Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.
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.
The human head weighs 7 pounds.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
In 24 hrs. an average healthy human breathes 23,000 times.
The underside of a horses hoof is called a frog.
According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
Each year 50,000 earthquakes take place on this planet.
On average, twelve newborns are given to the wrong parents each day.
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The four highest grossing movies of the 1940s were all animated motion pictures by Disney (Bambi, Pinnochio, Fantasia, and Cinderella).
The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.
The first baseball game was broadcast in color on August 11, 1951 (Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Boston Braves 8-1)
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
When Alexander Graham Bell Was working on the telephone in 1876, he spilled battery acid on his pants and called out to his assistant, "Watson, please come here. I want you." Watson, who was on another floor, heard the call through the instrument he was hooking up, and ran to Bell's room. Bell's words became the first ever successfully communicated using a telephone.
Until the 18th century India produced almost all the world diamonds.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
In turtles, the colon(intestine) is also used for respiration, as it takes in oxygen. Thats how they stay underwater for so long.
Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.
Although explorers brought potatoes back from the New World in the early 1500s, Europeans were afraid to eat them for fear that the spuds would give them leprosy. It wasn't until Louis XVI, who was looking for a cheap food source for his starving subjects, served them at the royal table that people were convinced potatoes were safe to eat.
A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.
'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is the actual name of a village in northern Wales
The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
Rodents teeth never stop growing.
Kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a
New York's first St. Patrick's day parade was held on March 17, 1762.
The symbols used on playing cards were supposed to represent the four classes of men: hearts represented the clergy; spades (from the Spanish word espada, or sword) represented the warriors; clubs were originally leaves and represented the peasants; and citizens and merchants were recognized in the diamonds.
There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.
The South Pole was reached for the first time on 14 December 1911 by a team of explorers led by Roald Amundsen.
Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.
The single highest temperature ever recorded in U.S. history was 134 degrees Fahrenheit. It was recorded in Greenland Ranch, CA on July 10, 1913. The lowest recorded temperature was minus 80 degrees on January 23, 1971 in Prospect Creek, AK.
Luther Crowell invented the paper bag in 1867.
Dry ice does not melt, it evaporates.
Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. (Do you drink milk?)
It is impossible for a pig to look up at the sky and people can not lick their elbows!!!!! be sure to remember that the next time you stick your elbow in spagetti =)
While fighting with the French underground during World War II, Jacques-Yves Cousteau invented the aqualung, the self-contained device that supplies air under pressure for underwater divers.
The coffee filter was invented in 1908 by a German homemaker, Melitta Benz, when she lined a tin cup with blotter paper to filter the coffee grinds.
Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick.
The average marathon runner's heart beats about 175 times per minute during a race. A typical adult's heart beats 68 times a minute at rest.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4, 1934 of radiation poisoning.
The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1, 1969.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
Timmie Jean Lindsey of Houston, TX became the first person to get silicone breast implants in 1962.
All pyrimids were bright white.
In Oregon anyone with a bad reputation is prohibited from distributing malt beverages.
IBM's motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
The Pacific Ocean was named by Magellen because it was calmer than the Atlantic
Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"
China. which covers an area of 178 acres.
The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
From 1836 to 1896, the Red Flag Act in England required that any self-propelled vehicle be preceded by a man carrying a red flag by day and a red lantern by night. In effect, this limited the speed to four miles per hour and retarded the development of all self-propelled vehicles, including the automobile.
Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.
Golfers use an estimated $800 million worth of golf balls annually.
Prague consumes 3 times more beer than all the soft drinks combined
The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world, its waters drop from over 3,200 feet.
In Boston, Massachusetts it is illegal to take a bath unless instructed to do so by a physician.
Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game
In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.
The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In Australia, there is no death penalty.
In 1915, Winston Churchill fought in the front line trenches before he became the Minister of Munitions.
Glenn Miller was the first performer to earn a gold record. He got it for the Chattanooga Choo Choo on February 10, 1942.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
Dennis H. sent in a link proving this fact to be wrong, which means the book I got it from was wrong. I contacted the U.S. Mint and found that the first circulated coins 11,178 copper cents were minted in March 1793.
The first scheduled airplane passenger service in the world was between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1914.
In Idiana it is illegal to sell laughing gas with the intent to induce laughter.