Interesting Facts

* Europe is the only continent without a desert.

* The word taxi is spelled the same in English, Portuguese, German, Swedish, French and Filipino.

* Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

* Andrew Jackson’s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States.

* Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

* If you cut a 'V' shape into your toe nails, you can prevent 'in-grown' toe nails.

* All the swans in England are property of the Queen.

* Men change their minds two to three times more often than women.

* Pollen never deteriorates.

* Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.

* Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls doesn't seem to have this kind of problem.

* Some species of fish have voices.

* Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.

* A microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.

* Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

* 85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women.

* Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.

* The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.

* Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

* In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.

* Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.

* You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows.

* Mothers pregnant with boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls.

* Antartica is a desert!

* African elephant is the only elephant no one has ever been able to domesticate.

* 91% of us lie regularly.

* People who are modestly overweight have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight.

* Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.

* Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.

* In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.

* Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.

* More boys than girls are born during the day while more girls are born at night.

* Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.

* Flatulence is the english word for kabag.

* Martha Stewart became billionaire while in prison.

* More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss.

* Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

* The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.

* Sony accidentally sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes in the year 1998.

* By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.

* A dime has 118 ridges.

* Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

* Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

* Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't.

* Banana contains a natural chemical which can make a person happy.

* Wearing color yellow makes you look bigger on camera while green smaller.

* Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

* To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a ootball field.

* Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

* An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.

* People with color blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.

* The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

* The best diamonds are colored blue-white.

* One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.

* Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

* Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

* The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game is called tucket.

* Deltiologist is called to someone who collects postcards.

* The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.

* The average life span of an umbrella is two years.

* The US President who is related by either blood or marriage to eleven other presidents is Franklin Roosevelt.

* James Buchanan is the only bachelor president to occupy the white house.

* Fluoride is the bio-accumulative toxic that we all ingest everyday in toothpaste that causes Osteoporosis, Reduced I.Q, Alzheimer's disease, Cancer.

* Liger is when a male lion and a female tiger breed.

* Paper white was the original color of the pyramids.

* Brazil has a building in which each floor can rotate 360 degrees. this is also where you can find the longest wave called Pororoca.

* 2012 is expected to be year of great positive change.

* Hawaiian Alphabet has 12 letters.

* In Wales there is a village called "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".

* Printer manufacturers print invisible yellow dots on consumer's prints that check to see if a person is printing counterfeit money.

* Barack Obama tried cocaine and marijuana.

* Barack Obama is left-handed.

* Pablo Picasso has 23 names.

* Sanju Bhagat had a bizarre medical condition called fetus in fetu which occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside of its twin.

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

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

* Colgate in Spanish means “go hang Yourself" which is why they find it hard to sell on Spanish-speaking countries.

* The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.

* The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is cat.

* To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

* Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously consider having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

* Flutterby was the original name of butterfly.

* It took Leonardo da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

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

* 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

* Foods that are violet in colors are good to avoid memory loss.

* Fibonacci sequence is based on rabbit's reproduction.

* It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.