The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The flatulation from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methaneon this planet.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 havebeen tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
Ants do not sleep.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
Only 2 more blue moons (the saying "only once in a blue moon" refers to the occurence of two full moons during one calender month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.
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."
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
The tomato was originally considered a fruit.
Chimpanzees used in AIDS vaccine studies get a pension of more than $100,000 to pay for their care and containment for the duration of their natural lives. While it is possible to infect chimpanzees with HIV, they do not appear to get AIDS.
The average person sheds 1 pound of skin a year.
Saturn is the only planet that can float on water.
The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as Ke-kou-ke-la. Unfortunately, the Coke company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means "bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax" depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," which can be loosely translated as "happiness in the mouth."
A lobster's blood is blue.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10th of a calorie.
Postage stamps in Israel are certified kosher.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' bathroom at a dance.
The bone in the ear is the only bone that is fully grown at birth.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Texas has the highest bat population in the United States.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.
28 Million Americans or more are hearing impaired.
In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
Thomas Alva Edison invented the telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell managed to get the patent first.
The largest rock in the world is in Australia.
Texas was once a country.
Manhattan's first skyscraper built, the Flatiron Building is only 20 stories tall.
If the sun were to burn out, we would not know for 8 minutes.
Jesus was Jewish.
Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic, the language of the ancient Bible, did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places -- refers to "40 days," they meant many days.
Fast food hamburgers cost more pound for pound than a new car.
Fear of the number 13 originates from the last supper.
Cats will always land on all fours from any height.
The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was a symbolic character for the hat makers in towns of the late 1800's. The large felt hats of the day hadsupports made out of mercury. The mercury caused a organic form of psychosis (brain damage) to develop in the hat makers causing them to be declared crazy.
George Washington was the first Irish US President.
The harp is the official emblem of Ireland, not the shamrock.
Vatican City has its own money and stamps.
Emporer Nero played the harp while Rome burned.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Sicily was not part of Italy until after WWII.
Sneezes can travel at 100mph.
The United States was the first and only to incorporate daylight savings time.
The interior of the Sun is 29 million degrees fahrenheit.
The Sun burns off and shrinks 5" per hour.
Pluto is the smallest and lightest known planet in our solar system.
The greatest distance between two planets is between Neptune and Pluto.
The Earth's Moon is responsible for the ocean's tides.
The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre.
The Earth's Moon is 1 million times drier then the driest desert on the planet, the Gobi desert.
100 Million meteroriods enter the Earth's atmosphere every day.
There is direct proof of 100 billion stars, but still counting.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
If a piece of popcorn was dropped in a neutron star, it would produce an explosion similar to a World War II atomic bomb.
You would weigh over a trillion pounds on a neutron star.
Our galaxy is only one of 100 billion known galaxies in the universe.
No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few.
Stars collide once every thousand years or so.
The scientific name for typtophan synthetase has 1,909 letters in it.
The Southern Elephant Seal is the largest living carnivore.
Kitti's Hognosed Bat is the smallest living mammal.
Martha Washington had the equivelant of 6 million dollars when she married George.
All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Cockroaches favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
The longest place-name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu
a New Zealand hill.
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Flush toilets date back to 2000 B.C.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
In Italy, a campaign for Schweppes Tonic Water translated the name into Schweppes Toilet Water.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
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."
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.
Please Note:
These trivia fun facts are for entertainment only, the results were compiled from a number of sources, including books and other sources. I do not have the statistics, and cannot be held responsible for the results being factual. Don't take the above fun facts too seriously, just enjoy it!
If you have any of your own that you would like to submit, then please feel free to send them to me.
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