Daily Facts

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.  

It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows’ milk.

There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.

Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year in horse racing.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

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

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.  More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each...

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

John Lennon`s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, “Red Vineyard at Arles”.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world`s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 10...

Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.

About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.