Stupid Facts series 2

Stupid Facts

• A Tyrannosaurus Rex can yield about 450 gallons of gasoline.

• The male angler fish permanently attaches himself to the female and becomes absorbed by her body.

• Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel.

• Louis Pasteur was a germophobe.

• The average married woman in seventeenth-century America gave birth to thirteen children.

• The hyena gives birth through its clitoris.

• A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet. (The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.)

• Fingernails are made of a protein called Keratin.

• The pin in a door hinge is called a pintle.

• Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."

• Stupid Facts - Animal Facts

• The biggest fish is the whale shark.

• Porcupines cannot shoot their quills.

• A baby whale gains about 200 pounds a day.

• The basket starfish has more than 80,000 arms.

• If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish.

• Insects have six legs.

• Monarch butterflies migrate over 2,000 miles for the Winter.

• Only the honey bee makes honey.

• A honey bee dies after it stings.

• Wasp nests are made of paper.

• The word shark is derived from the Latin word meaning "sharp teeth."

• Stupid Facts

• A bag of 1,000 quarters weighs 13.42 lbs.
  (see Coins and Currency)

• You can't sneeze in your sleep.

• Siphonapterology is the study of fleas.

• The albatross can fly while sleeping.

• Morphine is named after the Greek god of sleep.
  (see Greek and Roman Gods)

• Pigs can get a suntan.
  (see Sun Protection Factor)

• Alfred Hitchcock had no bellybutton.

• Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand.

• There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

• Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.

• Stupid Facts

• The "black box" in commercial airliners is actually orange.
  (see Commercial Jet Airliners)

• Native Americans all have type O blood.
  (see Blood Types)

• Britney Spears is an anagram for Presbyterians.

• 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.

• There is a city called Rome on every continent.

• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies bathroom.

• "Spheno Palatine Gangleoneuralgia" is the technical term for an ice cream headache.

• Bottled water costs about 1,000 times more than tap water.

• The acid in a vulture's stomach can dissolve a nail.

• The three wise men were named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.

• Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" in the film Casablanca.
  (see Academy Award Winners)

• Venus rotates in the opposite direction from the other planets.
  (see Solar System)

• Tapeworms can grow to 80 feet long.

• A dragonfly can fly backwards just as fast as it can forwards.