1. Only food that does not spoil: honey
2. Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
3. Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: Pig
4. Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
5. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
6. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
7. Polar bears are left-handed
8. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
9. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
10. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
11. Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
12. Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
13. Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
14. Your nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Hot water is heavier than cold.
16. They have square watermelons in Japan...they stack better.
17. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
18. There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
19. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
20. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
21. Men get hiccups more often than women do.
22. Armadillos can be housebroken.
23. James Cameron did all of Jack Dawson's drawings in 'Titanic'
24. Two dogs survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that's right, two DOGS survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying so few people that no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought her Pomeranian with her in lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the publishing family boarded boat No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
25. The "rusticles" on the model of the sunken Titanic were Cheeto's and bran flakes painted with rust coloured primer
26. Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
27. Jack Dawson said that he learned some of his sense of seamanship near his home near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Lake Wissota. Trouble is, Lake Wissota was not even there until 1917, five years after the Titanic hit bottom. The discrepancy was noticed in the Wisconsin state papers
28. The rear smokestack of Titanic was false in reality, but in the movie there are atleast 2 shots that i saw that had smoke coming from all four stacks. Tsk-tsk. Silly mistakes to make don't you think? (ok, that's not really a useless fact, but... well.... I think I'm addicted to that movie and boat now! *g*)
29. There is a Tupperware party somewhere in the world every 2 seconds
30. Australia is the only place in the world with 25 types of fleas
31. Halifax was home to Canada's first post office in 1755
32. svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel is a contraseptive in Denmark
33. The feet contain 1/4 of all bones in the human body
34. The tulip originated in central Asia
35. 1913 Indianapolis 500 winner Jules Goux drank 6 bottles of chamagne during pitstops
36. July is the only month of the year that Greenland's temperature averages above freezing
37. The United States consumes more pepper per capita than any other nation
38. It is rummored that the Germans challenged the Allies to a soccer match during a cease-fire in WW2 and they played for 2 hours. I don't know who won
39. There are three tails on the hat of the Grand High Exhalted Mystic Ruler of the Raccoons
40. card cheats could be executed in 18th century England for forging the ace of spades
41. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a tollbooth.
42. Hang on Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
43. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
44. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
45. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
46. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P
47. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
48. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
49. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
50. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
51. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
52. No NFL team that plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
53. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
54. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
55. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
56. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
57. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
58. There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
59. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
60. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
61. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
62. The Bible has been translated into Klingon
63. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
64. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
65. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
66. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
67. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
68. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match
69. Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
70. According to one study, 24% of lawns have some sort of lawn ornament in their yard.
71. Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular TV show in history.
72. A man with the same name as the character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio...one JACK DAWSON...is buried in a marked grave in Halifax, Nova Scotia along with 150 other victims of the sinking.... His gravestone reads "J. Dawson" and is quickly becoming a shrine to local young women....
73. The tallest giraffe ever recorded is 19 feet, 3 inches.
74. Plastic vomit and wind-up chattering teeth were both invented in Chicago
75. A tornado once plucked all the feathers off a chicken and the chicken lived
76. Roughly 400 people are struck by lightning every year in the U.S, about 200 live.
77. tectonic plates move at about the same speed that your fingernails grow
78. it has been estemated that all the gold ever mined would form a block only 60 feet cubed
79. In the early days of sailing, a ship would never set sail on a Friday; it was beleived to be bad luck.
80. In the 13-1400's before a ship set sail on it's maiden voyage, it was considered good luck to 'bloody the keel' by crushing slaves under the keel as it was set into the water for the first time. They would keep a few slaves onboard so that they could be sacraficed incase a storm arose while they were at sea.
81. In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
82. A law in Oblong, Illinois makes it a crime to make love while fishing or hunting on your wedding day.
83. In Ames Iowa a husband may not take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with his wife.
84. A law in Alexandria, Minnesota makes it illegal for a husband to make love to his wife if his breath smells like garlic, onions, or sardines.
85. A Helena, Montana law states that a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weights more than three pounds, two ounces.
86. Hotel owners in Hastings, Nebraska are required by law to provide a clean, white cotton nightshirt to each guest. According to the law, no couple may have sex unless they are wearing the nightshirts.
87. Any couple making out inside a vehicle, and accidentally sounding the horn during their lustful act, may be taken to jail according to a Liberty Corner, New Jersey law.
88. In medieval times, it was believed that if a woman were to enter a wine cellar, all the wine would go bad
89. The first cat show was held in 1871 in Engalnd
90. cats can not be artificialy inceminated
91. The largest recorded tumor weighed in at 303 pounds (!!!!)
92. Karl Marx's favorite colour was red
93. John F. Kennedy competed in the backstroke when he attended Harvard
94. Black and white commercials are 3 times less efective than colour ones
95. 41% of balding men wear hats
96. The most popular car colour in the U.S. is red
97. The fine for impersonating a doctor is $5,500
98. European carousels turn in a clockwise direction; American carousels turn counter-clockwise
99. "Coca-Cola" was originally translated into Chinese as "Bite the Wax Tadpole"
100. Pepsi's ad slogan, "Pepsi Comes Alive" was originally translated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave"

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