1. Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
  2. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
  3. The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
  4. Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A
  5. Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
  6. Starfish have no brain.
  7. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  8. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which
    containing the letter "E".
  9. Bulls are colour blind.
  10. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
  11. A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
  12. "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
  13. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
  14. Lip stick contains fish scales.
  15. Ants never sleep.
  16. The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
  17. The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
  18. The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
  19. The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
  20. Kidney stones come in any colour from yellow to brown.
  21. Women blink twice as many times as men do.
  22. A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
  23. The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
  24. Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
  25. The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
  26. Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
  27. The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
  28. The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.
  29. Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
  30. The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
  31. The first 100 numbers of Pi are:
    3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445
    923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
  32. Click HERE for a hell of a lotta Pi!
  33. A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
  34. The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.
  35. Dr.Seuss pronounced "Seuss" so it rhymed with "rejoice".
  36. Babies are born without knee caps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
  37. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
  38. Emus can't walk backwards.
  39. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
  40. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
  41. A group of whales is called a pod.
  42. A group of geese is called a gaggle.
  43. A group of owls is called a parliament.
  44. A group of ravens is called a murder.
  45. A group of bears is called a sleuth.
  46. 12 or more cows is called a flink.
  47. A baby oyster is called a spat.
  48. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
  49. Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
  50. In the October 22, 1945 edition of Life magazine there was a picture of a chicken
    with its head cut off. It was alive too!
  51. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
  52. A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
  53. Pinocchio was made of pine.
  54. A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
  55. More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
  56. Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
  57. There are 22 stars in the Paramount logo.
  58. The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
  59. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
  60. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
  61. Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
  62. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  63. Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
  64. The pound sign # is called anoctothorpe.
  65. Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
  66. New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
  67. There was once a town in West Virginia called "6".
  68. Singapore only has one train station.
  69. The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
  70. Napolean made his battle plans in a sandbox.
  71. Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
  72. The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.
  73. If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
  74. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's making Pluto the eighth planet from the sun.
    It has been that way since 1979 and will remain that way until 1999.
  75. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
  76. The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
  77. Popeye was 5"6.
  78. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
  79. The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
  80. Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
  81. The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
  82. Hilary Clinton once said We are the President.
  83. The percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.
  84. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
  85. There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
  86. The Eifel Tower has 2 500 000 rivets in it.
  87. "Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
  88. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
  89. The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
  90. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz.
  91. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
  92. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17.
  93. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing.
  94. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties.
  95. A baby is born every 7 seconds.
  96. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday.
  97. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day.
  98. Blue and white are the most common school colours.
  99. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
  100. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was:
    What hath God wrought?.
  101. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were:
    Watson come here, I need you.
  102. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were:
    Mary had a little lamb
  103. The four words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum, triduum
    and continuum.
  104. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny.
    His middle name is George James.
  105. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto,
    Ontario, Canada.
  106. Ina normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10 000 pounds
    of meat.
  107. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
  108. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla.
  109. American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
  110. American's eat 134 pounds of sugar a year.
  111. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
  112. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a
    bear is as tall as a giraffe.
  113. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of
    its spray.
  114. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
  115. A dog in East Africa says "woo-woo".
  116. A dog in Bangkok says "bahk-bahk".
  117. A dog in Japan says "wan-wan".
  118. A dog in Russia says "gahf-gahft".
  119. A cow in Thailand says "oo-ah"
  120. A cat in Japon says "neow".
  121. A cat in Thailand says "mao".
  122. A pig Japan says "moo-moo".
  123. A pig in Thailand says "oot-oot".
  124. A pig in Russia sayds"ha-roo".
  125. A rooster in Germany says "ay-ee-ache-ache"
  126. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
  127. India has 50 million monkeys.
  128. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
  129. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
  130. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
  131. You breathe about 10 million times a year.
  132. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad
    dream.
  133. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
  134. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018.
  135. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
  136. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
  137. The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
  138. The most common time for a wake up call is 7am.
  139. The doorbell was invented in 1831.
  140. The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.
  141. The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
  142. There are 500 sheets of paper in a ream.
  143. The monkey wrench was invented by Charles Moncke.
  144. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
  145. There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
  146. There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
  147. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
  148. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
  149. A squid has 10 tentacles.
  150. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
  151. A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
  152. The world AND appears 46 277 times in the Bible.
  153. The first word played in the Scrabble rules demonstration game is "Horn."
  154. The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174 465.
  155. The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
  156. There are 17 steps leading up to Sherlock Holme's apartment.
  157. Anthony Robbin's informercial airs every half an hour, 24 hours a day somewhere
    in the USA.
  158. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from it's eyes.
  159. Napoleon was terrified of cats.
  160. The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
  161. The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
  162. The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938 by Laszlo and Georg Biro.
  163. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
  164. The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
  165. In 1961, an IBM 7090 computer calculated Pi to 100 265 digits.
  166. The human body weighs forty times more than the brain.
  167. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
  168. A person swallows approx. 295 while eating dinner.
  169. The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
  170. Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
  171. The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
  172. The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
  173. The letter N ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
  174. France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
  175. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
  176. 4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
  177. The typical American consumes 27 pounds of cheese each year.
  178. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback
  179. The ostrich has a 46 foot long small intestine.
  180. The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
  181. The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
  182. George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
  183. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
  184. Stainless steal was invented by Harry Brearley in 1913.
  185. A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
  186. The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
  187. The only dogs that don't have a pink tongue is the chow and the chinese shar-pei .
  188. Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
  189. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
  190. The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
  191. Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
  192. Albert Blake Dick invented the mimeograph machine.
  193. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
  194. The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
  195. An Oscar weighs seven pounds.
  196. It takes the typical person seven minutes to fall asleep.
  197. Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
  198. The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
  199. The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
  200. Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
  201. Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
  202. The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
  203. Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
  204. 54% of Americans prefer to "fold" their toliet paper rather than "wad" it.
  205. Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagas.
  206. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321
  207. There are more people alive today than have ever died.
  208. The first X-rated animated cartoon was Fritz the Cat
  209. The Library of Congress contains 327 miles of book shelves.
  210. There are 5 varieties of twins.
  211. The shell constitutes for 12 percent of an eggs mass.
  212. The longest word in the english language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It has 45 letters.
  213. An ostriche's eye is larger than its brain.
  214. 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row on a standard keyboard.
  215. The only words in the English language to use all vowels in order is vacesious and facetious.
  216. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
  217. Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
  218. A goldfish will eventually turn white when placed in a dark room.
  219. It was first discovered on a space misson flight that a frog could throw up. First it throws up its stomach, uses it's forearms to dig out the food and then swallows it stomach back down.
  220. White Out was developed my Mike Nesmith's mother (formerly of The Monkees)
  221. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
  222. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  223. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.