 Facts |
|
 |
| |
|
| |
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
|
The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!
|
The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
|
The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!
|
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
|
The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
|
The chemicals indole and skatole, which help to account for the particular smell of human feces, are used as ingredients in perfume!
|
The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
|
The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.
|
The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
|
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
|
The city of Houston, Texas is built on a swamp and is slowly sinking!
|
The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
|
The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.
|
The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.
|
The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
|
The Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is larger than New York City's Manhattan Island.
|
The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
|
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
|
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
|
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
|
The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
|
The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
|
The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
|
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
|
The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
|
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
|
The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!
|
The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.
|
The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| |
| Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 [39] 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Next |
