Friday Fun Facts Are Back!

- Barney, the famous dinosaur that entertains kids is from Dallas.
- Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.
- In 1894, the carnival made its debut in North America.
- In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce.
- Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
- Mardi Gras means "Fat Tuesday."
- The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade.
- The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child.
- The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919.
- Surveys indicate that the number one reason people play Bingo is for leisure.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. Don't think so? Click here.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- Apples, not caffeine, are better at waking you up in the morning.
- In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit.
- The average day is actually only 23 hours and 56 minutes.
- The space shuttle Discovery can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour in just eight minutes.
- It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time! It's 1/100th of a second.
- In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy."
- There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.
- Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.)
- In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."
- Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.
- Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
- At lift off, space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.
- Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
- Nintendo was first establish in 1889 and they started out making special playing cards.
- The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Thirty-five percent of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- The dust in your house is mostly made up of dead skin.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
- An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
- Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.
- It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
- Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission.
- Q-Tip cotton swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
- Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
- Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.
- Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
- Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
- In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast.
- American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript.
- Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French.
- Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
- The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- 7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl.
- The Arctic Tern, which is a small bird, can fly a round trip from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird.
- A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
- Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery.
- Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player.
- Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.
- The blind cavefish is born with eyes, but they fall off as the fish grows.
- In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made of human bones.
- A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.
- A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
- A leech has 32 brains.
- A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.
- A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis," in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length.
- A turtle can breathe through its butt.
- An individual coral animal is called a polyp.
- Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
- Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.
- Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.