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- The Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill lists all 50 U.S. states.
- Unknown by most people: Originally, “white meat” referred to dairy products such as milk, butter, and cheese.
- A Canadian two-dollar bill features an American flag on the Parliament building.
- English ranks as the second most spoken language, with over 840 million speakers as either a first or second language.
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that engage in sex for pleasure.
- A “jiffy” amounts to about one trillionth of a second.
- A dragonfly’s lifespan is 24 hours.
- An ostrich’s eye is larger than its brain.
- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
- The full name of Cap’n Crunch is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.
- Approximately 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents daily.
- Unknown fact: A teaspoonful of neutron star weighs 6 billion tons.
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold close to 70 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- Astronauts report that space smells like a combination of diesel fuel and barbecue due to dying stars.
- A standard Slinky contains 67 feet of metal and can stretch up to 15 feet without deformation.
- Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” was the first CD pressed in the United States.
- Michael Jordan earns more money from NIKE annually than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death, especially that big hairy thing behind my dryer that pops out when I change loads.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
- Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing one olive from each first-class salad.
- The chicken and ostrich are the closest living relatives to the Tyrannosaurus rex.
- The inventor of Pringles is buried in a Pringles can.
- Taking just one step engages over 200 muscles in the body.
- Unknown fact: Wendy was a name invented for the book “Peter Pan.”
- The stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks to prevent self-digestion.
- Over 80% of the information stored on computers globally is in English.
- More than 99 percent of the solar system’s mass is attributed to the sun.
- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
- Bats consistently turn left when exiting a cave.
- Donkey eye placement allows them to see all four feet simultaneously.
- The Eiffel Tower’s designer constructed an apartment in the tower for entertaining guests.
- The longest one-syllable English word is “screeched.”
- Liquor remnants in the bottom of a glass are known as “heeltap.”
- Cats cannot taste sweet things due to a genetic defect.
- Unknown fact: There exists a metallic asteroid shaped like a dog bone named “Kleopatra.”
- Alaska is the only state with its name on one keyboard row.
- Carrots were originally purple.
- Earth recorded the fastest gust of wind at 253 miles per hour.
- SPAM is an abbreviation for “spiced ham.”
- Nuclear scientist Lonnie Johnson, who worked for NASA, invented the Super Soaker.
- 56 percent of internet users have searched for themselves online.
- There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves per side in chess.
- There are three times more countries with right-hand traffic (141) than left-hand traffic (54).
- An average adult spends more time on the toilet than exercising, as of a 2017 study.
- The tallest supported bamboo sculpture surpasses 164 feet in height.
- An average of 3.6 cans of SPAM are consumed every second.
- Surprisingly, sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins, up to 40 seconds.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Special music is designed for cats, and felines develop musical preferences early in life.
- About 90% of New York City taxi drivers are recent immigrants.
- Honey serves as an effective cough suppressant.
- A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples.
- Roughly 35 percent of personal ad or online dating app users are already married.
- Unknown fact: The phrase “rule of thumb” originates from an English law limiting the width of objects used to beat one’s wife.
- A lawsuit once debated whether Pringles were actually potato chips.
- Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
- The King of Hearts is the sole king in a deck of cards without a mustache.
- Moon footprints can endure for up to 100 million years.
- House flies hum in the middle octave key of F.
