The smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5" tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4 ounces. Zorba, an English mastiff, is the biggest dog ever recorded. He weighed 343 pounds and measured 8' 3" from his nose to his tail. Monaco Is Smaller Than Central Park Spain And France Share Custody Rights To An Island Finland Is Only One Country Away From North Korea Istanbul Spans Two Continents Neil Armstrong Had To Go Through US Customs After Returning From The Moon Oxford University Was Founded Before Aztec Civilization Began Saudi Arabia Imports Camels From Australia Tiffany & Co. Was Founded Before The Country Of Italy The Current US Flag Was Designed By A 17-Year-Old For A School Project. He Got A B- Shakespeare Created The Name Jessica In 'The Merchant of Venice' Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank, And Barbara Walters Were Born In The Same Year France Was Still Using The Guillotine For Executions When 'Star Wars' Hit Theaters More People Have Been Killed By Molasses Than By Coyotes The T-Rex Lived Closer In Time To Us Than To The Stegosaurus Bananas Are Actually Berries, But Strawberries Are Not Cleopatra Lived Closer To The Moon Landing Than The Building Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza If Cars Drove Upwards You Could Drive To Space In An Hour Mankind Put A Man On The Moon Before We Put Wheels On Suitcases Pluto Was Made And Unmade A Planet Before It Completed One Orbit Of The Sun Ohio is the only state in the USA that doesn't share a letter with the word "mackerel". There are more children in California than there are people in Iowa. There are more dogs in Denver than there are children. There are only 2 excalators in the whole state of Wyoming. Men are not *stronger* than women. Men are *bigger* that women. The woman's raw powerlifting all-time world record in the 123 lb category is higher than the men's world record in the same category. A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph. The world wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year. The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body, heart included. The wood frog can hold its pee for up to eight months. Marie Curie is the only person to earn a Nobel prize in two different sciences (Chemistry and Physics). The English word with the most definitions is "set", with 430 different senses, taking up 60,000 words in the dictionary (OED) description. The longest wedding veil was the same length as 63.5 football fields. Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard left his post at Ford's Theatre to go for a drink at a next door saloon, when Lincoln was shot. Greenland Sharks can live for five centuries. One man survived both atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Cows kill more Americans each year than sharks do, 20 per year for cows, 1 per year for sharks. Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks. A 70-year-old woman once completed seven marathons in seven days, across all seven continents. There may be 2,000 active serial killers in the U.S. right now. Shaquille O'Neal made only ONE three-point shot in his entire career. Sharks (as well as horshshoe crabs and jellyfish) existed before trees, for about 400 million years as opposed to ony 350 million years for trees. 99.9% of all species to have ever existed on Earth are extinct. The Silverback gorilla can lift almost a literal ton. Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you get a combination that's never existed. America accidentally dropped an atom bomb on South Carolina in 1958 (it just didn't explode). Baby blue whales grow 200 pounds per day. A 2013 mermaid "mocumentary" once fooled so many people that the U.S. government had to issue a statement. Maine is the only state that borders just one other state. The Twitter bird's official name Is Larry. Beaver bum goo is occasionally used to enhance vanilla flavorings. In 1859, the U.S. almost went to war with Canada over a pig. Tornados used to be called "twirlblasts" and "twirlwinds" in the 18th century. Kentucky has more barrels of bourbon than it does people. One of President John Tyler’s grandsons is still alive today—and he was born in 1790. How is this possible? President Tyler, the 10th US president, was 63 when his son Lyon Tyler was born in 1853; Lyon’s son was born when he was 75. President Tyler’s living grandson, Harrison Tyler is 92. Lyon’s other son Lyon Jr. passed away in 2020 at the age of 95. Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines form the feces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory. The most common wild bird in the world isn’t the sparrow or blue jay—it’s the red-billed quelea, which live in Africa and have an estimated population of 1.5 billion. The heart of the blue whale, the largest animal on earth, is five feet long and weighs 400 pounds. For comparison, an elephant’s heart weighs around 30 pounds. And a human heart? A mere 10 ounces. And Octopuses have three hearts. Cows don’t actually have four stomachs; they have one stomach with four compartments. And the platypus doesn’t have a stomach at all: Their esophagus goes straight to their intestines. The green code in The Matrix was actually created from symbols in the code designer’s wife’s sushi cookbook. There are no muscles in your fingers: Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms. There is not one letter “q” in any US state name, the only letter in the alphabet to be missing. “J” and “z” are only represented once each, in New Jersey and Arizona. The word “strengths” is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel. Cartoonist Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey, came up with names for the things we often see in comics and cartoons: “briffit” is the dust cloud a character makes when he runs away quickly; “plewds” are the beads of sweat when a character is under duress; and “grawlix” are symbols such as “#@*%” that stand in for curse words. Anteaters eat roughly 35,000 ants a day. A flock of hummingbirds can be referred to as a hover, a glittering, a bouquet, a tune, or a shimmer. A shrimp’s heart is located inside its head. It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. It's considered animal abuse because they're social beings and get lonely. There are more people in California than Canada. Freddie Mercury has a pretty memorable smile. It's because he had four extra teeth in his upper jaw. All clownfish are born male. That explains Marlin and Nemo. A group of porcupines is called a prickle. Seven percent of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. There's an island in Japan that is only inhabited by bunnies. The Supreme Court has its own private basketball court called "the highest court in the land." More people are killed by vending machines than sharks. Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest ... and lost. Strawberries are not actually berries. Armadillo shells are bulletproof. In fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the jaw. Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.” Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time. The mother spends six months so devoted to protecting the eggs that she doesn’t eat. The babies are the size of a grain of rice when they’re born. Medical errors are a top cause of death. According to a Johns Hopkins research team, 250,000 deaths in the United States are caused by medical error each year. This makes medical error the third-leading cause of deaths in the country. Sloths have more neck bones than giraffes. Despite physical length, there are more bones in the neck of a sloth than a giraffe. There are seven vertebrae in the neck of giraffes, and in most mammals, but there are ten in a sloth. Alaska Is Simultaneously The Most Northern, Western, And Eastern State In The US There Are Whales Alive Who Are Older Than The Book 'Moby Dick' William Howard Taft Was The Last US President With Facial Hair The YKK On Zippers Stands For 'Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha' Betty White Was Literally Older Than Sliced Bread Nintendo Was Founded In 1889 as a Trading Card Company You're Twice As Likely To Be Killed By A Vending Machine As By A Shark The Nursery Rhyme Never Says Humpty Dumpty Was An Egg Will Smith Is Now Older Than Uncle Phil In The 1st 'Fresh Prince' Episode Your iPhone Has More Computing Power Than NASA Used For The Moon Landing More Photos Were Taken In The Last 2 Minutes Than In The Entire 19th Century There Are More Plastic Pink Flamingos Than Real Ones In The US There Are Actually Two North Poles: Magnetic And Terrestrial