Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are at least fifty years old.

October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.

Oddly, no term existed for "homosexuality" in ancient Greece there were only a variety of expressions referring to specific homosexual roles. Experts find this baffling, as the old Greek culture regarded male/male love in the highest regard. According to several linguists, the word "homosexual" was not coined until 1869 by the Hungarian physician Karoly Maria Benkert.

Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.

Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.

Of the 2200 persons quoted in the current edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," only 164 are women.

Of the 25 highest mountains on earth, 19 are in the Himalayas.

Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.

Of the 3,000 islands in the Bahama chain in the Caribbean, only 20 are inhabited.

Of the 60,000 americans who fled to Canada during the Viet Nam war 30,000 still reside there.

Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.

Of the Top 10 grossing movies of the 1980s, seven were either produced or directed by Stephen Spielberg or George Lucas. They also represent the men behind the top three grossing films of the 1970s.

Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

Officially, the term "boulder" is applied only to stones larger than 10 inches in diameter.

Ok food fans! Whats in an oxtail soup? "Oxen tails!" i hear you say...well, wrong. Try beef cattle.

Okay, ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labelled "Kachiap".

Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

Olympic pools are 50 meters long.

Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.

On a bingo card of 90 numbers there are approximately 44 million possible ways to make bingo.

On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.

On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand "1" and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.

On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so.

On April 25, 1889, The Kansas Times and Star was the first newspaper to use the phrase “bestseller.” On that day the newspaper listed six books as the “best sellers here last week.”

On August sixth, 1945, during World War Two, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.

On average 150,000 pints of Guiness are lost each year in the mustaches of English tavern-goers.

On average 900 people start the Navy SEALs training program. On average 650 people drop out.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.

On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.

On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

On average, about 500 meteorites strike the surface of the Earth each year. The calculated risk of being struck by a meteorite in the United States is once every 9,300 years.

On average, adults watch double the amount of TV as teenagers do.

On average, Americans consume eighteen acres of pizza daily

On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.

On average, cows poop 16 times a day.

On average, every American consumes 109 pounds of beef a year. It takes eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef.

On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.

On average, every person in the United States owns 2.1 radios.

On average, more people fear spiders than death.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.

On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.

On average, twelve newborns are given to the wrong parents each day.

On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.

On average, we spend 6 months of our lives waiting for red lights.

On average, when asked for a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.

On Dec. 10th 1901 the 1st Nobel prizes were awarded. Literature Rene Sully-Prudhomme; Physiology Emil von Behring; Chemistly Jacobus van't Hoff; Physics Wilhelm Roentgen; Peace Jean Henri Dunant Frederic Passy.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.

On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.

On February 7, 1969 a meteorite weighing over 1 ton fell in Chihuahua, Mexico.

On February 9, 1993, "Dateline NBC" was forced to publicly apologize, and NBC president Michael Gartner resigned for a scandal caused by "Dateline" rigging a GM truck with explosives to simulate a "scientific" crash-test demo.

On Hilton Head Island, South Carolina it is illegal to shine a flashlight on a sea turtle.

On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.

On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

On July 4, 1776, King George III of England noted in his diary: "Nothing of importance happened today."

On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)

On May 25, 1957, two men with the same name scored holes in one on the same golf course. Edward Chapman got a hole in one on the eighth hole at Richmond, Surrey in England. Later that day, Edward Chapman hit one from from the sixth tee.

On record, the largest iceberg ever, was larger than the country of Belgium.

On record, the only time it recently snowed in the Sahara Desert was on Feb.18,1979.

On September 13th, 1916 an elephant that had killed a man was hanged until dead from a rail road crain in Erwin, Tennesee. On their first attempt the elephant fell to the ground. It was very sad.

On the cartoon show "The Jetsons," Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15 years old.

On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.

On this planet there is a can of SPAM opened every four seconds.

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

One - quarter of the world's cattle live in India.

One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.

One American of every 16 will have one of the Top 12 most common last names.

One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.

One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

One in every 9000 people is an albino.

One in every four Americans has appeared on television.

One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

One light year the distance light travels in a year at the speed of 186,000 miles per second is just under six thousand billion miles. Earth's nearest neighbor in space, outside our own solar system is four light years away (about 24 trillion miles).

One million tons of oil is equivalent to about 13,000,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.

One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.

One of the holiest Christian holidays is named after a pagan goddess. The name "Easter" derives from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who governed the vernal equinox.

One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).

One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days.

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

One pound of tea can make 300 cups of the beverage.

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

One square mile of land contains more insects than total number of human beings on earth.

One tonne of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

Only 16% of able-bodied males in the American colonies participated in the Revolutionary War.

Only 4 mayors of U.S. cities went on to become president: Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Johnson.

Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.

Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs. Males only drink water and plant juice.

Only four countries in the world start with the letter 'D'. They are Denmark, Dominica, Djibouti and the Dominican Republic

Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.

Only 1 out of 100 people have a computer

Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

Only one movie has had three Academy Award nominees in the same category. In 1963, Tom Jones earned Best Supporting Actress nominations for Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans and Joyce Redman.

Only one of the 88 stable chemicals are named after a person gadolinium. It's named after Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.

Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.

Only three horses who had never previously won a race earned their first victories at the Kentucky Derby. They were Buchanan in 1884, Sir Barton in 1919 and Brokers Tip in 1933.

Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant, Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.

Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.

Orca (killer) whales can grow to b 30ft long.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.

Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.

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

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.

Our nerves system transmits messages at up to 300 ft. per second.

Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.

Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"

Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows

Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.

Over 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their asses.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. "left" in Latin is "sinister" and "right" is "dexter". Ambidextrous simply means "both right".

Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.

Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.

Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.

Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.

Over billions of years, black holes become white holes and they spit out all of the things they sucked in. the atoms are completely jumbled, so no one knows what will ever come out. Theoratically they'll also turn into a white hole. If you were unfortunate enough to fall within one, you would never actually hit -- because time would stop at some point within the event horizon (space outside) of the black hole. Thanx De Composed

Over the course of his lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen, containing about a half trillion sperm.

Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.

Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.

Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.

Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

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