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No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.  

Elephants purr when they eat

giraffes have to sleep standing up

a giraffes heart is as large as a humans head

you cannot re-heat chicken more than twice

Ants never sleep.

No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

The human brain is 80% water.

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

The parachute was invented by DaVinci in 1515.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Singapore has only one train station.

The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Since 1313, it is illegal for an MP to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.

In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Their are 3 colours that don’t rhyme with anything (silver, orange, and purple)

The average human accidentally eats 8 spiders in their life

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

Mario, from Super Mario, was originally named “Jumpman”, although his name was later changed to honor Nintendo of America’s landlord, Mario Segali

No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women

250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.

During good sex, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex

The shrimp's heart is in its head

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The skin of the average woman weighs 3 kilograms, while that of the average man weighs 5 kilograms

Dutch, on average are the tallest people

Kissing is healthier than shaking hands

There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA

Married men tip better than unmarried men

India never invaded any country in her history

Natural pearls melt in vinegar

An olive tree can live up to 1500 years

Cleopatra married two of her brothers

Buttermilk does not contain any butter

Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen

The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot

Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms

Studies have proven that it is harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive

Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles

Cold showers stimulate your sex drive

The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965

Coffee beans aren't beans; they are fruit pits

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