Facts List

Most toilets flush in E flat.,

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.,

Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.,

Approximately 40000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.,

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.,

“Almost” is the longest word in English with all the letters in alphabetical order.,

Sean Connery wore a toupee in all his James Bond movies.,

Nicholas Cage bought a pet octopus once because he sincerely thought it might help with his acting.,

Nicholas Cage also once did magic mushrooms with his cat.,

It actually takes 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie pop.,

You’ll eat more than 35000 cookies in your lifetime (probably).,

Fredric Baur was the man who invented the iconic “Pringles” can. When he died his ashes were buried in one.,

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.,

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.,

France was still executing people by guillotine when the first Star Wars movie came out.,

All swans in England belong to the queen.,

No piece of square paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.,

The US Treasury once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!,

The “hashtag” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.,

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.,

Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.,

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and nobody can figure out why.,

In 1993 the entire city of San Francisco voted about whether a police officer was allowed to carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty while on patrol. He was.,

What is called a “French kiss” in the English speaking world is known as an “English kiss” in France.,

The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works?,

Minnie Mouse full name is Minerva Mouse.,

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S than real ones!,

At any one time about 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.,

315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary were misspelled.,

There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice- it is rebuilt every year.,

Because metal was scarce the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.,

Sherlock Holmes NEVER actually said “Elementary my dear Watson.”,

Deer can’t eat hay. Why? No idea.,

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.,

Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.,

The Falkland Isles has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).,

M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s” the last names of the candy’s founders.,

There really was a Captain Morgan. He was a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica.