Wearing headphones for just one hour will increase bacteria in your ears by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The longest one syllable word in the English language is screeched.

The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with.

Leonardo DaVinci invented scissors.

If you’re an average American, in your whole life you will spend an average of six months sitting at red lights.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time… 1/100^th of a second.

In the last 4,000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a “twit.”

Rats and horses cannot vomit.

“The sixth sick shiek’s sixth sheep’s sick” is the most difficult tongue twister in the English language.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was “Tom Sawyer.”

23% of all photocopier failures worldwide occur because of people sitting on them and photocopying their behinds!

“Typewriter” is the longest word that can be typed on the top row of a typewriter keyboard.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9.  They lived in China in 1910.

“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Hershey’s kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyer belt.

If a statue in a park of a person on a horse has the horses front legs up in the air, the person died in battle.

The phrase “rule of thumb” derives from an old English law that said you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.