Now in 2D

Actor Alec Baldwin’s real name is Sally O’Brien, but changed it so as not to be confused with comedian and TV personality, Conan O’Brien.

The Richter scale was originally invented to measure cat meows.

The letter “V” was introduced into the English alphabet as a consequence of the War of 1812.

20% of prize money won on the television show, “Jeopardy!”, is fake.

“Space rocket” is the only term that remains exactly the same when translated into any language.

Overshadowed by his other accomplishments, Noam Chomsky’s founding of sciuridaesia, the study of squirrels residing in mountainous terrain, is overlooked by the majority of academia.

Red and white colored sponges are found to be the most effective, according to a study performed by the EPA in 1709.

According to the World Federation of Enigmatology, a jigsaw puzzle cannot have a piece-count that is a multiple of four.

The idea of the disposable plate ware was first conceived when Queen Marie Antoinette ate off the backs of those about to be executed in order to save water during the Great European Drought of 1787, because the energy efficient button on the dishwasher of Versailles wasn’t implemented until 1805.

The most popular name for a parakeet is Linus.

There are no traffic signs in Slovenia.

It is estimated that over 50% of cacti are known to have thrived for over six billion years.

One in five rattlesnakes is bulimic.

An estimated 5,000 prostitutes in the United States offer some form of a customer loyalty program.

It is illegal to carry more than four sheets of sandpaper in your left pocket in the state of Vermont.

Eight of the signatures on the Declaration of Independence were photoshopped in later.

The average person carries six and a half tons of cheese over bridges in his lifetime.

The man who invented the paper clip also owns the world’s largest decorative light switch cover collection.

The US treasury didn’t mint quarters until 1978.

A typical sea sponge can hold its breath for almost six minutes.

The hamster wheel was invented by accident.

There are 14 known types of salamanders in the world that can learn to read English.

79% of orthodontists lie to their patients.

78% of rulers are inaccurate by over six centimeters.

Somporcophobia is the fear of eating pork in one’s dreams.

The average flag weighs more than an eight-course meal on Neptune.

4 out of 5 times, a secretary will have the name Janice.

Despite how it was advertised, the 2000 film, Remember the Titans, was not based on actual events.

There are really only six different colors of crayon in the Crayola 64 Pack.

The average person uses enough water in one shower to drown a small marching band.

Under the best conditions, it takes milk an average of 49 hours to turn.

Every two hours, a baby is born without a sense of humor.

Eight out of ten satanists don’t eat fish.

It is possible to survive on nothing more than cheese ravioli and flavored envelope glue.

The 1997 film Titanic was edited in iMovie.

In parts of Antarctica, ordering curtains in bulk is a felony.

Amphegrephobia is the fear of amphibious tiger attacks.

Nearly all Wendy’s employees double as horoscope readers, and won’t hesitate to interrupt a customer’s conversation to let him know.

Much like rapper Tupac Shakur, Ludwin van Beethoven released four posthumous records.

The human brain can hold enough information to convict six politicians.

In Russia, Baskin Robins has only 13 flavors.

One in four games of Risk end before the first turn is taken.

Only 14 of the 106 breeds of known cats have teeth. These 14 breeds make up over 79.29% of the feline population of the world.

Every time you sneeze, a starving African child is given a laptop.

Germany’s national song is BTO’s “Takin’ Care of Business.”

The tiger was created when biologist Howard A. Mink found a way to cross an orange tabby cat with a can of black paint.

Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s last words were: “Die wilden kojoten lief mit meiner hose,” which roughly translates to “what do you mean I ‘Kant’ survive this operation? Who the hell hired this clown?”

Sharks can have up to 14 biological parents.

Contrary to popular belief, one year is in fact only four dog years

The Wikipedia Box Set is an all-time New York Times Bestseller.

The Pepperidge Farm snack, Goldfish is indeed made from real goldfish.

For every nine babies born in Argentina a cat is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.

The pig that inspired the Warner brothers’ “Porky” character did in fact, have a stutter.

It is widely-known that the US Constitution was written on hemp paper, but few people are aware that the the first draft was written on several cocktail napkins paper clipped together.

The average person eats 4.6 plastic garbage bags by the time he is 55. Leading environmental scientists hope to lower that figure to 3.2 by 2022.

Hair cannot be black, it can only be very dark purple.

Before the second world war, Adolf Hitler had handlebars.

David Hasselhoff can’t swim.

It is common knowledge that 16 sparrows can fit in a large McDonalds cup. However, it has recently been discovered that that figure doubles when the sparrows are blended prior to their insertion.

More people are killed in microwave-related accidents than stabbings each year in Bangladesh.

Actor Michael Caine holds the record for most time spent continuously inebriated.

Frogs don’t have digestive systems.

46% of Albanians have never seen the color orange.

24% of pickles are really just sour cucumbers.

The word basket was originally intended to contain a silent “b.”

Post-it notes don’t stick to green surfaces.

Bill Gates was born in Zimbabwe.

Magic Johnson defeated AIDS with a month-long peyote “vision quest” through the Arctic Circle.

The word “trite” is the wildcard of the English language. Submitted anonymously by Daniel T. Swift from New York, NY 10017.

Pologophobia is the fear of losing one’s meds behind the refrigerator.

Tilblanophobia is the fear of white tiles being installed in one’s kitchen while on vacation.

People who smoke one or more packs of cigarettes a day are three times more likely to see actor Ben Stiller on the street.

Betty White invented the microwave oven, and only began acting to pay for the patent.

Vegan dogs aren’t allowed to chew on bones.

Contrary to popular belief, the Seven Years War lasted 23 years, and was fought between Eskimos and Russians.

The Guns N’ Roses song, “My Michelle” was written about a woman named Laurel.

If you yell loud enough, the people in the television can hear you.

It is estimated that over 80% of magic tricks are fake.

The Moon is only 8% cheese.

Halloween isn’t legally a day.

On average, three and a half people are strangled to death by their own scarves every year.

From 1846-1860, owning a toilet that could flush faster than 10 mph was illegal in the state of Texas.

Julius Caesar’s middle name was Terrence, and was frequently beaten up in the playground because of it.

The most difficult word to remember in the English language is “sponge cake.”

The original version of the Madonna song “4 Minutes” was 7 minutes and 35 seconds, and about political awareness in Africa.

Good intentions are legal tender in Canada.

85% of Law and Order episodes open with a woman jogging in Central Park.

There are over four million types of household trash cans.

In China, during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1029 BC), the first day of the week was Tuesday.

The mountain goat is not a mammal, but is rather a reptile/marsupial combo.

One-sided counterfeit money is accepted on produce items from Wal-Mart grocery stores.

Before it was adopted for the purpose of digging holes, the shovel was a popular mode of transportation.

In the past ten years, there have been 16 reported cases of people checking into rehab after becoming “hooked on phonics.”

There’s no national language of Spain.

Every 36 seconds, a dog is adopted, and is then named LaVaughn.

The elevator was first invented when the Egyptian space program went horribly wrong.

One in five pharmacists prefers Mustard over Ketchup on his or her hotdog.

14 percent of children are lost at Best Buy.

Despite the fact that the idiom ‘needle in a haystack’ is used figuratively, the probability of finding a needle in a haystack is calculable. It happens to be one in 17.

In Bangkok, a cat with good table manners can be sold for a higher price than three ounces of silver.

700 glass eyes are lost in public pools annually.

Yoghurt is quite different from yogurt, the difference being yoghurt is twice fermented as opposed to the yogurt making process’ single fermentation.

Experts have yet to determine the correct spelling of the word “Gonorrhea.”

The internet was invented six times.

Apollo Ohno’s space program in the late 60’s and early 70’s only received funding because president Ford was a huge fan of U.S. speed skating.

Websites with 100 or more facts are considered legal entities.

An estimated 17% of all statuses on facebook are stolen, without credit, from extremelytruefacts.blogspot.com (please click).

The term “computer mouse” was coined to pay homage to the first computer which was powered by mouse wheel.

The first tomato sauce ever made didn’t contain any tomatoes.