Fact Book

If you suffer from dentophobia, you have an extreme fear of dentists.

Jonathan frakes refused to shave his back in the love scene with martina martis in the film star trek: nemesis. The hair had to be digitally removed.

911. Fact

The black and white lines found on a bar code, symbolize different numbers. Together they form a long code that contains all necessary data for a product.

912. Fact

The biggest difference between an "ebb" and a "flood" was measured in nova scotia, canada's bay of fundy. The difference was 52 feet.

913. Fact

Ichthyosaurs, sea dwelling dinosaurs, lived during the jurasic period and had eyes 9-inches wide.

914. Fact

Barbie's full name is barbara millicent roberts.

915. Fact

The song of a humpback whale can reach 190 db. That's equivalent to the sound of a boeing 747 at takeoff.

916. Fact

Before josef stalin became a revolutionist, he considered a career as a priest. He was thrown out of seminary, though, because of his drinking and aggressive behaviour.

917. Fact

Walt disney was afraid of mice.

918. Fact

Twenty percent of the world's population has a genetic disorder that causes the lack of wisdom teeth.

919. Fact

Coco water, the fluid in young, tiny coconuts, can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

920. Fact

The largest known shark is the great white shark. It can become 46 feet long.

921. Fact

The average car stands still 23 hours of the day.

922. Fact

50% of all bank robberies are done on fridays.

923. Fact

200 children are born every minute.

924. Fact

Alexander graham bell, who invented the telephone, could never talk to his mother or wife on it. They were both deaf.

925. Fact

Alfred hitchcock had no belly button.

926. Fact

A shrimp's heart is located in its head.

927. Fact

In an 80-year-long study on 200,000 ostriches, not a single case was reported where an ostrich buried its head in the ground.

928. Fact

It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.

929. Fact

More than 50% of the world's population has never made or received a telephone call.

930. Fact

Horses can't throw up.

931. Fact

The most difficult words to say fast in english are "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick".

932. Fact

Rats can breed so fast that after only eighteen months they can produce more than a million off-spring.

933. Fact

If you use earphones for one hour, you will increase the amount of bacteria in your ears by 700%.

934. Fact

23% of all copy machine breakdowns come from people sitting on them to make copies of their own butts.

935. Fact

Nearly all lipsticks contain fish scales.

936. Fact

No paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

937. Fact

In one year, american airlines saved $40,000 by decreasing the number of olives by just one on each first-class salad.

938. Fact

You burn more calories sleeping than watching tv.

939. Fact

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

940. Fact

Most of the dust in your home comes from your own dead skin cells.

941. Fact

In one year basketball icon, michael jordan, earned more money from his sponsor, nike, than all of the employees put together at the malaysia nike factory.

942. Fact

Richard milhouse nixon was the first american president whose name included all the letters in the word "criminal".

943. Fact

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

944. Fact

According to the oxford english dictionary, the longest english word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultramicroscopic particles of silica volcanic dust...

945. Fact

Ingrown nails are hereditary.

946. Fact

The longest geographical name still in use is the name of a hill in new zealand. It's called taumatawhakatangiha ngakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe nuakit natahu.

947. Fact

Telly savalas and louis armstrong both died on their birthdays.

948. Body Facts

Surma girls of Ethiopia put clay disks in their lower lip, stretching the lip outwards.The size of the disk indicates how many cattle a man needs to provide to marry the girl – they can be up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) across.

949. Fact

The initials for the russian secret service "kgb" stand for komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti.

950. Fact

The kangaroo and emu can't move backwards. That's why they have been chosen as symbols for the australian continent.

951. Fact

Gordon sumner, the rock star also known as sting, got his nickname from the yellow-black t-shirts he used to wear. The other band members thought he looked like a bumblebee.

952. Fact

Taste buds only live for 10 days.

953. Fact

Until 1890, the choir boys in the vatican were castrated to prevent their voices from becoming deeper.

954. Fact

Research shows mosquitoes like people who have recently eaten bananas.

955. Fact

A cat has a larger chance of surviving a fall from the 20th floor than from the 7th floor.

956. Fact

If nasa decided to send birds up in space, the birds would soon die. They need gravity to swallow.

957. Fact

Every time you lick a stamp, you will eat one tenth of a calorie.