Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Polar bears are left handed.
Starfish don't have a brain.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
More people are killed by falling coconuts than sharks.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.
One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees (and can be replaced next season).
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
The chances of your dying on the trip to buy your MegaBucks ticket is greater than your chance of winning.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
In New Hampshire, on Sundays citizens may not relieve themselves while looking up.
No president of the United States was an only child.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, 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; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death, in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving.
Alma mater means bountiful mother.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than the entire world's nuclear weapons combined.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the total variety of pickles the company once had.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwis it will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
The "spot" on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur" a small red car can be seen in the distance. >
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces can kill a small sized dog.
Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the "upper case" letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, "lower case" letters.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
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.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless).
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.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in space suits damages them.