- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.
- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The words 'race car' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch face is 10:10.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
- There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live? That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
- It's impossible to lick your elbow.
- More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
- Rats and horses can't vomit.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language...try it!
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.