Fast Facts

• Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
• A house fly lives only 14 days.
• There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
• The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
• Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
• The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
• Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
• Dolphins can reach 60 km/h (37 mph).
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
• The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

Useless Facts

• The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
• Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

Interesting but Completely Useless Facts!!!

• The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
• What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
• "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
• Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

Math Facts

• 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between
• In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
• Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with the compass alone

There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die.
Yes, indeed. Something = Nothing