The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Ostriches can run faster than horses.
Oysters can change from one gender to the other and then back again.
The heaviest baby ever born weighed a whopping 23 pounds and 12 ounces.
The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
A nidus is the nest that insects and spiders deposit their eggs in.
Contrary to popular belief, there are a small number of people who can lick their own elbows.
A standard slinky stretched flat measures 87 feet long.
The longest toenails on record measured six inches each.
Polydactylism is the condition of having more than the usual number of fingers or toes.
The world’s largest amphibian is the giant salamander; it can grow up to five feet in length.
Our eyes remain the same size our entire lives, but our nose and ears keep growing!
A British sanitary engineer named Thomas Crapper invented the modern flush toilet in 1878. His biography was called Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow.
It's illegal in North Carolina to plow a field with an elephant.
Grasshoppers are only able to jump if the temperature is at least 62 degrees Fahrenheit.
The glue on a stamp contains one-tenth of a calorie.
Vesna Vulovic fell from 33,330 without a parachute and survived.
A mosquito has 47 “teeth,” tiny serrations they use to cut like a steak knife.
Frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open.
At the first professional baseball game, the umpire was fined six cents for swearing.
The skateboard was invented in 1963.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
The last time the Olympic gold medal was made entirely of pure gold was for the 1912 Games.
There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in New York City.
The ghosts in Pac Man's video arcade game are named Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde.
The Museum of Modern Art in NYC once hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days in 1961. An art student noticed the error, and the museum fixed it.
Edward Smith was the first indicted bank robber in the U.S. He was sentenced to five years hard labor in 1831 on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison.
A 15-year-old baker's apprentice named Hanson Gregory invented the first ring donut in 1847.
Artist Paul Cezanne taught his parrot to say, "Cezanne is a great painter."
Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: black and gold.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
Bromhidrosis is just the fancy scientific name for stinky feet.
Butterflies use their hind legs to taste.
Every minute you shed about 35,000 dead skin cells.
Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.
An ostrich's eyes are larger than its brain.
The longest tongue measured 3.7 inches.
Tokyo is home to the world's biggest bowling alley.
Most toilets flush in E-flat.
In British English, a booger is called a "bogey" or "bogie."
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
A person should pass gas 14 times a day.
Sharks and rays are the only animals that are immune to cancer.
The longest hair to sprout from an ear measured in at 5.19 inches.
Everyone’s tongue-print is different.
The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska is Kool-Aid.
A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
A slug only travels about 150 feet per day.
If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub was 99 hours long.
The longest bout of sneezing recorded lasted for 978 days or 4,687,514 sneezes! Donna Griffith started sneezing in January 1981 and didn't stop until September 1983.
Excuse you! The beans that cause you to pass gas the most are soybeans.
Your stomach must produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or else it will digest itself.
Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Gross! Every square inch of the human body has over 30 million bacteria on it.
On average, an American will eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
There are 250,000 sweat glands in your feet. That's why shoes get so smelly!
Dogs can make about 100 facial expressions.
It takes at least 400 peanuts make a nine-ounce jar of peanut butter.
In Florida, you can be fined for falling asleep under a salon hair dryer.
The Hundred Years’ War lasted 116 years.
You actually burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
A cow has four stomachs.
Hold the elevator: you can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
In 1921, a baby boy was born in London with 14 fingers and 15 toes.
In Idaho, it's illegal to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
A local ordinance in Atwoodville, Connecticut, prohibits people from playing Scrabble while waiting for a politician to speak.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
There's a law in Milan, Italy, that requires citizens to smile at all times. Exemptions are made for hospital visitors and funeral attendants.
In Canada, it is illegal to pay a debt with pennies if it's higher than 25 cents.
There's a law in Illinois that bans barbers from applying shaving cream to a patron's face with their fingers.
In Massachusetts, snoring is prohibited unless all bedroom windows are closed and locked.
It's illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket in Kentucky.
In Atlanta, Georgia, it's against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
India is the only country with a Bill of Rights for cows.
The U.S. minted a copper coin in 1787 with the motto "Mind Your Business."
Easy places to spell: there is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in France called "Y."
In Lehigh, Nebraska, it's against the law to sell donut holes.
It's against the law in Kentucky to throw eggs at a public speaker.
Selling chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore.
The average human grows 590 miles of hair in their lifetime.
Giraffes are unable to cough.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The fingerprints of a koala bear are so similar to a human's that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The stegosaurus was 30 feet long, but its brain was only the size of a walnut.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Gross! Baskin-Robbins once produced ketchup-flavored ice cream.
It takes a sloth two weeks to digest its food.
The dust in your home is 70% human skin.
97% of all people who get a new pen will write their own name.
A snail moves approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour.
Blonde beards grow faster than red or brown beards.
For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.