A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (wow!!!)
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
If a statue in the park 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.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
More people are struck by lightning than attacked by sharks.
Cars are the biggest killers of people (except in Victoria where its swimming in the surf)!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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.
Dog saliva is an antiseptic and can help heal wounds.
The Spanish word "esposa" means wife and handcuff.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The kangaroo can't jump if it's tail is lifted off the ground.
There are no known photos of Abraham Lincoln smiling.
Goldfish kept in a dark room often turn white.
Count the number of cricket chirps you hear in fifteen seconds and add forty to it and the result is the temperature in Fahrenheit.
If they are swirled around in a pail or kept on board a rolling ship, fish can get sea sick.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
If a fisherman catches a dew fish, which lives in the depths of the ocean, the drop in pressure will turn the fish inside out when reeled up.
Eating too many carrots can make a person's skin turn yellow.
The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian "shah mat" meaning "the king is dead".
Fetuses can get the hiccups.
Frogs must close their eyes to swallow.
Nylon is stronger than steel.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
In Oklahoma it is against the law to get a fish drunk.
Mozart wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" at age five.
At least 10 million people are having a birthday today.
The only animal that sleeps on it's back is human.
Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at a rate of one to two inches a year.
You can tell a turtles sex by it's sound. Males grunt, females hiss.
Pound for pound, grasshoppers are about three times nutritious as steak.
The wingspan of the 747 Jumbo Jet is longer than the first flight.
A heard of 60 cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
A robin has almost 3,000 feathers.
There is approximately one chicken for every man in the world.
There are 15,000 different kinds of rice.
There are more insects in a one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states.
47 bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world any minute of the day.
More than 1,000,000 earths would fit in the sun.
The moon weighs 1,000,000,000 tons.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
Cows sleep only 3 hours a day.
One third of all land species are beetles.
Dogs' mouths are 200 times cleaner than human mouths.
Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
Babies are born without knee caps, They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
The dot above the letter "i" is called a tittle.
You spend 21 years of your life sleeping, and 8 hours of your life dreaming.
You spend about 6 months of your life waiting at a red light.
You have enough red blood cells to circle the planet.
More people are killed by donkeys than plane crashes.
You blink about 25,000 times a day, 50,000 times if you count each eye seperately.
You speak about 4,800 words per day.
In 1980 the movie industry went to the Supreme Court to try to ban the VCR. In 2002 46% of their income is from rentals.
Each time your foot sinks into the sand at the beach, you're squashing perhaps 30,000 animals.
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