Some more interesting facts, and some interesting questions.
"It's said that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!"
"Humans are born with 300 bones, but as we grow older, we only have 206."
Did You know that over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows?
"The state of Florida is bigger than England."
"Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, was afraid of the dark!"
"Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!"
"More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!"
"There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!"
"Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!"
"Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!"
"Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!"
"Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue."
"People blink about 84,000,000 times a year!"
"There are over 52.6 million dogs in the United States"
"Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!"
"The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth."
"The most used letter in the English alphabet is the letter 'E'"
"The least used letter in the English alphabet is the letter 'Q'"
"Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States."
"Did you know that a hedgehog's heart beats an average 300 times a minute?"
"Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!"
"The average person laughs 15 times a day!"
"Most of the dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!"
"There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year."
"The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven."
"The original name for the butterfly was flutterby."
"The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people."
"A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!"
"The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!"
"A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off."
"It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska!"
"Did you know that it's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland?"
"Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!"
"Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!"
"Dolphins sleep with one eye open."
"The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!"
"A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!"
"There are more plastic flamingos in the United States than real ones!"
"Did you know that slugs have 4 noses?"
"Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours!"
"In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals."
"It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland."
"Honeybees have hair on their eyes."
"The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump."
"One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet."
"Drive carefully, we need every taxpayer we can get"
"The average person will eat over 35,000 cookies in a lifetime."
"America once issued a 5-cent bill."
"Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!"
"There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!"
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station.
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with, "Quit while you're ahead"?
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?
Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
How do you get holy water? Boil the hell out of it.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick.
Where do you find a dog with no legs? Right where you left him.
Why are there so many Smiths in the phone book? They all have phones.
Why do bagpipers walk when they play? They're trying to get away from the noise.
Why do gorillas have big nostrils? Because they have big fingers
In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan, "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation," came out as, "Pepsi Will Bring Your Ancestors Back From The dead."
Also in Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan, "Finger-Lickin' Good," came out as "Eat Your Fingers Off."
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the english alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right of left handed... or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Ice cream was invented in China about 2000 BC.
Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Uranus is visible to the naked eye.
Benjamin Franklin was first to suggest daylight saving.
The most abundant metal in the Earths crust is aluminium.
It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.
The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in 1959.
Captain Cook was the first man to set foot on all continents except Antarctica.
The diameter of the Moon is 3 476 km.
The pressure at the Earths inner core is 3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure.
200 million years ago Earth contained 1 land mass called Pangaea
At the deepest point, an iron ball would take more than an hour to sink to the ocean floor. ( 11.034 km )
Antarctic means ' opposite the Artic '.
The largest iceberg recorded was 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, larger that the country of Belgium.
The surface of the Dead Sea is 400 metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.
The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
The country of Benin changed its name from Dahomey in 1975.
The Nova Zemlya Glacier in the (former) USSR is over 400 km long.
Canada (9.9mil sq km) is larger than China (9.5mil sq km) which is larger than the USA (9.3mil sq km).
The coldest temperature ever recorded was -70 deg Celsius, in Siberia.
The second largest US state in the 1950's was California.
The US state Maryland was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.
The only country to register zero births in 1983 was the 'Vatican City'.
The US state of Florida first saw the cultivation of oranges in 1539.
The world's largest National park is 'Wood Buffalo National Park' in Canada.
The world's largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.
In 1896, Britain and Zanzibar were at war for 38 minutes.
The Eskimo language has over twenty words to describe different kinds of snow.
Numbering houses in London streets only began in 1764.
More than 75% of all the countries in the world are north of the equator.
Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.
On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.
Fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes sand.
Mountains are formed by a process called orogeny.
Obsidian, used by American Indians for tools, weapons and ornaments, is dark volcanic glass.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
82% of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from malaria.
In May 1948, Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe, both in New Zealand, erupted simultaneously.
The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel.
The tree dictated on the Lebanese flag is a Cedar.
Tokyo was once called Edo.
The Atlantic Ocean covers the world's longest mountain range.
In 1825 Upper Peru became Bolivia.
New York City contains 920 kilometres of shoreline.
There are 3 Great pyramids at Giza.
The southwestern tip of the Isle of Man is called 'The Calf of Man'.
The world's largest Delta was created by the river Ganges.
The Scottish city Edinburgh is nicknamed 'Auld Reekie' meaning 'Old Smoky'
The inhabitants of Papa New Guinea speak about 700 languages.
The world's first National Park was Yellowstone National Park
60% of all US potato products originate in Idaho.
The northern most country claiming part of Antarctica is Norway.
The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Colombia.
The inhabitants of Monaco are known as 'Monegasques'.
The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory,contains crocodiles not alligators.
New York's Central Park opened in 1876.
France contains the greatest length of paved roads.
The city of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe and Asia.
At the nearest point , Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
Rio de Janeiro translates to ' River of January'.
The furthest point from any ocean would be in China.
The Tibetan Mountain people use yak's milk as their form of currency.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.
Underneath the great icy plains of the Antarctic can sometimes be found little pools of unfrozen water.
Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.
The Spanish Inquisition once condemned the entire Netherlands to death for heresy.
The River Nile has frozen over only twice in living memory,in the 9.th & 11.th century
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
The Angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara falls.
La Paz in Bolivia is so high above sea level that there is barely enough oxygen in the air to support a fire.
The Forth railway bridge in Scotland is a metre longer in summer than in winter, due to thermal expansion.
The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimetres each year.
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
On a clear night over 2 000 stars are visible to the naked eye.
Until the 18th century India produced almost all the worlds diamonds.
On 30 March 1867, Alaska was officially purchased from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.
During winter, the skating rinks in Moscow cover more than 250 000 square metres of land.
As the Pacific plate moves under its coast, the North Island of New Zealand is getting larger.
Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
If you travel from east to west across the Soviet Union, you will cross seven time zones.
Sahara means 'desert' in Arabic.
The water in the Dead Seas is so salty that it far easier to float than to drawn.
The State flag of Alaska was designed by a 13 year old boy.
Every litre of water taken from the Red Sea would contain about 200 grams of salt.
Lighting strikes the Earth about 200 times a second.
Very hard rain would pour down at the rate os about twenty miles per hour.
No rain has ever been recorded falling in the Atacama desert in Chile.
The background radiation in Aberdeen is twice that of the rest of Great Britain.
About 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover the full stop at the end of this sentence.
The southern most tip of Africa is not the 'Cape of Good Hope' but 'Cape Agulhas'.
Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
The tower of London, during its lifetime has served many purposes, including a zoo.
There is a village near the Somme in France which is simply called Y.
The planet Uranus was only discovered 215 years ago, by Sir William Herschel on 13 March 1781.
Two minor earthquakes occur every minute somewhere in the world.
In the north of Norway, the sun shines constantly for about 14 weeks each summer.
The world's longest fresh water beach is located in Canada.
Over the years the Niagara Falls have moved more than 11 kilometres from its original site.
The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
Yugoslavia is bordered by seven other countries.
Greenland, named this to attract settlers, was discovered by Eric the Red in the 10th century.
The Milky Way galaxy contains 5 billion stars larger than our sun.
Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.
Hawaii's Mt Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time.
Our galaxy is 75 000 light years in diameter and our sun is 26 100 light years from the centre.
[C] Based on various cosmological techniques the universe is estimated at 10 - 18 gigayears old.
The earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107 220 km per hour.
The sun has a core temperature of 154 000 000 Kelvin
A day on Jupiter is about 9 hours, 50 minutes, 30 seconds at the equator.
Mars has a volcano (Olympus Mons) which is 310-370 miles in diameter and 16 miles high.
The Earth is pear shaped, the North Pole radius being 44mm longer than the South Pole radius..
In 1908 the Moskva River in Russia rose nine meters, flooding 100 streets and 2,500 houses.
'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu' is the name of a hill in New Zealand.
There is about 200 time more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
There is a Rocking Stone in Cornwall which, though it weighs many tonnes, can be rocked with ease.
South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's gold.
The Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.
There is no point in England more than 75 miles from the ocean.
The Red sea is not mentioned in the Bible.
England is smaller than New England
Nearly a quarter of the population of Poland was killed in World War II.
The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth.
The first city in the world to have a population of over one million was London.
Our own galaxy is minute compared to the radio galaxies being discovered at the edge of the universe.
There is a town in West Virginia USA called Looneyville
New York was once New Amsterdam.
On Picarn Island, it is a criminal offence it shout ' ship ohoy' when there is in fact no ship in sight.
The Dead Sea is in fact an inland lake.
Icelandic phone books are listed by the given name not the surname.
Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.
It is illegal to swim in Central Park.
The fastest tectonic movement on earth is 240 mm per year, at the Tonga micro-plate near Samoa.
The earth's magnetic field is not permanent,
Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839.
The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1 kilobyte of internal memory.
Allied bombers were issued with Biro pens as fountain pens leaked at high altitude.
Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.
The worlds longest escalator is in Leningrad Metro, 120 metres long.
Laser means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
The tip of a rotary mower travels at over 200 km/hr.
The first xerographic copy (prelude to photocopy) was ' 10.22.38 Astoria '
John Dunlop invented the Pneumatic tyre from a section of garden hose, (for his sons tricycle)
The world's oldest man-made alloy is Bronze.
IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation.
Rainfall is measured with a Ombrometer.
The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
Polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly known as 'Teflon'.
Magnesium was used in early flash photography because it burns with a brilliant light.
Ammonia is the active ingredient in smelling salts.
When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.
Near-sighted model, Grace Robin was the first to show off contact lenses in 1930.
The diameter of wool is measured in microns
Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
Plutonium was developed by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in a cyclotron.
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
The revolving door was invented in 1888.
Alcohol is added to soap to make it clear.
The drinking straw was invented in 1886 by hand rolling paraffined Manila paper.
The metre was originally defined as one 10-millionth of the distance from the equator to the Pole.
Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949.
Instant coffee has been around since the 18th century.
The first washing machine was marketed by Hurley Machine Co in 1907.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Twenty two carat gold has 916 parts per thousand pure gold.
A shadow of a four-dimensional object would have three dimensions.
Red light has the greatest wavelength.
Brimstone, referred to in the Bible and some Alchemy text, is sulphur.
George de Mestral invented velcro, after getting burrs stuck to his pants.
Turquoise was once called 'Turkey stone'.
The decimal system is based on the number 10 while the sexagesimal system is based on the number 60.
Nicotinic acid is listed on breakfast cereal boxes as Niacin.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
Marble is metamorphic.
sulphate hemihydrate is more commonly known as Plaster of Paris.
The ship 'QE2' requires 25 litres to move 1 metre.
The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering a hundred square feet.
To 'crack' a whip, the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . . by a dentist ( William Semple)
Paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch.
Tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
Waves"break" when their height is more that seven-tenths of the depth of the water.
A full loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is wasted by a combustion engine.
Paper money was first used in China.
Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.
Albert Einstein was suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
Sir Isaac Newton was only twenty three years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
When cutting a diamond with a laser, graphite dust is formed.
The metal Gallium will melt in the heat of your hands.
According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of petrol in its take-off climb.
Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung while in the French resistance during World War II.
Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.
Its harder to reach the speed of sound at sea level than at high altitude.
Water freezes faster if cooler quickly from a warm temperature, than it does from a cooler one.
The Lie Detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.
The Electric chair was invented by Dr. A.Rockwell, and first used on 6.8 1890 to execute William Kemmler.
Another term for pure china clay is Kaolin
A car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
The red dye 'cochineal' comes from the dried bodies of the scale insects.
Soap was originally made by boiling fat and adding lye to it.
The active ingredient in smelling salts is ammonia.
The first hot air balloon was invented on 5 June 1783, it was made of paper and not entirely successful.
The mathematician Cardano was imprisoned for doing the horoscope of Jesus Christ.
There are more nutrients in the cornflake packet itself than there are in the actual cornflake.
Light is electro-magnetic radiation.
Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.
The Biro pen was invented by George and Lazlo Biro.
Soda water does not contain soda.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died in 1934 of radiation poisoning.
Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.
The first taxi with metered fares were operational in 1907.
Rubber is an impertinent ingredient in the manufacture of bubble gum.
There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
The zeppelin 'The Hindenburg' which exploded in a huge fireball, was filled with hydrogen.
The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds energy.
Speleology is the study of Caves.
The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.
The stratosphere is higher than the troposphere.
The search for the existence of ghosts is Eidology
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
A closed mouth catches no flies. Italian Proverb
A drowning man is not troubled by rain. Persian Proverb
A friend's eye is a good mirror. Irish Proverb
A hen is heavy when carried far. Irish Proverb
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. Irish Proverb
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. Chinese proverb
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Chinese Proverb
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue. Russian Proverb
Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. Indian Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. Chinese Proverb
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. Chinese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side. Japanese proverb
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. Old Muslim Proverb
After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water?
After they make Styrofoam, what do they ship it in? --Steven Wright
Are female moths called myths?
Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?
Are there a lot of virgins in the Virgin Islands?
Are there any unguided missiles?
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
Could crop-circles be the work of a cereal killer?
Crime doesn't pay... does that mean my job is a crime?
Day light savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it?
Did Noah keep his bees in archives?
Do blind dogs have seeing-eye humans?
Do blind Eskimos have seeing-eye sled dogs?
Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
Do clowns wear really big socks? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Do crematoriums give discounts to burn victims? (Thanks, Jamie Winsor)
Do files get embarrassed when they get unzipped?
Do fish get thirsty?
Do hummingbirds hum because they dont know the words?
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
Do stars clean themselves with meteor showers?
Do steam rollers really roll steam?
Do vampires get AIDS?
Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? --Steven Wright
Does a man-eating shark eat women, too?
Does killing time damage eternity?
Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?
How can there be self-help "groups"?
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How dead is the Dead Sea?
How did a fool and his money get together?
How do they get the "Keep off the Grass" sign on the grass?
How do you get off a nonstop flight?
How do you know when you've run out of invisible ink?
How do you throw away a garbage can?
How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
How does a person with a lisp pronounce that word?
How does it work out that these people always die in alphabetical order?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
How is it possible to have a "civil" war?
How is it possible to run out of space? (Thanks, Mike Dahl)
How long is the long arm of the law? (Thanks, Tammy Dallas)
How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?
How many weeks are there in a light year?
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? --Satchel Paige
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
If a food processor slices and dices food, what does a word processor do?
If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?
If a mime commits suicide, does he use a silencer? --Steven Wright
If a mirror reverses right and left, why doesn't it reverse up and down? (Thanks, Robert A. Hinds)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?
If a tree falls in the forest, does the earth scream out in pain?
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?
If all the world is a stage, where are the audience sitting?
If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green, and a lemon called a yellow?
IfIf blind people wear dark glasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? --Steven Wright
If corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?
If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
If everything is part of a whole, what is the whole part of? --Ashleigh Brilliant
If Fred Flintstone knew that the large order of ribs would tip his car over, why did he order them at the end of every show?
If I save time, when do I get it back?
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
If our knees were on the backs of our legs, what would chairs look like?
If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?
If rabbits' feet are so lucky, then what happened to the rabbit?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?
If Superman is so smart why does he wear his underpants over his trousers?
If swimming is good for your shape, then why do the whales look like the way they do?
If the product says "Do not use if seal is broken", how are you supposed to open it and use it?
If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in?
If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
If you can't drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
If you jog backwards, will you gain weight?
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
If youre born again, do you have two bellybuttons?
If you're a kleptomaniac, is there something you can take for it?
If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
In court, why do they ask if you swear to tell the truth? If you're planning on lying, do they really think you'll tell them so?
Is a small pig called a hamlet?
Is duck tape made out of ducks?
Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
Since there is a speed of light and a speed of sound, is there a speed of smell?
What do batteries run on?
What do they call coffee breaks at the Lipton Tea Company?
What do you call a bedroom with no bed in it?
What do you call a male ladybug?
What do you say if you're talking to God, and he sneezes?
What hair color do they put on the drivers license of a bald man?
What happens if you get scared half to death, ...twice? --Steven Wright
What happens if you go on a survival course - and you don't pass? (Thanks, Martin Mose Larsen)
What happens when you swallow your pride?
What if hell really did freeze over? What would we be using instead?
What if someone died in the living room? (Thanks, Jonathan Caldwell)
What if you're in hell, and you're mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?
What is "Soft Liquor"? (Thanks, Donna Funk)
What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free?
What is shaved ice? Did it have hair on it before it was shaved?
What is the speed of dark?
What kind of fruit is in Juicy Fruit gum?
What makes cheese so confidential that we actually need cheese shredders? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped?
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
When day breaks who fixes it?
When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
When night falls who picks it up?
When people lose weight, where does it go?
When something fades in the sunlight, where did the colors go? (Thanks, Gloria Brewster)
When they first invented the clock, how did they know what time it was to set it to?
When we say our mind wanders - where does it go?
Where are we going? And what's with this hand basket?
Where did Webster look up the definitions when he wrote the dictionary?
Where do they get Spring water in the other 3 seasons? (Thanks, Nick Shi)
Where does the fire go when the fire goes out?
Where does the white go when the snow melts?
Where does your lap go when you stand up?
Where is Old Zealand?
Which is the other side of the street?
Who killed the Dead Sea?
Why are all blackboards called that when some of them are green? (Thanks, Jonathan Caldwell)
Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
Why are highways build so close to the ground?
Why are raisins called raisins if they are only dried grapes? Why not just call them dried grapes?
Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why are violets blue and not violet? (Thanks, Mike Dahl)
Why can't we tickle ourselves?
Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do ballet dancers dance on their toes? Why doesnt the company just hire taller dancers?
Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
Why do flamingos stand on only one leg?
Why do hot dogs come ten to a package and hot dog buns only eight?
Why do mattresses have springs, if they aren't made for jumping on?
Why do people go to the unemployment office to find a job?
Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways? --Larry Anderson
Why do people tell you when they are speechless? (Thanks, Julia Wessel)
Why do pigs have curly tails?
Why do the signs that say "Slow Children" have a picture of a running child? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?
Why do they call it quicksand when it sucks you down slowly?
Why do they make cars go so fast its illegal?
Why do they make scented toilet paper?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
Why do they report power outages on TV?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
Why do tourists go to the top of tall buildings and then put money in telescopes so they can see things on the ground in close-up? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why do we call something sent by car a shipment and something sent by ship a cargo?
Why do we kill people for killing people to show that killing is wrong?
Why do we need training bras? What can we teach them?
Why do we say "a pair of pants" when there is only one article of clothing involved?
Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
Why do wise guy and wise man mean entirely different things? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why do you feet smell and your nose runs?
Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?
Why does a dishtowel get wet when it dries?
Why does a grapefruit look nothing like a grape?
Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why dont they call mustaches "mouthbrows?" (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why dont they just make food stamps edible? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why dont you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why get even, when you can get odd?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is a boxing ring square?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?
Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
Why is it that famous people are always born on holidays?
Why is it that night falls but day breaks?
Why is it that only adults have difficulty with childproof bottles?
Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? (Thanks, Mike Dahl)
Why is it that to stop Windows 95, you have to click on "Start"?
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
Why is it you must wait until night to call it a day?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? (Thanks, Steve Robinson)
Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary?
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? --Lily Tomlin
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can't they make the whole