Long ago, clans would burn down your house to get rid of you without killin you. The phrase "your fired!" came from this. See more

Your system of blood vessels is over 60,000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice! See more

Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals. See more

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. See more

Most dust particles in a US house are made from dead skin. See more

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. See more

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland. See more

Albert Einstein's parents were worried he was mentally slow, because it took him a long time to learn how to speak. See more

Every single possible 3-character .com domain (over 50,000) has long since been registered! See more

The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometers (6.9 miles) long. See more

The name for having a fear of long words: Hippopotomonstroses­quippedaliophobia. Ironic, isn't it? See more

If you take a pencil, you can draw a 50 kilometer (31 mile) long line. See more

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. See more

A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. See more