Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Mount Rushmore almost featured the heads of famous American West heroes, like Buffalo Bill Cody, but the lead sculptor argued that the subjects should be more recognizable.

During World War II, Queen Elizabeth II, then an 18-year-old princess, trained in London as a mechanic and military truck driver.

With a population of 37,308 and an area less than 1 square mile, Monaco is the most densely populated nation in the world.

Despite being called a 'boner' by teenagers, you don't have a bone in your penis, it is a muscle BUT you can do yourself damage if you are too rigorous during sex, although it is very rare. It is VERY painful though.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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

There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth

When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C, the lowest temperature possible), it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container!

There is a type of jellyfish that is immortal.

The aptly-titled Immortal Jellyfish (or to give it its official name, turritopsis nutricula) can revert back to a polyp stage after maturing – and technically could continue this process forever, never growing old or dying.

“dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends with a “mt