77 Funny and Interesting Facts

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

3. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.

4. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

5. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

6. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

7. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

8. The Mercedes-Benz motto is "Das Beste oder Nichts" meaning "the best or nothing".

9. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

10. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

11. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
12. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

13. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

14. Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

15. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

16. On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

17. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

18. Dalmatians are born without spots.

19. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

20. The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for 'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings).

21. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.

22. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

23. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

24. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

25. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

26. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

27. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

28. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

29. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

30. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

31. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

32. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

33. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

34. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

35. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

36. The average person laughs 10 times a day!

37. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

38. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

39. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

40. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

41. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

42. The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

43. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

44. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

45. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

46. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

47. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

48. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

49. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

50. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

51. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

52. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

53. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

54. Every person has a unique tongue print as well as fingerprints.

55. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

56. What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

57. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).

58. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

59. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

60. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

61. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

62. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

63. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

65. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

66. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

67. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

68. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

69. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

70. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

71. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

72. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

73. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

74. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

75. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

76. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

77. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.