The first kind of pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks held together by string.

Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.

There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru.

Close to fifty percent of Internet shoppers spend over five hours a week online.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

Superman The Escape rollercoaster, located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour in only 7 seconds. 

According to studies, men prefer to have white bedrooms and women prefer to have blue bedrooms.

An artist from Chicago, named Dwight Kalb, created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham. 

All polar bears are left-handed.

The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.

The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building.

In 1970 Chip maker Intel purchased a pear orchard to build their corporate headquarters on.

In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.

In a study done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest colour to spot is yellow.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth.

There have only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.

Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost.

Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French.

Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China. Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.

Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.

In the 1930's, American track star Jesse Owens raced against horses and dogs to earn a living.

The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colours that stimulate hunger.

Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.

Travelling by air is the safest means of transportation.

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles. 

Fido means faithful in Latin.

Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13. 

There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.

There are about 6,800 languages in the world. Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows in Leonardo da Vinci's painting. During that time, a woman was considered more beautiful if she shaved her eyebrows.

American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript.

The word "umbrella" is derived from the Latin root word "umbra", which means shade or shadow.

The word Himalayas means the "home of snow."

The word Karate means, "empty hand."

On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later.

The lioness does more than 90% of the hunting.

On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten times more than males do while playing sports.

The national sport of Japan is sumo wrestling. 

The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii.

Vasaloppet, which is located in Sweden, is the oldest, longest, and the biggest cross-country ski race in the world. Every year, 14,000 people compete.

One man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

A squash ball moving at 150 kilometres per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet.

At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times. 5. A flute, carved from a bird's wing bone more than 9,000 years ago and discovered at an ancient burial site in China, is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world.

The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to 41.7 miles per hour.

When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was travelling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.

The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old.

The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

The USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957.

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

A person with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and fee.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

The word "laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation."

The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.

Approximately, 90 people have been frozen after their death.

The Central African raffia palm is known to have the longest leaves - they can measure up to 82.5 feet.

The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion.

The first spacecraft to visit the planet Venus was Mariner 2 in 1962.

The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long.

A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight.

Centipedes always have uneven pairs of walking legs.

A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

A honeybee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.

The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.

It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivalent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.

By recycling, just one, aluminium can, enough energy would be saved to run a TV for three hours.

One tree can filter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year.

The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs.

Ants don't sleep.

The swordtail is the fastest swimmer of all the fish.

About half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet.

Reindeer eat lots of moss, because the moss contains a special chemical that helps them keep their body fluids warm.

If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this plant would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.

In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

The only fifteen-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.

A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but it went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.

A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.

Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

You can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil?

Fish can't live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it.

The board game Scrabble was originally called "Criss Cross Words" by inventor Alfred Butts.

Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold.

Teflon is the slipperiest substance in the world.

Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic rubbish.

Play-Doh was introduced in 1956 by Hasbro Inc. The only colour available was an off white, and it came in one size - a one and a half pound can.

A leopard's vision is so good it can practically see in the dark.

A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.

A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair and keratin.

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.

New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world.

It was during World War II that clothes with elastic waists were introduced. This is because the metal used in zips was needed for the war effort.

John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $453,500.

In 1902, the coat hanger was invented Albert Parkhouse who was frustrated at the lack of hooks available to hang up his coat at work. His company thought it was a good idea and patented the invention.

In 1989, twenty-three people were hired in Jacksonville Florida just to flush toilets so the pipes would not freeze.

Your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight.

If you could remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds.

About 70 percent of your body weight is water.

The only two animals that can look behind without turning their head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Early Romans used porcupine quills as toothpicks.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

By filling saucers with vinegar and placing them around a room, you can eliminate odours.

Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago .

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

Austria was the first country to use postcards starting in 1869.

The Mexican version of the Tooth Fairy is known as the Tooth Mouse, which takes the tooth and leaves treasures in its place.

The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink.

Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded with the hands.

At an estimated population of 40 million, there are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.

The most popular name for a pet in the United States is Max.

A chameleon's tongue is as long as its body and head and can shoot out as fast as sixteen feet per second.

 In Japan, when a man reaches the age of 60, he is commemorated with a special ceremony. He wears a red kimono, which denotes that he no longer has the responsibilities of being a mature adult.

In 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totalling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth.

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds.

A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.

The first lighthouse was in Alexandria in 290 B.C. 

The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

The world's deepest gold mine is seven kilometres below the surface of the Earth.

In the movie "The Matrix Reloaded" a 17-minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce.

The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek, came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.