There was not a single pony in the Pony Express only horses
Marilyn Monroe had six toes
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before that.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down so you could see his moves. That’s the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springstein’s “Born in the USA”.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
By raising your leg slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
In “Gulliver’s Travels”, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
Sharon Stone was the first “Star Search” spokesmodel.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries in the USA.
Chocolate kills dogs. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system. A few miligrams is enough to kill a small sized dog.
Every person has a unique eye & tongue print.
The “spot” on the 7-up comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur”, a small red car can be seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in First Class.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
There are no words in the English dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, silver or month.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
We forget 80% of what we learn each day
All polar bears are left handed
The cruise liner queen Elizabeth 2 only moves 6 inches for every gallon on diesel it burns
More people are killed by donkeys than in air crashes
The average slinky is 87 feet long when stretched out
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
A ducks quack does not echo but no one knows why
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously form the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one know why
Jellyfish are 90% water
Penguins are the only birds that can swim but cannot fly
25% of the bones in your body are in your feet
Around 100 people die from chocking on a ball point pen each year
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave
The day after President George. Bush was re-elected Canada\'s main immigration website had 115,000 hits before his re-election the site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day
More people are killed by teddy bears each year than by grizzly bears
A blind chameleon still changes colour to match its environment
A Boeing 747 is made from 3,100,000 parts
If you leave a gold fish in a dark room for long enough it will turn white
It can take up to an hour for a snow flake to fall to the ground from the clouds
Women blink almost twice as much as men
Men get hiccups more often than women
Flutterby was the original name for butterflies.
Humming birds can weigh less than a penny.
America holds 25% of all people who are in prison.
You are born with 300 bones but when you are an adult you only have 206.
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb (he was also afraid of the dark)
Rice paper does not have any rice in it.
Finger nails grow nearly four times faster than toe nails.
Bulls are colour blind and charge at the movement of the cape and not its colour.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Recycling one glass saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours
Apples are better at waking you up in the morning than caffeine
Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue
20% of all Americans think the sun orbits around the earth
One out of every five people in the world live on less than $1 a day
Each year around 2500 left handed people die from using right handed products.
Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same plane in case the plane crashes
Muhammad is the most common name in the world
A lightening bolt can generate temperatures four times hotter than the surface of the sun
Most lip sticks contain fish scales
Wrigleys gum was the first product to have a barcode
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace its old ones
Porcupines float in water
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
Cats urine glows in black light
The electric chair was invented by a dentist
Most dust particles in your home are made from dead skin
More Americans chock on tooth picks than any other object
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in one night
