
- If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie
-Banging you head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
-The average person falls asleep in seven minutes
-Dogs have four toes on their hind feet and five on their front feet
-Butterflies taste with their feet
-Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
-Starfish don't have brains
-Polar bears are left handed
-A duck's quack does not echo; no one seems to know why
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
-The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
-The fingerprints of a koala bear are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene
-Snails can sleep for three years without eating
-Porcupines float in water
-Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
-Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
-The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue
-A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death
- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation
- The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515
- Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
- The youngest pope was 11 years old
- In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
- Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water
- The one food that never spoils: honey
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches
- City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong
- First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters
- Coca-Cola was originally green
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
- The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
- A violin contains about 70 seperate pieces of wood
- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second