The first person to wear false eyelashes was the actress Seena Owen
in the 1916 film Intolerance.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system to rotate clockwise.
The average speed of an avalanche is 22 mph.
Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are at least 35 years old
Franklin D Roosevelt suffered from severe triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13 - and refused to travel on the 13th of the month.
Gold leaf the size of a matchbox can be rolled out to the size of a football pitch.
Two million copies of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory were printed in China in 2000 - the largest single print ever.
In the days before effective anaesthetics, an injured soldier would be told to bite down on a bullet to distract him from the pain -
hence the phrase Bite The Bullet.
Lice cannot survive for longer than 24 hours away from the human body.
Rats have sex up to 20 times a day and reach sexual maturity when they are just eight weeks old. (I don't!!)
The temperature of lightning is around 7,760 degrees C (50,000 F)
Coca-cola was originally green
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever.
Dumbest dog: Afghan
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2
Amount American Airlines saved in '87 by taking out 1 olive
from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
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Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Eskimos never gamble.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Conception occurs more often in December than any other month
The rat is the world's most common animal, found everywhere in the world, including Antarctica
The average person will spend approximately one year out of their lifetime searching for lost or misplaced items.
Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? Obsession
It takes an average person about 7 minutes to fall asleep
Mohammed is the most common name in the world
100% of all lottery winners gain weight
It takes an average woman 14 minutes to turn off the lights after she gets in bed.
Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7
36% of Americans say that God has spoken to them
It costs £3000 to raise a medium-size dog to the age of eleven
70% of Americans have visited Disneyland or Disney World
90% of bird species are monogamous
3% of mammal species are
1 / 3 of land in the US is owned by the government
President James Buchanon remained a bachelor
Eleanor Roosevelt - only First Lady to carry a loaded revolver
There are no reptiles or snakes in Antarctica
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined
Hot water is heavier than cold
They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better
Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever written on a typewriter
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year
Men get hiccups more often than women
Armadillos can be house trained
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