Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.
People don't sneeze when they are asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are also resting.
Great Falls, Montana, is the windiest city in the U.S.
It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.
It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
About 85% of the world's population is right-handed.
The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.
America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.
Cats can hear ultrasound.
The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.
The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way."
The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
Ants never sleep!
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without knee caps - actually, they're made of cartilage and the bone hardens between the ages of 2 and 6 years.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.
Chocolate can kill dogs, as it contains theobromine, which affects their heart and nervous system.
There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious".
Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter. The biggest "rain diamonds" would likely be about a centimeter in diameter, according to scientists.
Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. You can store it in a jar and it will still be fit to eat after 3,000 years.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Hot water will turn into ice faster then cold water.
The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from only one end.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.
The human brain is 80% water.
It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.
In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only person in the world to have survived two nuclear blasts. He was present in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the nukes were dropped. He died in 2010, aged 93.
The present 50-star American flag was designed by a 17-year-old Ohio high-school student Robert G Heft for a class project. His teacher gave him a B- for his work.
Cats have three eyelids. Their sense of smell is 14 times stronger than that of humans.
The French Poodle dog breed originated not in France but in Germany, where it was known as the Pudel.
Elephants can smell water from three miles away.
In your lifetime, you will produce enough spit to fill two swimming pools.
The strongest muscle in human body is the jaw muscle.
The first ever domain name registered on Internet was Symbolics.com - it was registered on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics Computer Corporation.
The world's first-ever selfie was clicked in Oct / Nov 1839 in Philadelphia by the 30-year-old son of a Dutch immigrant. The daguerreotype of Robert Cornelius is believed to be the earliest photographic self-portrait in existence.For this, Robert set up his camera at the back of his father's shop, removed the lens cap, rushed into the frame and sat still for a full five minutes before running back and replacing the lens cap. After a couple of years of dabbling in portraits, Robert joined his father business, which under him became the largest lighting company in America. He died in 1893.
Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.
The word "OK" was coined by Charles Gordon Greene in 1839 in the "Boston Morning Post." He used OK as a joking abbreviation for "Oll Korrect" in a satirical article about grammar. The editorial joke went viral, bringing the word into common usage.
The full name of Donald Duck is Donald Fauntleroy Duck.
In America, interstate highways are numbered according to their general direction. Highways running north to south are assigned odd numbers. Those running east to west have even numbers.
The word "Rupee" for Indian currency is derived from the Sanskrit word Rupya which means "wrought sliver." The word for Indonesian currency "Rupiah" also has the same origin.
A cat called "Dusty" produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.
When Disney released "Princess and the Frog" in 2009, 50 children in the U.S. were hospitalized with salmonella from kissing frogs.
Jimi Hendrix couldn't read or write music.
North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate.
In the U.S., 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
Large parts of Canada have less gravity than the rest of Earth. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1960s.
Mosquitoes prefer blood type "O" to any other.
Apple's iPad 2 would have been the world's fastest computer in 1994.
"Erotomania" is a psychological disorder in which the affected people believe a famous person is in love with them.
Some turtles may bury their eggs in alligator nests.
The University of Minnesota is older than the state of Minnesota.
Madonna's last name is Ciccone.
Brazil distributes women's breast milk around the country to babies whose mothers can't provide it for them.
Mark Zuckerberg receives a US$ 1 salary as CEO of Facebook.
91% of kids in the U.S. are gamers.
The White House was originally called "The President's Palace."
Paper money can transport live flu virus for over two weeks.
France uses 12 different time zones, the most of any country in the world.
Tim Allen was a convicted drug dealer before becoming a famous Comedian.
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were best friends.
The British coined the term "Soccer" in the late 1800s, not America.
Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999-but Excite turned them down.
The famous Aaron Burr "Got Milk?" ad from 1993 was directed by Michael Bay.
According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
Christmas 1914: When British And German Soldiers Laid Down Their Guns For A Moment Of Peace.
The average distance between the stars in the sky is 20 million miles.
Your body sheds 10 billion flakes of skin every day.
Every time you sneeze your heart stops a second.
The "Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" is the hardest tongue-twister.
In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold: for $7.5 million.
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.
All babies are colour-blind when they are born.