Facts You Never Really Needed To Know
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
The tomato was originally considered a fruit.
The average person sheds 1 pound of skin a year.
Saturn is the only planet that can float on water.
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.
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.
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.
Ingredients in lipstick contain fish scales.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Emperor Nero played the harp while Rome burned.
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 feet 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 Earth's Moon is 1 million times drier then the driest desert on the planet, the Gobi desert.
100 Million meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere every day.
There is direct proof of 100 billion stars, but they're still counting.
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.
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 equivalent of 6 million dollars when she married George.
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".
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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 longest place-name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
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.
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.
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".
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
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.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
