A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
So confident were some people that alcohol was the cause of virtually all crime that, on the eve of Prohibition, some towns actually sold their jails.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week
Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. .
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
Elephants can't jump. Every other maofftopicl can.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.(is this true????)
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
Swans are the only birds with penises
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
A single tree in the rainsforest can be home to thousands of different creatures.
And the best random fact of all!!!!!!!
One acre of hemp(cannibus) will produce as much paper as four acres of trees (and can be replaced next season). (lol, now that will be my excuse for growing it in my backyard, i'm against the destruction of the rain forest, so i will make my own paper!!!)