THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW

  • A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

  • A snail can sleep for three years.

  • All polar bears are left handed.

  • American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

  • Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

  • Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

  • Butterflies taste with their feet

  • Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.

  • China has more English speakers than the United States.

  • Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants.

  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

  • Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

  • February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

  • I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

  • If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

  • If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

  • In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

  • Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

  • Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

  • No word in the English language rhymes with month.

  • Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

  • On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

  • One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the1930s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.

  • Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

  • Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

  • Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

  • Starfish have no brain.

  • Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

  • The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

  • The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

  • The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

  • The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

  • The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

  • The most common name in the world in Mohammed.

  • The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

  • The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.

  • The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

  • The word racecar, kayak and radar are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

  • There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

  • You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

  • And Finally: You can't kill yourself by holding your breath