I have weird facts too.
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill
-Almonds are members of the peach family
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable
-The longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
-In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
-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
-An average of four people are killed each year by falling vending machines
-You are more likely to die from a champagne cork than a poisonous spider
-The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it
-The 1st bomb dropped by the Allied forces in the Second World War hit and killed the only elephant in Berlin zoo
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men
-In Nova Scotia there is a Sober Island, 30 miles from Wine Harbor
-Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald's
-The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
-In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day
-The Navajo helped the Allies win World War II because their language was the hardest code to break
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
-The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
-Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
-When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city
-Starfish don't have brains
-Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years
-A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times
-Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping
-The billionth digit of pi is 9
-The life span of a taste bud is ten days
-A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
-Alligators cannot move backwards
-Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down
-Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day
-10% of StarTrek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not
-Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox
-Eosophobia is the fear of dawn
-A pack-a-day smoker will loose approx. 2 teeth every 10 years
-National pi day is March 14
-Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness
-The first recorded occurrence of a Tornado was June 10, 1682
-Your skin is the heaviest organ
-The human brain stops growing at the ages of 18-20
-85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube
-Toronto, Ontario has approximately 7,000 eating establishments
-Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have 10
-Our eyes never grow, our nose and ears never stop growing
-Camels' milk can't curdle
-Most hamsters blink one eye at a time
-It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound
-Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old
-Most common name in the world is Mohammed
-Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older
-The original Ford vehicles had Dodge engines
-Sumerians thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought
-The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines
-The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498
-The most common letters in English are R S T L N E
-'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon
-The number one most popular dog name is Brandy
-Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
-The average housefly lives for one month
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
-The perfect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch
-There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
-There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened
-You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City,Utah -By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours
-When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
-It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
-It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
-There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'
-If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns
-The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam
-It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan
-51% of turns are right turns
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
-In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
-The average American has $104 in their wallet
-More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made
-March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day.
-Lemons have more sugar than oranges
-3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second
-The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
-Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre
-A duck has three eyelids
-Australia is the only continent without an active volcano
-A rat can go longer without water than a camel
-In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon
-One year contains 31,557,600 seconds
-All porcupines float in water
-Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box
-In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
-Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason
-The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis
-Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day
-The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred
-You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss
-Mosquitoes have teeth
-The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly
-Slugs have 4 noses
-Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue
-Honeybees have hair on their eyes
-Horses and rabbits cannot vomit
-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't
-Dumbest dog: Afghan
-Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox
-Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso
-Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally ********
-Alexander the Great was an epileptic
-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
-Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.'
-The youngest pope was 11 years old
-Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns
-Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States,and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart
-The state of Florida is bigger than England
-Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
-Female lions do 90% of the hunting
-We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights
-Smoky the Bear's zip code is 20252
-We have about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left
-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters
-Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes
-Oysters can change from male to female and back again
-There are 2,382,500 Smiths in the U.S.
-The shortest war lasted 38 minutes
-You have enough red blood cells to circle the planet
-Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday
-The English language makes over 600,000 words out of 26 letters
-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
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump"
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
-"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
-You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
-No president of the United States was an only child
-Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans
-40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
-Every person has a unique tongue print
-During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance
-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
-John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son
-Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps
-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
-Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood
-There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
-The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips
-Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings
-The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses
-The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing
-There are more chickens than people in the world
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
-All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
-Half the world's banana crops are grown in Africa
-The word banana is African
-A man in India holds the record for eating bananas- 81 in a half-hour
-Kindergarten lasts for 3 years in Japan
-It is illegal to grow or sell pork in Israel
-Kiwis are the about the same size as chickens, but their eggs are almost as big as ostrich eggs
-Palm trees don't have annual growth rings
-A single bat is said to be able to eat 600 mosquito-sized bugs in one night
-Deer have no front teeth
-Dr. Pepper is the oldest major sort-drink brand. It was introduced at the 1904 World Fair Exposition
-Cats are among the very few animals that do not prefer a sweet taste
-The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors
-In 1971 a hen in NY laid an egg that had 9 yolks
-Poison Ivy belongs to the same family as cashews and mangoes
-Arachibutyrphobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1
-The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards
-The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
-Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
-Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence
-When the Titanic was sinking, someone died of a heart attack because they were reading a book about a luxury cruise liner called the Titan, which sunk because it hit an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
-People originally said "Bless You" when people sneezed because they thought the person was possessed by the devil
-If you feed a pigeon or a seagull an Alka Seltzer, the bird will explode. This because it cannot burp
-By the time a child is 5 or 6 they have learned about 5,000 to 6,000 words
-There is a word that rhymes with orange. The scientific word sporange
j/k
Had to split into 2 posts.
