There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!
A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
When asked to whirl around, most people in the northern hemisphere go clockwise, and in the southern hemisphere, counterclockwise.
Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
A cat has four rows of whiskers.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
George Washington's false teeth were made of whale bone.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The Swiss flag is square.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths".
The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with "und"
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language (though not uniquely so).
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" (bird).
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
Alma mater means bountiful mother.
The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire.
The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo, it got "the whole 9 yards."
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and
Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"