50 WEIRD FACTS

1.A snail can sleep for three years.
2.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
3.The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill. 
4.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. 
5.The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. 
6. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. 
7.The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue and the hardest bone is the jawbone.
8.The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
9. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
10.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
11.The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
12.More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
13.The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
14.Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
15.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have  produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
16.A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
17.A cat's urine glows under a black light.
18.No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
19.You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
20.'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
21.There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. 
22. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
23. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class. 
24. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
25.The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. 
26.Starfish have no brains. 
27. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." 
28.Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. (so did Shakespeare)
29. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 
30.Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" 
31. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A. 
32.The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." 
33."Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
34. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
35.Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
36.Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
37.Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
38.Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
39.A shrimp's heart is in its head.
40. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
41.Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
42. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
43.The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
44. On average people fear spiders more than death.
45.Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
46.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
47. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
48.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
49.It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
50.The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.