- Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
- In the UK, it is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day!
- Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!
- When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
- A flock of crows is known as a murder.
- “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder identified by Psychologists.
- The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
- 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day“.
- Cherophobia is the fear of fun.
- Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
- If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
- Hyphephilia are people who get aroused by touching fabrics.
- Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
- The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died!
- During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
- An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
- Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
- King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
- Bikinis and tampons invented by men.
- If Pinokio says “My Noes Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox. Details here.
- Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
- If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb!
- An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
- The top six foods that make your fart are beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk!
- There is a species of spider called the Hobo Spider.
- ‘Penis Fencing’ is a scientific term for the mating ritual between flatworms. It involves two flatworms attempting to stab the other flatworm with their penis.
- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
- A baby spider is called a spiderling.
- You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
- The following can be read forward and backwards: Do geese see God?
- A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
- A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
- In Uganda, 50% of the population is under 15 years of age.
- Hitler’s mother considered abortion but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby.
- Arab women can initiate a divorce if their husbands don’t pour coffee for them.
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
- Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.
- Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an odd number of whiskers.
- Facebook, Skype and Twitter are all banned in China.
- 95% of people text things they could never say in person.
- The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
- In Poole, ‘Pound World’ went out of business because of a store across the road called ’99p Stores’, which was selling the same products but for just 1 pence cheaper! Read More.
- About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
- The French language has seventeen different words for ‘surrender’.
- Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
- Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.
- A crocodile can’t poke its tongue out :p
- Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
- A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
- Bin Laden’s death was announced on 1st May 2011. Hitler’s death was announced on 1st May 1945.
