Travel Tips

· A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

· A snail can sleep for three years.

· Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

· Butterflies taste with their feet.

· Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. (could dogs be dumb?)

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

· If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

· In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

· Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors.

· No word in the English language rhymes with month.

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

· Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.

· "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.

· The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

· The name of all of the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

· The words 'racecar' and 'kayak' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

· TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

· Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

· If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

· In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch face is 10:10.

· The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

· Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

· There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.

· There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

· There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

· The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

· Did you know that crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live?

· That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.

· A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.

· A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

· Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

· The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

· The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

· It's impossible to lick your elbow.

· More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

· Rats and horses can't vomit.

· The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language

· Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

· In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

· The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

· A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.

· In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

· Most lipstick contains fish scales.

· Cat's urine glows under a black light.

· Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.