Silly facts
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The original basket in basketball, as invented by James Naismith in 1891, was a peach basket.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. The world's population grows by 100 million each year.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
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.
Anti-modem laws restrict Internet access in the country of Burma. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.
It would take a car traveling at 100 mph nearly 30 million years to reach our nearest star.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year, using 25 million trees to make them. The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be
fully cured for another 500 years.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Jack Nicholson holds the record for most individual Golden Globe wins, which is six.
Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
The longest interval between an original film and its sequel is forty-six years - between The Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The average person is half an inch taller upon rising in the morning. Watermelons are a popular gift to bring to a host in China or Japan.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Humans are the only mammals that use a smile as an emotional response.
The Japanese word "Arigato" meaning thank you is derived from the Portugese word "Obrigado". Portugal once had a thriving trade with Japan.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
To burn off one plain M&M, you need to walk the full length of a football field. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents.
Everyone drinks coffee to perk themselves up, but in fact an apple can perk one up more than a cup of coffee can. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The sun's total lifetime as a star capable of maintaining a life-bearing Earth is about 11 billion years. Nearly half that time has passed.
A clam can switch its gender from male to female,and it will take place few times throughout its life.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
A study at Harvard has shown that eating chocolate can actually help you live longer.
A rose picked during afternoon can survive longer than a rose picked in the morning.
In an average lifetime the average American receives 31 prank phone calls.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.
More calories are wasted by sleeping than sitting and watching TV.
The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/h.