111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it! A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33 Butterflies taste with their feet. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." Coca Cola was originally green. Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: 4000 Debra Winger was the voice of E.T. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times,but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, was missing the entire middle finger of his right hand. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode. Pearls melt in vinegar. Polar bears are left handed. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The city with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original film "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable". The reason firehouses have circular 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. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications) The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue. The term "whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the "whole 9 yards." The US Interstate road system was designed so that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest Pope was 11 years old. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly. You can tell from the statue of a mounted horseman how the rider died. If all four of the horse's feet are on the ground, he died of natural causes. One foot raised means he died from wounds suffered in battle. Two legs raised means he died in action. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself