It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

a man once sued his doctor because he lived longer than the doctor predicted due to cancer

Each year approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year

Armadillos Are The Only Animal Besides Humans That Can Get Leprosy

That's actually a very common misconception. In fact, scorpions are immune to their own poison, and thus can't sting themselves to death, neither when surrounded by a ring of fire nor when fed alcohol.

Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

Canada is the largest importer of American cars.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10.

Armadillos Can Be House Broken.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

Armadillos Can Have Up To Four Babies At A Time And They Are Always All The Same Sex.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are more telephones than people in Washington DC.

Black Lemurs Are The Only Primates That Can Have Blue Eyes

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

who found that out? lol

This is gonna be a hard to judge thread

It Takes Seven Years For A Lobster To Weigh One Pound

The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.

yes it will be but it will be fun :)

The Difference Between Male And Female Blue Crabs Is The Design Located On Their Belly. The Male Blue Crab Has The Washington Monument And The Female Blue Crab's Belly Is Shaped Like The U.s Capitol

From the 1850's to the 1880's, the most common reason for death among cowboys in the American West was being dragged by a horse while caught in the stirrups.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons

Mice, Whales, Elephants, Elephants, Giraffes And Man All Have Seven Neck Vertebra

Two out of three adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.

and you can't get them at all in the UK :(

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open


If you do, a puppy dies.

All Porcupines Float In Water

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

turkeys can reporduce without having sex

The famous Citgo sign near Fenway Park in Boston is maintained not by Citgo, but by the Boston Historical Society.

There have been several documented cases of women giving birth to twins who had different fathers, including cases where the children were of different races. To do so, the mother had to have conceived both children in close proximity. There has also been one recent case where a mother gave birth to unrelated "twins." In that instance, the mother underwent in vitro fertilization and had her own child and the embryo of another couple accidentally implanted in her.

When Angered, The Ears Of The Tazmanian Devil Turn Pinkish Red

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

It is called rapeseed oil over here...i spent years thinking you couldn't buy canola here until I found out they were the same thing

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

A Cat Has Four Rows Of Wiskers

Yeah.. I've always called it Rapeseed because I'm from the Uk

Cats' Urine Glows Under A Blacklight

Per capita, it is safer to live in New York City than it is to live in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

An Iguana Can Stay Under Water For 28 Minutes

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

You are subscribed to this thread President Teddy Roosevelt died from an "infected tooth."

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Memory Span Of A Goldfish Is Three Seconds