All of the stars comprising the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the center of the galaxy once every 200 million years or so.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
All polar bears are left-handed.
All porcupines can float in water.
All pyrimids were bright white.
All snakes on the island of Tasmania are poisonous.
All snow crystals are hexagonal.
All the chemicals in a human body combined are estimated to be worth about 6.25 euro.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters.
All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book "Peter Pan" were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for the Sick Children in London.
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
All the world's main alphabets have developed from an alphabet invented 3,600 years ago in the Middle East. It was known as the North Semitic Alphabet.
All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize 'this' was the day of the changeover.
All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to be seen with them in public.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
All words ever spoken by human beings on 5 Exabytes.
Alligators can live for more than 100 years.
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Almonds are part of the peach family.
Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
Almost without exception, cows are milked from the right side. The reason is because most farmers have been right-handed since the start of the dairy business and it's easier for a right-handed milker to work from the right side.
Although Argentina's name means "Land of Silver," there is actually very little silver there. It was misnamed by explorers who thought they saw silver there.
Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.
Although explorers brought potatoes back from the New World in the early 1500s, Europeans were afraid to eat them for fear that the spuds would give them leprosy. It wasn't until Louis XVI, who was looking for a cheap food source for his starving subjects, served them at the royal table that people were convinced potatoes were safe to eat.
Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.
Although not named in the New Testament, tradition names the two thieves crucified at the same time as Jesus as Dismas and Gestas.
Although the Pony Express was one of the most famous chapters in U.S. history, it only lasted one year, from 1860-61.
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
American and Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.
Americans consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.
Americans consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of the total world's production.
Americans drink about five billion bottles and cans of soda, and about a billion and a half pounds of coffee every year.
Americans drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million bottles of soda.
Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and barber shops.
Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Americans spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.
Americans use about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year.
Americans use over 16, 000 tons of aspirin a year.
Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
America's first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, established in 1791.
Among primitive people the soul normally is said to escape through the mouth or nose. In the Celebes, when a person is very sick, his friends will often attach fish hooks in certain places. If the soul tries to escape, it gets hooked.
Among transsexuals who choose sex-change operations, females who elect to become males are reportedly happier and better adjusted after the procedures than males who elect to become female.
Among words consisting only of Roman numeral letters, the "highest scoring" words in English are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2012).
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
An adult male ostrich, the world's largest bird, can weigh up to 345 pounds.
An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
An African American chef in Albany, NY is thought to have been the inventor of potato chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.
An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.
An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
An apple tree is at its prime when its about 50 years old. The United States produces about 100 million barrels of apples a year. That's a lot of old trees.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this you can pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
An arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.
An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles.
An artificial hand , with fingers moved by cogwheels and levers, was designed in 1551 by Frenchman Ambroise Paré. It worked so well that a handless cavalryman was able to grasp the reins of his horse.
An Athens legislator named Solon passed a law in the 6th century that let fathers sell their fornicating daughters into slavery.
An average beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
An average human scalp has 100,00 hairs.
An average person drinks about 16,000 gallons of wate during his life time.
An average person laughs about 5 times a day.
An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.
An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
An ear of corn always has an even number of rows because of the genetic formula which divides the cells.
An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
An elephant can smell water 3 miles away.
An elephant could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.
An elephant has 4 knees
An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.
An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
An Estee Lauder perfume called "Country Mist" had disappointing sales in Germany where the word "Mist" was slang for manure!
An estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.
An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
An eyelash lives about 5 months.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.
An Octopus has 3 hearts!
An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
An ostrich egg can make approx. eleven and a half omelets.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
An ounce of gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn into 80.5 kms(50 miles) of wire.
An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
An owl cannot move it's eyeballs in its eye sockets.
An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.
An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.
Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.
Ancient Chinese artists freely painted scenes of nakedness and sex. However, they would absolutely never depict a bare female foot.
Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of women's feet.
Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan: 83.49 years.
Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.
Andrew Johnson, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.
Andy Warhol based his 1964 series of silk portraits of Marilyn Monroe on a still photo from the 1952 movie Niagra.
Andy Warhol created the Rolling Stone's emblem depicting the big tongue. It first appeared on the cover of the 'Sticky Fingers' album.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
Anne Boleyn had three breasts.
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, had an extra finger on her left hand.
Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of French fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort.
Another law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can't dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing.
Another name for your pinky finger is Wanus
Antarctica has only one ATM machine.
Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.
Antarctica is visited by over 10,000 tourists a year.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Anthropologists use a standard height of 4 feet 11 inches to determine if a group of people are pygmies. The average adult male must be less than 59 inches in height.
Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.
Ants can live completely submerged underwater for up to 2 days.
Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House. At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2. (r u 1 of them?)
Apparently there's a law stating that if a Kurtatchi woman of the Soloman Islands unintentionally reveals her genitals, it can be expected and will be understood if any nearby man sexually assaults her.
Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B.
Apparently, I misspelled it...it's "Sinterklaas." Thanks to the unnamed person from Holland who corrected me.
Apple pie was brought to England from France sometime around 1066 by William the Conqueror. It made it to America when the Pilgrims arrived.
Apple pits contain cyanide.
Apples are more effecient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.
Approximate number of facial expressions dogs can make: 100.
Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year.
Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.
Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day.
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year.
Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.
Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were invented in India.
Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world an average of 10 ounces per person per day.
Aristedes won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875.
Armadillos along with humans are the other creatures that can contract leprosy.
Armadillos can be house broken.
Armadillos can have up to four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Army doctor D.W. Bliss attended to two presidents after they were shot by assassins. In 1865 he was one of the 16 doctors who tried to save Abraham Lincoln. In 1881 he supervised the care of James Garfield.
Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
Around 22% of Americans are teenagers.
Around the 16th century the Yo-Yo was used by Philipinos to stun prey from trees.
Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking.
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. For example, journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped.
As bananas ripen, the starch in the fruit turns to sugar. Therefore, the riper the banana the sweeter it will taste.
As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old.
As mentioned, the first Fords used Dodge engines. Many ford vehicles now use Nissan engines, especially in Mini-vans.
As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by YOUR HEAD! visit microshield
As of 14.10.2003, only 0.6% of people actually sign the guestbook. Its true. Over 120,000 visitors. Yes, the statistic did go down.
As of 1996, Hee Haw holds the record for the longest running weekly first-run syndicated show in the history of television. It spanned over 4 decades, from the late '60s to the early '90s, airing every Saturday night at 7:00.
As of 2004, there are two men for every woman in the United Arab Emirates.
As of Dec. 31, 2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314, and the number of deaths on the mountain reached 167.
As specified by the Christian church, the canonical hours are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
Aspirin was the first drug offered as a water-soluble tablet in 1900.
Aspirin went on sale as the first pharmaceutical drug in 1899, after Felix Hoffman, a German chemist at the drug company Bayer, successfully modified Salicylic Acid, a compound found in willow bark to produce Aspirin.
Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.
Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper was so relaxed on the morning of his launch into space in May 1963 that he fell asleep in his space capsule while waiting for blastoff.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
Astronauts become between two and three inches taller when in space.
Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.
Astronauts grow taller in space
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
At 4,145 miles, the Nile River is the longest in the world.
At -40 degrees fahrenheit,a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.
At age seventy, 73% of men are still potent.
At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
At Arkansas State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway unless they belong to a union.
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
At birth, bear cubs weigh between 1/2 1 pound.
At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.
At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played "Three Blind Mice" following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.
At one time in India, a fiance was required to deflower his future bride if she died before the wedding. The girl could not be cremated until this ritual was carried out in front of the village priest.
At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land"), while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia.
At one time, there was a law in India that forbade lower-caste people from casting their shadows on a member of the Brahman (the upper class).
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