- 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.
- 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.
- Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
- Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
- Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
- What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
- "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
- "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
- The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
- More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
- Finger nails grow nearly 4 times faster than toe nails.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- The average person laughs 10 times a day.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
- Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
- A cat's urine glows under a black light.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.