50 Facts That You Probably Didn’t Know!

1. 56% of your typing is made with your left hand.

2. It takes 302 muscles to stand upright.

3. A ten gallon hat barely holds six pints.

4. It is possible to lick your elbow!

5. 101 Dalmations and Peter Pan are the only two Disney Cartoons where both parents are present in the beginning in the movie and don’t die throught it. 

6. Twelve newborn children will be given to the wrong parents daily.

7. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

8. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

9. A dragonfly has a life span of about 24 hours.

10. A giraffe can live without water longer than a camel can. 

11. Giraffes can also clean their own ears with their 21-inch tongue. 

12. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. 

13. A Hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside. 

14. Swans are very aggressive and will attack anything.

15. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time and is 1/100th of a second. 

16. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarrete in South Bend, Indiana.

17. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

18. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

19. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 MPH.

20. A whale’s penis is called a dork.

21. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

22. All porcupines float in water. 

23. America once issued a 5-cent bill.

24. An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

25. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every two innings. 

26. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

27. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Regan. 

28. Camel’s have three eye lids.

29. Chewing gum while peeling onions will stop you from crying.

30. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

31. Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.

32. Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian Coat of Arms for that reason.

33. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America. 

34. Giraffes have no vocal chords.

35. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

36. “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

37. Birds need gravity to swallow.

38. In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman somewhere.

39. In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated. 

40. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first so that the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and the swallows the stomach back down again.

41. “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.” is a gramatically correct sentence.

42. Leonardo De Vinci invented the schissors.

43. Lighting strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

44. Tornadoes can only move from the south-west to the north-east.

45. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

46. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike workers in Malaysia combined. 

47. Mosquitos have teeth.

48. Most lipstick contains fish scales. 

49. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

50. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.