In Its ancient Form, the carrot was purple not orange
President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian Shoemaker
Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do
Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes
In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it
Every three seconds, a new baby is born
There are 200 seeds on each strawberry
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
It is illegal in Suadi Arabia to have a gorilla in the back seat of your car
Most lipsticks contain fish scales
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings
It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces
A lightning strike in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed all 11 members of one soccer team while leaving the opposing team in the match untouched, leading to accusations of witchcraft by the survivors
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly
In England it is illegal to hang a bed out of a window
If Barbie were life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet 2 inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human neck.
Bats always turn left when exiting from a cave
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched
The worlds strongest beer is 'Samuel Adams' Triple Bock, which has reached 17% alcohol by volume. To obtain this level, however, they had to use a champagne yeast
Madonna was once sacked from her job at Dunkin' Donuts for squirting jam at a customer
A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.
Our ears never stop growing....Next time you visit Granny have a good look,bet her ears are above average in size!
A Blue whale's tounge is as big an an elephant
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
The saying 'Mind your P's and Q's' comes from the time when alcoholic beverages were served/sold in Pints and Quarts. Thus, to mind your P's and Q's meant to be careful how much you drank
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there
The German team's away strip is green in honour of the fact that the first team who would play them after WWII was Ireland. They were shunned by all other nations.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The average person eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
Oprah is actually a typo. Her parents wanted to use the biblical name Orpah, but the midwife couldn't spell so it became Oprah
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of their feet, the only way they can discharge heat is by panting. Dogs and wolves yawn as a sign of contentment
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
In ancient Greece, women counted their age from the date they were married.
If you have a tapeworm in your stomach it will come up when you are asleep to lick the salt off your lips!
The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "shah mat," which means "the king is dead.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
In Shakespeare's time mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple
You burn 26 calories in a 1-minute kiss
Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away
If you wore a pair of glasses that made what you see appear up-side-down, after about six months your brain would work-out what was wrong and would adjust your vision to turn it the right way up. But upon taking the glasses off again the world would appear up-side-down, and again it would take about six months for your brain to rectify itself.
If you feed baking powder to a pigeon it will explode because it cannot fart
Lemon juice contains artificial lemon flavouring and yet washing up liquid contains the juice of real lemons.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Penguins are the only other animal who openly allow and participate in prostitution. While the males look after the eggs the females go off and sleep with other males who have more impressive nests. As payment they receive a stone from the males nest!
The bike ridden by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape is the same bike ridden by the Fonz in Happy Days
Pneumonoltramicroscopicsilicovolcanicoconiosis is the longest word in the English vocabulary
The largest sheep ever recorded was a Suffolk ram named Stratford Whisper, which weighed 247.2kg (514lb) and stood 1.09 tall.
BAT GUANO (poop) is an ingredient in most upscale cosmetics. It's called "guanine". Remember that as you kiss your wife/girlfriend
An octopus has a "mini brain" for each arm in addition to it's main brain!
Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste! Yuck!
Snakes always keep their eyes open, even when they are asleep.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny
A blue whale eats up to 4 tonnes of krill everyday. This is equivalent to eating a fully grown African elephant every day
The University of Plymouth was the first university to offer a degree in surfing.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
