California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old. 
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk. 
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time. 
Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD. 
Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.
Hungarian brothers George and Lazlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938. (Which is what it is called in Europe, the "Biro")
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles. 
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral. 
About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. 
Alaska, with 8, is the US state with the most national park sites. 
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent. 
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'. 
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. 
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts. 
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. 
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. 
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. 
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. 
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. 
A pineapple is a berry.
An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows. 
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. 
Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum. 
It is impossible to lick your elbow
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
One in every ten people live on an island.
The rose is the official National Floral Emblem of the United States.
There are over 17 basement chambers under the Taj Mahal.
There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person. 
Wyoming was the first US state to allow women to vote. 
Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.
The tallest monument built in the US, the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri, is 630 feet tall. 
The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century. 
The water in the Great Salt Lake of Utah is more than four times as salty as any ocean. 
The wettest spot in the world is located on the island of Kauai. 
The world's smallest independent state is the Vatican City, with a population of about 1,000 - and a zero birthrate. 
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. 
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 
There are 132 rooms in the US White House. 
There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty. 
Work on St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, began in 1506. Construction took over a century, reaching completion in 1612. 
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. 
The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km). 
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair. 
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:3.1415926535897932384 6264338327950288419716939 9375105820974944592307816 4062862089986280348253421 170679.
An American quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The mass of the earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Thomas Jefferson invented the revolving chair.
A cucumber is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds.
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
Ants never sleep.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Bees kill more people per year than even sharks or snakes.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Aristotle thought that blood cooled the brain.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon."
Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
At a fair in Maine, a boy spat a watermelon seed 38 ft.
At age 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Puppies generally don't wag their tails until they are about a month old.
The smallest type of cow is a breed called Dexter.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
A young shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumram, Jordan, in 1947.
The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
All the stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, revolve around the center of the galaxy every 200 million years.
If you attempted to count the stars in the Milky Way galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from New York to Los Angeles.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
"I Me Mine" was the last song all four Beatles' recorded together.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
Giraffes can grow over 20 feet tall.
The lowest possible temperature when all molecules stop moving is -273.15 degrees Celsius. This is called Absolute Zero.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Porciuncula" and can  be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once - His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. 
The Professor's real name on Gilligan's Island was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and  Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
Some toothpaste and makeup contain crushed volcanic stone.
There is 1 mile of railroad track in Belgium for every one and a half square miles of land.
A pregnant goldfish is called a “twit.”
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The ambidextrous 20th President Garfield could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other.
Cocoa Cola was originally green.
A ten gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip travels faster than the speed of sound. 
The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime. 
Every human spends about half an hour as a single cell. 
The first video on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. 
Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836. 
Dry cereal was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century. 
Edgar Allan Poe's epitaph says "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'." 
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US. 
Every year, about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. 
One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.
The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 feet wide.
The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.
Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.
Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
Pigs get sunburn.
A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
Beavers were once the size of bears.
The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.
The only food that doesn't spoil is honey.
11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.
A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs.
It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.
A hummingbirds' heart beats fourteen hundred times a minute.
Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.
A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.
An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.
Each year, the average American eats about 15 lbs. of apples.
A bee has 5 eyelids.
Horseback riding can improve your posture.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
The first food eaten in space by a US astronaut was applesauce.
Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.
A camel has 3 eyelids.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.
There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.
Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.
Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.
It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.
A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.
Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.
Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
A turkey can run 20 M.P.H.
A duck's quack doesn’t echo.
The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
"I read the newspapers, hear the radio and feel they're raging on me. But in the morning I relieve myself: I look myself in the mirror and I think I'm a saint" (Silvio Berlusconi)
"Death is just an apparent state... it is like dreaming to fall from thirtieth floor, a dream which you can't get rid of" (Vincent - Cowboy Bebop)
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former" (Einstein)
"If Gauss would still be alive, he'd be a hacker" (Peter Sarnak)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" (Mahatma Ghandi)
They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you can hear satanic messages. That's nothing, 'coz if you play it forwards, it installs Windows!
"It's in changes that you find the meaning of life" (Eraclito)
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand" (Bertrand Russell)
"No matter if they talk good or bad about me, as long they talk about me" (Oscar Wilde)
"A good friend stabs you in the front" (Oscar Wilde)
"War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left" (Bertrand Russel)
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying
Rock is a soul's vibration
"No matter how great a man can be, if he's alone he's just half a man" (Skizo)
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"The best way to keep a secret it's to know nothing about it" (Skizo)
"The difference between a politician and a statist relies in the fact that politician thinks about next elections, while statist thinks about next generations" (Alcide Degasperi)
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." (Marthin Luther King, Jr.)
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." (Mark Twain)
"Don't take life too seriously: you'll never get out of it alive." (Elbert Hubbard)
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." (Mark Twain)
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
"At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual." (Patrick Moore)
The Elephant has eight knees. The snake has one lung. The Dragon has two hearts.