Hacky Sack was invented by a football player in the mid 1970's who used it to stregthen tendons he had torn in his knee.

Haggis, the national dish of Scotland: take the heart, liver, lungs, and small intestine of a calf or sheep, boil them in the stomach of the animal, season with salt, pepper and onions, add suet and oatmeal. Enjoy!

Hal in 2001: Space Oddessy got his name from the Producers of the film. HAL are letters before IBM (H comes before I, A comes before B, and L comes before M)

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.

Half of the entire species of Chameleons occur only in Madagascar, the rest mostly in Southern Africa.

Halfway, Oregon temporarily changed its name to half.com as a publicity stunt for the web site of the same name.

Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg, Germany where the serving of hamburgers first became popular.

Hamlet is the most demanding of Shakespeare’s roles with 1,422 lines or roughly 36% of the total number of spoken lines in the play. Hamlet’s role is made up of 11,610 words. The character Falstaff has the most lines of any character in all of Shakespeare’s plays combined with 1,614 spoken lines in three different plays: Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Hamsters blink one eye at a time.

Hamsters love to eat crickets.

Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.

Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors

Hard Bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

Harley Proctor found the name "Ivory" for his soap in the Bible. He was in church reading the line, "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." The original name of the soap was P&G White Soap.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published March 20, 1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.

Harrison Ford is the only actor whose ten highest grossing movies have each earned at least $200 million.

Hartford, Connecticut, has made it illegal to educate dogs.

Harthahorne City Ordinance, Section 363, states that it shall be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.

Harvard University's original name was Cambridge. It only changed when John Harvard donated 400 books to the school.

have to be at least 58.5 inches to be an astronaut. (Click here)

Have you ever questioned your sanity? You have good reason to. Did you know that one out of every four people has some sort of pychological 'problem'?

Hawaii is the only state of the United States in which coffee is commercially grown. Hawaii features an annual Kona Festival, coffee picking contest. Each year the winner becomes a state celebrity. In Hawaii coffee is harvested between November and April.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.

Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.

Hawaii officially became apart of the US on June 14, 1900.

Head lice actually prefer to live on clean heads, not dirty ones.

Heart-attacks are more common among men because they cry less frequently than women.

Heat is better retained in moist air than in dry air,which is why tropical nights are warm and desert nights are cold.

Heavyweight tire manufacturer Goodyear is in no way affiliated with Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. They merely admired his inventiveness and his process that was so easy to duplicate that competitors simply stole it.

Hedenophobic means fear of pleasure.

Hedgehogs have the most similar fingerprints to humans

Henri Matisse's Le Bateau hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for 47 days in 1961 before someone noticed it was upside down.

Hens can distinguish between all the colors of the rainbow.

Here are the odds of rolling various combinations with two dice in a game of Craps:

Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for heroin include "smack," "H," "skag," and "junk." Other names may refer to types of heroin produced in a specific geographical area, such as "Mexican black tar."

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Hershey's Kisses®™ are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Hills Brothers Ground Vacuum Packed Coffee was first introduced in 1900.

Hippopotamus means river horse.

Hippopotamuses actually sweat blood. Their skin contains a great amount of an oily substance that exudes from the pores, and when the beast perspires a little blood gets mixed in.

Hippopotamuses break wind through their mouths.

Hippopotamuses do 80% of their vocalizations underwater.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa more than any other wild animal.

Hippos kill more people in Africa when compared to crocodiles.

Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.

Holyoke, Massachusetts, makes it unlawful to water your lawn when it is raining.

Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973.

Hondas and Toyotas are the most frequently stolen passenger cars because they have parts that can be readily exchanged between model years without a problem.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world.

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.

Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Nixon's Secretaries of State have won Noble Peace Prizes.

Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa.

Horses can sleep while standing upright.

Horses can't vomit.

Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries' Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company's thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally "Twinkies."

Hot water weighs less than cold water for a given volume.

Houseflies hum in the key of F.

Housefly's regurgitate food and eat it again every time they eat

Houston's Bob Watson scored Major League Baseball's 1,000,000th run on May 4, 1975.

How many American presidents are not buried in the United States? Six. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the first pitch at a MLB game.

Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.

Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

Hugh Jackman went through approximately 700 claws as the part of Wolverine in X-Men.

Human babies are born 2 months prematurely for our size and lifespan, to accomodate for the fact that we have large brains during birth. (Got this off my lecture).

Human beings can't smell or taste a substance that is not soluble. On a dry tongue, sugar has no taste. In a dry nose, the smell of a flower would not be noticed. Anything to be smelled must float in the air.

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. Wow... utterly amazing huh

Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.

Humans are the only animals that can blush.

Humans are the only animals that copulate face to face.

Humans are the only animals that use a smile as an emotional response.

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.

Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

Humpback whales are the only ones that use bubbles to help capture their prey. The bubbles trap fish in a spot for feeding whales.

Humphrey O'Sullivan invented the rubber heel because he was tired of pounding the pavements of Boston looking for a job.

Hungarian brothers George and L"szlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938.

Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil.

Hydroxyzine (a prescription drug) is the longest containing "x-y-z" in exact order. Next in line line is xyzzors, a scientific name for a nematode worm in biology.

Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

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