Fun Facts
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
There are more chickens in the world than people
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
A prune is a dried plumb.
Denver was chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but later refused.
Another name for the card game "Solitaire" is "Patience".
Saturday was named for the planet saturn.
The abbreviation a.m. stands for "ante meridiem". The abbreviation p.m. stands for "post meridiem".
The best beaches for surfing face west.
Wheat is the worlds most grown, and the world's most eaten food
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The first American dictionary was writen by Noah Webster.
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string. After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.
Kidney stones range in color.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.
The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Frogs do not drink water.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.
The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
It's impossible to lick your elbow.
It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid!
The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight.
Babies have no kneecaps when they are born.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
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."
A snail can sleep for three years.
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
30% of people asked to participate in an opinion poll refuse.
Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday.
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.