world’s knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years

The drinking straw was invented in 1886

Red light has the highest wavelength

Paper money was first used in China

According to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body

Light is electro magnetic radiation

A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance

Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur

Giraffes have no vocal cords

Most birds eat twice their body weight each day

A group of whales is called a pod

Armadillos can walk underwater

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers

The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract it’s claws

Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks

Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away

Flamingos can only eat when their heada are upside down

The fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human

A female ferret is called a jill

Porcupines float in water

The last Play Boy centerfold to have staples was published in 1985

Scissors were most likely invented ancient Egypt

Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man, woman, and child

Turnips turn green when sunburnt

The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year

Moisture (not air) causes super glue to dry

Americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips

Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991

70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer

All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast

A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes

Britain was the first country to use postage stamps

The average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime

A deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing

The side of a hammer is called a cheek

32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the government

Pinocchio is Italian for ‘pine head’

The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1)

The longest word that can be typed using only our right hand is ‘lollipop’

1 out of every 8 letters written is an e

People who work at night tend to weigh more

You can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun

The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand’s south island

45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day

Most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin

Elvis Presley made only 1 television commercial

You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets)

The typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 – 9 metres

Diet Coke was introduced in 1982

The word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

55% of all movies are rated R

There are 2 chickens for every person

80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21

Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18

Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18

Shakespeare invented the words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’

There are a million ants for every person on Earth

Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year

New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206)

There is no proof as to who built the Taj Mahal

The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’ is said to be the toughest tongue twister

That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion)

Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick

You use 72 different muscles while speaking

Coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)

It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa

The most common disease is tooth decay

Avocados have the most calories of any other fruit

American’s eat 18 billion hot dogs a year

Emus can’t walk backwards

Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18

The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons

The average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day

Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes

There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty’s crown

‘Babe’ was played by over 50 pigs

The most common time for a wake up call is 7am

Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal

India has over 50 million monkeys

Iceland was the first country to legalise abortion in 1935

Blue and white are the most common school colors

Ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine

Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects

Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons

The shell is 12% of an eggs weight

The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum

The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint

The longest one syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched’

A squid has 10 tentacles

The average American eats 263 eggs a year

In 75% of American households women manage the money and pay the bills

Hypnotism is banned in public schools in San Diego (U.S.)

A third of Americans flush the toilet while they’re still sitting on it

You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other

Your right lung takes in more air than your left

Womens hearts beat faster than mens

The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric)

The odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1

The average bank teller loses $250 every year

More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined

The average person has 10,000 taste buds

Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country

‘Underground’ is the only word that begins and ends with the letters ‘und’

A woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice

Snakes can’t blink

Ants don’t like baby powder (talcum powder)

Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day

The ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck

A rat can tread water for 3 days

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women

There is no rice in rice paper

Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout

Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away

Bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica

Australia has the largest sheep population

Greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67kph (42mph)

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36)

Sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest

Greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed

When 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators

Most cows produce more milk when they listen to music

Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear

Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal

Snakes can’t bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise)

A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating

Pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal

Gorillas can’t swim

House cats have 18 claws

Giraffes can’t cough

The Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak

Deers don’t like hay

Shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females

The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos

The average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years

A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day

Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle

Spiders have transparent blood

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes

Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey

March 14 is ‘save a spider day’

All the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube

There are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs

A fly’s recation time is 30 milliseconds

Butterflies taste with their back feet

Moths have no stomach

Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second

Bees have 4 wings

The most eaten fruit in America is the banana

The ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food

Originally in 1886 Coca Cola was introduced as an ‘intellectual beverage’ to boost brain power

Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii

The frozen foods were first introduced in the 1920.

The color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter)

John Kellogg invented corn flakes

60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day

Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world

Italy and France produce over 40% of all wine

There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice

Dairy products account for 29% of all food consumed in the U.S.

The ideal temperature to fall asleep is between 18-30c (64-86f)

Canada has more lakes than any other country

The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily

90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean

The Nile river flows North

Spain’s largest source of income is from tourism

Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn

The first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand

The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France

The dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935

The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days

The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935

Before 1863 the postal service in the US was free

The first taxi service began in New York in 1907

Pez was invented in 1927

The elevator was invented in 1850

The first toothbrush was invented in 1498

Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten

You brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply

Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die

The hardest substance in the human body is enamel

There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body

The number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes

Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)

Rain contains vitamin B12

Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year

Clouds fly higher during the day than the night

The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)

It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing

Every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced

Your blood is 6 times thicker than water

Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor)

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature

The opposite of a ‘vacuum’ is a ‘plenum’

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air

Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers

The most common Spanish surname is Garcia

22% of people skip lunch daily

The average person swallows 295 times during a meal

72% of people eavesdrop

The most popular snack food is potato chips

45% of people use mouthwash daily

On average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips

The most popular toothbrush color is blue

The US produces 19% of the world’s trash

59% of people say that their average looking

53% of women don’t leave home without makeup on

44% of people have broken a bone

9% of people skip breakfast daily

Chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world’s almonds

90% people depend on alarm clocks to wake up

21% of people don’t make their bed in the morning

85% of women wear the wrong bra size

The number 1 reason why people purchase a mobile phone is for safety

Per person France consumes the most cheese

The Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year

75% of people wouldn’t give up their spouse for a night for a $1,000,000

M*A*S*H stood for ‘Mobile Army Surgical Hospital’

The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called ‘The Seinfeld Chronicles’

The first James Bond movie was called ‘Dr. No’

‘Fan’ is short for ‘fanatic’

Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed

A standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats

Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian)

The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year

The ‘black box’ that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons

The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper

The Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles

The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913

The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour

The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it

The statue of Liberty’s mouth is 3 feet wide

The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared

3 teaspoons make up 1 tablespoon

Useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years

Jellyfish don’t have a brain

45% of Americans don’t know that the sun is a star

The Greek national anthem has 158 verses

It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean

You can’t tickle yourself

You can’t trademark surnames

Ferrets sleep between 18 – 20 hours a day

The ‘you are here’ arrow on maps is called an ideo locator

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel

A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood

There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours

A baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks

A group of foxes is called a skulk

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long

Lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year

A male baboon can kill a leopard

Rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot

A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs

Elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph)

Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September

Most snakes have 1 lung

Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

The night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans

Flamingoes can live up to 80 years old

In Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions

Most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old

Out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man

An ostriches can outrun a horse

An ostriches life span is 40-45 years

Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground

Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old

The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day

A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses

The greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72kph (45mph)

The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots)

Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years

Hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick

An arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people

Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals

Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator)

Toads only eat moving prey

When born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall

A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight

Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo

Crocodiles continually grow new sets of teeth to replace old ones

The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight

There are over 1,600 known species of starfishes

There are over 320 species of parrots

There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant’s trunk

There are over 690 known species of bats

There are over 130 species of owl

A garfish has green bones

A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm

A cat can keep purring while inhaling and exhaling

The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours

Camels can drink 94 litres (25 gallons) of water in less than 3 minutes

You can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away

There are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms

There are over 7,000 different types of apples

Thin skinned lemons are the juiciest

On the average there are 8 peas in a pod

You have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple)

A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers

The ice cream cone was introduced in 1904

93% of households in Denmark consume wine (the highest % in the world with France second with 85% of households)

Chocolate is the number 1 food craved by women

Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year

Chicken drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken

Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper

Arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones

The average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year

Cabbage is 91% water

The most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin

Fresh apples float because they contain 25% air

Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea

Lettuce is the worlds most popular green vegitable

There are over 100 different viruses that cause the common cold

Antarctica is 98% ice and 2% barren rock

Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550)

The average Americans diet consists of 55% junk food

Canada has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country

80% of all people hit by lightning are men

Before beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada

Chevy Chase’s real first name is Cornelius

The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat

A 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial

A nanosecond is one billionth of a second

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

Men change their minds 2 to 3 times more than women (women tend to take longer to make a decision but once they do they are more likely to stick to it)

All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin

Brontology is the study of thunder

Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa

Dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas

Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax

The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252

Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F)

Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air

Japanese people don’t have middle names

Some playing cards in India are round

The average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long

The expression to ‘knuckle down’ originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots)

The first aluminum drink can was introduced in 1964

The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900

The national anthems of Japan, Jordan, and San Marino each have only 4 lines

There are only 3 sets of letters on a keyboard which are in alphabetical order (f g h, j k l, and o p)

Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944

A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second

A dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph)

Flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds

A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day

Ants can lift 50 times their own weight

Bees can see ultraviolet light

80% of the world’s food crops are pollinated by insects

10% of with world’s food supply is consumed by insects

It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie

Queen termites can live up to 50 years

Most spiders have transparent blood

Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles

The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h))

Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes

There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies

There are over 80,000 different species of ants

All the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter

An area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles

More than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun

The world’s first paved streets were laid in Rome in 170 B.C.

It takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster

Natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks)

There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte

Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon)

Acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys)

All hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days

There are over 225,000 trees in New York’s Central Park

Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils

80% of the world’s rose species come from Asia

8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day

Every living thing on the Earth contains carbon

The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest

It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl

The average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn

Onions are part of the lily family

The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas)

The softest known mineral is talc

‘Orology’ is the study of mountains

20% of China’s plants are used in medicine

2/3 of the world’s eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey

Humans are the only primates that don’t have pigment in the palms of their hands

It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland

Moths have white blood

The diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles)

The diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles)

The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles)

Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high

Dolphin’s can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away

Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct

Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years

Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate

Polar bears are strictly carnivores

Sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years

Some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long

The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years

The tallest mammal is the giraffe

Warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)

Warthogs live for 15 years

When baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month

2 out of 5 people marry their first love

30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seats

45% of people use mouthwash everyday

Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal

People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other country

The average shower temperature is 38C (101F)

Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun)

The algae found in the world’s oceans produces nearly 50% of the world’s oxygen

The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920

There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game

Nintendo first produced playing cards

The word denim comes from ‘de Nimes’ or from Nimes which is a town in France

There are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building

Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time

A chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its body

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall

A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second

Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds

The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand

England’s Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old

The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall

The Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years

The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons

There are 132 rooms in the US White House

Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms)

Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber

Bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium

Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once a month

Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes

No two spider webs are the same

There are over 900,000 known species of insects

Worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15

John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars

Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930

Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans which go into the production of chocolate

1 plain milk chocolate bar has more protein than a banana

52% of Americans drink coffee

Brazil accounts for 1/3 of the world’s coffee production

Coffee is generally roasted between 204 – 218C (400 – 425F) (the longer the beans are roasted the darker the roast)

Coffee is grown commercially in over 45 countries around the world

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year

Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US

As a world commodity coffee is second only to oil

Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off)

The first ground vacuum packed coffee was first introduced in 1900

Japan is the 3rd largest consumer of coffee

Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry

Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old

The US is the world’s largest consumer of coffee

There are around 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar while a cup of coffee has around 100 to 150

Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars

Disneyland opened in 1955

MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown ‘Video killed the radio star’ by the Buggles)

The 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs)

The hamburger was invented in 1900

The hottest chile in the world is the habanero

Australia is the only country that is also a continent

Europe is the only continent without a desert

Hawaii officially became a part of the US on June 14 1900

The dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785

The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969

In 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world’s first national park

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks)

The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body

By age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it

Fingernails grow faster than toenails

Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime)

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown

The human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight)

In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47

The vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words

DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid

The study of insects is called entomology

The word ‘karate’ means ’empty hand’

The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters

The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words ‘fourteen nights’

Wheat is the world’s most widely grown plant

Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats

Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome

The first credit card was a Diner’s Club card issued in 1950

The most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminum

The world’s first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York

The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

The Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons

Sea water is approximately 3.5% salt

There are over 900 species of bats

After bananas a zoo gorilla’s favorite food is celery

The African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating

The average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime

Over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States

Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962

In American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items

Ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats

Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall

Blueberries are very high in antioxidants

The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine

A pumpkin really is a fruit

Laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system

Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%)

The surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court

England’s first great industry was wool

The average age at which America’s presidents have taken office is 54

According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces

The word ‘almost’ is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order

A pip is one of the spots on die or domino

The most commonly used word in English conversation is ‘I’

The number 2 is the only number greater than zero that when added to or multiplied by itself gives you the same result (4)

The word ‘taxi’ is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese

Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing

Achluophobiais the fear of the dark

Acrophobia is the fear of heights

Agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces

Aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects

Akousticophobia is the fear of noises

Amathophobia is the fear of dust

Atychiphobia is the fear of failure

Brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms

Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors

Dendrophobia is the fear of trees

Gatophobia is the fear of cats

Heliophobia is the fear of sunlight

Helminthophobia is the fear of worms

Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles

Hippophobia is the fear of horses

Iatrophobia is the fear of doctors

Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish

Melissophobia is the fear of bees

Melophobia is the fear of music

Myrmecophobia is the fear of ants

Ombrophobia is the fear of rain

Ornithophobia is the fear of birds

Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains

Tachophobia is the fear of speed

Zoophobia is the fear of animals

A lions feed once every 3 to 4 days

Lion’s can’t roar until the age of 2

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet

You have over 600 muscles

All owls lay white eggs

Mapping is older than writing

The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is

From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas

Sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13

The world’s most expensive spice is saffron

The corkscrew was invented in 1890

Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car

After you’ve eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest

The human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year

The little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a ‘porcelator’

The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely

There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US

40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle

$30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theaters

A person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime

The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year

The average woman will consume over 2.7kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in their lifetime

The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second

A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair

All snakes are carnivorous

The tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)

The only letter which doesn’t appear in the Periodic Table is j

October the 10th is national metric day

The typewriter was invented in 1829

The dishwasher was invented in 1889

The wristwatch was invented in 1904

Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man

When hydrogen burns in the air water is formed

Due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead

If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)

The moon is 27% the size of the Earth

The center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F)

Sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)

Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds

An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)

The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old

There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person