More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed t o take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman reference.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. (Sarious?…)
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The ’sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’ is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
A snail can sleep for three years.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Horses can’t vomit.
No word in the English language rhymes with ‘MONTH.’
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
‘Go,’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day combined.
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
*I have no sources for any of these ‘facts’. I did however receive them in an email forward, so they must be true.
