Things You Didn't Know

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
 eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every
 day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
 (Kinda gives new meaning to the term bird brain, doesn't it?)

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't
 appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs
 only have about 10.

Cats urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United
 States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland
 because he doesn't wear any pants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded
 history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that
 have sex for pleasure.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the
 English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would
 be 39-23-33. She would stand 7' 2" tall and have a neck twice
 the length of a normal human's neck.

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

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days,
 you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one
 cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair
 from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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

Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually
 than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia
 combined.

No word in the English language rhymes with
 month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected
 intravenously.

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

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is
 because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against
 hemp farmers - they saw it as competition.

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

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
 longer than left-handed people do.

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

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

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

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

The average human eats eight spiders in their
 lifetime at night. (In this case I HOPE I am not average!)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only
 six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while
 its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex
 by ripping the male's head off.

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 name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter
 Pan'.

The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, has twice
 as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the
 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws
 requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and
 whites.


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word race car and kayak are the same whether
 they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in
 the United States.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.