dragonflies can travel up to 60mph
The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
A snail can sleep for three years
a shrimp's heart is outside its body
Strawberries are in the same family as roses.
The tomato is not a vegetable. its actually a small fish
All porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can getleprosy.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all
of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back
down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
gravity to swallow.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a
building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat
that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and
correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under UV light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both
front legs in the air, then 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; the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver and purple.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again,
Sam".
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its
own weight and always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death.
Starfishes have no brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Penguins can't walk backwards
U break ur toes 5 times a year
you can lead a COW upstairs but not downstairs!
"if a squirrel breaks its back legs it pulls itself along (on its bum) with its 2 front arms...however it cannot climb back up into the tree so is likely to be eaten by a cat/fox/v hungry pigeon...
The highest point in Chorley is St Gregory's Church.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
A cat's urine! glows under a black [UV] light.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
daddy long legs will detach its legs to escape harm and can live without most of its legs
never stamp on a beetle...as millions would run out...they lay eggs under their shell & the shell protects them!
a person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
he "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
*There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
*The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year
*The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it
*There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
*If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
*Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
*Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all
*The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
The number of people killed by sharks since records began is equal to just 5% of the number of toilet related injuries in the USA in 1996.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
In theory, a litter of kitten could each have a different dad
It was considered elegant for aristocratic ladies
of the sixteenth century to pomade and adorn their pubic hair with
bows and ribbon
butterflies taste with there feet
babies are born without kneecaps. they dont appear until the child reaches the ages of 2 to 6
there is no evidence that robin hood exsisted.
the average human swallows 8 spiders in their life.
Approximately 85% of Japanese people have never tasted turkey
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches
Giraffes can't cough
rats cannot puke.
The day after christmas day, the church collection boxes were emptied up and divided amongst the poor - hence the term "boxing day"!
the sun gives off enough energy in 1 second to power the USA for 9million years.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
Your thumb is usually the same length as your nose & if you put your arms out straight at the sides & measure from fingertip to fingertip, it's the same as your height & your foot is the same size as your forearm, try it, it fits from inside your elbow to your wrist!!!
A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute! Get snogging this new year's eve!!!
Why do men have nipples?
Because in the womb, up to a certain point, we are neither male nor female and the outer skin is one of the things we form first.
So nipples are made when we have not formed our reproductive organs yet
