The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million people.

Cats have over 100 vocal cord sounds. Dogs have about 10.

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

No word in the English language rhymes with orange, month, silver or purple.

The cruise line, Queen Elizabeth II, moves six inches for each gallon of diesel it burns.

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

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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

Polar bears are always left handed.

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896... Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

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

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

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":  tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."
The second? William Jefferson Clinton.

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 farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

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

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

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to count until you found the letter "A"?     A. One thousand

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?     A. All invented by women.

What is the only food that doesn't spoil?     A. Honey

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

If a statue in the park of a person 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.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "The whole 9 yards."

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 our thumb.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

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

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden....and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

Koalas aren't bears. They aren't even related to bears. The koala is related to the kangaroo and the wombat. The koala is a mammal. The reason the koala is called a koala bear is because the koala looks like a teddy bear. The koala's scientific name is Phasclarctos cinereus.

The first word spoken on the moon was "okay."

Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language

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

The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value

Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'

The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it

Every year, Americans spend four billion dollars for cat food which is one billion dollars more than they usually spend on baby food!

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards