Toenails
grow about 4 times slower than fingernails.
Seven
out of 10 houses in the U.S. are painted white.
The
normal candy bar contains eight insect legs.
Fish
scales is the most common ingredient in lipstick .
Barbara
Millicent Roberts? A.K.A. Barbie
(as in Ken and Barbie).
The
stirrup bone is the tiniest bone in a person.
Homosexuality
is more common in male
fruit bats than anywhere else in the animal kingdom (or human).
The
only consumable food that won't spoil is honey.
The
real Charlie Chaplin once came in third in a
Chaplin look-alike contest.
At
their closest point, Russia and North America are less
than two and a half miles (4km) away.
An
Anencephalous organism thinks, but has no brain.
The
biggest earner in the female music world is Madonna, selling over 125
million records worldwide.
Coffee
is second only to petrol in largest trade volumes on the planet.
It
is impossible to drown in quicksand if one raises their legs slowly
while lying on their back.
On
the last day of 1993, the oldest cow on record died just before her
49th birthday. Her name was Big Bertha, a Dremon breed.
In
1979, Colonel
Sanders (of Kentucky Fried Chicken) was the second
most recognized face in the world.
The
longest flight on record for a chicken is 13
seconds.
WD-40
actually stands for Water Displacement, 40th Attempt, for that was how
many times it took to perfect the product.
Napoleon
III was vastly afflicted with ailurophobia, the unnatural fear
of felines.
There's
just one place in the world where a yact
can sail beneath a train chugging beneath a car driving
beneath an airplane: the Boston University Bridge.
Each
day an adult dolphin consumes four to nine percent of its
own body weight in fish.
Shanghai,
China, is the most populous city on the planet, boasting 13.3
within city limits themselves. Concerning metropolitan areas, the prize
goes to Toyko, Japan, at 31.2 million.
It
would be a sight to see to see a parliament of owls roosting next to a
blessing of unicorns.
By
the numbers, twenty-three million cats will reside in United States
this year.
When
bacteria
feeds on yeast cells and defecates, alcohol is born. Most
notably: beer.
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