Fun Facts

More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.

In deep space most lubricants will disappear.

Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.

The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

At -40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).

The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been struck by lighting.

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon. It measures three and a half miles in diameter.

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.

It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.

A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.

The United States consumes more oil than any other country in the World. In 2001, the US consumed as much as the entire European Union and Japan.

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

The oldest dog died at the age of 29.

Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.

In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

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

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.

Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

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.

As of 2002, China had over 100 million manufacturing workers compared to about 17 million in the US, 12 million in Japan, 8.5 million in Germany and 2.3 million in Canada.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

The egg came first.

Sitting too close to the TV will not ruin your eyesight.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

There are only four words in the common English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

As of July 2005, the smallest country in terms of population was Pitcairn Islands with 45 inhabitants!

The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.

At 90 weapons per 100 civilians, the US has the world's highest rate of gun ownership, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007.

China has 100 million Internet users, second to the US's 135 million users.

Cranberry Jell-O is the only kind that contains real fruit.

In 1975, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the US consumed 25% of all federal spending. Today, the three account to 43%.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been struck by lighting.

Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.

Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.

Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.

George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.

Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.