- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
- Adult elephants can't jump.
- Horses fall asleep while standing.
- Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
- When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months.
- Mayannaze(how ever you spell it) takes the rings from glasses off wood furniture when left on overnight.
- An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.
- When you get burned you should crack an egg and you won't get a scar.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace"
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
- The three most spoken english words are Hello, Stop and Taxi
- In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
- Hippophobia is the fear of horses.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- It is genetically impossible for a rose to come in color blue.
- On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. 37. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
- The opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics had 965 drummers there.
- The Romans used to make toothpaste from urine
- In Japan, raw horse meet is served in restaurants and is called Sakura
- Strawberries aren't actually berries, but bananas, avocados, pumpkins and watermelons are.
- Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
- Rubbing banana peel on mosquito bites will help stop the itching.
- Life Savers weren't meant to have a hole in them. it was a machine malfunction.
- The smell of a permentant marker can kill brain cells.
- Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
- The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
- Crocodiles cannot stick they’re tongues out
- If you squeeze your nose together where no air goes in or out, you can’t hum
- the deepest swimming pool in the world is 108 ft deep.
- It is illegal for a passenger to honk the horn while a car is in motion (in Pennsylvania).
- In Nebraska it is illegal to go whale fishing.
- It is also illegal to sneeze during church.
- horses cannot breathe out their mouths, only their nostrils.
- horses have no sense of satisfaction while eating, therefore they are always hungry (reason why horses are so prone to colic).
- horses canny burp nor vomit or really sneeze (they can blow snot) (another reason horses colic so much).
- Panda Bears have a stronger bite than Polar Bears.
- Elephants grow six sets of teeth in their lifetime.
- There are more Tigers kept as Pets around the world then there are Tigers in the wild.
- Placing a Glass of water in the microwave with leftover Pizza will keep the crusts from becoming chewy.
- Someone who became blind due to an illness or injury can still see their dreams.
- Arachnophobia (Fear of Spiders) is the #1 most common phobia in existence.
- Elvis Presley was obsessed with Brushing his teeth.
During the Korean War Air Force pilot James Risner
successfully “pushed” his wingman’s incapacitated jet fighter into
friendly territory using the nose of his own jet. A maneuver that had
never been attempted in history.
There is a group of people in northern California and southern
Oregon who wish to secede from their states and create a 51st state, to
be called Jefferson.
A US Army veteran,
severely depressed after his wife filed divorce, both parents dead of
cancer, his equipment stolen, income stopped, utilities cut off, house
in foreclosure, stole a TANK from the armory, went on a rampage on the
streets destroying cars, was finally shot and killed.
Stalin’s guards were so afraid of him
that no one called a doctor until 12 hours after he had a stroke. They
feared he might recover and execute anyone who had acted outside of his
orders.
Kijong-Dong
is a village located in North Korea, by the border to South Korea, built
solely for propaganda reasons. It has no residents and many of the
buildings have no window glass or furniture, and features fake street
sweepers and lights set on timers to make the village appear inhabited.
In 2006 a Norwegian coach gave a ski pole to a Canadian, allowing
her to go on to win a silver medal. Canadian citizens were so touched
they collectively gave him 5.2 tonnes of Maple Syrup.
Colombian drug trafficker Carlos Lehder
bought himself an island in the Bahamas where he put an airstrip which
controlled the drugs coming in from South America and entering the US.
He became so wealthy he offered to pay Colombia’s foreign debt for
amnesty.
During the Cold War, the USSR was able to tell a Soviet passport was a forgery because the staples in real passports would corrode due to the poor quality of metal
In 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s
fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video
surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the
luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
The word “nice” used to mean “foolish, stupid, senseless,” and comes from the Latin “nescire”, meaning “to be ignorant.
During the Mexican-American war an estimated 700 Irish men deserted
the US Army to join the Mexicans and fought in the Battle of Churubusco.
The were called Batallón de San Patricio (St. Patricks battalion) and are considered heroes of Mexico.
Native Americans serving in the Marine Corps are allowed to use Peyote for religious ceremonies as long as they are not on duty or within 24 hours of being ready to ship out.
In 1985, Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop two bombs on a house during an armed standoff. The bombs ignited a fire that killed 11 and destroyed 60 homes.
While J.R.R Tolkien was at Oxford, he stole a city bus as a prank and took his classmates for a joyride around London.
