A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is
that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people do.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world?
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover.
The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in First Class.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The word denim comes from 'de Nimes', or from Nimes, a place in France.
The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
The silhouette on the NBA logo is Jerry West.
When the Modern Olympics were revived in 1896, first-place winners received silver medals. Strangly, gold was considered inferior to silver. Eight years later, at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, gold replaced silver for first place.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
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." Dorothy's last name is Gail. It is shown on the mail box. In Disney's "Fantasia", the Sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney backwards).
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
The dial tone of a normal phone is in the key of F Don MacLean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly.
At the first Thanksgiving dinner Lobster was one of the main entrees.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.
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, kayak, radar and level are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
All porcupines float in water.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
No president of the United States was an only child.