Wierd Facts! and I mean Wierd! lol
The San Fransico cable cars are the only mobile National Monument.
A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
The longest one-syllable word is "screeched".
There's another longest one-syllable word: "strengths".
The average person spends two years on the phone in a lifetime.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
In 1 day, your heart beats over 100,000 times.
There are one million ants for every person in the world.
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The shark is the only fish who can blink with both eyes.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
85% of the world can curl their tongue into a "U".
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
A giraffe's tongue is almost 2 feet long.
Maine is the only state whose name is only one syllable long.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
On a Canadian 2 dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
The only mammal with 4 knees is also the only mammal that can't jump; the elephant.
The smallest bone in the human body is in your ear.
The world's longest snake is the python.
It is impossible for humans to lick their own elbow.
A dentist invented chewing gum when he was looking for a way to exercise his jaws.
A sneeze can reach speeds of 200 miles per hour.
Electric eels produce enough electricity in one shock to light up an entire house.
The skin of sharks was once sold and used as sandpaper.
An octopus has 3 hearts.
Hummingbirds flap their wings 50-70 times per second, they are also the only birds that can fly backwards.
The scientific name for stinky feet is bromhidrosis.
The width of your arm span is equal to your height.
The lungfish can live out of water for as long as 4 years.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
There are about 9000 taste buds on your tongue.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Babies are born without kneecaps. 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.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
The fas-*test*-('") tennis serve by a man is 149mph.
When Coca Cola was first produced it was a green color.
It is the dominant gene in humans to have 6 fingers on each hand.
The Detroit Tigers baseball team used to be called the Creams.