The Red Sea Was Originally Named The Reed Sea.
The Ridges On The Sides Of Coins Are Called Reeding Or Milling.
The Right Lung Takes In More Air Than The Left Lung.
The Right Side Of A Boat Was Called The Starboard Side Due To The Fact That The Astronavigators Used To Stand Out On The Plank (Which Was On The Right Side) To Get An Unobstructed View Of The Stars. The Left Side Was Called The Port Side Because That Was The Side That You Put In On At The Port. This Was So That They Didn’t Knock Off The Starboard.
The Roads On The Island Of Guam Are Made With Coral. Guam Has No Sand. The Sand On The Beaches Is Actually Ground Coral. When Concrete Is Mixed, The Coral Sand Is Used Instead Of Importing Regular Sand From Thousands Of Miles Away.
The Rocking Chair Was Invented By Benjamin Franklin.
The Rumba Originated In Cuba.
The Saguaro Cactus, Found In The Southwestern United States Doesn’t Grow Branches Until It Is 75 Years Old.
The Sale Of Vodka Makes Up 10% Of The Russians Government Income.
The San Diego Zoo In California Has The Largest Collection Of Animals In The World.
The San Francisco Cable Cars Are The Only Mobile National Monuments.
The Saturn V Moon Rocket Consumed 15 Tons Of Fuel Per Second.
The Save Icon On Microsoft Word Shows A Floppy Disk, With The Shutters On Backwards.
The Second Unit Films Movie Shots That Do Not Require The Presence Of Actors.
The Sentence The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Uses Every Letter In The English Language.
The Shape Of Plant Collenchyma Cells And The Shape Of The Bubbles In Beer Foam Are The Same — They Are Orthotetrachidecahedrons.
The Ship, The Queen Elizabeth 2, Should Always Be Written As Qeqeii Is The Actual Queen.
The Shockwave From A Nitroglycerine Explosion Travels At 17,000 Miles Per Hour.
The Shopping Mall In Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada Has The Largest Water Clock In North America.
The Shortest British Monarch Was Charles I, Who Was 4’9.
The Shortest War In History Was Between Zanzibar An England In 1896. Zanzibar Surrendered After 38 Minutes.
The Shrimp’s Heart Is In Its Head.
The Siberian Larch Accounts For More Than 20% Of All The Worlds Trees.
The Side Of A Hammer Is A Cheek.
The Sitka Spruce Is Britain’s Most Commonly Planted Tree.
The Skin Of Some Snakes Change Colors Naturally, Turning Darker By Day And Lighter By Night.
The Skyscraper In Die Hard Is The Twentieth Century Fox Tower.
The Slash Character Is Called A Virgule, Or Solidus. A Url Uses Slash Characters, Not Back Slash Characters.
The Slinky Is Sold On Every Continent Of The World Except Antarctica.
The Slogan On New Hampshire License Plates Is ‘Live Free Or Die.’ These License Plates Are Manufactured By Prisoners In The State Prison In Concord.
The Smallest ‘Country’ In The World To Have Its Own Top-Level Domain Name Is Norfolk Island, Off The Coast Of Australia.
The Smallest Unit Of Time Is The Yoctosecond.
The Smallest Volcano In The World Is Taal.
The Snail Mates Only Once In Its Entire Life.
The Song With The Longest Title Is ‘I?M A Cranky Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank On The Streets Of Yokohama With My Honolulu Mama Doin? Those Beat-O, Beat-O Flat-On-My-Seat-O, Hirohito Blues’ Written By Hoagy Carmichael In 194He Later Claimed The Song Title Ended With ?Yank? And The Rest Was A Joke. [Source: Guinness Book Of World Records]
The Sound Of E.T. Walking Was Made By Someone Squishing Her Hands In Jelly.
The Spanish Inquisition Once Condemned The Entire Netherlands To Death For Heresy.
The Sphinx At Giza In Egypt Is 240 Feet Long And Carved Out Of Limestone. Built By Pharaoh Khafre To Guard The Way To His Pyramid, It Has A Lion’s Body And The Ruler’s Head.
The St.Louis Gateway Arch Had A Projected Death Toll While It Was Being Built. No One Died.
The Starfish Is One Of The Only Animals Who Can Turn Its Stomach Inside-Out.
The State Legislature In North Dakota Has Rejected A Proposal To Erect Signs Specifically Warning Motorists Not To Throw Human Waste Onto The Road Side. Maintenance Workers Report At Least 20 Incidents Of Road Crews Being Sprayed With Urine After Rupturing Urine-Filled Plastic Bottles That Became Swollen In The Hot Sun Opponents Of The Measure Say They’re Afraid The Signs Would Discourage Tourism.
The State Of Florida Is Bigger Than England.
The Statue Of Liberty’s Mouth Is 3 Feet Wide.
The Straw Was Probably Invented By Eygptian Brewers To Taste In-Process Beer Without Removing Fermenting Ingresients Which Floated On The Top Of The Container.
The Strength Of Early Lasers Was Measured In Gillettes, The Number Of Blue Razor Blades A Given Beam Could Puncture.
The Stress In Hungarian Words Always Falls On The First Syllable.
The Strorage Capacity Of Human Brain Exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
The Substance That Human Blood Resembles Most Closely In Terms Of Chemical Composition Is Sea Water.
The Sun Travels At A Speed Of 155 Miles Per Second, But It Still Takes 230 Million Years For It To Complete A Single Revolution Of The Galaxy.
The Surface Area Of Anb Average Sized Brick Is 79cm
The Surface Area Of The Earth Is 197,000,000 Square Miles.
The Surface Area Of The Lungs In An Adult Human Is 90 Square Yards.
The Surface Speed Record On The Moon Is 10.56 Miles Per Hour. It Was Set In A Lunar Rover.
The Symbol On The Pound Key Is Called Anoctothorpe.
The Taco Bell Dog Is A Girl. Her Name Is Gidget.
The Taj Mahal Was Actually Built For Use As A Tomb.
The Tallest Mountain In Australia Is Mount Kosiusk, Only 7310 Feet Tall.
The Talus Is The Second Largest Bone In The Foot.
The Tango Originated As A Dance Between Two Men (For Partnering Practice).
The Tea Council Of The United States Has Designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Temperature In Eastern Siberia Can Get So Cold That The Moisture In A Person’s Breath Can Freeze In The Air And Fall To The Ground.
The Term ‘Cop’ Came From Constable On Patrol. It Is From England.
The Term Devil’s Advocate Comes From The Roman Catholic Church. When Deciding If Someone Should Be Sainted, A Devil’s Advocate Is Always Appointed To Give An Alternative View.
The Term Mayday Used For Signaling For Help (After Sos) Comes From The French M’aidez Which Pronounced Mayday And Means Help Me.
The Term Rock N’ Roll Was Coined In The 1950′s
The Term The Boogey Man Will Get You Comes From The Boogy People Who Still Inhabit An Area Of Indonesia. These People Still Act As Pirates Today And Attack Ships That Pass.
The Three Best-Known Western Names In China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon And Elvis Presley.
The Thyroid Cartilage Is More Commonly Known As The Adams Apple.
The Tip Of A Bullwhip Moves So Fast That It Breaks The Sound Barrier, The Crack Of The Whip Is Actually A Tiny Sonic Boom.
The Toltecs, Seventh-Century Native Mexicans, Went To Battle With Wooden Swords So As Not To Kill Their Enemies.
The Tom Thumb Golf Course Was The First Miniature Golf Course In The United States. It Was Built It 1929 In Chattanooga, Tennessee By John Garnet Carter.
The Tongue Of The Largest Blue Whale Is Bigger Than An Automobile.
The Tooth Is The Only Part Of The Human Body That Cannot Repair Itself.
The Toothbrush Was Invented In China In 1498.
The Tootsie Roll Was Introduced By Leo Hirshfield In 1896.
The Top Layer Of A Wedding Cake, Known As The Groom’s Cake, Is Usually A Fruit Cake So It Will Last Until The Couple’s First Anniversary, When They Will Eat It.
The Top Three Cork-Producing Countries Are Spain, Portugal And Algeria.
The Toronto Maple Leafs Used To Be Called The Toronto Arenas, Then The St.Patricks And Finally The Maple Leafs.
The Total Weight Of All Insects Earth, Is Twelve Times Greater Than The Weight Of All People.
The Town Of Tidikelt In The Sahara Desert Once Went Ten Years Without A Rainfall.
The Traditional Symbol Of The Pawnbroker–Three Golden Balls–Is Thought To Be Dervied From The Coat Of The Arms Of The Medici Family, Who Ruled Italian City Of Florence Between The 15Th And 16Th Centuries. The Symbol Was Spread By The Lombards–Italian Bankers, Goldsmiths, And Moneylenders Who Set Up Businesses In Midevil London.
The Tree Dictated On The Lebanese Flag Is A Cedar.
The Tuatara Lizard Of New Zealand Has Three Eyes — Two In The Center Of Its Head And One On Top.
The Turkey Was Wrongly Named After What Was Thought To Be It’s Country Of Origin.
The Two Lines That Connect Your Top Lip To The Bottom Of Your Nose Are Known As The Philtrum.
The Two Most Common Surgeries Are Biopsies And Cesarean Sections.
The Two Quickest Goals Scored In The National Hockey League Were Three Seconds Apart.
The Typical Laboratory Mouse Runs 5 Miles Per Night On Its Treadmill.
The U.S Shreds Seven Thousand Tons Of Worn-Out Currency Each Year.
The U.S. Mint In Denver, Colorado Is The Only Mint That Marks Its Pennies.
The U.S. Naval Observatory Declares American Time.
The U.S. Standard Railroad Gauge (Distance Between Rails) Is 4 Feet, 8.5 Inches.
The Underside Of A Horse’s Hoof Is Called A Frog. The Frog Peels Off Several Times A Year With New Growth.
The United Stated Government Keeps Its Upply Of Silver At The U.S. Military Academy At West Point, N.Y.
The United States Army Has Executed 464 Soldiers Since 1861
The United States Golf Association (Usga) Was Founded In 1894 As The Governing Body Of Golf In The United States.
The United States Government Keeps Its Supply Of Silver At The U.S. Military Academy At West Point, New York.
The United States Has Never Lost A War In Which Mules Were Used.
The Usa Bought Alaska From Russia For 2 Cents An Acre.
The Venus’s Flytrap Can Eat A Whole Cheeseburger.
The Voice Of Tony The Tiger Is Thurl Ravenscroft.
The Volkswagen Was Originally Called The Strength Through Joy Wagon.
The Volume Of The Earth’s Moon Is The Same Volume Of The Pacific Ocean.
The Volume Of Water In The Amazon River Is Greater Than The Next Eight Largest Rivers In The World Combined.
The Waffle Iron Was Invented August 24, 1869.
The Waimangu (Maori ‘Black Water’) Geyser, In New Zealand, Erupted To A Height In Excess Of 1,500 Ft In 1904, But Has Not Been Active Since It Erupted Violently At 6:20 A.M. On 1 April 1917 And Killed Four People.
The Walking Catfish Can Live On Land.
The WD In WD40 Means Water Displacement.
The Weddell Seal Can Travel Underwater For Seven Miles Without Surfacing For Air.
The Wheat That Produces A One-Pound Loaf Of Bread Requires Two Tons Of Water To Grow.
The White Part Of Your Fingernail Is Called The Lunula.
The Winter Of 1932 Was So Cold That Niagara Falls Froze Completely Solid.
The Woman Who Appeared The Most On The Covers Of Time Magazine Is The Virgin Mary-10 Times.
The Woolly Mammoth, Extinct Since The Ice Age, Had Tusks Almost 16 Feet Long.
The Word ‘Bye’ Is Used Both In English And Spanish Meaning The Same Thing.
The Word ‘Byte’ Is A Contraction Of ‘By Eight.’
The Word ‘Nerd’ Was First Coined By Dr. Suess In If I Ran To The Zoo.
The Word ‘Samba’ Means To ‘Rub Navels Together.’
The Word Calendar Comes From Latin And Means ‘To Call Out.’
The Word Checkmate In Chess Comes From The Persian Phrase Shah-Mat Which Means The King Is Dead.
The Word Diastima Is The Word For Having A Gap Between Your Teeth.
The Word For Dog In The Australian Aboriginal Language Mbabaran Happens To Be Dog.
The Word For Name In Japanese Is Na-Ma-E, In Mongolian Nameg.
The Word Hangnail Comes From The Middle English: Ang-(Painful)+ Nail. Nothing To Do With Hanging.
The Word Karate Means Empty Hand.
The Word Lethologica Describes The State Of Not Remembering The Word You Want To Say.
The Word Noon Came From An Old Church Term None Meaning Three. There Was A Monastic Order That Was So Devout That They Declared They Would Not Eat Until That Time. Since They Rang The Bells Indicating Time, None Came Earlier And Earlier. The Towns People Called Mid-Day Noon To Ridicule Them.
The Word Racecar And Kayak Are The Same Whether They Are Read Left To Right Or Right To Left.
The Word Rodent Comes From The Latin Word `Rodere’ Meaning To Gnaw.
The Word Samba Means To Rub Navels Together.
The Words Assassination And Bump Were Invented By Shakespeare.
The World Camel Population Is 19,627,000.
The World Record For Rocking Non-Stop In A Rocking Chair Is 440 Hours.
The World Record For Time Without Sleep Is 264 Hours (11 Days) By Randy Gardner In 1965
The World Smallest Mammal Is The Bumblebee Bat Of Thailand, Weighing Less Than A Penny
The World’s Biggest Trap (Called A Bunker In Europe) Is Hell’s Half Acre On The 535 M 585 Yd Seventh Hole Of The Pine Valley Course, Clementon, Nj, Built In 1912 And Generally Regarded As The World’s Most Trying Course.
The World’s First Test-Tube Twins Were Born In June 1984
The World’s Largest K-Mart Is On The Island Of Guam.
The World’s Longest Game Of Monopoly Lasted More Than 660 Hours.
The World’s Longest Name Ia Adolph Blaine Charles Daivid Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
The World’s Number One Producer And Consumer Of Fresh Pork Is China.
The World’s Oldest Piece Of Chewing Gum Is Over 9000 Years Old.
The World’s Record For Keeping A Lifesaver In The Mouth With The Hole Intact Is 7 Hours And 10 Minutes.
The World’s Record For Most Children To One Mother Was 69 Children.
The World’s Smallest Dog — The Teacup Chihuahua — Weighs Less Than A Pound When Fully Grown.
The World’s Smallest Mammal Is The Bumblebee Bat Of Thailand, Weighing Less Than A Penny.
The World’s Worst Earthquake Occured In 1556 In China Killing Approximately 830,000 People.
The World’s Youngest Parents Were 8 And 9 And Lived In China In 1910.
The World’s Youngest Recorded Parents Were 8 And 9 And Lived In China In 1910.
The Worst Reported Case Of Compulsive Swallowing Involved An Insane Female, Mrs. H. At The Age Of 42, Who Complained Of A ‘Slight Abdominal Pain.’ She Proved To Have 2,533 Objects, Including 947 Bent Pins, In Her Stomach. These Were Removed By Drs Chalk And Foucar In June 1927 At The Ontario Hospital, Canada. In A More Recent Case, 212 Objects Were Removed From The Stomach Of A Man Admitted To Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa In May 1983. They Included 53 Toothbrushes, Two Telescopic Aerials, Two Razors And 150 Handles Of Disposable Razors. Another Compulsive Swallower In The Usa, A 24-Year-Old Psychoneurotic Woman, Gulped Down A 12.7 Cm 5 In Long Iron Hinge Bolt From A Hospital Door Which Amazingly Passed Through The Curve Of The Duodenum And The Intestinal Tract And Broke The Bedpan When The Patient Successfully Passed The Object.
The Wristwatch Was Invented In 1904 By Louis Cartier.
The Yellowstone River Is The Longest Undammed River West Of The Mississippi.
The Ykk On The Zipper Of Your Levis Stands For Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, The World’s Largest Zipper Manufacturer.
The Yo-Yo Originated In The Phillippines, Where It Is Used As A Weapon In Hunting.
The Youngest American Female To Score An Ace Was Shirley Kunde In August 1943 At Age 13.
The Youngest Golfer Recorded To Have Shot A Hole-In-One Is Coby Orr (5 Years) Of Littleton, Co On The 103 Yd Fifth At The Riverside Golf Course, San Antonio, Tx In 1975.
The Youngest Pope Was 11 Years Old.
Theodore Roosevelt’s Wife And Mother Died On The Same Day.
There Are 1 Million Ants For Every Person In The World.
There Are 1,575 Steps From The Ground Floor To The Top Of The Empire State Building.
There Are 1,792 Steps To The Top Of The Eiffel Tower.
There Are 10 Trillion Living Cells In The Human Body.
There Are 2,000,000 Different Combinations Of Sandwiches That Can Be Created From A Subway Menu.
There Are 2,598,960 Five-Card Hands Possible In A 52-Card Deck Of Cards.
There Are 22 Stars Surrounding The Mountain On The Paramount Pictures Logo.
There Are 293 Ways To Make Change For A Dollar.
There Are 296 Steps To The Top Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa.
There Are 3,900 Islands In The Country Japan, The Country Of Islands.
There Are 318,979,564,000 Possible Ways Of Playing The First Move On A Chess Board.
There Are 336 Dimples On A Regulation Golf Ball.
There Are 45 Miles Of Nerves In The Skin Of A Human Being.
There Are 450 Hairs In The Average Eyebrow.
There Are 52 Cards In A Deck, Hudini Died At 5 He Died In 1926, Spending Half Of His Life In This Century And Half In The Last.
There Are About 15,000 People In The U.S. Over The Age Of 100.
There Are About 5,000 Different Languages Spoken On Earth.
There Are As Many As 78 Scenes In A Single X-Files Episode.
There Are At Least Two Sports In Which The Team Has To Move Backwards To Win-Tug Of War And Rowing.
There Are Eight Different Sizes Of Champagne Bottles And The Largest Is Called A Nebuchadnezzar (After The Biblical King Who Put Daniel’s Three Friends Into The Oven).
There Are Four Cars And Eleven Lightposts On The Back Of A Ten-Dollar Bill.
There Are More Bald Eagles In The Province Of British Columbia Then There Are In The Whole United States.
There Are More Barbie Dolls In Italy Than There Are Canadians In Canada.
There Are More Brown M&M’s In Plain M&M’s Than In Peanuts.
There Are More Donut Shops Per Capita In Canada Than In Any Other Country.
There Are More Insects In One Square Mile Of Rural Land Than There Are Humans On The Entire Earth.
There Are More Plastic Flamingos In The U.S, Than Real Ones.
There Are More Stars In The Sky Then Grains Of Sand On Earth.
There Are More Than 1,000 Chemicals In A Cup Of Coffee. Of These, Only 26 Have Been Tested, And Half Caused Cancer In Rats.
There Are More Than 1,700 References To Gems And Precious Stones In The King James Translation Of The Bible.
There Are More Than 10 Million Bricks In The Empire State Building.
There Are More Than 100 Chemicals In One Cup Of Coffee.
There Are More Than 15,000 Different Kinds Of Rice.
The Ridges On The Sides Of Coins Are Called Reeding Or Milling.
The Right Lung Takes In More Air Than The Left Lung.
The Right Side Of A Boat Was Called The Starboard Side Due To The Fact That The Astronavigators Used To Stand Out On The Plank (Which Was On The Right Side) To Get An Unobstructed View Of The Stars. The Left Side Was Called The Port Side Because That Was The Side That You Put In On At The Port. This Was So That They Didn’t Knock Off The Starboard.
The Roads On The Island Of Guam Are Made With Coral. Guam Has No Sand. The Sand On The Beaches Is Actually Ground Coral. When Concrete Is Mixed, The Coral Sand Is Used Instead Of Importing Regular Sand From Thousands Of Miles Away.
The Rocking Chair Was Invented By Benjamin Franklin.
The Rumba Originated In Cuba.
The Saguaro Cactus, Found In The Southwestern United States Doesn’t Grow Branches Until It Is 75 Years Old.
The Sale Of Vodka Makes Up 10% Of The Russians Government Income.
The San Diego Zoo In California Has The Largest Collection Of Animals In The World.
The San Francisco Cable Cars Are The Only Mobile National Monuments.
The Saturn V Moon Rocket Consumed 15 Tons Of Fuel Per Second.
The Save Icon On Microsoft Word Shows A Floppy Disk, With The Shutters On Backwards.
The Second Unit Films Movie Shots That Do Not Require The Presence Of Actors.
The Sentence The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog Uses Every Letter In The English Language.
The Shape Of Plant Collenchyma Cells And The Shape Of The Bubbles In Beer Foam Are The Same — They Are Orthotetrachidecahedrons.
The Ship, The Queen Elizabeth 2, Should Always Be Written As Qeqeii Is The Actual Queen.
The Shockwave From A Nitroglycerine Explosion Travels At 17,000 Miles Per Hour.
The Shopping Mall In Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada Has The Largest Water Clock In North America.
The Shortest British Monarch Was Charles I, Who Was 4’9.
The Shortest War In History Was Between Zanzibar An England In 1896. Zanzibar Surrendered After 38 Minutes.
The Shrimp’s Heart Is In Its Head.
The Siberian Larch Accounts For More Than 20% Of All The Worlds Trees.
The Side Of A Hammer Is A Cheek.
The Sitka Spruce Is Britain’s Most Commonly Planted Tree.
The Skin Of Some Snakes Change Colors Naturally, Turning Darker By Day And Lighter By Night.
The Skyscraper In Die Hard Is The Twentieth Century Fox Tower.
The Slash Character Is Called A Virgule, Or Solidus. A Url Uses Slash Characters, Not Back Slash Characters.
The Slinky Is Sold On Every Continent Of The World Except Antarctica.
The Slogan On New Hampshire License Plates Is ‘Live Free Or Die.’ These License Plates Are Manufactured By Prisoners In The State Prison In Concord.
The Smallest ‘Country’ In The World To Have Its Own Top-Level Domain Name Is Norfolk Island, Off The Coast Of Australia.
The Smallest Unit Of Time Is The Yoctosecond.
The Smallest Volcano In The World Is Taal.
The Snail Mates Only Once In Its Entire Life.
The Song With The Longest Title Is ‘I?M A Cranky Old Yank In A Clanky Old Tank On The Streets Of Yokohama With My Honolulu Mama Doin? Those Beat-O, Beat-O Flat-On-My-Seat-O, Hirohito Blues’ Written By Hoagy Carmichael In 194He Later Claimed The Song Title Ended With ?Yank? And The Rest Was A Joke. [Source: Guinness Book Of World Records]
The Sound Of E.T. Walking Was Made By Someone Squishing Her Hands In Jelly.
The Spanish Inquisition Once Condemned The Entire Netherlands To Death For Heresy.
The Sphinx At Giza In Egypt Is 240 Feet Long And Carved Out Of Limestone. Built By Pharaoh Khafre To Guard The Way To His Pyramid, It Has A Lion’s Body And The Ruler’s Head.
The St.Louis Gateway Arch Had A Projected Death Toll While It Was Being Built. No One Died.
The Starfish Is One Of The Only Animals Who Can Turn Its Stomach Inside-Out.
The State Legislature In North Dakota Has Rejected A Proposal To Erect Signs Specifically Warning Motorists Not To Throw Human Waste Onto The Road Side. Maintenance Workers Report At Least 20 Incidents Of Road Crews Being Sprayed With Urine After Rupturing Urine-Filled Plastic Bottles That Became Swollen In The Hot Sun Opponents Of The Measure Say They’re Afraid The Signs Would Discourage Tourism.
The State Of Florida Is Bigger Than England.
The Statue Of Liberty’s Mouth Is 3 Feet Wide.
The Straw Was Probably Invented By Eygptian Brewers To Taste In-Process Beer Without Removing Fermenting Ingresients Which Floated On The Top Of The Container.
The Strength Of Early Lasers Was Measured In Gillettes, The Number Of Blue Razor Blades A Given Beam Could Puncture.
The Stress In Hungarian Words Always Falls On The First Syllable.
The Strorage Capacity Of Human Brain Exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
The Substance That Human Blood Resembles Most Closely In Terms Of Chemical Composition Is Sea Water.
The Sun Travels At A Speed Of 155 Miles Per Second, But It Still Takes 230 Million Years For It To Complete A Single Revolution Of The Galaxy.
The Surface Area Of Anb Average Sized Brick Is 79cm
The Surface Area Of The Earth Is 197,000,000 Square Miles.
The Surface Area Of The Lungs In An Adult Human Is 90 Square Yards.
The Surface Speed Record On The Moon Is 10.56 Miles Per Hour. It Was Set In A Lunar Rover.
The Symbol On The Pound Key Is Called Anoctothorpe.
The Taco Bell Dog Is A Girl. Her Name Is Gidget.
The Taj Mahal Was Actually Built For Use As A Tomb.
The Tallest Mountain In Australia Is Mount Kosiusk, Only 7310 Feet Tall.
The Talus Is The Second Largest Bone In The Foot.
The Tango Originated As A Dance Between Two Men (For Partnering Practice).
The Tea Council Of The United States Has Designated June National Ice Tea Month.
The Temperature In Eastern Siberia Can Get So Cold That The Moisture In A Person’s Breath Can Freeze In The Air And Fall To The Ground.
The Term ‘Cop’ Came From Constable On Patrol. It Is From England.
The Term Devil’s Advocate Comes From The Roman Catholic Church. When Deciding If Someone Should Be Sainted, A Devil’s Advocate Is Always Appointed To Give An Alternative View.
The Term Mayday Used For Signaling For Help (After Sos) Comes From The French M’aidez Which Pronounced Mayday And Means Help Me.
The Term Rock N’ Roll Was Coined In The 1950′s
The Term The Boogey Man Will Get You Comes From The Boogy People Who Still Inhabit An Area Of Indonesia. These People Still Act As Pirates Today And Attack Ships That Pass.
The Three Best-Known Western Names In China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon And Elvis Presley.
The Thyroid Cartilage Is More Commonly Known As The Adams Apple.
The Tip Of A Bullwhip Moves So Fast That It Breaks The Sound Barrier, The Crack Of The Whip Is Actually A Tiny Sonic Boom.
The Toltecs, Seventh-Century Native Mexicans, Went To Battle With Wooden Swords So As Not To Kill Their Enemies.
The Tom Thumb Golf Course Was The First Miniature Golf Course In The United States. It Was Built It 1929 In Chattanooga, Tennessee By John Garnet Carter.
The Tongue Of The Largest Blue Whale Is Bigger Than An Automobile.
The Tooth Is The Only Part Of The Human Body That Cannot Repair Itself.
The Toothbrush Was Invented In China In 1498.
The Tootsie Roll Was Introduced By Leo Hirshfield In 1896.
The Top Layer Of A Wedding Cake, Known As The Groom’s Cake, Is Usually A Fruit Cake So It Will Last Until The Couple’s First Anniversary, When They Will Eat It.
The Top Three Cork-Producing Countries Are Spain, Portugal And Algeria.
The Toronto Maple Leafs Used To Be Called The Toronto Arenas, Then The St.Patricks And Finally The Maple Leafs.
The Total Weight Of All Insects Earth, Is Twelve Times Greater Than The Weight Of All People.
The Town Of Tidikelt In The Sahara Desert Once Went Ten Years Without A Rainfall.
The Traditional Symbol Of The Pawnbroker–Three Golden Balls–Is Thought To Be Dervied From The Coat Of The Arms Of The Medici Family, Who Ruled Italian City Of Florence Between The 15Th And 16Th Centuries. The Symbol Was Spread By The Lombards–Italian Bankers, Goldsmiths, And Moneylenders Who Set Up Businesses In Midevil London.
The Tree Dictated On The Lebanese Flag Is A Cedar.
The Tuatara Lizard Of New Zealand Has Three Eyes — Two In The Center Of Its Head And One On Top.
The Turkey Was Wrongly Named After What Was Thought To Be It’s Country Of Origin.
The Two Lines That Connect Your Top Lip To The Bottom Of Your Nose Are Known As The Philtrum.
The Two Most Common Surgeries Are Biopsies And Cesarean Sections.
The Two Quickest Goals Scored In The National Hockey League Were Three Seconds Apart.
The Typical Laboratory Mouse Runs 5 Miles Per Night On Its Treadmill.
The U.S Shreds Seven Thousand Tons Of Worn-Out Currency Each Year.
The U.S. Mint In Denver, Colorado Is The Only Mint That Marks Its Pennies.
The U.S. Naval Observatory Declares American Time.
The U.S. Standard Railroad Gauge (Distance Between Rails) Is 4 Feet, 8.5 Inches.
The Underside Of A Horse’s Hoof Is Called A Frog. The Frog Peels Off Several Times A Year With New Growth.
The United Stated Government Keeps Its Upply Of Silver At The U.S. Military Academy At West Point, N.Y.
The United States Army Has Executed 464 Soldiers Since 1861
The United States Golf Association (Usga) Was Founded In 1894 As The Governing Body Of Golf In The United States.
The United States Government Keeps Its Supply Of Silver At The U.S. Military Academy At West Point, New York.
The United States Has Never Lost A War In Which Mules Were Used.
The Usa Bought Alaska From Russia For 2 Cents An Acre.
The Venus’s Flytrap Can Eat A Whole Cheeseburger.
The Voice Of Tony The Tiger Is Thurl Ravenscroft.
The Volkswagen Was Originally Called The Strength Through Joy Wagon.
The Volume Of The Earth’s Moon Is The Same Volume Of The Pacific Ocean.
The Volume Of Water In The Amazon River Is Greater Than The Next Eight Largest Rivers In The World Combined.
The Waffle Iron Was Invented August 24, 1869.
The Waimangu (Maori ‘Black Water’) Geyser, In New Zealand, Erupted To A Height In Excess Of 1,500 Ft In 1904, But Has Not Been Active Since It Erupted Violently At 6:20 A.M. On 1 April 1917 And Killed Four People.
The Walking Catfish Can Live On Land.
The WD In WD40 Means Water Displacement.
The Weddell Seal Can Travel Underwater For Seven Miles Without Surfacing For Air.
The Wheat That Produces A One-Pound Loaf Of Bread Requires Two Tons Of Water To Grow.
The White Part Of Your Fingernail Is Called The Lunula.
The Winter Of 1932 Was So Cold That Niagara Falls Froze Completely Solid.
The Woman Who Appeared The Most On The Covers Of Time Magazine Is The Virgin Mary-10 Times.
The Woolly Mammoth, Extinct Since The Ice Age, Had Tusks Almost 16 Feet Long.
The Word ‘Bye’ Is Used Both In English And Spanish Meaning The Same Thing.
The Word ‘Byte’ Is A Contraction Of ‘By Eight.’
The Word ‘Nerd’ Was First Coined By Dr. Suess In If I Ran To The Zoo.
The Word ‘Samba’ Means To ‘Rub Navels Together.’
The Word Calendar Comes From Latin And Means ‘To Call Out.’
The Word Checkmate In Chess Comes From The Persian Phrase Shah-Mat Which Means The King Is Dead.
The Word Diastima Is The Word For Having A Gap Between Your Teeth.
The Word For Dog In The Australian Aboriginal Language Mbabaran Happens To Be Dog.
The Word For Name In Japanese Is Na-Ma-E, In Mongolian Nameg.
The Word Hangnail Comes From The Middle English: Ang-(Painful)+ Nail. Nothing To Do With Hanging.
The Word Karate Means Empty Hand.
The Word Lethologica Describes The State Of Not Remembering The Word You Want To Say.
The Word Noon Came From An Old Church Term None Meaning Three. There Was A Monastic Order That Was So Devout That They Declared They Would Not Eat Until That Time. Since They Rang The Bells Indicating Time, None Came Earlier And Earlier. The Towns People Called Mid-Day Noon To Ridicule Them.
The Word Racecar And Kayak Are The Same Whether They Are Read Left To Right Or Right To Left.
The Word Rodent Comes From The Latin Word `Rodere’ Meaning To Gnaw.
The Word Samba Means To Rub Navels Together.
The Words Assassination And Bump Were Invented By Shakespeare.
The World Camel Population Is 19,627,000.
The World Record For Rocking Non-Stop In A Rocking Chair Is 440 Hours.
The World Record For Time Without Sleep Is 264 Hours (11 Days) By Randy Gardner In 1965
The World Smallest Mammal Is The Bumblebee Bat Of Thailand, Weighing Less Than A Penny
The World’s Biggest Trap (Called A Bunker In Europe) Is Hell’s Half Acre On The 535 M 585 Yd Seventh Hole Of The Pine Valley Course, Clementon, Nj, Built In 1912 And Generally Regarded As The World’s Most Trying Course.
The World’s First Test-Tube Twins Were Born In June 1984
The World’s Largest K-Mart Is On The Island Of Guam.
The World’s Longest Game Of Monopoly Lasted More Than 660 Hours.
The World’s Longest Name Ia Adolph Blaine Charles Daivid Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.
The World’s Number One Producer And Consumer Of Fresh Pork Is China.
The World’s Oldest Piece Of Chewing Gum Is Over 9000 Years Old.
The World’s Record For Keeping A Lifesaver In The Mouth With The Hole Intact Is 7 Hours And 10 Minutes.
The World’s Record For Most Children To One Mother Was 69 Children.
The World’s Smallest Dog — The Teacup Chihuahua — Weighs Less Than A Pound When Fully Grown.
The World’s Smallest Mammal Is The Bumblebee Bat Of Thailand, Weighing Less Than A Penny.
The World’s Worst Earthquake Occured In 1556 In China Killing Approximately 830,000 People.
The World’s Youngest Parents Were 8 And 9 And Lived In China In 1910.
The World’s Youngest Recorded Parents Were 8 And 9 And Lived In China In 1910.
The Worst Reported Case Of Compulsive Swallowing Involved An Insane Female, Mrs. H. At The Age Of 42, Who Complained Of A ‘Slight Abdominal Pain.’ She Proved To Have 2,533 Objects, Including 947 Bent Pins, In Her Stomach. These Were Removed By Drs Chalk And Foucar In June 1927 At The Ontario Hospital, Canada. In A More Recent Case, 212 Objects Were Removed From The Stomach Of A Man Admitted To Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa In May 1983. They Included 53 Toothbrushes, Two Telescopic Aerials, Two Razors And 150 Handles Of Disposable Razors. Another Compulsive Swallower In The Usa, A 24-Year-Old Psychoneurotic Woman, Gulped Down A 12.7 Cm 5 In Long Iron Hinge Bolt From A Hospital Door Which Amazingly Passed Through The Curve Of The Duodenum And The Intestinal Tract And Broke The Bedpan When The Patient Successfully Passed The Object.
The Wristwatch Was Invented In 1904 By Louis Cartier.
The Yellowstone River Is The Longest Undammed River West Of The Mississippi.
The Ykk On The Zipper Of Your Levis Stands For Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, The World’s Largest Zipper Manufacturer.
The Yo-Yo Originated In The Phillippines, Where It Is Used As A Weapon In Hunting.
The Youngest American Female To Score An Ace Was Shirley Kunde In August 1943 At Age 13.
The Youngest Golfer Recorded To Have Shot A Hole-In-One Is Coby Orr (5 Years) Of Littleton, Co On The 103 Yd Fifth At The Riverside Golf Course, San Antonio, Tx In 1975.
The Youngest Pope Was 11 Years Old.
Theodore Roosevelt’s Wife And Mother Died On The Same Day.
There Are 1 Million Ants For Every Person In The World.
There Are 1,575 Steps From The Ground Floor To The Top Of The Empire State Building.
There Are 1,792 Steps To The Top Of The Eiffel Tower.
There Are 10 Trillion Living Cells In The Human Body.
There Are 2,000,000 Different Combinations Of Sandwiches That Can Be Created From A Subway Menu.
There Are 2,598,960 Five-Card Hands Possible In A 52-Card Deck Of Cards.
There Are 22 Stars Surrounding The Mountain On The Paramount Pictures Logo.
There Are 293 Ways To Make Change For A Dollar.
There Are 296 Steps To The Top Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa.
There Are 3,900 Islands In The Country Japan, The Country Of Islands.
There Are 318,979,564,000 Possible Ways Of Playing The First Move On A Chess Board.
There Are 336 Dimples On A Regulation Golf Ball.
There Are 45 Miles Of Nerves In The Skin Of A Human Being.
There Are 450 Hairs In The Average Eyebrow.
There Are 52 Cards In A Deck, Hudini Died At 5 He Died In 1926, Spending Half Of His Life In This Century And Half In The Last.
There Are About 15,000 People In The U.S. Over The Age Of 100.
There Are About 5,000 Different Languages Spoken On Earth.
There Are As Many As 78 Scenes In A Single X-Files Episode.
There Are At Least Two Sports In Which The Team Has To Move Backwards To Win-Tug Of War And Rowing.
There Are Eight Different Sizes Of Champagne Bottles And The Largest Is Called A Nebuchadnezzar (After The Biblical King Who Put Daniel’s Three Friends Into The Oven).
There Are Four Cars And Eleven Lightposts On The Back Of A Ten-Dollar Bill.
There Are More Bald Eagles In The Province Of British Columbia Then There Are In The Whole United States.
There Are More Barbie Dolls In Italy Than There Are Canadians In Canada.
There Are More Brown M&M’s In Plain M&M’s Than In Peanuts.
There Are More Donut Shops Per Capita In Canada Than In Any Other Country.
There Are More Insects In One Square Mile Of Rural Land Than There Are Humans On The Entire Earth.
There Are More Plastic Flamingos In The U.S, Than Real Ones.
There Are More Stars In The Sky Then Grains Of Sand On Earth.
There Are More Than 1,000 Chemicals In A Cup Of Coffee. Of These, Only 26 Have Been Tested, And Half Caused Cancer In Rats.
There Are More Than 1,700 References To Gems And Precious Stones In The King James Translation Of The Bible.
There Are More Than 10 Million Bricks In The Empire State Building.
There Are More Than 100 Chemicals In One Cup Of Coffee.
There Are More Than 15,000 Different Kinds Of Rice.
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