- Alligators can't stick out their tongues.
- Shakespeare was born on April 23 and died on April 23. (Not same exact day.)
- The average computer keyboard has 104 keys.
- A greyhound, the fastest dog, can run up to 41.7 mph.
- The world's largest McDonalds is located in Vinita, OK.
- Kermit the Frog has 11 points on the collar around his neck and Bart Simpson has 9 spikes of hair.
- American car horns Beep in the tone of F; flies also buzz in the tone of F.
- The first recording of a human voice, Thomas Edison, was "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
- The average child spends 28 hours a week watching TV.
- The memory span of a goldfish: 3 seconds.
- John Cage, composer, wrote a song called" 4 minutes, 33 seconds". It was 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
- The U. S. has 3,500,000 miles of river.
- If you stretch out the average Slinky completely flat, it will measure about 87 feet.
- The yo-yo was originally meant as a weapon.
- When you play heads and tails with someone, choose tails. Heads is more likely to end up on the bottom because it weighs more than the tails side.
- A yocto second is the smallest unit of time. It is one septillionth of a second.
- The day that most people go grocery shopping is Friday.
- When a yak and a domestic cow mate they make a dzo.
- Houseflies fly at about 5 miles per hour.
- It snowed in the Sahara Desert on February 18, 1979.
- King Kong was 25 feet tall.
- Before Nintendo made video games they ran a taxi cab service and they originally made playing cards. (Nintendo was founded in 1889.)
- The highest IQ in the U. S. was 195, belonging to Chris Langan. (90-109 is average; 132 and up is genius)
- The highest IQ ever was between 250-300, belonging to William James Sidis.
- This is the largest piece of pi I could find:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899
86280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502
84102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165
27120190914564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127372458700660631558817
4881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609
- When Bob Barker was a bit more nimble, he would run out onto stage for the Price is Right.
- The names of the enemies in Pac-Man are named Pinky, Inky, Winky, and Clyde.
- The average remote has 34 buttons.
- If you attatch a Post-it note to a kickball and begin bouncing the Post-it note will hold till about the 22nd bounce.
- In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird the word "mockingbird" does not appear until the 10th chapter.
- On the Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 2", a large group is racing to Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital. Marvin Monroe is at the end of this group. Hmmmmm... racing to a hospital in memory of him...
- You burn the same amount of calories sleeping for eight hours. as you do sitting for seven hours. (349)
- The words of the song La Cucaracha translate into,"The cockroach can't walk anymore because it doesn't have enough Marijuana."
- The word "the" appears 37 times above this fact on this page.
- The 25,000,000th song sold on itunes was Frank Sinatra's Let It Snow.
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