You are bored? You simply LOVE to procrastinate when you know you have exams coming up? You love to learn about the things no one EVER mentions? Well prepare to take the ultimate roller-coaster ride through facts which you would never encounter UNTIL NOW.
Did you know:
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
There are more chickens than people in the world
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
More people are killed by donkeys than in plane crashes each year
Shakespeare invented over 1700 words in the English language
No President of the United States was an only child
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
A duck's quack does not make an echo
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
24 years of your life is spent sleeping
A cockroach can live up to nine days without its head before it starves to death
A snail can sleep for 3 years
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos
22% of the time, a pizza will arrive faster that an ambulance in Great Britain
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Starfish don't have brains.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
The 'Guinness Book Of Records' holds the record for being the most stolen book in public libraries
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
Pearls melt in vinegar
Turtles can breathe through their butts
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
The world’s best known word is 'okay', the second most well-known word is 'Coca-Cola'
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
85,000,000 tons of paper is used each year in the U.S.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 160km/h
The longest word in the English language is 1,913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
Charles Chaplin once won 3rd prize in a 'Charles Chaplin look-a-like contest'
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Donald Duck was banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head
You spend 2 weeks of your life waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
Only one book has been printed in more copies than the Bible - the IKEA-catalogue
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
There are more germs on your desk than there are on your toilet.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
More than 133,000 people each year are injured by doors.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Slugs have 4 noses.
The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
1 cigarette takes away five minutes of a person's life
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs; the tallest ones, anyway.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
You will spend 2 years of your life on the phone.
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.
Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.
It is possible to see a rainbow at night.
Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
Ants don’t sleep.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
The speed of a typical raindrop is 7 miles per hour.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go.
6% of men propose over the telephone!
More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
Daily you will breath in 1 litre of other peoples' gases.
Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.
Terminator 2 cost $647,000 per minute of film to make.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.
More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
During an hour swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 litre of urine.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.
13 people are killed each year by vending machine's.
If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
More people are killed annually by teddy bears (choking hazard) than by grizzly bears.
In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.
The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.
The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
Each year 12,779 people in the U.S. are injured by washing machines.
The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth
When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Honey is the only type of food that does not go bad
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
There is about 200 times more gold in the world’s oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
Now you know something! Now get back to your studies.
If you did not see the irony here, I should be studying for exams. However instead I procastinate. Yes Yes Yes, I did have a lot of time on my hand, don't say it. Just reply with a "lol". Or make comments about some of them, yes many of them are flat-out hilarious. A turtle can breathe from its butt? LOL! Here is proof for you people that say "no way, that is a lie" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/011116.html
Enjoy.
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WOW! A lot of interesting things there.
Thanks for those facts but there are some facts that I thought "Yeah right!" 
Extremely cool, thanks for posting that!! I sometimes refer to myself as being 'educated in useless facts', there are tons of great items in there!!! 
That was so much better than counting sheep 
Anyone else know that the Wizard of Oz was really a political parable supporting the gold standard monetary system?
There are a few falsehoods on the list but a good read none the less.
There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.
New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.
James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!
The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.
In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!
Apple seeds are poisonous!
In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store!
In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and cook it for dinner!
Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!
Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!
McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.
New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed.
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.
James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
A recent study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer!
President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.
Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!
The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.
In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!
Apple seeds are poisonous!
In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store!
In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and cook it for dinner!
Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets!
Coca-Cola's 'Super Pure' Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!
McDonald's salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!
In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!
In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
Fact or not, it doesn't make it right - ewwww!
In France, it is legal to marry a dead person!
Fact or not, it doesn't make it right - ewwww!
Sperm have a top speed of around 11 miles per hour. 
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