*All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
*No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple".
*Almonds are members of the peach family.
*Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
*In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
*The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in          his pocket.
*Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
*There is only one diamond mine in North America and it is in Arkansas.
*There are 44 million ways to make Bingo on a single bingo card.
*The White House didn't have running water until 1833.
*Idaho grows 120 billion potatoes a year - that's about 500 for every person in the U.S.
*In Omaha, Nebraska, it's illegal to sneeze or burp in church.
*In 1865, an estimated 10,000 hogs roamed wild in New York City.
*In India, it's illegal for a woman to marry a goat.
*24% of all Iowans have some sort of ornament on their lawns.
*Ounce for ounce, the bumblebee is 150 times stronger than an elephant.
*The bald eagle's nest can weigh as much as a ton.
*The state with the most outhouses is Alaska.
*Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
*Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.
*On average, there are more than 1,800 thunder storms on Earth at any given time.
*Thomas Jefferson was the first president to wear long pants.
*A typical "lawn" in Austria is planted with cabbages an kohlrabi.
*The word "Kennedy" actually means "hideous head" in Irish.
*There are about 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
*Putting old tires around tomato plants can help them grow faster.
*The average dollar bill has a life span of 18 months.
*Salt is the only rock humans can eat.
*If you live in Kentucky, you're required by law to bathe at least once a year.
*The emperor penguin can dive to depths of 870 ft. for as long as 18 minutes.
*The White House's first telephone was installed by Alexander Graham Bell.
*The only thing creditors cannot seize if you go bankrupt is your wedding ring.
*The first electric toothbrush was developed and tested on dogs. 
*The average American uses two pine trees' worth of paper products each year.
*Giraffes can live longer without water than camels can.
*If tin cans were really made of tin, you could crush them in your hand.
*A company in Australia makes coffins out of recycled newspapers.
*The only known meteorite fatality was a dog hit in Egypt in 1922.
*It took Noah Webster 20 years to write his dictionary.
*The moon vibrated for 55 minutes after the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on it.
*An estimated 16% of U.S. women and 13% of U.S. men are toothless.
*$1.00 out of every $11 Americans spend on food goes for packaging.
*Pigeons are the only birds that can drink water without raising their heads to swallow.
*There are 120 drops of water in an average teaspoon.
*Dinosaurs ranged from nearly 3 stories high to about the size of a small turkey.
*On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
*The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
*If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950.  The heads
picture weighs slightly more, so it will end up on the bottom.
*Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
*If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to
heat up one cup of coffee.
*The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps to squirt blood 30 feet.
*Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
*The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.
*The pops you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.
*The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagra Falls froze completely solid.
*There's no Betty Rubble in the Flinstone Chewables vitamins.
*Banging your head against a wall for an hour burns 150 calories.
*Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider?
*In Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
*In Indiana, it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.
*In the U.S., there are more 2nd streets than 1st streets, and Main street is not the most common -
Pine Street is.
*Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
*The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.
*Polar bears are left-handed.
*The ancient Greeks thought that stars were lamps hanging above the Earth.
*The Earth gets slightly heavier each year because it picks up space dust.
*The biggest known crater is on Mars.  It is 50 miles wide and three times as high as Mount Everest.
*The longest earthquake known lasted for 38 days.
*The lowest officially-named hill stands 15 feet high on a golf course in Brunei.
*Mount Everest is 20 times taller than the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the world.
*The world's shortest river is the D River in Oregon.  It is only 121 feet long.
*Only about 1/9 of an iceberg shows above the surface of the water.
*Some people claim that they can smell rain.  The smell is probably the gases produced by the damp
soil.
*In 1940 a tornado uncovered buried gold and showered the coins over a Russian town.
*American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lightning a record seven times.
*The boabab tree can hold up to 260 gallons of water in its trunk.
*The oldest living tree is a Californian bristlecone pine named "Methuselah".  It is about 4,700 years
old.
*Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet a day.
*There were no grasses at the time of the dinosaurs, only ferns, conifers and cycad plants.
*In Saudi Arabia there are solar-powered pay phones in the desert.
*Ostriches sometimes eat sand, probably to help their digestion.
*The biggest animal found on inland Antarctica is the housefly.
*The Antarctic notothenia fish has protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze to protect it from the
ice-cold water.
*Penguins are so well insulated by fat that they often overheat when they are active.  They have to
stand with their backs open to cool down.
*The U.S. uses 29% of the world's gasoline, and 33% of the world's electricity.
*It takes 22 gallons of milk to make a pound of butter.
*It takes 200,000 frowns to make a permanent wrinkle.
*Porcupines each have more than 30,000 quills.
*1,000,000,000 M&M's are sold in the USA every day, and most of them are brown.
*Your eyeballs are 3 1/2% salt.
*Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
*The Saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than 1 inch in its first 10 years.
*Pigs and humans are the only animals that get sunburned.
*To say just one word, you use over 70 muscles.
*Animators drew nearly 6.5 million black spots for the film "101 Dalmations".
*Your brain uses less power than a 100 watt light bulb.
*On average, people spend more than 5 years of their lives dreaming.
*The first hankerchief was invented in 1743.
*In 60 seconds blood makes a complete trip through your body.