Mountain Dew does reduce your sperm count significantly.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously it can kill you.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
Humphrey O'Sullivan invented the rubber heel because he was tired of pounding the pavements of Boston looking for a job.
The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.
Goats' eyes have rectangular pupils.
A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
The Soviet Caucasus mountain actually moved a mile in 1972. Heavy rains swelled an underground river and the whole mountain salied away over the course of eight days.
Housefly's regurgitate food and eat it again every time they eat
The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards in length.
In Britain, failed suicides were hanged in the 19th century.
Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.
The motto for the Olympic Games is Citius Altius Fortius. Translated, it means Faster Higher Stronger.
The only U.S. president to be born on the fourth of July was Calvin Coolidge.
Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.
The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.
'Crack Cocaine' is still cocaine. It is simply a different chemical process applied to cocaine powder that allows cocaine to be smokeable. This means that the 'high' from Crack Cocaine is much stronger and more immediate (taking about 8 seconds to reach the brain); and also shorter lived then from the powder.
At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.
In a deck of cards, the King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache.
Diet Soda kills brain cells because they use so many chemicals to make it "diet"...
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The average life expectancy of a kangaroo in captivity is 7 years.
The first drive-in movie theater was built in Camden, NJ in 1932-3. It cost 25 cents per car or $1 for three or more people to watch a movie.
Grasping your ears is a sign of repentance or sincerity in India.
The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
Dr. Guillotin merely proposed the machine that bears his name (which was rejected by the crown) and he never made a working model. The first working model was made by his assistant years later. When the machine attained infamy in the French Revolution, Dr.Guillotin protested its use and went to his grave claiming that the machine was unjustly named after him.
The ancient Romans built such an excellent system of roads that the saying arose "all roads lead to Rome," that is, no matter which road one starts a journey on, he will finally reach Rome if he keeps on traveling. The popular saying came to mean that all ways or methods of doing something end in the same result, no method being better than another.
Vaseline was created by Robert Chesebrough in 1870. He developed it after visiting Titusville, PA in 1859. While there he noticed that workers were treating cuts and burns with grease that accumulated on drill rods from the oil fields.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
Astronauts become between two and three inches taller when in space.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
There are 11 points on the collar around Kermit the Frog's neck.
Special studies conducted about the human body revealed it will usually absorb up to about 300 milligrams of caffeine at a given time. About 4 normal cups. Additional amounts are just cast off, providing no further stimulation. Also, the human body dissipates 20% of the caffeine in the system each hour.
Wesley Snipes has a 5th Degree Black Belt.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves per side in a game of chess.
Babe Ruth kept a lettuce leaf under his hat to keep cool during a game.
In Thailand, the left hand is considered unclean, so you should not eat with it. Also, pointing with one finger is considered rude and is only done when pointing to objects or animals, never humans.
Uranus was originally called George, in honour of King George III of Britain
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided all of South America between Spain and Portugal in 1493. Pope Alexander VI drew up the treaty following Columbus�s discovery of the New World.
A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton is the second.
The disease-carrying mosquito, delivering encephalitis, the West Nile virus, malaria, and Dengue fever, is by far the deadliest beast in the animal world. The World Health Organization says mosquitos cause more than 2 million deaths a year worldwide. Another insect,
Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they'll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit -- because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed
The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet
The Romans defeated Hannibal's elephants after they found that the elephants were afraid of the smell of horse blood. On the battlefield they slit the throats of their own horses in order to cause the enemy's mounts to panic.
The longest movie ever screened was a 1970 British film that lasted 48 hours, 0 minutes. Believe it or not, its name is The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World.
It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
The Arabica is the original coffee plant. It still grows wild in Ethiopia. The arabica coffee tree is an evergreen and in the wild will grow to a height between 14 and 20 feet.
The longest word in the english language is pneaumonaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis...It's a lung disease contracted from breathing in too much volcanic dust settlement.
The weddell seal, can travel underwater for seven hours without surfacing.
The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the US Military Academy at West Point, NY.
The Canadian government legalized marijuana for medicinal use in 1999. After discovering a shortage of local growers they began to import the dope from Mississippi.
Black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes.
Pablo Picasso's career lasted seventy-eight years, from 1895 until his death in 1973.
According to Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard 5km (3.3 miles for u Americans) away.
It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis and Minnesota.
Lassie was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.
In the United States bacteria in foods cause 6.5 million to 33 million cases of human illness and 9,000 deaths annually.
The highest point of the earth, with an elevation of 29,141 feet, is the top of Mt. Everest in Tibet.
More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles.
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.
Captain William Driver, skipper of the brig Charles Doggett, was the first person to call the American flag "Old Glory". He made a ceremony of it in 1824.
In 1960, an estimated 4,000 people were over 100 years old in the U.S. By 1995 the number had jumped to : 55,000.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A dragonfly is also known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and "devil's steelyard".
Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.
Prior to 1907, when the United States started mass production of asphalt from crude oil, the roads were paved from asphalt bought from Trinidad, which had a pitch lake that was the world�s first large commercial source of natural asphalt.
Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.