- A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
- People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
- When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
- The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
- The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
- The average housefly lives for one month
- The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
- Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
- The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
- The elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump.
- One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.