Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The word Karoake actually means “Empty Orchestra” in Japanese.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

One in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

In the Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Plants run fevers when they are sick.

Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

No word rhymes with month, purple, orange or silver.

All polar bears are left-handed.

All porcupines float in water.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

The only 15 letter word in the English language that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is 'uncopyrightable'.

Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.

Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Most car horns are in the key of F.

Ridiculous Lies

The Japanese Spider Crab can grow to the size of the Volkswagen Beetle.

The largest ant weighs over 600 pounds and is more than ten feet long.

Albert Einstein once had the largest recorded collection of porcelain unicorns.

Nearly twenty dollars of copper is needed to make a single penny.

George Washington’s nickname was “Da Bubba."

A single breath of air contains approximately one calorie.

Calvinball was the only Olympic game to be cancelled after its first year.

Ninety-five percent of all food is composed of pencil shavings.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The word Talk is derived from the latin word Talcimus, which means “to annoy."