1 Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK?
It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the
world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2 A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows
why.
3 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from
the sales of Happy Meals.
4 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary
were misspelled.
5 On the average, 12 newborns will be given
to the wrong parents daily.
6 Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate
affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few
ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
7 Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a
medicine.
8 Leonardo da Vinci could write with one
hand and draw with the other at the same time.
9 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given
out during World War II were made of wood.
10 There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling
casinos.
11 Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's
lips.
12 Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually
had to slow a film down so you could see his
moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
13 The original name for the butterfly
was "flutterby"!
14 By raising your legs slowly and lying on
your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
15 Mosquito repellents don't repel. They
hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors
so they don't know you're there.
16 Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be
kept at least six feet away from a toilet to
avoid airborne particles resulting from the
flush.
17 The first product to have a bar code was
Wrigley's gum.
18 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike
annually than the entire Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.
19 Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one
foot.
20 Adolf Hitler's mother seriously
considered having an abortion but was talked out
of it by her doctor.
21 The three most valuable brand names on
earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in
that order.
22 To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws,
prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let
you go instantly.
23 The average person falls asleep in seven
minutes.
24 The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is
called an octothorp.
25 The only domestic animal not mentioned in
the Bible is the cat.
26 Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
27 The average person's left hand does 56%
of the typing.
28 Dreamt" is the only word in the English
language that ends in "mt".
29 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes
open.
30 In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger
lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers
off".
31 A cockroach can live for 10 days without
a head.
32 We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
33 Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the
Philippines.
34 Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a
year.
35 Brains are more active sleeping than
watching TV.
36 Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent
of Americans.
37 When a person shakes their head from side
to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
38 There are more chickens than people in
the world.
39 It's against the law in Iceland to have a
dog.
40 The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the
middle nail grows the fastest.
41 There are more telephones than people in
Washington, D.C.
42 The average four year-old child asks over
four hundred questions a day.
43 The average person presses the snooze
button on their alarm clock three Times each
morning.
44 The three wealthiest families in the
world have more assets than the Combined wealth
of the forty-eight poorest nations.
45 The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette
Company died of lung cancer.
46 Intelligent people have more zinc and
copper in their hair.
47 The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9
and lived in China in 1910.
48 Our eyes remain the same size from birth
onward, but our noses and ears Never stop
growing.
49 You burn more calories sleeping than you
do watching TV.
50 A person will die from total lack of
sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will
occur about 10 days without sleep, while
starvation takes a Few weeks.
51 Chewing gum while peeling onions will
keep you from crying.
52 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
53 When the moon is directly overhead, you
weigh slightly less.
54 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of
the telephone, never telephoned His wife or
mother because they were both deaf.
55 A psychology student in New York rented
out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag
him constantly and study his reactions. After
Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her
repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally
retarded
56 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence
in the English language
57 Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing
toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because
Colgate translates into the command "go hang
Yourself."
58 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue
print is different.
59 "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English
language with three consecutive Double letters.
60 Right handed people live, on average,
nine years longer than left handed People do.
61 The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the
English language.
62 If the population of China walked past
you in single line, the line Would never end
because of the rate of reproduction
63 China has more English speakers than the
United States.
64 Every human spent about half an hour as a
single cell.
65 Each square inch of human skin consists
of twenty feet of blood vessels.
66 An average person uses the bathroom 6
times per day.
67 Babies are born with 300 bones, but by
adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.
68 Beards are the fastest growing hairs on
the human body. If the average Man never trimmed
his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long
in his Lifetime.
69 According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken
came before the egg.
70 The longest place name still in use is:
Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a
New Zealand hill.
71 If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am,
you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately
4:30pm the previous day.
72 Scientists in Australia's Parkes
Observatory thought they had positive Proof of
alien life, when they began picking up radio-
waves from space. However, after investigation,
the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in
the building.
73 Wearing headphones for an hour increases
the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
74 More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types
of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
75 Men can read smaller print than women,
but women can hear better.
76 Coca-Cola was originally green.
77 The most common name in the world is
Mohammed.
78 The name of all the continents ends with
the same letter that they start with.
79 There are two credit cards for every
person in the United States.
80 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can
be made using the letters only on one row of the
keyboard.
81 Women blink nearly twice as much as
men!!
82 You can't kill yourself by holding your
breath.
83 It is impossible to lick your elbow.
84 People say "Bless you" when you sneeze
because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a
millisecond.
85 It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.
86 The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's
sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.
87 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.
88 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.
89 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
90 If a statue of a person in the park on a
horse has both front legs in the air, the person
died in battle.
91 If the horse has one front leg in the
air, the person died as a result of wounds
received in battle.
92 If the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
93 Question - This is the only food that
doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey
94 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue
out.
95 A snail can sleep for three years.
96 All polar bears are left handed.
97 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
by eliminating one olive from each salad served
in first-class.
98 Butterflies taste with their feet.
99 Elephants are the only animals that can't
jump.
100 In the last 4000 years, no new animals
have been domesticated.
101 On average, people fear spiders more
than they do death.
102 Shakespeare invented the
word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
103 Stewardesses is the longest word typed
with only the left hand.
104 The ant always falls over on its right
side when intoxicated.
105 The electric chair was invented by a
dentist.
106 The human heart creates enough pressure
when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30
feet.
107 Rats multiply so quickly that in 18
months, two rats could have over million
descendants.
108 The cigarette lighter was invented
before the match.
109 Most lipstick contains fish scales.