The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Christmas was once illegal in England.
No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
A creep is a metallurgical term for when something that is normally very strong bends because of gravity. This happens to many metals at high temperatures, where they won’t melt but they will creep.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
In Paris, the McDonalds big ‘M’ is the only one in the world that is white, rather than yellow, it was thought that yellow was too tacky.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
A group of goats is called a Trip.
If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12,000 feet.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their finger print.
Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
In England, in the 1880′s pants was considered a dirty word.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
“Ithyphallophobia” is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.