Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
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 Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
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some cool facts.. i always wondered why they used "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." when you see fonts in files... like that one 
I have to say that those are some pretty awesome facts
REAL Documented medical conditions (Phobias) that are just so darn funny!
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing. (not of being stolen from)
Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
Hadephobia or Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Vitricophobia- Fear of your step-father.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
hromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Ereuthophobia- Fear of the color red or of blushing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. (Having money, not lacking it)
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women. (Holy shit...)
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch. (Poor Dutch...)
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news. (Wow. People with this must have really bad lives)
Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions. (Virgins?)
Genophobia- Fear of sex. (Virgins.)
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women. (Gay!)
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
Hominophobia- Fear of men.
Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing. (not of being stolen from)
Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
Hadephobia or Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Vitricophobia- Fear of your step-father.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
hromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Ereuthophobia- Fear of the color red or of blushing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. (Having money, not lacking it)
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women. (Holy shit...)
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch. (Poor Dutch...)
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news. (Wow. People with this must have really bad lives)
Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions. (Virgins?)
Genophobia- Fear of sex. (Virgins.)
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women. (Gay!)
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
Hominophobia- Fear of men.
Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Didaskaleinophobia - i may say i have this for a week off school... fear of Jews made me lol... and Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia being the longest word there and its a fear of long words.... imagine it at help center and whats your phobia " fear of long words." "and what is the medical term for it" " i have erm... er hippo... hippopotot... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" has a nervous breakdown - hehe
cool 
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
no its not its jimboy and thats a fact
thanx for those amazing facts parve i
feel educated all of a sudden
no its not its jimboy and thats a fact
thanx for those amazing facts parve i
feel educated all of a sudden
It's illegal for a Licensed black cab taxi driver not to have a bale of hay/straw in his boot.
It's because the engines are classed as horse power and it's cruel to the horses, an old law that's not been changed
Someone told me that though so it might not be true but he seemed genuine
It's because the engines are classed as horse power and it's cruel to the horses, an old law that's not been changed
Someone told me that though so it might not be true but he seemed genuine
it probably was true at one point but more than likely now its been broken... i saw it on TV a while ago, funny law though
wow i learnt some amazing facts cheers parve
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female
the firsti understand but how the second?!?!?!
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female
the firsti understand but how the second?!?!?!
lol. You understand why some people fear erections?
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Tombstone Humor!
Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: Born 1903-Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go.
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. The Good Die Young.
In a London, England cemetery: Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace: The children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna. Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast.. Pardon me For not rising.
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery: Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays The Kid. We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger But slow on the draw.
A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange. Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: Reader, if cash thou art In want of any, Dig 6 feet deep; And thou wilt find a Penny.
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle Went out of tune.
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont: Here lies the body of our Anna - Done to death by a banana. It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, But the skin of the thing that made her go.
On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts: Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there's only the pod. Pease shelled out and went to God.
In a cemetery in England: Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so shall you be. Remember this and follow me.
To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To follow you I'll not consent Until I know which way you went.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Tombstone Humor!
Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: Born 1903-Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was.
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go.
On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. The Good Die Young.
In a London, England cemetery: Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace: The children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna. Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.
In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast.. Pardon me For not rising.
In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery: Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake.
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays The Kid. We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger But slow on the draw.
A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange. Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: Reader, if cash thou art In want of any, Dig 6 feet deep; And thou wilt find a Penny.
In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle Went out of tune.
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont: Here lies the body of our Anna - Done to death by a banana. It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, But the skin of the thing that made her go.
On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts: Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there's only the pod. Pease shelled out and went to God.
In a cemetery in England: Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so shall you be. Remember this and follow me.
To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To follow you I'll not consent Until I know which way you went.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
i always wonderd why my parents were eskimos
My mothers IQ is around 120.
My dad's is about 130.
I'm 142.
lol. Maybe I was supposed to go to some scientific genius and not these goons.
(sorry mom & dad. XD)
My dad's is about 130.
I'm 142.
lol. Maybe I was supposed to go to some scientific genius and not these goons.
(sorry mom & dad. XD)
uncopyrightable now thats funny
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