1. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
2. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
3. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
4. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
5. American car horns beep in the tone of F.
6. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
7. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
8. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
9. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
10. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
11. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
12. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
13. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
14. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
15. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
16. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
17. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
18. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
19. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
20. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
21. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
22. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
23. Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
24. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
25. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
26. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
27. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
28. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
29. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
30. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
31. Pearls melt in vinegar.
32. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
33. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
34. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
35. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
36. Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.
37. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
38. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
39. Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
40. The second? William Jefferson Clinton
41. Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton and linen.
42. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
43. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
44. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
45. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
46. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
47. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
48. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
49. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
50. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of HappyMeals.
51. Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
52. The "spot" on the 7-Up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
53. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
54. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
56. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.!
57. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
58. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
59. Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
60. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
61. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
63. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
64. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
65. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
66. Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounds like Sue-ice.
67. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
68. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
69. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
70. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
71. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
72. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
73. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
74. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
75. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
76. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
77. There are 4 cars and 11 lightposts on the back on the US 10 dollar bill.
78. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
79. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
80. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
89. If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes and 4 pennies, you'd have $1.19.You would also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
90. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
91. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
92. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
93. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
94. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
95. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
96. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo.
97. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
98. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
99. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
100. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
101. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
102. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
103. Sharon Stone was the first StarSearch spokesmodel.
104. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
105. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
106. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
107. Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
108. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
109. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
110. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
111. People Do Not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
112. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop...even your heart!
113. Only 7% of the population are lefties.
114. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
115. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
116. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
117. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
118.The average housefly lives for one month.
119. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
120. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
121. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
122. Eating breakfast cereals like "Fruity Pebbles" and "Cap'n Crunch Berries" will cause your stool to come out green.
123. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
124. About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep! This rates a good 10 on the ewwww-yuck scale and right up there with the fact that many of us have eaten a spider in our sleep too............... (EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!)
125. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
126. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
127. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
128. Among the music catalogues that Michael Jackson owns the rights to is the South Carolina State anthem.
129. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
130. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
131. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
132. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
133. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
134. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
135. It is impossible to lick your elbow. (Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.)
136. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
137. A shrimp's heart is in its head.
138. 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.
139. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
140. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
141. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
142. Horses can't vomit.
143. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
144. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
145. 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.
146. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
147. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
148. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
149. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
150. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
151. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
152. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
153. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
154. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
155. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
156. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
157. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
158. There are more chickens than people in the world.
159. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
160. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
161. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
162. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
163. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple..
165. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
166. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial, on the back of the $5 bill.
167. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
168. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
169. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
170. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
171. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula."
172. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
173. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
174. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
175. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
176. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street, were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
177. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
178. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
179. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
180. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
181. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
182. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
183. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube, and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
184. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
185. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (I knew I wasn't average!!)
186. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
187. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
188. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
189. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
190. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
191. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
192. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
193. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
194. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
195. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
196. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
197. A snail can sleep for three years.
198. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
199. Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
200. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
201. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
202. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
203. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
204. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
205. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
206. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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17 Even More Weird Facts:
1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it)
2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it)
3. A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig)
4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Still not over that pig thing)
5. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)
6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (No comment)
7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (If your ambidextrous do you split the difference?)
8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right when intoxicated. (From drinking little bottles of...?)(Did the government pay for this research?)
9. Polar bears are left handed. (Who knew....? Who cares?) (Now you know...bet you still don't care)
10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. (It's like a human jumping the length of a football field)
12. The cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. (Creepy)
13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (Honey, I'm >> home. What the.......)
14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (In my next life I still want to be a pig...quality over quantity)
15. Butterflies taste with their feet. (Oh jeez)
16. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (I know some people like that)
17. Starfish don't have brains. (I know some people like that too)
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9 Disgusting Weird Facts:
1.During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine.
2. In an average day, your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles etc.)
3. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
4. In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects while you slept!
5. Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
6. Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.
7. In a lifetime 22 workmen will have examined the contents of your dirty linen basket.
8. At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting a cold sore from one of the guests.
9. Daily you will breath in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.
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Weird Places:
1. In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.)
2. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals, but Is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.
3. Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This Also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times. (A brick??)
4. The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. (Wonder Which head?)
5. There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time... Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to marry. (Let's just think for a minute; is there any job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to this?)
6. In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired. (Ah! Justice!)
7. Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. (But of course!)
8. In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens, her mother must be in the room to witness the act. (Makes one shudder at the thought.)
9. In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time. (I presume this was a big enough problem that they had to pass this law?)
10. In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with One exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises." (Is this a great country or what? ... Not as great as Guam!) .
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