FACTS 51-100: AMAZING FACTS, ODD FACTS, BIZARRE FACTS, INCREDIBLE FACTS, WEIRD FACTS!

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.

Slugs have 4 noses.

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.".

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?

The Pentagon, in Arlington Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.

When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

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

Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of 72.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Michael Jordan made more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers...they saw it as competition.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.

For every ton of fish that is caught in all the oceans on our planet, there are three tons of rubbish dumped into the oceans.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.  Hence we have "the rule of thumb". 

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone!

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air  the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 

If you were to spell out numbers starting at number 1, you wouldn't use the letter "A" until you got to 1000.

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windscreen wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capitol without a McDonald's.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's!" 

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month...which we now know today as the honeymoon!