Iguanodon was the first dinosaur ever discovered.
Deserts grow about 1.7 acres every minute all over the world.
Without that "little voice" in your head, you wouldn't be able to read this.
Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik's cube in less than 2 minutes.
In the ITunes terms of service, you are not allowed to use ITunes to build nuclear weapons.
Squidward Tentacles appears in more episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants than Patrick Star.
The wedding ring goes on the left hand on your ring finger because its the only finger with a vein that connects to the heart.
If your lifetime you will eat about 35,000 cookies.
Mr. Potato Head was the first advertised toy on T.V. in 1952.
The first man to survive going across Niagara Falls died
later from slipping on an orange peel. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
Otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other.
The stunt double for Halle Berry in the movie "Cat Woman" was played by a man.
Cars were first made with ignition keys in 1949.
Raccoons are truly native to North America.
Oranges are green, not orange when grown in a
tropical climate! Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
Brad Pitt worked as a giant chicken mascot for a restaurant!
Miley Cyrus had braces for the whole time she filming Hannah Montana
but they were glued on the back of her teeth so you couldn't see them. About 80% of people that watch the Super Bowl watch it for the commercials.
Ancient Romans used to use urine as a hair product and one of the ingredients in their toothpaste.
China has more english speakers than the U.S.
In Ancient Egypt, they kissed with their noses
instead of with their lips. A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.
The speaker of the house in England is not allowed to speak.
A polar bear's skin is black and its fur is actually a clear color.
The earliest known will was written in 2550 B.C..
If the Mt. Rushmore heads had bodies they would
be about 500 feet tall. The stock market valued Apple at $624 BILLION, making it the highest value company in history.
NS-RED stands for Nocturnal Sleep - Related
Eating Disorder. Its where people leave their beds while asleep and go to the kitchen and just eat! They seem to remember completely nothing the morning after. In 1974, the country Ghana changed their driving
laws to cars driving on the right side of the road to the left. Sound travels about three time faster through water than air, and moves faster through salt water than fresh water.
Sharks have the ability to reproduce by virgin birth.
If a axolotl salamander loses a leg, it will grow
a new one in about 3 weeks. A cat's jaw can't move sideways.
The probability of a woman being married by the age of thirty is 74%, for a man by the age of thirty is 61%.
There is a species of palm tree in Madagascar called, tahina spectabilis, that grows flowers once and then collapses to the
ground and dies. The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt. It's
in Cholula de Rivadabia near Mexico City. There are about 83 people in the U.S. named Edward Cullen.
The two highest IQ scores ever recorded belonged to women.
In the US, 45,000 hamburgers are eaten every minute.
The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based on Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
Incan brides had to peel a potato to prove they
would be a good wife. There is a city in Brazil named "Nåo-Me-Toque," which means "Don't Touch Me."
There are more tigers kept as pets than in the
wild! (that's sad!) Bob Marley's last words to his son, Ziggy were
"Money can't buy life. The word "bride" is derived from an old English word meaning "cook."
Self-centered people are more likely to suffer from heart disease and have heart attacks.
Being in a green setting or even glancing at the
color green can make a person more creative. People that "feel smarter" when wearing glasses
tend to become more studious and in turn, do better in school. 14.8% of Americans are chronically sleep deprived.
1.3% of the entire female U.S. population have fake boobs.
A condition called "polymastia" can cause a woman to develop a third breast.
Only 2% of Earth's population are natural redheads.
Sean Connery and Lionel Richie both keep their
Oscars in the bathroom. A glass bottle can take as long as 4,000 years to decompose. (RECYCLE!)
In 2008, South Africa passed a law
making it illegal for kids under the age of 16 to kiss. About 1 in 6 pregnant women get a craving to chew on coal.
Americans use five times more paper for wiping
body parts than for writing on. When you're born your eyes can be blue, but it
usually last around a couple hours to a few weeks. 6% of men propose over the phone.
A lobster's blood has no color until its exposed to oxygen, then it turns blue.
The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
The inventor of the lightbulb, Thomas Edison, was afraid of the dark.
Scientists at the U.S. Department Of Energy's Brookhaven National Labratory created the highest temperature ever recorded in the universe: 7.2 trillion degrees farenheit. That's about 250,000 times hotter than the core of the sun.
11% of people in the world are left-handed.
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There are 2000 thunderstorms happening on Earth every minute.
It has been seen that fish actually grow algae gardens. They use their mouths to weed out algae they don't like so better kinds grow.
If you give a group of turkeys a small ball, they'll start to play with it, sort of like soccer.
Pigs are proven smarter than dogs and young children. They enjoy to play video games as well(why do you think Hamm from Toy Story always played them?).
There are seven volcanoes in the world that erupt every minute every day: Kilauea in Hawaii, Stromboli in Italy, Ambrim in Vanuata, Merapi in Indonesia, Masaya in Nicaragua, and Unzen in Japan.
The word "slut" was originally used for a woman who didn't clean her room.
David Beckham's legs are insured for $70,000,000.
Geckos don't have eyelids, so they lick their eyes to clean them.
In China, its a trend to dye your dog's fur to look like another animal.
Your taste in music is something you are not born with, it develops through time and experience.
In Hong Kong its legal for a wife to kill her cheating husband only using her bare hands.
Music is actually proven to numb a person's pain
emotionally and mentally. Astronauts can't cry in space because there is no gravity,
so tears can't flow. 15% of Americans secretly bite their toes.
85% of Valentine's Day card are bought by women.
McDonald's salads are more fattening than their burgers.
If you keep a fish in a dark room, it will turn white at some point.
If you eat too much food you reduce your ability to hear.
A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a strand of steel wire the same size.
In comic strips the person on the left side always speaks first.
About 50% of child deaths come from Africa.
There are currently 5000 species of frogs on the planet.
Steve Jobs once went onto an all fruit and veggie diet because he believed that
with that diet he wouldn't need to shower. Apple is so rich that they have enough money to buy everyone in the U.S. an ipod touch and still have money leftover!
Elvis flew 800 miles just to get a bite of his favorite sandwich.
Oprah Winfrey's name should have been Orpah, from the Book of Ruth, but the midwife made a mistake when filling out the birth certificate.
Poet Edgard Allen Poe married his 13-year-old cousin.
People are paid to cuddle for a living. For $50 you can cuddle with a professional ‘snuggler’.
The United States has never lost a war where mules were used.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
About 40% of Americans iron their clothes only wearing underwear or being completely naked.
Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter were both
peanut farmers at on time. Celtic warriors sometimes would fight their
battles completely naked and dyed in blue from head to toe. A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at 4 weeks old.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The average chocolate bar contains about 8 insect legs.
Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
The average penguin has only one orgasm a year.
About 1/3 of the world's population live in countries where cars are driven on the left side of the road.
Grapes and raisins are poisonous to dogs.
On average, about 2 babies of every 1,000 babies are born with 6 or more toes on one foot or 6 or more fingers on one hand.
In 2009, the country Samao changed its driving laws that cars should drive on the left side of the road than the right.
Bugs attach themselves to the eyes of Greenland sharks, damaging the cornea and usually leaving the shark blind. It doesn't really matter though since their habitat is very dark anyway,
The most common victims of indoor lightning strikes are people who talk on the phone during a storm.
South Africa, Ireland, and the UK are the top 3 countries that search for “gay porn” on Google most often.
Father’s Day became an official holiday in 1972 - 58 years after Mother’s Day.
The chances of dying by laughter are 15 billion to 1.
Barack Obama has read every Harry Potter book to his daughters
There is a psychological disorder called Ekbom's Syndrome where a person believes bugs are crawling on and under their skin. They can feel and see the imaginary bugs.
Crows are able to remember the faces of people who mistreated them.
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the
latest news and gossip. Women speak about 7000 words a day, men only
speak 2000. The bullet proof vest was made by a pizza delivery guy after being shot.
Ancient Egyptians would mourn the death of cats by shaving off their eyebrows.
According to NASA, the moon smells like gunpowder.
Astronomers assume that 10 billion earth-like planets may exist in our galaxy.
The radiation from smoking one pack of cigarettes a day is almost equal to that of 2,000 chest X-Rays.
Chick-Fil-A fast food chain donated almost $2
million to anti-gay groups in 2009. While it cost about 7 million dollars to build
the Titanic, it cost 200 million to make a movie about it. A heated jawbreaker can explode when you bite into it.
Studies show that covering a wart with duct tape is more effective than having a doctor remove it.
Astronauts in space change their underwear only twice a week.
Rabbits like licorice.
About 15,000 americans are in a coma right now.
The average kid receives $32 worth of toys per
year worldwide, while the average American kid receives $328 worth of toys per year. Its a crime to step on money in Thailand.
Urine is cleaner than your own saliva.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the U.S. each year.
Tigers have striped skin, as well as striped fur.
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Cows are known for babysitting each other's calves.
Peppermints and lemonheads are good before tests.
If you had one billion dollars and spent ten thousand dollars everyday it would take 275 years to spend it all.
Every minute, 6.2 pounds of soil dust enters the atmosphere.
The average woman will spend about an year trying to decide what to wear.
You are more likely to remember what you write if you write it in blue ink.
There are 923 words in the english language that break the "i before e" rule, there is only 44 words that actually follow that rule.
It would take about 1000 years to watch every Youtube
video in the world. 1/4 Americans have appeared on T.V. some time in
their life. The world's oldest piece of gum is 9000 years old.
Corn makes up about 8% of the weight in a box of corn flakes.
All spiders are poisonous except the spider species,
Uloboridae. Nutella lost a 3 million dollar lawsuit over false nutrition facts.
Every year, jellyfish kill more people than sharks do.
20% of Americans believe that the sun orbits the
earth. Tortoises only go into the water to drink, not swim.
William McKinely was the first U.S. president to campaign by telephone.
The guy who played Mr. Bean has a Master's Degree in
Electrical Engineering Almonds are actually part of the peach family.
The actor who played Steve Urkel also did the voice for Sonic the Hedgehog.
Lucille Ball was thrown out of the NY Robert Minton-John Murray Anderson School of Drama at 15 yrs old because she was "too
quiet". Strawberries aren't actually berries, but bananas, avocados, pumpkins and watermelons are.
Henry Ford was racist.
Once you're an employee at Apple they make you work on fake projects to test you without you knowing it! Once you pass all the tests and proven trustworthy, they officially let you into the family and let you start working on real projects. They never say when they put you on fake projects though, it can be on new employees or 10 year employees.
During the Gold Rush in 1849, sometimes people
would pay as much as $100 for a glass of water. A human uses about 57 sheets of toilet paper
every day. A human eyeball weighs one ounce.
A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds.
A human head remains concious for about 15 - 20
seconds after its been decapitated. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
More people are killed yearly by donkeys than by
airplanes crashes. Rubber bands last longer when in the freezer.
It would take a manned rocketship about 70,000
years to reach the nearest solar system. The voice of Ash from Pokemon was voiced by a
woman named, Veronica Taylor. Walking across hot coals hurts less than running
over them. Walking on your toes requires 83% more energy than walking normally.
Back in the medevial times pure white bread was
considered to be a higher quality than wheat bread. So bakers would whiten their flour by any means necessary, like mixing it with alum, chalk, clay, or ground bones. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The natural color used to make red and orange in food, cosmetics, and some toiletries like shampoo come from crushed bodies of female cochineal beetles. It takes about seventy thousand bugs to make about one pound of dye.
Fossilized poop is called coprolites.
The only word in the English language that both
begins and ends with the letters 'und' is "underground". The man who voiced Optimus Prime also did the voice for Eeyore and Nintendo's Mario.
21% of the South Korean population has the last
name “Kim. The mouth of a jellyfish is also the anus.
J.K. Rowling originally planned on killing Arthur
Weasley in Order of the Phoenix, but decided to kill Sirius Black instead. Cats have 32 muscles in their ear.
Wine and chocolate are strong aphrodisiacs which
increase sexual desires. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have all been blocked in China.
John F. Kennedy was the first U.S. president to be born in the 20th century.
A psychology study suggests that when you're single, all you see are happy couples - When you're committed, you see happy singles.
"Satan's Kingdom" is the name of a town in
Vermont, US. A first class ticket on the Titanic would cost
about $100,000 today. Clomipramine is a drug that causes you to orgasm
when you yawn. People who sleep more have a higher alcohol
tolerance. 56% of people fold their underwear while 27% say they just toss it in the drawer.
There are no words in the English language that
rhyme with purple, orange, silver or month. People with blue eyes have a higher alcohol tolerance!
It is illegal to wear sagging pants in Illinois.
At last count, the U.S. had 612,020 fast food cooks and only 393,730 farm workers.
You are more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket then you winning the lottery.
Matthew McConaughey is afraid of revolving doors.
75% of all men's underwear is bought by women.
The rapper, Nelly, once came out with an energy
drink called "Pimp Juice." Scorpions can survive being frozen solid for as
long as 3 weeks About 1 billion frogs are eaten by people every
year. In your lifetime you will spend about 6 months waiting at red lights.
The most births happen in August.
The first letters of the months July - November spell JASON.
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A solar eclipse travels across Earth's equator a minute.
When a cat blinks slowly, he's showing affection, also known as a "cat kiss".
In London, there is a room called the "Rain Room" that rains in the whole room except for where you're standing.
Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world a duck is watching you.
Kissing someone is more sanitary than shaking their
hand. Dr. Dre didn't know Eminem was white until he met him in person.
Toto from The Wizard Of Oz earned $125 a week.
Most cigarette contain ambergris, also known as whale sperm, for added flavor. (Might want to think about smoking again, huh?)
1/2,000,000,000 people will live to be older than 115.
80% of millionaires drive used cars.
They sell toupees for dogs in Tokyo.
A chameleon's tongue is 1.5 times its body length.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim and not fly.
An ant can carry 20 times its own body weight.
30% of people that use personal ads for dating are already married.
In the year 2000, about 500 people in China knew how to ski, now over 5 millions
Chinese people visit ski resorts. James Buchanon is said to have had the neatest handwriting
of all the Presidents. Apple currently has more money than the U.S.
government! Chuck Norris' first name is actually Carlos.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years
of age or older. The original Apple 1 computer was sold for $666.66 in 1975.
Demi Moore hired three cameramen to videotape the birth of her first child.
Sandra Bullock is fluent in German.
About 5% of U.S. flights have undercover air marshals on board.
Taylor Swift learned how to play guitar from a guy who originally came to her house to fix her computer.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Elvis Presley was obsessed with brushing his teeth.
Daniel Radcliffe said he was drunk while filming some scenes for the Harry
Potter movies. In the movie, Pulp Fiction, all the clocks are set as 4:20.
A butterfly has to have a body temperature
greater than 86F to be able to fly. 1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
An average roll of toilet paper lasts about 5 days in the bathroom.
A butteryfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow.
Donald Duck comic books were banned from Finland
because he doesn't wear pants. Sweat and urine are made of the same chemicals, just in different proportions.
American school buses are yellow because the
brain registers the color yellow faster than any other. You can never drown in quicksand because
your body is less dense than sand. Whenever there's a wildfire in In Senegal,
Africa, chimpanzees like to dance around and observe the fire rather than just running away in fear, they do it just enough to be sure not to be burned or hurt by the fire in any way. The last Monday in January is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day in the United States.
Every second, $3,075 is spent on internet
pornography There are some ginkgo trees that survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima during World War 2, they are still alive today.
63% of restaurant workers say they have handled or served food while sick.
The ancient Greeks believed that red heads would turn into vampires after they died.
The human body is better suited for 2 four-hour sleep cycles instead on 1 eight-hour session.
Crows are able to remember the faces of people who mistreated them.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't.
B, M, and P are three letters that are impossible to say without both of your lips touching.
There are more vending machines in Japan than
there are people in New Zealand. The third right arm of a male octopus is also his
penis. A tiger's tongue is rough enough to lick the paint off of a building
We are more attracted to people with a genetically different scent than ours to avoid incest.
The Made In China stickers are made in Korea.
Birds have no bladder. Their urine comes out in their poop.
A full head of human hair (about 150,000 strands)
is strong enough to support the weight of 2 full grown elephants. A cat's short-term memory is 20 times greater than a human's.
37% of men keep their eyes open while kissing, only 3% of women do this.
A fad in South Africa for boys is having their upper teeth extracted to look cool.
The total weight of all the ants on Earth is
almost equal to weight of all the humans on Earth. More than 11,000 Americans injure themselves during sex every year.
A website called Meatcards.com sells laser-etched business cards printed on beef jerky.
Anton-babinski syndrome is a rare condition in
which a blind person doesn't realize they are blind. $700 worth of transactions are made on eBay every second.
There is over 5000 types of beer brewed in Germany.
In Taiwan there's a company that makes edible dinnerware.
There's one tree that holds up to 8 different kinds of fruits, called the “Fruit Salad Tree.” The Fruit Salad Tree Company. There are four types of Fruit Salad Trees; stonefruit (which grow peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, and peachcots), citrus (which grows oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit), multi-apples only, and multi-nashi
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