Pineapples are classified as berries.
The average human head weighs about eight pounds.
The fuzz on a tennis ball is intentionally included as a way to give the ball some definite action when it hits the court. It also slows the flight of the ball through the air.
In Washington D.C. it is illegal to post a notice in public which calls another person a 'coward' for refusing to accept a challenge to duel.
During the Reign of Peter the Great, their was a special tax on anyone who had a beard.
The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. It was adopted as the international signal for distress in 1912, and the Titanic struck the iceberg in April of that year.
Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
The first flight of the Wright Brothers was a distance less than the wing span of a Jumbo Jet.
An average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
More than 20,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing in action in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. This was the bloodiest one-day fight during the Civil War.
A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.
If a child burps during a church service in Omaha, Nebraska his or her parents may be arrested.
Fingerprints serve a function they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.
The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was Anna Edson Taylor. She made the journey on October 24, 1901, and escaped unhurt.
US Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. Senate on August 19, 1957. He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
The most widely culticated fruit in the world is the Apple.The second is the Pear.
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.
The electric chair was invented by Dr. Alphonse Rockwell and was first used on William Kemmler on August 6, 1890.
The chameleon has several cell layers beneath its transparent skin. These layers are the source of the chameleon's color change. Some of the layers contain pigments, while others just reflect light to create new colors. Several factors contribute to the color change. A popular misconception is that chameleons change color to match their environment. This isn't true. Light, temperature, and emotional state commonly bring about a chameleon's change in color. The chameleon will most often change between green, brown and gray, which coincidently, often matches the background colors of their habitat.
In an article in 1998, The Journal of the American Medical Association claimed that adverse drug reactions may cause more than 100,000 deaths a year in the US alone.
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Nixon's Secretaries of State have won Noble Peace Prizes.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
suit against G-d. He won because the defendant never showed up in court.
In 1886, Grover Cleveland became the only president to be married in the White House.
The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The highest man-made temperature 70 million degrees Celsius was generated at Princeton University in a fusion-power experiment.
The official name of the St. Louis Gateway Arch is "The Jefferson National Expansion Monument." The Gateway Arch looks taller than it is wider, but it is exactly 630 feet by 630 feet.
Africa's 8,000-year brewing history began with ancient Egyptian commercial brewing dynasties and still includes handmade tribal beers.
Australia is a major exporter of camels
Pink elephants can be found in some regions of India. Because of the red soil, elephants take on a permanent pink color because the spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves from insects.
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to.
In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts ordered that anybody caught feasting or laying off from work, or in any other way goofing off on any other day other than Christmas, would be fined five shillings for each such offense.
In the United States only 80 miles separate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states. Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.
Over the course of his lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing about a half trillion sperm.
The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe.
Townsend Speakman of Philadelphia mixed fruit flavor with soda water in 1807, creating the first flavored soda pop, he called it Nephite Julep.
If Monaco's ruling house of Grimaldi should ever be without an heir (male or female), the country will cease to be a sovereign state.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.
During the chariot scene a small red car can be seen in the distance.
All of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot springs.
There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.
Greek has over 4 words for love. English has only one. Get my drift?
Coca-Cola was originally green
BVD stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Day.
Every man in Brainerd, Minnesota is required by law to grow a beard.
Rabbits have three eyelids, they also are incapable of burping or farting.
The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
The song "Happy Birthday to You" was originally written by sisters Mildred and Patty Hill as "Good Morning to You." The words were changed and it was published in 1935.
The condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by jets is called a contrail.
It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.
Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine and the trial costs.
Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.
In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it's legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.
The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.
Campanology is the study of bells.
Montgomery Ward was the first company in the United States to advertise, �Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.� They did it in 1874, two years after company founder Aaron Montgomery Ward launched his mail-order catalog.
Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.
shrimp have their heart in their head
Waldo Hanchett invented the modern dentist's chair in 1848.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.
There were 840 soldiers in the regular army when the U.S. War Department was established in 1789. Their job was to supervise public lands and guard the Indian frontier.
Whiskey was first brewed in the United States in 1640. It was made from a mixture of corn and rye.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.