Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
No president of the United States was an only child.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.
Ants never sleep.
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.
There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
Chuck Norris originally appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."
There are no weapons of mass destruction. Just Chuck Norris.
A Chuck Norris-delivered Roundhouse Kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states.
Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
If tapped, a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick could power the country of Australia for 44 minutes.
French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".
India has about 50 million monkeys.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
No president of the United States was an only child.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales.
Ants never sleep.
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.
There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.
Chuck Norris originally appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."
There are no weapons of mass destruction. Just Chuck Norris.
A Chuck Norris-delivered Roundhouse Kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states.
Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
If tapped, a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick could power the country of Australia for 44 minutes.
French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
A pig in Japan says "moo-moo".
India has about 50 million monkeys.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
