- The turkey was domesticated in Mexico and brought to Europe in the 16th century.
- A large amount of the dust in you home is actually dead skin.
- Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
- The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
- The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China - measuring 28,000 square feet. It has twenty nine cash registers.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- The dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- Winston Churchill was born in the ladies' room during a dance.
- "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
- 20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
- In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.
- When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
- "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet. - A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.
- The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger.
- The Killer Whale (also known as Orca) is ac
- tually a type of dolphin.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.
- If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
- Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.
- An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
- The name jaguar means, “A wild beast that can kill its prey with a single bound.”
- Wood frog can survive after its body gets mostly frozen and its heart stops beating during the arctic winter freeze.
- There are more head and spinal injuries from cheer-leading than from all other high school and college sports combined.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
- When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
- What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
- The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10 inches.
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