*Loves the cool dog facts*

Heres some more, oh and Milly I find most of them on line some are just random knowledge.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!

In West Virginia, it is a law that only babies can ride in a baby carriage. WOW!!! never would have guessed.

Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.

You can only use seven smilies per post on Holy worlds fantasty forum.

In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall.

The abbreviation Xmas isn't irreligious. The letter X is a Greek abbreviation for Christ. *But it is still veiwed as irreligious to a lot of people in America, so just to be safe I spell it out CHRISTmas*

Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive. *REALLY!*

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!

Giraffes are unable to cough.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

Onions have no flavor, only a smell.

Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not, I REPREAT DOES NOT! cause acne.

If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged. *I know you just tried that!*

A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.

Caffeine boosts memory.

One human hair can support 3 ounces.

Only humans shed emotional tears. *well duh, because we are the only ones who have emotions*

A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year


A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to mark out its territory with scent glands around its face.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.

Flies are deaf. *Goes to show yelling at flies will not make them leave*

The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $16,400 US Dollars.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white

Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin. *that is soooo cool*

There are no penguins in the North Pole.

Some of these are so funny!

Oh, this is a really interesting fact about dogs:


Dogs can actually eat white chocolate. Some pets' store sell dog biscuits with white chocolate in them.

Wow, I did not know this! Awesome, but wacky at the same time!

Wow.

Elisanna wants to try that one.

More dog facts:

1. Chow-Chow's are born with a pink tongue, but when they are fully mature they have a purple tongue.

2. The man who bred dogs to get a Leonburger wanted a dog that looked like a lion.


3. Bull Terriers and Miniature Bull Terriers are the only breed of dog with a egg shaped head.

4. Keeshond dogs are know as the most mispronounced breed name on earth. (The right pronunciation is Ka-sund)


I'll think of more later.

Ewww! That's what I thought as soon as I read that. A purple tongue!!

Why are ya'll going ewww over that? The older of my dogs has (and always has had) a purple spotted tongue. I didn't know chow's tongues started out pink, though. I'd thought they were always purple.

Here are some facts! (sorry if I repeat some):

It was illegal to send mail on a Saturday in Canada in 1969!

Your body kills 15 million blood cells per second!

There are no clocks in casinos in Las Vegas!

In playing cards, the King of Hearts is the only one without a mustache!

20 banks are robbed every day.

Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult!

When you break glass, the shards fly off at around 3,000 miles an hour!

Lightning is hotter that the rays of the sun!

Violins contain 70 different pieces of wood!

Fire moves faster uphill than downhill!

Most lipsticks contain fish scales! (Ew, better tell my mom that...)

In St. Louis, it is illegal to drink out of a bucket!

Hope you like these!

Those are hilarious, Misty!

Thank you very much. *bows*

Those are good ones, Green!

And most lipstick and toothpaste contains whale poo. Toothpaste also contains volcanic ash.

Sorry if I'm repeating any.

Also, did you know you can burn 12.5 calories by drinking ice-cold water!!!
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

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

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

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

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.

Some odd ones I found somewhere:


1. The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz

2. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

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

4. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours

5. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

6. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world

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

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

9. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't

10. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

11. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head

12. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

13. The only planet without a ring is earth

14. A group of unicorns is called a blessing

15. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

16. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times

17. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

18. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

19. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

20. Horses can't vomit.

21. Butterflies taste with their feet.

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

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

24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump

25. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.

26. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

27. It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

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

29. All polar bears are left handed.

30. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


I read these on a website. I didn't know any of these except the one about rats and the one about horses.

More facts:



The first product with a bar code was scanned on June 6, 1974 was a 10-pack of Wrigley's gum.

[that pack of gum is displayed in the Smithsonian Museum]

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do
watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by
eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking
you up in the morning.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

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


I thought some of these were funny.

Those were all good ones, Emma!

Hahahaha, I love the one about Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton! So what about Obama?

Wow... isn't it amazing when you think you know a lot, and then you see these facts and start to think "Huh... I didn't know as much as I thought..."

I know! So funny. I want to commit some of these to memory, it would be rather funny just to come up with them occasionally.

Haha! Yes, it would be very funny.

Nice guys! these are sooo funny.

New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.

No president of the United States was an only child. (I think Obama was the first one.)

Girls have more tastebuds than boys.

Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.

The Titanic is/was about as long as the Empire State building is tall.

At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.

Iron weighs more after it rusts.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell

In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.

Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.

The people most often killed in robberies are the robbers.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

Worcestershire Sauce is basically an Anchovy ketchup.

Raw ginger tastes like soap.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket/cart at a grocery store!

The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.

Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin.

Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.

On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.

Computer programming is currently one of the fastest growing occupations.

For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier.

Ice Cream is chinese food!

Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.

Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.

On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.

You may not drive barefooted, its against the law!

X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.

The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.

Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!

You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

4 people are killed a year by randomly falling vending machines

Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.

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

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

In Tokyo they sell toupees for dogs.

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

Slugs have 4 noses.

In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a
single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because
when it was built,engineers failed to take into account the weight of all
the books that would occupy the building.

I heard that one before. It was a Pomeranian and a Pekinese. I also read that a Newfoundland rescued someone.

Those are...interesting

I got both of these facts from a church.

1. By the time the average person is 65, they have spent 9 full years watching TV! (Not me, I don't watch TV)

2. The average person lives 28, 758 days.

What a brilliant thread. Too bad I wasn't around for all the fun last year. But now that I am, I have a few of my own to add. *apologies if some of these are repeats*

The number of kernels on a husk of corn is equal to its number of silk threads.

You type with your left hand 57% of the time (not entirely sure about that one ).

The reason people say "God bless you" when you sneeze is because your heart stops for a millisecond.

I thought people said God Bless You because when the plague hit Europe, you had to be blessed to survive your sickness and they would pray that you wouldn't die. (Not sure if that is true...)

I also read somewhere that in a certain country (can't remember) it's believed that a little bit of your soul evaporates along with your sneeze.

That's what I always heard, Aravis... that they thought that back in olden days when everyone was all superstitious.

That's really weird; I've never heard of that one before - it's the kind of thing you could incorporate into your fantasy novel hehehe.

So does the violence of the sneeze affect how much evaporates?

Sounds like a good idea!



Hmmm, I never thought of that. What about the people with allergy who keep sneezing and sneezing?

Did you guys know that bananas are radioactive? :3

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Really?

Dead people can get goosebumps.

That's just creepy...

I know, isn't it!

... that is horrifying.

That reminds me of a grossly bizarre conversation we had with friends at church once.