A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years  age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because  the rate of reproduction.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size:"L.A."

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

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

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upperleft-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

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

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z,hence "Oz."

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

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.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

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.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home,the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.

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.

It is impossible to lick your elbow

Coca Cola was originally green

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

If a equestrian statue in a park has two feet on the air, means the person died in combat, if one of the front legs is raised, he died because of the wounds sustained in combat, if the horse has all four legs in the floor, the person died of natural causes.

The Pentagon has the double of bathrooms: when it was built the law  required bathrooms for white and colored people.

Right handed people live 9 years longer that left handed.

Cockroaches can live 9 days without their heads, before starving

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

The average person laughs 15 times a day.

Thomas Alba Edison... was afraid of darkness

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra y William Shakespeare both considered the greatest writer in their language, both died the 23 of april of 1616...

It took 22 centuries to calculate the distance form the earth to the sun (149,400,000 km.). We would have known earlier if someone had multiply by a billion the height of Keop’s pyramid in Giza, built 30 centuries b.C.

In ancient England, people couldn’t have sex without the consent of the king (unless it was a member of the royal family) When people wanted to have a child, they had to ask the king for permission, who upon granting it, gave a plate that had to be hanged in the main door while having sex, the plate said: "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.U.C.K.).

It was the accepted practice in Babylon, 4,000 years ago, that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honeymonth" or what we know today as the "honeymoon." 

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle," is the phrase inspired by this practice. 

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight"came from. 

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in thePacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage.If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards".

"The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. 

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the"GeneralPurpose" vehicle, G.P.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

88% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.