Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Sea-monkeys are born with one eye. As they mature, they grow two more eyes, and then they become three eyed creatures. One day their baby eye sheds, and they are becoming adults with two black eyes.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways
Only humans sleep on their backs.
Everyone's tongue print is different.
Giraffes are unable to cough.
A mosquito has 47 teeth
Ants do not sleep
Most people blink about 17,000 times a day
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year
Each year more people are killed by donkeys than plane crashes
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
If you yell for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have made enough sound energy to heat 1 cup of coffee
Most lipstick contains fish scales
The longest word in the world is:PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS. It's a type of lung cancer
40,000 Americans a year are injured by toilets
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
The man that invented the Eveready battery gave away the company so that he could play with his model trains
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown
Rats can't throw-up
The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
Americans spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
Thomas Crapper actually invented the automatic shut-off mechanism used in the modern toilet.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacement. It was invented on the 40th try for a formula that worked.
The shortest war on record, between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, lasted just 38 minutes.
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
Large doses of coffee can be lethal. 100 cups within 4 hours, can kill the average human.
The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.
Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
