Fact or Crap Trivia

The boiling point of water is 221 degrees F.

The Model T Ford was only produced in black.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

A violin is made from one continuous piece of wood.

In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

Brazil is the only country in the Americas whose official language is Portuguese.

Coca-cola was originally green in color.

Wolves can communicate by using infrared rays.

The word chihuahua means "fearsome lizard dog" in the Aztec language.

In Spain, they have the running of the Bulls. In New Zealand, they have a running of the sheep.

Stephen King reconstructed his book Jurassic Park after tossing his only draft into a campfire.

"Paprika" is the Hungarian word for “pepper.

Oregon-born Billy Idol picked up his English accent while studying astrophysics at Cambridge.

The King of Thailand is a jazz saxophonist who put his musical mp3s online.

Meryl Streep has never won an Oscar for a role in which she used a foreign accent.

The State of Washington is home to the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.

Everybody in Tahiti gets free internet from Microsoft because Bill Gates lost a bet.

In the famous commercial, Jake from State Farm was wearing jeans.

Sean Connery turned down a chance to play Gandalf in the recent Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The bear in The Jungle Book is named Mowgli.

In Finnish, Nokia is also the name of a kind of furry weasel.

Reds catcher Johnny Bench once caught a baseball dropped from a helicopter over Yankees Stadium

In the comics, Superman died once but got better and returned to fighting crime.

Every one of the Beatles has done a guest spot on The Simpsons

Mickey Mouse’s middle name is Fauntleroy.

Alabama is the state printed on a Jack Daniel’s label.

The smallest country to win soccer's Wold Cup is Barbados.

All the kings in a standard deck of cards have a mustache.

Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Stilton Cheese cannot be legally made in Stilton, England.

Tom Hanks did NOT win the Best Actor Oscar for Forrest Gump.

There are two different Harrison Fords on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Fred Lorz won the 1904 Olympic marathon because he drove 11 miles of it.

Nemo is a puffer fish.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

The people of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, call themselves Bunnies, as a pun on "see there, rabbits."

Acorns come from Oak trees.

Eddie Van Halen wrote a concerto in E minor.

Harry Houdini was the first person to fly a plane in Australia.

The water bed couldn't be patented because Robert Heinlein described one in his sci-fi books.

Mario of Super Mario Bros. was once a carpenter.

All the smaller planets in our solar system could fit inside the largest planet

No country has won the World Cups of both cricket and soccer.

One of Saturn's moons looks like the Death Star from Star Wars

Oral-B Hummingbird tooth flosser was discontinued because it could be turned into a lockpick.

Polar bears are left-handed

The popping sound a TiVo makes was originally a glitch they spent $600,000 trying to get rid of

The name of Batman’s butler is Albert.

The hotel chain Best Western once had a string of hotels called Best Eastern.

David Copperfield once used his magic to convince muggers he had no money.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.

The letter S takes up the most pages in almost every English dictionary.

There are 88 keys in a piano.

A right triangle can never be equilateral.

Cows sleep standing up.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow was nearly cut from The Wizard of Oz.

No world capitals start with the letter Z.

Winston Churchill wrote a series of books on fly fishing.

The leaning tower of Pisa is in Greece

Nobody has ever been nominated for an Oscar for playing an alien

Kentucky's Bottomless Cave is technically bottomless since we've never found the bottom.

Nike is the Greek goddess of victory.

The favorite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is pizza.

William Shakespeare willed his second best bed to his wife.

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Sylvester Stallone was a world champion wrestler before he starred in Rocky.

In 2008, Snoop Dogg started work on a bluegrass album.

Red M&Ms disappeared for a decade.

The English horn is neither English nor a real horn.

In the Toy Story films, Bullseye is a horse.

The Beach Boys originally played heavy metal until their manager saw a niche in surf tunes

Race car driver Frankie Muniz is the same Frankie Muniz who was in Malcolm in the Middle.

The first food grown and eaten in space was potatoes.

The University of Texas at San Antonio plagiarized its 2008 honor code on plagiarism.

Dolly Parton founded a theme park called Dollywood.

February never begins and ends on the same day of the week.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

The platypus and echidna are the only mammals that can regenerate lost limbs.

Hell, Michigan froze over on January 24, 2004 when the dam spillway iced over.

The Purdue University Bug Bowl includes cockroach racing.

In 2007, Reese's produced a special peanut butter and banana cream cup in honor of Elvis.

Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prizes after he read his own obituary.

The Jedi were named for Japanese zen masters.

The Dramatic Prairie Dog has been the mascot of the Harvard Drama Club since 1890.

Before appearing in The Transporter, Jason Statham was on the British Olympic diving team

Harrison Ford had a cameo in the movie ET but it was cut.

Nobody has ever won an Oscar for working on a James Bond movie.

There really is an endangered animal called the Tasmanian Devil.

Bob Dylan has won a Pulitzer Prize for music.

Oliver Twist begins with the phrase: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

People born in the 60s and 70s were called Generation X because they were fans of the X Files.

Port wine is named for Porto, Portugal.

Bermuda shorts were named for Frank Bermuda, not the island

The National Geographic Society had a #1 record with whale songs recorded to disco beats.

Gone with the Wind takes place in Savannah, Georgia.

There was an opera based on the controversial American talk show host Jerry Springer.

The Boston Red Sox finally won a World Seriesin 2016.

The very first video on YouTube depicted a kitten playing the piano.

Thomas Paine was elected to the French parliament in 1792, despite not speaking French.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey