A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This is highly debatable and probably not true.)

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.

All of the clocks in "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

All porcupines float in water.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

An ostrich's eyes are bigger than it's brain.

Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.

Camel's milk doesn't curdle.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Did you know that there were coffee flavored PEZ?

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in "mt".

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic".

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open (don't try this at home).

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of it's size - L.A.

Maine is the only state whose name is only one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head".

Rubber bands last longer when refridgerated.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Seasame Street were named after Bert the cop Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life".

The combination "ough" can be pronounced nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarbourough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

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

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to account for the weight of the books.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

The reason firehouses have circuilar stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Two-thirds of the worlds eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

When oppossums are playing "possum", they are not "playing" . . . They actually pass out from sheer terror.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (That's one every two hours.)

315 entries in Webster's Dictionary are misspelled.

A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!

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 shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.