Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year, which is more than the real money printed in a year.
The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.
Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.
The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
On average, more people fear spiders than death.
Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them. No head popping.
Cher's real name is Cherilyn Sarkasian La Pier.
In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.
Julius Caesar, Martin Luther and Jonathan Swift all suffered from M�ni�r's disease. It is a disorder of the hearing and balance senses causing hissing, roaring or whistling sounds to be perceived.
A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.
The first President to ride in an automobile was William McKinley. After being shot, he was taken to the hospital in a 1901 Columbia electric ambulance.
Local calls using a coin-operated phone in the U.S. cost only 5 cents everywhere until 1951.
When you flush a toilet, an invisible cloud of water [full of germs] shoots six feet in the air.
Victor Mills, an inventor with Proctor & Gamble, invented the disposable diaper in 1961 because he didn't want to deal with his daughter's soiled (crapped) diapers. You know them as Pampers.
Officially, the term "boulder" is applied only to stones larger than 10 inches in diameter.
The letter "I" is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The Three Wise Men of the East brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Jesus. Frankincense is a gum resin used as a base for incense. Myrrh, also a gum resin, was valued as a perfume and unguent used in embalming.
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
There are orange peels and raisins in A-1 Steak Sauce.
The genre of art known as Cubism derived its name from a belittling remark made by Matisse in reference to a Graque painting. Matisse said that the landscape looked as though it were wholly made up of little cubes.
The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.
An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.
No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right....
Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.
William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.
Christmas became a national holiday in the US in 1890.
It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.
Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day. Click here
The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
Harley Proctor found the name "Ivory" for his soap in the Bible. He was in church reading the line, "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." The original name of the soap was P&G White Soap.
Eating large amounts of carrots will eventually turn your skin orange because of the chemical substance called carotene which is found in carrots. Carotene is the cause of the orange hue in leaves during the fall.
Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.
The first woman to run for President was Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ballot in 1872.
Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.
Coffee Recipe from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
The average healthy human being farts 16 times a day.
In Massachusetts, it is forbidden to put tomatoes in clam chowder.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
In Newport, Rhode Island it is illegal to smoke from a pipe after sunset.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old.
Britain's present royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The name was changed in 1917, during WW1 because of German connotations. The name Windsor was suggested by one of the staff. At the same time the Battenberg family name of the cousins to the Windsors was changed into Mountbatten.
A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.
At the time of the U.S. Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the second largest English-speaking city in the world, surpassed only by London.
Xylophones(Greek xylon,"wood"; phone,"sound") were actually developed in South East Asia in the 14th centuary
The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres.
The first police force was established in Paris in 1667.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
Penguins can leap to heights as high as six feet.
The Cannes Film Festival was conceived in 1938 by two French journalists while they were traveling by train to the Venice Film Festival.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
The first percussion instrument introduced to an orchestra was the kettledrums, then called the timpani, in the 1600s.
Texas was one of the first states to adopt capital punishment by lethal injection -in 1977.
The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
The revolving door was invented August 7, 1888, by Theophilus Van Kannel, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In Denver it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor.
One square mile of land contains more insects than total number of human beings on earth.
When Disneyland opened in 1955, Tomorrowland represented a city from 1986.
The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with the prohibition of alcohol.
The 'you are here arrow' on a map is called the IDEO locator.
Of the 2200 persons quoted in the current edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," only 164 are women.
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa L�wenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).
There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person.
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.
A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
Gaetano Albert "Guy" Lombardo did the first New Year's Eve broadcast of "Auld Lang Syne," from the Roosevelt Grill in New York City in 1929/1930.
A decree declares that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used up.
It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.
After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.
Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.
Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."
The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.