Sweet sms jokes

Friendship SMS

2008-08-01T01:37:00.000-07:00

• If you need advice me, text me...if you need a friend, call me...if you need me, come to me...if you need money... ...........................THE SUBSCRIBER CANNTO BE REACHED!
• Everyday I see lots of strangers passing by me, This makes me realised that, Life would be boring without a friend like u.........
• I met u as a stranger, I leave you as a friend, as long as the world stands, our friendship nv ends. All friends nv split N even if they do they will meet again.
• A good friend is like a computer; me 'enter' ur life, 'save' u in my heart, 'format your problems, 'shift' u 2 opportunities & never 'delete' u from memory!
• As long as we have memories, yesterday remains,
As long as we have hope, tommorrow awaits,
As long as we have friendship, each day is never a waste.
• FRIENDSHIP isn't how u forget but how u forgive,
Not how u listen but how u understand,
Not what u see but what u feel,
and not how you let go but how you hold on.
• True friends are like diamonds..... they are real and rare.
Flase friends are like leaves... they are scattered everywhere.
• Without humor, life sux.
Without courage, life is hard,
Without love, life is hopeless,
Without friends like you, Life is impossible!
• Till the end .....
U've tiuched my heart u've touched my soul. Bcos of u i now feel whole. U'll always be my closest friend. U'll b in my heart 2 the very end.
• God in heaven. God above please protect the friend i love. Sent with smile, sealed with kiss. i love my friend whos reading this.
• A ring is round and has no end, so is my love for you my friend.
• I must have been born under a lucky star, to find a friend as nice as you are. I will follow the rainbow to the end, if you promise to retain my friend !!!
• I asked god 4 a flower, he gave me a garden,
I asked God 4 a tree, he gave me a forest,
I asked god 4 a river, he gave me an ocean.
I asked god 4 a friend, he gave me you.
• When darkness moves in on me, it is the love of people like you that allows me to go through defeat and still know to be faulty accepted.
• The NHS regrets to inform you that your birth was an accident, Please report to your nearest hospital to be put down. We apologise for any inconvenience

Break Up SMS

2008-08-01T01:33:00.002-07:00

SMS Break Up Messages- Ultimate collection of break up sms messages to send to your friends and loved one. If your lover has cheated you, then make him feel guilty and insult him by sending these Break up SMS Text Messages:
• As we go on we remembar all d times we had 2gether.&as our life changes cum whateva we will still be friends forever.
• When life changes & we go our separate wayz.u will still be in my heart til my dyin dayz.i tell no lie dis is true.da world has nva seen a freind like u.
• i heard someone whisper ur name, but when i turned around to c who it was, i notice i was alone, then i realize it was my heart telling me that i miss u.
• I hate you, you hate me, what are we waiting for? Let's do it.
• sending you a hug to ease your stress.a kiss to make you smile and my heart to say i'm thinking of u. i miss you
• Remember me and bare in mind A faithful girl is hard to find This is always good and true So dont go changing old for new! (SMS Break Up Messages)
• Weve gone our own way our lives grew apart & weve made a life wiv another.but despite of how far apart we grew 2 me there still is no other
• Luv will fly if held too lightly.Love will die if held too tightly.How should I hold u.How do I know if I'm still keeping you or I'm letting go...
• Have I told you latley how much I am in love with you??? No?? Think about it, have a great life...
• I get so emotional when your not around.. I think the emotion is called happiness.
• Joh sadiyon se hota aaya hai,
Woh repeat kar doonga,
Tu naa mili to tujhko dil se,
Ctrl+Alt+Delete kar doonga.
• I get so emotional when your not around.. I think the emotion is called happiness.
• Aisi bewafaai ki ussne ,
mohabbat bhi badnaam ho gayi....
apni mohabbat ki itni kimat vasool ki usne,
ke hamari arthi bhi nilaam ho gayi......
• Roses are red, violets are... ah the hell with it. Get your crap and get out.
• Apni yadaain apni batain lay kar jana bhool gayqa.janay wala jaldi main tha mil kar jana bhool gaya.mur mur kar daikha tha usnay jatay jatay rastay main.jaisay usnay kahna tha kuch jo wo kehna bhool gaya.
• Zakhm Muskuratay Hain, Ab Bhi Teri Aahat ParDard Bhool Jatay Hain, Ab Bhi Teri Aahat Par.
• Tere Naam ki thi jo Roshni usey khud tu ne Bujha diyaJi$sko jala $aki thi na Dhoop u$ey chandni ne jala diya.
• I'm sure you've met my new girlfriend, she's been your best friend for 8 years.
• Look, I'm turning 16 soon, and I really just need my freedom!
• It only takes a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone & a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
• i no u think dat u broke my heart but i knew ur game rite from da start. i saw ur game and played it 2 so look here playa da jokes on u!
I do update this website daily and soon i will add some more Break Up SMS text Messages for you. Don't forget to recommend your friends about this website if you my collection of SMS Break up text messages.

Good Night SMS

2008-08-01T01:33:00.001-07:00

If you are looking for Good Night SMS Text Messages, then you came the right place. This page provides you some of the best and romantic Goodnight texts and msg to send to your friends, girlfriend or boyfriend .
• It's a lovely msg to a lovely person from a lovely friend on a lovely reason at lovely time from a lovely mind in a lovely style to say u good night.
• somewhere out there beneath the pale moon light someone think in of u some where out there where dreams come true... goodnite & sweet dreams 2 you.
• On this cold cold nite,in My small small ROOm,i Look At The Brite Brite StArS iN tHe DaRk DaRk sKy & DrEaM of YouR sWeet sWeet SmiLe on ur CuTe CuTe FaCe! GdNiTe!
• Hai Moon! Dim Your Light...Hello Wind ! Breeze soft..Hai flower! Blossom Slowly..Hello Earth! spin gently..Becoze My Dear friend is going to sleep!...Good Night.
• A day is going to end again. It is nice to have a friend like U making my everyday seems so great. Thank U my good friend lastly gd nite n sweet dreams...
• I was looking out the windows thinking about the person I care most & the person that came into my mind is U so juz wanna wish u good nite.......
• At this moment 3.7 Millions are sleeping,2.3 Millions are falling in Love,4.1 Million are eating & only one cute person in the whole world is reading my SMS....Good Night!!!
• Good night my very special friend,I pray you lay in rest,And may tomorrow bring you,Much love and happiness.do not think of me...i m in ur eyes. (good nite sms)
• Night doesnt become beautiful with star studded sky & full moon,It becomes beautiful when u go to sleep and let stars & moon admire ur innocence..Good night,,,
• Don't let little things get you down. You've got many big reasons to look up to God and say thanks tonight. Tomorrow, it's going to be a great day.
• The star are out,the moon is up,one more hug,one more smile,kiss u once,kiss u twice,Now its time 4 bed,Close ur @@,And sleep tight!!GOOD NIGHT!!
• Bindas sone ka,Rapchik sapne dekhne ka,Bhoot ko nahi dekhne ka,Boleto….. Aina nahi dekhne ka,Aur blanket odh ke fultus so jane ka,Boleto Good Night. (Good Night SMS)
• Dont ever give up wen u r down..it doesnt matter if u fall many tyms..jst remember that each time u fall ..il nvr let u reach d ground..trust me..il always be around.gudnyt..u
• Name 3 characteristics 4 me out of 1. Arrogant 2. Sweet 3. Egoistic 4. Lively 5. Playful 6. smart 7. Honest 8. Shy 9. Confident 10.Hyper Be Honest while you reply. Good Night
I hope you like these GoodNight SMS Text Messages. Don't forget to share these sms messages with your friends, boyfriend or girlfriend.

Birthday SMS

2008-08-01T01:29:00.000-07:00

What Is Birthday? Birthday is known as the day we born. We all celebrate this day as a birthday party where we give gift to person who is celebrating birthday. Birthday person recieves special treatment on this day and gets lots of gifts and well wishes for friends and family.
This page provides you best birthday quotes and happy birthday text messages to send to birthday person. These birthday SMS Text Messages will definately put a smile on him/her face on this special day.• Wishing u life soft as silkWhite as Milk as honey full of money may all ur dreams comes true and this wish is only 4 uHappy Birthday
• I just saw the time & was wonder that its 18th Feb 2007 today birthday is this ?Then i got that my friend(brother) Ali was born axact 45 years before.Happy Birthday to u Dear.
• Ur Bday is Special dayOne thats just 4 u, A time 4 doing everything U especially like 2 doOn this day thats belong to u, This wish this greeting brings is 4 the joy so deserve and all life'z nicest things! Happy Bitrthday 2 U!
• Tumhari is ada ka kya jawad du, apne dost ko kya uphar du, koi accha sa phool hota to mali se mangvata, jo khud gulab hai usko kya gulab du...HAPPY BIRTHDAY My love. More laughs 4 lunch. Lots of happiness for dinner. Doctor's fee? An sms when u r free.
Some people like sunday,Some people like monday, However i just like only one day, Its your birthday… Happy Birthday..
• Flying papers, multi colours of balloon, delicated blossom, fantastic people, love and laughter. What it describes? HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
• Flying papers , multi colours of balloon, delicated blossom, fantastic people, love and laughter. What it describes? HAPPY BIRTHDAY
• Dad : Son, what do you want for your birthday? Son : Not much dad, just a radio with a sports car around it. .......
• Apun wishing you a wonderful, super duper, zabardast, xtra bariya, xtra special ekdum mast n dhinchak bole to ekdum jhakaas, JANAM DIN mubarak ho..
• Apne dil ko tatolke apni baat keh do. 'Today is a day of celebration. Why? xx years ago on the same day, GOD sent me my flesh and bone conscience. Wishing my Friendly Inner Voice a very happy b-day. Hugs & Kisses'
• Tumhari is ada ka kya jawad du, apne dost ko kya uphar du, koi accha sa phool hota to mali se mangvata, jo khud gulab hai usko kya gulab du...HAPPY BIRTHDAY My love. More laughs 4 lunch. Lots of happiness for dinner. Doctor's fee? An sms when u r free.
• May god bless you with every happiness in life and may your allwishes granted by god. happy birthday. (Happy birthday text messages)
• Its a nice feeling when you know that someone likes you, someone thinks about you, someone needs you; Someone can not live without you, someone cares for you; but it feels much better when you know that someone never ever forgets your birthday.“HAPPY BIRTHDAY”.
• Baar baar yeh din aaye,
baar baar yeh dil gaaye,
tu jiye hazaro saal,
yehi hai meri aarzoo,
Happy B'day To You !!!"
• Cute msg for a cutest Person from cute Friend 4 a cute Reason at a cute Time form a cute Mind in a cute Mood in a cute Style Have a cute "Happy BirthDay" - (By Raj)
I hope you find these Happy Birthday SMS Text Messages useful to send to birthday person.

Facts About Chocolate

2008-08-01T01:13:00.003-07:00

 According to US Food and Drug Administration guidelines, up to 59 insect bits are permitted in a 125g bar of chocolate.
 We’ve heard of rice and pasta, but chocolate as a staple? Yes, ask the South Mexico Olmec tribe back in 1000 B.C. They ate chocolate all the time! Strange, but true!
 A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
 Talk about sweet ceremonies! The Maya drank liquid chocolate during weddings, engagements, baptisms and even funerals! Whoever thought there was something ceremonial about chocolate!
 The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.
 Some chocolates may cost you but did you know that Cacao or chocolates beans were used as currency by Aztec and Maya tribes? If we had that today we would be eating out of our wallets!
 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
 So who thought of solidifying chocolate? Thank Mexican nuns from the 1700’s as they created and exported the first chocolate product as a fund raiser for their convent.
 Here’s another fact. Not just 10 or 50 but chocolate remarkably has over 500 flavors in it! No wonder it tastes so good. Vanilla and strawberry don’t even come close to this figure.
 Heard of Mexican Emperor Montezuma? He drank liquid chocolate before getting busy in his harem. Since chocolate make you feel good, it is considered an aphrodisiac.
 Those gory scenes in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, was all chocolate syrup! Although the scene finishes in about 45 seconds, it took 7 days to get that shot done perfectly.
 Chocolate was re-born in 1879 when Daniel Peter and Henre Nestle introduced milk chocolate to the world. In the same year Rudolphe Lindt introduced the conching process which makes chocolate smooth and soft.
 Napoleon was great in many ways. Did you know he took chocolate along with him during his military campaigns. Now that was a clever move as chocolate gives you added energy and restores carbohydrates.
 Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

Facts About Butterflies

2008-08-01T01:13:00.001-07:00

 Butterflies pollinate wild plants and our crops, ensuring the production of seeds and fruits required for the continued survival of plants and animals, including humans.
 Due to their fragility to ecological change, butterflies are elegant indicators of ecosystem health.
 Butterflies are a valuable source of food for songbirds.
 Female butterflies usually are bigger and live longer than male butterflies.
 A butterfly has compound eyes: each eye is made up of about 6,000 tiny parts called lenses, which let in light.
 The Queen Alexandra’s birdwing from the island of New Guinea is the largest butterfly; it can have a wingspan of 11 inches!
 Most butterflies make no sound, but some in Florida and Texas make a loud clicking sound with their wings.
 Butterflies do not get bigger as they age - a young butterfly is a caterpillar!
 The female moth produces a scent that a male moth can smell a mile away.
 Butterflies are related to crabs and lobsters! Why? Because like those sea creatures, butterflies have skeletons on the outside of their bodies. They’re arthropods: insects,
crustaceans, millipedes, centipedes and arachnids.
 Butterflies weigh only as much as two rose petals, but can fly thousands of miles.
 Caterpillars are not worms. Caterpillars have legs; worms do not.
 Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
 Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
 Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
 The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
 Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 2,000 miles, and return to the north again in the spring.
 Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
 Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.
 Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
 There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.
 The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
 Some Case Moth caterpillars (Psychidae) build a case around themselves that they always carry with them. It is made of silk and pieces of plants or soil.
 The caterpillars of some Snout Moths (Pyralididae) live in or on water-plants.
 The females of some moth species lack wings, all they can do to move is crawl.
 The Morgan's Sphinx Moth from Madagascar has a proboscis (tube mouth) that is 12 to 14 inches long to get the nectar from the bottom of a 12 inch deep orchid discovered by Charles Darwin.
 Some moths never eat anything as adults because they don't have mouths. They must live on the energy they stored as caterpillars.
 Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.
 There are more types of insects in one tropical rain forest tree than there are in the entire state of Vermont.
 In 1958 Entomologist W.G. Bruce published a list of Arthropod references in the Bible. The most frequently named bugs from the Bible are: Locust: 24, Moth: 11, Grasshopper: 10, Scorpion: 10, Caterpillar: 9, and Bee: 4.
 People eat insects – called "Entomophagy"(people eating bugs) – it has been practiced for centuries throughout Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and North, Central and South America. Why? Because many bugs are both protein-rich and good sources of vitamins, minerals and fats.
 You can eat bugs! Try the "Eat-A-Bug Cookbook" by David George Gordon , 10 Speed Press. Don’t want to cook them yourself? Go to HotLix for all sorts of insect goodies! My favorites are "Cricket-lickit’s" – a flavored sucker with a real edible cricket inside.
 Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.
 There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species.
 Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for other animals, make products we use (like honey and silk) or have medical uses.
 Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don’t dry out.

President Facts

2008-08-01T01:12:00.002-07:00

 Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.
 Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father’s assassination as well as during President Garfield’s assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.
 Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
 Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
 John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
 No president of the United States has an only child.

Australia Facts

2008-08-01T01:12:00.001-07:00

 In land area, Australia is the sixth largest nation after Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America and Brazil. It has, however, a relatively small population.
 Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands. The mainland is the largest island and the smallest, flattest continent on Earth. It lies between 10° and 39° South latitude.
 The highest point on the mainland, Mount Kosciuszko, is only 2228 metres. Apart from Antarctica, Australia is the driest continent.
 Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth. Its interior has one of the lowest rainfalls in the world and about three-quarters of the land is arid or semi-arid. Its fertile areas are well-watered, however, and these are used very effectively to help feed the world. Sheep and cattle graze in dry country, but care must be taken with the soil. Some grazing land became desert when the long cycles that influence rainfall in Australia turned to drought.
 The Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories. Most inland borders follow lines of longitude and latitude. The largest State, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe.
 Australia has had one of the most outstanding economies of the world in recent years. As a high-growth, low-inflation, low interest rate economy, it is more vibrant than ever before. There is an efficient government sector, a flexible labour market and a very competitive business sector.
 With its abundant physical resources, Australia has enjoyed a high standard of living since the nineteenth century. It has made a comparatively large investment in social infrastructure, including education, training, health and transport.
 The Australian workforce has seen many improvements over the last decade, leading to the surge in productivity in the 1990s. The complex and centralised award based industrial relations system has given way to a more decentralised one with many employees working under workplace agreements tailored to meet enterprise needs.
 Australia's culturally diverse society includes its Indigenous peoples and settlers from countries all around the world.
 Immigration is an important feature of Australian society. Since 1945, over six million people from 200 countries have come to Australia as new settlers. Migrants have made a major contribution to shaping modern Australia. People born overseas make up almost one quarter of the total population.
 The federal government sets immigration intake numbers on a yearly basis. Australia's immigration policies are non-discriminatory and all applicants to migrate must meet the same selection criteria.
 People eat insects – called "Entomophagy"(people eating bugs) – it has been practiced for centuries throughout Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and North, Central and South America. Why? Because many bugs are both protein-rich and good sources of vitamins, minerals and fats.

Facts About Africa

2008-08-01T01:11:00.002-07:00

 In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness
 People in Africa bleed for an average of 23 minutes a day
 People eat insects – called "Entomophagy"(people eating bugs) – it has been practiced for centuries throughout Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and North, Central and South America. Why? Because many bugs are both protein-rich and good sources of vitamins, minerals and fats.
 Young girls in the African Mututsi tribe carry they intended husband around in ruck sacks for several years before marrying them.

Facts About America

2008-08-01T01:11:00.001-07:00

 Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

 The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.

 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
 salad served in first-class.
 Winners at the 2001 Ig-Nobel Prize ceremony for eccentric researchers, inventors and scientists include an American who claims to have invented anti-flatulence underwear, a Lithuanian who set up a theme park dedicated to Stalin, and two Indians who discovered that nose-picking is commonplace.
 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

 On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

 Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
 One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
 In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes
 Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

 On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand “1″ and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
 In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.
 12% of all Americans have drunk their own urine.
 LA 's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Pociuncula.
 Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Slaghoopal.
 Most American car horns are in the note of 'F'.
 13 Americans are killed by vending machines each year.
 In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
 A new McDonalds opens every 13 hours.
 Only 4% of Americans did not eat at a McDonalds or Burger King last year.
 Americans eat 18 acres of pizza a day.
 Last year, 43 Americans died on roller coasters.
 According to the Texas Department of Transportation, one person is killed annually painting stripes on the state's highways and roads.
 Montpeiler, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.
 The original colour of coca-cola was green.
 On the US version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" a contestant took 10 minutes to answer the $500 question: "In which country is the leaning tower of Pisa?" Another contestant took 20 minutes to answer the very first question!
 A toilet that uses recycled flush water had the following warning: "Recycled flush water - Unsafe for drinking."
 A novelty rock garden set comes with the warning: "Eating rocks may lead to broken teeth."
 A warning on an electric DIY drill cautions: "This product is not intended for use as a dental drill."
 A set of cyclist's shin pads carried the following warning: "Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body that they do not cover."
 A push chair carried the following warning: "Remove child before folding."
 A sleeping pill prescription read: "Warning: May cause drowsiness."
 An iron carried the following warning: "Never iron clothes while they are being worn."
 A unique wind-proof beach towel told users: "This towel has been tested to withstand significantly strong winds. But please be advised that during a hurricane this product should not be used to secure yourself or anything of value."
 A hair dryer warned users: "Never use while sleeping."
 A bathroom heater company covered itself by saying: "This product is not to be used in bathrooms."
 An under-arm deodorant container had printed on it: "Caution: Do not spray in eyes."
 There are 70,000 product liability law suits in the USA every year!
 David Potchen stormed into Center Bank in Lowell, Indiana on September 1st 2001 armed with a shotgun and demanded two Big Macs. A four hour stand-off between him and the cops ensued. It finally ended when police gave the robber two Big Macs - he surrendered immediately without fuss!
 The original Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley is now (September 2001) required reading at the University of Georgia for students on a science course which involves genetic engineering.
 An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

Cheetah Facts

2008-08-01T01:09:00.002-07:00

 Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
 Cheetahs can go from a standing position to 45mph in two seconds.

Animal Facts

2008-08-01T01:09:00.000-07:00

 Ants don't sleep.

 Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

 A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

 The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

 A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

 A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

 The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

 There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

 A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

 Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

 A baby bat is called a pup.

 German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

 A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

 It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.

 The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

 The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

 Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

 A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

 Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

 Snakes are immune to their own poison.

 An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

 Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

 The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

 Most lipstick contains fish scales.

 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

 Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

 A shrimp's heart is in their head.

 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

 A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

 The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.

 A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

 It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.

 Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

 Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.

 There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.

 Cat's urine glows under a black light.

 The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

 It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.

 Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.

 It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.

 Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.

 Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.

 Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

 A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

 The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
 There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.

 The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

 The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

 The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

 The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

 A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

 Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

 The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

 Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.

 The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog.

 The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

Interesting Facts

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 Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

 The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.

 To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.

 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.

 Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.

 The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

 Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

 The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

 Ants can live up to 16 years.

 In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.

 The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.

 Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

 Coca-Cola was originally green.

 The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

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

 The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

 Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

 You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

 It is impossible to lick your elbow.

 People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
 stops for a millisecond.

 It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

 The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
 tongue twister in the English language.

 If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a
 sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

 Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
 Spades - King David
 Clubs - Alexander the Great,
 Hearts - Charlemagne
 Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
 air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air,
 the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has
 all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
 printers all have in common?
 Ans. - All invented by women.
 Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
 Ans. - HoneY.

 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.A snail can sleep for three years.

 All polar bears are left handed.

 Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

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

 Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

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

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

 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.

 Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear
 by 700 times.

 The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

 Most lipstick contains fish scales.

 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

Mosquito Facts

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 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
 Only female mosquitoes bite
 The Anopheles mosquito that carries malaria is believed to have been responsible for half of all human deaths, not including wars and accidents, since the Stone Age.

Facts about Words

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 The two words "go sip" were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and thus, we have the term "gossip."
 The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”.
 The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
 Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters “MT”.
 The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
 Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
 Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
 What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
 The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu
-- a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)
 "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
 "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
 No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
 "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
 one row ! of the keyboard.
 The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
 The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

Human Body Facts

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 Men fart an average of 17 times a day, and women fart an average of 9 times a day.
 If you fart constantly for 6 years, 9 months and 23 days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic bomb.
 The longest ever penis recorded by scientists is 13.5 inches.
 Humans are only second to cats for having the dirtiest mouths.
 It takes about 40 muscles to smile, but only 4 to pull the trigger of a decent rifle.
 Beard hair grows at twice its usual rate when you're in a plane.
 Around 15 men each year have their penises chopped off by their wives and the highest proportion of men who suffer this are Italians.
 You use more calories eating celery than there are in celery itself.
 More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
 Semen is one of the most fattening substances known to man.
 An average of 76 people a year die playing twister, and about 23 of which are through playing the nude version!
 Linda McCartney has sold more vegetarian ready made meals than Paul has sold records.
 In the course of the 18 year run of Cats on broadway, 3,247 lbs of yak hair was used for wigs.
 The shortest war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
 65 people become $millionaires every day.
 The average human will eat one pound of insects in their lifetime.
 You are more likely to be killed by a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
 By the time a person is 18, they would have spent 12,000 hours in school, but 14,000 hours watching television.
 Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.
 Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce!
 You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet into a cube with sides 1km long.
 Apporximately 69% of all Internet content consists of pornographic material.
 Porn sites generated $970 million in revenue in 1999.
 Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.
 Every 20 minutes a hapless person treads on a land mine.
 The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning out the light.
 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.
 Over one trillion matches were being produced every year at the beginning of the last century.
 A Roman leap year had the same number of days as ordinary years but January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.
 After being decapitated a human can still see for 20 seconds! (Not sure how 'they' worked this one out!).
 Under EC law it is legal to have sex with inflatable dolls in the street.
 Right-handed people live on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
 Human stomachs produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks to stop it digesting itself.
 Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs.
 More boys than girls are born during the day, but more girls are born at night.

Facts about England

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 In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
 The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
 Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness
 The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
 Johnny Vaughan was born at the precise moment that England scored the winning goal in the 1966 World Cup final.
 Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.
 There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
 On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks.
 Over Christmas as much as 83km² of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey.
 If all the aluminium cans sold in the UK were recycled, there would be 14 million fewer full dustbins each year.
 Every UK household produces over one tonne of rubbish every year.
 Every eight months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere.

DID YOU KNOW FACTS

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 Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
 Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
 Did You Know, 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
 Did You Know, TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
 Did You Know, Butterflies taste with their feet.
 Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.
 Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
 Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.
 Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.
 Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
 Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
 Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
 Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
 When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
 A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
 During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
 A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
 There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
 Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
 Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.
 The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
 The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
 The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
 Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
 Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
 Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.

Weird Facts

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 Butterflies taste with their feet.
 A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
 In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
 all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
 On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
 On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
 Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
 Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
 ads for dating are already married.
 Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
 Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
 It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
 every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
 take into account the weight of all the
 books that would occupy the building.
 A snail can sleep for three years.
 No word in the English language rhymes with
 "MONTH".
 Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
 never stop growing.
 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 All polar bears are left handed.
 In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
 including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
 letters only on one row of the keyboard.
 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
 "Go." 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.
 The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Strange Facts

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 Slugs have four noses.
 All polar bears are left handed.
 In a life time, the average person eats eight spiders.
 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
 Giant squid have the largest eyes in the world.
 All porcupines float.
 The world record for sitting in a cage filled with scorpions is 21 days.
 Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
 Humans and dolphins are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.
 Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
 It only takes monkeys 10 seconds to mate!
 An octopus's testicles are located in its head.
 A duck's quack does not echo, and scientists have no idea why.
 A pig's orgasm lasts half an hour.
 Mozzarella cheese is made from water buffalo's milk.
 Lions can mate over 50 times a day.
 The giant sloth sleeps for 17 hours a day, yet dreams for only 70 minutes of that time.
 Left undisturbed, a detatched porcupine quill will work its way into human flesh at a rate of 2.5cm a day.
 When toads vomit, their reflexes are so strong that they bring up not only their stomach contents but the stomach itself!
 Cats can make over 100 individual vocal sounds, whereas dogs can only make 10.
 An ant removed from its ant hill and released several kilometres from home will find its way back by its sense of smell.
 If you scaled up a barnacle to human size, its penis would measure the height of Nelson's column!!
 Hippopotamus milk is bright pink.
 The world's smallest insect is the fairy fly, only 0.2mm long.
 Dogs have 17 muscles in their ears so they can turn them in several directions to pick up sounds.
 Chamelons and sea-horses can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time which enables them to spot predators more easily.
 When feeling nervous, some octopuses will eat their own tentacles which then grow back later.
 A giraffe can last longer without water than a camel.
 A crocodile has so much acid in its stomach that it can digest steel.
 The female black widow spider mates with up to 25 partners a day, eating the male afterwards.
 Soon after birth, crab spiders start eating their mother's limbs. They then survive on them for several weeks.
 A blue whale's tongue is the same size and weight as a full-grown African elephant.
 The emperor moth starts life with a large tongue, but the time it has reached maturity, its tongue has shrunk away to nothing. Unable to feed, the moth eventually dies of starvation.
 A rodent's teeth never stop growing .
 Crocodiles can grow up 50 new sets of teeth in a lifetime.
 Cockroaches can hold their breath for 40 minutes.
 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
 Polar bears can smell a human from 20 miles away.
 Starfish haven't got brains.
 It's impossible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down stairs.
 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
 A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
 Tarantulas can survive for up to 2 years without eating.
 Mother tarantulas kill 99% of the babies they hatch.
 Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
 The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
 Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
 Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
 Ants can survive for 2 weeks underwater and they always fall onto their right side when intoxicated.
 Great Danes come from Germany, not Denmark.

Useless Facts

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 There are more $100 notes in Russia than in any other country in the world.
 Duelling is legal in Paraguay, as long as each fighter is a blood donor.
 Balti is the Indian word for bucket.
 People in Africa bleed for an average of 23 minutes a day.
 There are more English speakers in China than in the USA.
 There are 15,000 trees to every one person living in Finland.
 Switzerland's first legal brothel opened in Zurich on February 25th 1998.
 If a Greek schoolboy was dissatisfied with the standed of his education he was permitted to give his teacher a beating.
 At Columbian cinemas roasted ants are as common a snack as popcorn.
 Swedish marathon runner Earnest Fast finished third at the Paris Olmpics in 1900 despite having lost 40 minutes after being sent the wrong way by an official.

Amazing Facts

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 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
 Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
 Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
 Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.
 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.
 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
 Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
 About 55% of all movies are rated R.
 About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
 Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.
 Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
 The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
 The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
 There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.
 The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
 More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
 A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.
 The word “maverick” came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
 Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
 For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
 On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.
 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
 $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.
 Almonds are members of the peach family.
 Rats and horses can’t vomit.
 The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.
 There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
 Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
 Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
 There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
 Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
 “101 Dalmatians” and “Peter Pan” are the only Disney animations in which both of a character’s parents are present and don’t die during the movie.
 You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
 Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.
 Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
 Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
 An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
 All polar bears are left-handed.
 The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)
 A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
 Butterflies taste with their feet.
 Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
 . An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
 Starfish have no brains.
 11% of the world is left-handed.
 John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
 Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
 The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
 . A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
 Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.
 Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”. It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
 A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
 A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
 The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
 The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.
 The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
 One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
 The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
 A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
 Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as “Q-Link.”
 A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
 Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.
 Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
 Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
 Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
 There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
 If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 The name Jeep comes from “GP”, the army abbreviation for General Purpose.
 Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
 There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
 Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
 A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
 The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.
 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.
 In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
 25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.
 David Sarnoff received the Titanic’s distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).

Random Facts

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 On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
 One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the ’30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).
 “Canada” is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
 Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
 If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
 Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
 The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
 A jellyfish is 95% water.
 Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).
 Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
 Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
 On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
 The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
 In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10.
 In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
 In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
 If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
 Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
 The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
 There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
 When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska’s third largest city.
 The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
 A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
 In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.
 Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.
 Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.
 There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.
 In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.
 A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.
 Judy Scheindlin (”Judge Judy”) has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.
 The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.
 Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
 Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
 John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
 You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
 “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
 The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn’t kill their enemies.
 “Duff” is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
 The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
 There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.
 Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).
 Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
 In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
 At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
 Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.
 The tool doctors wrap around a patient’s arm to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer.
 People say “bless you” when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
 US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”.
 In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
 A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
 In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
 The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)
 Pearls melt in vinegar.
 “Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
 In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.
 Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.
 Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.
 Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname “Tiger” in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.
 266. Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.
 God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.
 The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.
 Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.
 There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.
 Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.
 The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.
 The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.
 For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
 Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.
 Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.
 Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
 The “if” and “then” parts of conditional (”if P then Q”) statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
 Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.
 If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
 The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.
 Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.
 One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.
 The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.
 The “countdown” (counting down from 10 for an event such as New-Years Day) was first used in a 1929 German silent film called “Die Frau Im Monde” (The Girl in the Moon).
 Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.
 There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul’s armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.
 A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
 Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.
 Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
 293. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were “Thomas Jefferson survives.”
 The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland’s baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.
 Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.
 The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).
 There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
 While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the “Treaty of Paris”: Seven Years’ War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).
 The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

Funny Facts

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 If you shouted for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
 Volleyball is the most popular sport at nudist camps.
 Banging your head against a wall uses a 150 calories an hour.
 On average, a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year!
 If you mouth the word "colourful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
 Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
 A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
 Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
 Polar bears are left-handed (Who knew...? Who cares!)
 Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
 Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
 The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 There are more chickens than people in the world.
 Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
 All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
 All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
 Almonds are a member of the peach family.
 Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
 Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
 There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
 Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
 In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
 Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
 The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
 A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
 A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
 A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
 Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
 There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
 A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
 A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
 A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
 A 2" X 4" is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
 During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
 On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily (I knew it!).
 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
 The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
 There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver. What about "month?"
 The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
 The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
 If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist that discovered this??)
 The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
 The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
 The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
 The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
 Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
 By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
 Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
 Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
 Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
 An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
 The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
 The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
 Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
 Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The suits or the astronauts?)

Facts About Famous People

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 Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
 Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down while shooting so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
 Elvis Presley had a twin brother.
 Zeuxis a Greek painter in the 5th Centrury BC laughed hismself to death while looking at one of his paintings.
 Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a srage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.
 Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
 Julio Iglesias once had five gallons of water flown from Miami to L.A. so he could wash his hair.
 Clark Gable was listed on his birth certificate as a girl.
 Bernard Manning did his National Service in the Military Police and one of his duties was guarding Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess in Spandau.
 John Lennon shoplifted in Holland the harmonica he used on Love Me Do.
 Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most strappings in a week - 27.
 Tom Cruise and Robbie Williams were both voted least Likely To Succeed at school.
 Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.
 Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list, which today is priceless.
 The arhcitect who built the Kremlin had his eyes gouged our by Iavn The Terrible so that he would never be able to design another building like it.
 Pirates wore earings because they believed it improved their eyesight.
 Cher's parents married and divorced each other three times.
 Mike Myers (a.k.a. Austin Powers) is descended from William Wordsworth.