- 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
- 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
- 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
- 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
- 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
- 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
- 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
- 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
- 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
- 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
- A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
- A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
- A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
- A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
- A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
- A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
- A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
- A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
- A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
- A whale's penis is called a dork.
- About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
- About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
- Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- All porcupines float in water.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
- America once issued a 5-cent bill.
- America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.