The Ultimate Collection of Weird Facts
The words "racecar",
"kayak", and "radar" are the same
whether they are read left to right or right
to left.
whether they are read left to right or right
to left.
"a man a plan a canal panama"
spelled backwards is still
"a man a plan a canal panama"
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both
parties are registered blood
donors.
No word in the English language rhymes with
"month".
Our eyes are always the same size from
birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
You are more likely to be killed by a
Champagne cork than by a
poisonous spider.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog."
uses every letter in the alphabet.
Only one person in two billion will live to
be 116 or older.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is
uncopyrightable.
The cigarette lighter was invented before
the match.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch
mice without a hunting license.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more
than any other animal.
A roach will live nine days without its
head. The only reason it doesn't
live longer is it's unable to eat.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length;
that is like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9
months, enough gas is produced to
create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Rats can't vomit - that's why rat poison
works.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the
world, with a population of 1000
and a size 108.7 acres.
On New Year's Day in Spain they throw a goat
off a church.
More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a
telephone call.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's
sick"
is said to be the toughest tongue twister
in the English language.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million
descendants.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
ike fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is
different.
Did you know...
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
In a study
of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a
single case where an ostrich buried its head
in the sand.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look
up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a
telephone call.
Horses can't vomit.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's
sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a
rib.
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can
rupture a blood vessel in your head
or neck and die.
If you keep your eyes open by force, they
can pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a
million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will
increase the bacteria in your ear
by 700 times.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one
knows why.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print
is different.
Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
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