The longest word in the English language is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"--a lung disease cause by inhaling volcanic ash. The two runners-up are "hyperpolysyllabicsesquapedalianist" and "antidisestablishmentarianism."
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupo-kaiwhenuakitanatahu, the name of a hill in New Zealand.
A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula."
Hummingbirds are the only animals that are able to fly backwards.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry while looking at a fly walking across a tiled ceiling.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, purple, orange, or silver.
Famous "quotes" that never happened: Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said, "It's elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said, "Beam me up, Scotty!" He did say "Beam me up, Mr. Scott!"
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
There are about 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds Big Mac bun.
About 100 people die from choking on ball-point pens each year.
Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.
Cigarette lighters were invented before matches.
The average life span of a Major League baseball is 5 pitches.
The memory span of a goldfish is only 3 seconds.
The world's termites outweigh the world's people 10 to 1.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 years old and in lived in China 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Tom Sawyer was the first book ever written on a typewriter.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Some frogs can be frozen and then thawed and still live.
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