- Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight.

- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realises it's there.

- The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

- The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!

- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!

- In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

- Hang On Sloppy is the official rock song of Ohio.

- The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

- The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."

- When possums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland

- The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

- A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

- On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

- The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

- Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

- Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

- In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies.

- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure

- The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

- Polar bears are left-handed.

- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

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

- The flea can jump 350 times its body length that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

- The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

- Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

- Butterflies taste with their feet.

- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

- Starfishes have no brains.

- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."

- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

- An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

- The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

- The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they both were eaten by a killer whale.

- A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of nagging, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.

- In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400 day record, only to find that his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

- Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

- Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

- Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

- A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practised shooting beer cans off each other's head.

- The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.

- A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers recognised name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

- When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.

- If your body's natural defences failed, the bacteria in your gut would consume you within 48 hours, literally eating you from the inside out.

- The germs present in human faeces can pass through up to ten layers of toilet paper.

- Parasites account for 0.01% of your body weight.

- The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 metres in length.

- The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.

- Contrary to popular belief, if you swallow chewing gum it does not stay in the gut. Usually it will pass-through the system and is excreted without incident. However, several cases have been reported where the gum has stuck in the rectum, causing the unfortunate sufferer to excrete long sticky trails of gum, like a pink spider's web.

- Several well-documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.

- It is possible to cough your guts up.

- What is one of the most difficult items for sewage works to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration systems? (Every month Thames Water removes over a ton of this substance from its water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away to a landfill site and buried) You guessed it - pubic hair.

- Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed red-hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.

- A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had safaried in local rainforests, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitus. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a spider had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed.

- Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

- The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.

- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

- The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

- A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

- 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

- Every person has a unique tongue print.

- The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

- 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

- During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

- John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

- Most lipstick contains fish scales.

- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

- Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

- The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

- The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

- The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

- Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

- 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.

- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified Kosher.

- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

- Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

- 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left-hand.

- A whale's penis is called a dork.

- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

- Reindeer like to eat bananas.

- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

- The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

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

- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

- Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

- One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

- The fist product to have a barcode was Wrigley's gum.

- No piece of dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

- If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

- Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

- Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

- The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibre machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

- The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

- The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

- The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

- The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

- In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

- It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

- There is an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.

- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

- Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.

- The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

- When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

- It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

- The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

- Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

- Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.

- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

- Five Jelly flavours that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

- The most horrible drink to be considered a beverage and safely drunk is Khoona. It is drunk by Afghan tribesmen on their wedding night and consists of a small amount of still-warm 'very recently attained' bull semen. It is believed to be a potent aphrodisiac.
The longest dump ever verified was produced by an American, who produced a 'staggering turd' over a period of 2 hr 12 mins which was officially measured at 12 ft 2 in.

- This is available from a few select bars in New York. It contains tomato juice, a double shot of vodka, a spoonful of French mustard and a dash of lime. It is not mixed, but served with a tampon instead of a cocktail umbrella and is known as a 'Cunt Pump'.

- This was excreted by a 21 stone guy, and was 4 ½ inches for most of its 8 ½ length. The stool has since been preserved in alcohol.

- Horst Schultz achieved 18 ft 9 in with a 'substantial' amount of seminal fluid. He also hold the records for the greatest height (12ft 4 in) and the greatest speed of ejaculation, or muzzle velocity, with 42.7 mph.

- Bernard Clemmens of London managed to sustain a fart for an officially recorded time of 2 mins 42 seconds.

- Michelle Monaghan had 1.7 pints of semen pumped out of her stomach in Los Angeles in July 1991.

- Linda Manning of Los Angeles could, without preparation, completely insert a lubricated American football into her vagina.

- There are more than 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different ways of playing the ten opening moves in a game of chess.

- You can see the stars from the bottom of a well, even in daylight.

- There is a village in France called Y

- Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

- A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

- A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

- Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle laboured 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

- Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

- A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

- 25% of lorry drivers polled said they fell asleep while driving last year.

- 89% of Chinese households have TV, but only 2% have hot running water.

- A thousand tons of meteor dust falls to earth every day.

- The town of Tidikelt in the Sahara Desert once went ten years without rain.

- Women on average cry 5 times per month, men just 1.

- The only people allowed to carry a switchblade knife aboard a commercial airliner are one armed people. The knife is to be no more than 3 inches long.

- One cup of whole milk has more calories and saturated fat than four strips of bacon.

- Two out of five of us admit to snooping in other people's medicine cabinets and drawers.

- You'd need to eat 440 poppy seeds to fail a drug test for opium or roughly the same number on and in a poppy seed bagel.

- There are two million sweat glands in a mans body.

- The times of day that you are most likely to be hit by a drunk driver is 2am, 6am and 4pm.

- In October 1991, surgeons at Stanford University Hospital removed an ovarian tumour weighing over 21 stone from a woman. It was the largest cyst ever detached from a human being. After the operation, the woman weighed 5 stone LESS than the tumour.

- A 50 year old woman was brought into a New York emergency room complaining of abdominal pains. During an examination, doctors found that the woman's labia were pinned together with old safety pins. Further inside, they found the dismembered body of a chicken. The woman explained that she inserted the chicken pieces, convinced that they would grow into a baby.

- A 63 year old widow was admitted to hospital in Recife, Brazil, suffering abdominal pains. X-rays showed that she was carrying a 20 inch long skeleton of a foetus which she conceived a decade earlier. It had become lodged outside the womb and was never expelled from her body.

- A 500lb woman from Illinois was examined in hospital. During the examination, an asthma inhaler fell from under her armpit, a dime was found under one of her breasts, and a remote control was found lodged between the folds of her vulva.

- A couple hobbled into a Washington emergency room covered in bloody restaurant towels. The man had his around his waist, and the woman had hers around her head. They eventually explained to doctors that they had gone out that evening for a romantic dinner. Overcome with passion, the woman crept under the table to administer oral sex to the man. While in the act, she had an epileptic fit, which caused her to clamp down on the man's member and wrench it from side to side. In agony and desperation, the man grabbed a fork and stabbed her in the head until she let go.

- A Californian doctor examining a young woman with abdominal pains asked her if she was sexually active. She said that she wasn't. A later examination showed that she was pregnant. Asked why she said that she was not sexually active, the woman replied "I'm not, I just lie there". When asked if she knew who the father was, with a puzzled look she replied "No. Who?"

- A drunk staggered into a Pennsylvania ER complaining of severe pain while trying to remove his contact lenses. He said that they would come out half way, but they always popped back in. A nurse tried to help using a suction pump, but without success. Finally, a doctor examined him and discovered that the man did not have his contact lenses in at all. He had been trying to rip out the membrane of his cornea.

- An old woman in a North Carolina ER complained of green vines growing from her vagina. Investigation revealed a large potato trapped in her womb. The woman then suddenly remembered that she had inserted it two weeks previously, because she thought that her uterus was falling out.

- In Michigan, a man came into the ER with lacerations to his penis. He complained that his wife had "a rat in her pussy" and it bit him during sex. After an examination of his wife, if was revealed that she had a surgical needle left inside her after a recent hysterectomy.

- A Cambridge man hobbled into casualty complaining of a permanent erection. He admitted to doctors that while on holiday in Cuba, he frequented many brothels, and in one he was given some erectile cream to keep him hard. He was told to use it sparingly. However, since he was having so much fun, he kept using more and more. By the time he came to casualty, all the blood vessels in his penis were swollen and his testicles had ballooned in size. Doctors could do nothing except prescribe painkillers, and told him that it would return to flaccidity in a few days. They also told his to enjoy his erection while it lasted, because it was going to be his last.

- A 64 year old woman with colon cancer kept returning to hospital with an infection around her stoma (the hole where the tube from her colostomy bag is inserted). There was also a mysterious whitish ooze emanating from it. After eventually enquiring into her private life, the doctors found out that she led an active sex life. "And," she told them, "when we're feeling really energetic, my husband gets his kicks out of removing the bag and using my stoma."

- In Kentucky, a woman complained of a purple discharge from her vagina. She thought it might have something to do with the diaphragm that her doctor had recently given her. "I followed all the instructions to the letter," she told her doctor, "and used it with the jelly. "When asked which kind of jelly she had used, she replied "Grape."

- In Kingsville, Texas, there is a law against two pigs having sex on the city's airport property.

- It is illegal for hens to lay eggs before 8 am and after 4 pm in Norfolk, Virginia.

- Ducks quacking after 10 pm in Essex Falls, New Jersey are breaking the law.

- In Quitman, Georgia, it is against the law for a chicken to cross any road within the city limits.

- In McDonald, Ohio, farmers cannot march a goose down a city street. And fowl, particularly roosters, are prohibited from going into bakeries in Massachusetts.

- In Kansas, it is illegal for chicken thieves to work during daylight hours.

- In New York, frogs may be taken from their ponds from June 16 to September 30, but only between sunrise and sunset.

- In Pennsylvania, no one is allowed to shoot bullfrogs on a Sunday.

- In Arizona, the bullfrog-hunting season is permanently closed.

- In Vermont, you can be fined if your pig runs in a public park without the permission of a selectman.

- French Lick Springs, Indiana, once passed a law requiring all black cats to wear bells on Friday the 13th.

- Madison, Wisconsin, will not allow joint custody of a family pet when a couple divorces - the animal is legally awarded to whoever happens to have possession of it at the time of the initial separation.

- Dogs in Foxpoint, Wisconsin, may not bark profusely, snarl, or make any menacing gestures.

- In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.

- Cats in International Falls, Minnesota, are not allowed to chase dogs up telephone poles.

- If your dog gets your neighbour's dog pregnant in Danbury, Connecticut, you are responsible and must pay for the abortion if the neighbour chooses to have it done.

- In North Carolina, it is against the law to use elephants to plough cotton fields.

- In New York City, one is forbidden from shooting rabbits from the back end of a Third Avenue streetcar when it is moving.

- In Kansas, people cannot shoot rabbits while in a motorboat.

- In Statesville, North Carolina, it is against the law to race rabbits in the streets.

- In Tuscumbia, Alabama, no more than eight rabbits can reside on the same block.

- A law in Detroit, Michigan, prohibits crocodiles from being tied to a fire hydrant.

- Donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Brooklyn, New York.

- In Baltimore, Maryland, it is necessary to document any services performed by a jackass.

- In Ohio, it is against the law to set a fire under your mule if it balks.

- In Arkansas, if your 2-year-old mule runs wild and is unclaimed within 2 days, anyone may castrate the animal.

- In Marshalltown, Iowa, a horse will be breaking the law if it eats a fire hydrant.

- People can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog in Oklahoma.

- Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.

- In Tulsa, Oklahoma, dogs are prohibited from going on private property unless the owner gives his consent first.

- In Chicago, it is illegal to take a French poodle to the opera.

- Dogs are strictly forbidden from riding in ambulances in Westport,
Massachusetts.

- Wallace, Idaho, decreed it is unlawful for anyone to sleep in a dog kennel.

- In Clawson, Michigan, a law specifically makes it legal for a farmer to sleep with his pigs, cows, horses, goats, and chickens. But the animals may not be in the house after sunup or during the day.

- Florida has a law prohibiting the transporting of livestock on school buses. If you live in Franklin, Kentucky, you can't legally trade horses after dark.

- In Alabama, no mules can be traded after supper when the sun has already gone below the horizon. And in Idaho, you can't buy or sell chickens after sundown without the sheriff's permission.

- It is illegal to lasso a catfish in Tennessee and the state of Washington.

- In Seattle, goldfish can ride the city buses in bowls only if they keep still.

- You cannot shoot fish with a bow and arrow in Louisville, Kentucky. And you cannot shoot fish with a gun in the state of Washington or in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.

- It's against the law to get a fish drunk in Oklahoma.

- In Kansas, you cannot fish with your bare hands, while in the state of Washington, you can't catch a fish by throwing a rock at it.

- No dog may be tied to a shade tree in Birmingham, Alabama.

- An ordinance in Belvedere, California, states "No dog shall be in a public place without its master on a leash."

- Another misworded ordinance is this one from Arvada, Colorado: "If a stray pet is not claimed within 24 hours, the owner will be destroyed."

- Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited by statute in Barber, North Carolina.

- In Sterling, Colorado, it is unlawful to allow a pet cat to run loose without a taillight.

- In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.

- Cats living in Cresskill, New Jersey, must wear three bells to warn birds of their whereabouts.

- A Fountain Inn, South Carolina, law once required horses to wear pants at all times. But carriage horses in Charleston, South Carolina, were required to wear diapers.

- In Calgary, Canada, a by-law requires businesses within the city to provide rails for tying up horses.

- In Winona, MS, it is illegal to drive a car on Main Street because it frightens horses.

- In Wilbur, Washington, it is against the law for a person to "ride an ugly horse" - the fine is $300!

- If you live in California, you cannot keep your chickens, turkeys, goats, cows, and other farm animals in an apartment.

- In Cumberland, Maryland, you cannot keep your chickens with you in your hotel room.

- In Minnesota, it's illegal to tease skunks.

- In Atlanta, it's against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or a street lamp.

- Riding a camel on a highway in Nevada is against the law. Over in Galveston, Texas, it is against the law for camels to wander the streets unattended.

- In Arizona, it is illegal to shoot or hunt camels.

- It's illegal to take a deer swimming in water above its knees in North Carolina.

- It is illegal to ride a mule down Lang, Kansas' Main Street in August, unless the animal is wearing a straw hat.

- Over in Berea, Kentucky and also in Willimantic, Connecticut, horses are not allowed out on the streets and highways at night unless the animal has a "bright" red taillight securely attached to its rump.

- Horses may not wear cowbells inside the city limits of Tahoe City, California.

- In Washington, though, every cow wandering the streets of Seattle must be wearing a cowbell.

- In Burns, Oregon, horses are allowed in the town's taverns, if an admission fee is paid before they enter.

- You can't blow your nose in public places in Leahy, Washington, because it might scare a horse and cause it to panic.

- In Wanassa, New Jersey, a dog is breaking the law if it is heard to be "crying."

- In Maryland it used to be illegal to seat lions in the theatre.

- In North Carolina it's a crime to move twin beds together in a motel room.

- In Tennessee it was once illegal for three dogs to stand together.

- In Georgia it used to be illegal for chickens to cross the road.

- In Oklahoma it was once the law for a female car driver to follow her husband who was carrying a red flag. But if she had had five accidents she also had to be accompanied by a brass band

- Coca-Cola was originally green.

- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

- Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

- Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

- City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.

- State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

- Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

- Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

- Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

- Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.

- Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.

- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth .

- Clinophobia is a fear of beds.

- Porcupines float in water.

- Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head".

- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

- The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.

- The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur.

- Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

- The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

- Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee

- The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

- One in every 4 Americans have appeared on television.

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.

- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

- 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.

- 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.

- Every year, over 1000 birds die from smashing into windows.

- The state of Florida is bigger than England.

- It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.

- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

- Thomas Edison, light-bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

- During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

- Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

- The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

- In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.

- There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.

- About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

- More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.

- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 M.P.H.

- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

- In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.

- Slugs have 4 noses.

- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.

- Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

- Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue.

- It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.

- There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.

- Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.

- Eskimo ice cream is neither icy nor creamy.

- A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

- In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

- A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

- The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.

- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

- The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.

- Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the states of the US.

- One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

- America once issued a 5-cent bill.

- The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

- In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

- There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S.

- Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.

- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

- You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

- Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

- In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.

- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin

- The Blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same colour as grapejuice.

- The average person laughs 13 times a day.

- Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women are.

- It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words... None of them with them letter E.

- Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions.

- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

- Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

- The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used.

- There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year.

- The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.

- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that paws?

- The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

- Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.

- Bulls are colour-blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving capeno matter what colour it is... be it red, blue or neon yellow.

- Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.