Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia is the fear of long words

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

Jelly Belly, make vomit and ear wax flavored jelly beans !

96% of all American paper money has traces of cocaine on it!

In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.

David Caruso's younger sister, Joyce Caruso, produces Fox News in New York.

A starfish can eat more than it's body weight by pushing some of its stomach outside its body.

The average UK woman spends two years of her life gazing in the mirror

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"uses every letter in the alphabet.

When a piglet is happily suckling it is said to be `Gruntled`.
Take the piglet away from the teat and thats where the word `Disgruntled` comes from.

You are more likely to get hit by lightning than get killed in a plane crash!!

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world!

If you feed a seagull bicarbonate of soda, they will blow up. This is because seagulls cannot f..t.

The origin of the word sabotage is from when French factory workers were being replaced with machines. They threw their shoes (knows as Saboes) into the machines to break them.

An octopus can squeeze through a hole the size of a 10 pence piece

There is only ONE atm in afghanistan. The queue must be mental on a saturday night.

If you pick a guinea pig up by its tail, its eyes will pop out with the shock of it all - they don't have tails you see...

When two hippos are about to fight, they point their anuses at each other, wag their stubby little tails vigorously, and flick faeces at each other.

The very first radio broadcast happened on Christmas Eve 1906 and was made by Reginald Fessenden.

Potato starch is worse for your teeth than sugar, because it takes longer to dissolve in your saliva and rots teeth just as badly!

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.

Every clam is born female. About half way through their lives, a few "decide" to be male.

The United States would fit into the continent of Africa three and a half times.

Husky sledging sounds great, until you realise they don't stop to pee, poo or f..t!

The pirate radio station in Harry Potter and the Deasthly Hallows was called Potterwatch

Glass is a liquid that never competly sets/dries, any old houses windows are thicker at the bottom and thinner and weaker at the top and middle...

If you didn't have a thumb the bottom of your butty would fall off

Candle wax can be removed from tables by rubbing with an ice cube.

The English Channel is two feet higher on the French side, due to centrifugal force.

Why is a delivery on a ship called a cargo and a delivery by car a shipment?

The Empire State building in NY contains 10 million bricks

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows

A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block

The name of the legendary Lady Godiva's horse - Aethenoth

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year

Calcium Gluconate, a substitute used to increase Calcium in humans (patients in hospital), is an antidote to Black Widow Spider bites.

Streets in japan have no names

George W. Bush received 8 death threatening letters each day during his administration. Barack Obama recieves 30 of them each day.

The question should not be why do men leave the loo seat up, it should be why do women leave it down?

A Giraffes tongue is 20 inches long, but It still can't lick behind it's ears

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A 2 x 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple or silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
Hence we have "the rule of thumb"

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

The television series "ER" was originally planned as a movie to be directed by Steven Spielberg. When plans fell through and the project eventually became a series, Spielberg became interested in another Michael Crichton creation: Jurassic Park

The volume of water of one inch of rain fall over one square mile is 17,378,743 gallons of water. The volume of one centimeter over one square kilometer is 10,000,000 litres.

The antibacterial components of antibacterial soaps (usually triclosan or, less commonly, triclocarbon) needs to be left on a surface for about two minutes in order to work. Most people are not this patient, and end up washing off the soap before the antibacterial ingredients can do their job.

The Guinness Book of World Records itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted series. It was created by Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery.

Pablo Picasso's full name was "Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso."

The "baby carrots" sold in supermarkets, are often not from a smaller cultivar of carrot, but are simply full-sized carrots that have been sliced and peeled to make carrot sticks of a uniform shape and size.

Despite common belief, when you are eating shrimp 'tails' and lobster 'tails', you are in fact eating the abdomen of the creature. The real tail is made up of the inedible fins at the end of the abdomen. Also despite common belief, the 'vein' running down the back of shrimp 'tails' is not a vein, but is the intestines of the shrimp.

The human body contains 10 times more bacteria cells than it does human cells.

The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122`.1" and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.

The Japanese word for tall - "takai" is the same word they use for "expensive". This gives new meaning to the term high prices!

Weird wedding tradition - Scotsmen once kidnapped their future brides and the one who excelled at the abduction was given the title of best man. A term that is still very much in use today.

The most expensive wedding cost over £22 million and was held in a purpose built stadium in Dubai for a Sheikh's son.

In 1993 over 30,000 guests attended a wedding in Jerusalem making it the largest wedding attendance on record.

In 1995, the knife used to cut up their wedding cake was again put in use shortly after at the reception when a French bride stabbed her husband of a few hours.

In Irish tradition the Shamrock or 3-leaf Clover represents the Holy Trinity: one leaf for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Spirit. When a Shamrock is found with the fourth leaf, it represents God's Grace.

Natural pearls will melt in vinegar.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

In folklore it is said that if a woman sees a robin fly overhead on the Valentine's Day, she will marry a sailor. A sparrow means she will marry a poor man and be happy. A goldfinch means she will marry a wealthy man.

The best way to tell if you have bad breath is to lick your wrist, let you saliva dry, and then smell it.

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

Walt Disney was afraid of mice

The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.