Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

…and now they are already past the Moon.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Women blink twice as many times as men do.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.

There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.

If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.

Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men.

The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.

Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.

The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.

Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.

If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.

The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.

A baby is born every seven seconds.

You breathe about 10 million times a year.

There are more people alive today than have ever died.

The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.

A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.

A beard grows an average of 140mm a year

A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes

4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions

The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.

Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair

The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.

An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.


The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.

The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.

The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.

Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.

During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble

4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.

4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

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

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.

4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.

The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ locationthat sells hot dogs.

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton

In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
The average speed of Heinz™ ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.

Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.

The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

998 million people play Volleyball

You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.

60 % of statistics are made up...
Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world!(What the funk is Dragon boat racing)

The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.

Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

There are more chickens in the world than people.

A novel with 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter ‘E’ was written by Ernest Wright.

There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates

There have been fewer people below 2km in sea than have been on de moon

Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.

The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.

The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia.

The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour.It was set in a lunar rover.

Gibraltar is the only place in Europe where you can find wild monkeys.

Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.

In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.

If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body it could squirt blood 30 feet!

In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.

In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow

In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep

There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990’s.

2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.

A typist fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.

The world’s most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay

In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.

People descended from the Scottish clan of Kerr are more likely to be left handed than any other ancestral group.

The shortest war ever recorded lasted only 38 minutes. (Britain vs. Zanzibar in 1896)

Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names

If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China

In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12

New York City has 570 miles of shoreline

"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in square mile of the Amazon jungle.

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system

A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.


The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.

A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again.

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

Utopia is a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

A quarter of the world’s plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.

A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.

To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.

Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.

Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.

The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.

The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.