If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in  your head or neck and die.(painful!!)

If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.(scary thought)

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.(that will make you think twice)

If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?(good question)

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.(why?)

Most lipstick contains fish scales.(gross..)

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.(i don't want to know)

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.(cool!)

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.(how do they know? Did Gilligan tell them?)

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.(stupid donkeys!!)

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.(that is an expensive olive)

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.(i will have to test this!!)

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.(not suprising)

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.(weird but so is he!!)
 
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.(that's funny)

Pearls melt in vinegar.(i would like to know who tested this one)

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.(then where is the point in using the ads?)
 
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.(funny...)

Turtles can breathe through their butts.(weird)

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.(I think we need to improve on our weapons)

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.(that would be from chewing on them)

On average people fear spiders more than death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.(wonder why..)

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.(gee i wonder why)

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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.

A snail can sleep for three years.(well it can never say its tierd)

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.(think about that 1)

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.(owwww)
 
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

Almonds are members of the peach family.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.
 
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. (so did Shakespeare)
 
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.(nasty!!)

'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas would be produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's interesting!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out
to the body to squirt blood 30 feet... (O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (Well I didn’t need to know that one)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death. (Creepy.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Do not try this at home........ maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (And I said Melanie had been around)

Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (I wonder why.)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer?)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.