Random Facts

•The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
•The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
•The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
•Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
•Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
•The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
•The hog-nosed skunk can spray up to fifteen feet with incredible accuracy. Its spray not only stinks but also if it hits the eyes, will blind the skunk's target for up to two days.
•The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day
•One billion seconds is about 32 years.
•The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
•Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
•Crayola Crayons currently has over 120 different crayon colours.
•The board game Scrabble was originally called "Criss Cross Words" by inventor Alfred Butts.
•Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
•Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee.
•Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
•The French have a doughnut called "Nun's Fart."
•There are over 2,000 different types of cheese in the world.
•The first recipe for a lasagne type dish was found to be from a British cookbook in the 14th century. Therefore, Italians were not the first ones to come up with the popular dish as believed.
•If a raisin is dropped into a glass of champagne it will bounce up and down in the glass.
•There is a Harley-Davidson that was designed as an exact replica of a hamburger.
•One billion pounds of pasta would need approximately 2,021,452,000 gallons of water to cook it. This is equivalent to 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
•The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.
•Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite
•In ancient china, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
•Black whales are born white
•More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
•Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris
•Rats can tell the difference between two human languages
•It is illegal to sell E.T. dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
•There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
•Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
•Most lipstick contains fish scales
•Bananas aren't fruit. They are a type of herb.
•Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
•Unless you have a doctor's note, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6p.m in Newark New Jersey.
•Cats' urine glows under a black light.
•Frogs cannot swallow without blinking
•Giraffes are unable to cough
•Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse , was afraid of mice.
•SONY was originally called 'Totsuken
•A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
•The wild turkey is the only bird with a beard
•Antarctica is a desert
•A moth has no stomach
•"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."