Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.
The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
Jellyfish do not have brains.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
John Lennon's first girlfriends name was Thelma Pickles.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey, USA.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in a 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.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses, no-one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
The city with the most rolls Royce per capita, is Hong Kong.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange ,silver, or purple.
The longest word in the English language according to the Oxford Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovocanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovocanoconioses, its plural.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and Hydroxydesoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
Turkish towels are French and Indian ink comes form China.
The word yo-yo actually means come-come.
The longest word that can be spelled by using only the left hand on a standard keyboard is stewardesses.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled with out repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
The name for OZ in the wizard of oz, was though up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "OZ".
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Disney's Snow White was originally drawn as a Blonde.
Mel Blanc (the voice of bugs bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its a wonderful life."
The average women eats 20kg of lipstick in her life.
Like fingerprints everyone’s tongue print is different.
One in every 2.5 marriages ends up in divorce.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Every two and a half years , there are two full moons in a month instead of the usual one full moon. The second full moon is called a blue moon.
If you toss a 5 cent piece 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Last updated: 30/04/2008
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