1000 Facts That No One Knows

[Gezza]

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

[12wolfie]

~Witches are real

Proof?

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China!
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[Wakpa]

~Witches are real

Proof?

actually, most of them call themselves wiccens. look it up. also, I think there is thread here on cs.

[Wazaiyata]

~Witches are real

Proof?

actually, most of them call themselves wiccens. look it up. also, I think there is thread here on cs.

yep! ^w^
thanks friend<3
Although wiccan or wicca is a way of life, it is still considered witch craft with all the spiritual connections. They also conduct many potions.

[Potassium]

Typewriter is the longest word made using only one row on the keyboard.

[KelpieMomma]

Typewriter is the longest word made using only one row on the keyboard.

Typewriter... OHMYGOD IT IS. YOU JUST DON'T USE 'Q'!

-mind has been blown-

My fact:

Most toilets flush in E flat.

[Ninja Jedi]

you can bite off your finger as easy as you bite a carrot but your brain won't let you.

soooo... you could bite off someone else's finger?

[Übermensch]

Some/Most jokes in Sesame street are old school and meant for adults.

[Riku_Kaida]

RANDOM TIDBITS:
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language
Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color
The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887
The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom
Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with
The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002 (lol, we have one in my school :p )
The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change
The body has 2-3 million sweat glands
Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Charlie Chaplin once won the third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
Almonds are a member of the peach family, and apples belong to the rose family.
Alfred Nobel, in whose name the Nobel prizes are instituted, was the inventor of dynamite.
The planet Venus does not tilt, so consequently, it has no seasons. It is the only planet that rotates clock-wise.
Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they’ve been removed.
US President John F. Kennedy was an accomplished ventriloquist.
Coca-Cola was originally green. (And most of us already know that it originally contained cocaine)
Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg. It’s actually the shell.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The tongue is the only muscle that is attached from one end only.
Pumice is the only rock that floats in water.
Camel’s milk does not curdle.
Your foot is the same length as your forearm, and your thumb is the same length as your nose. Also, the length of your lips is the same as the index finger.
Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt holds a constant temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
It takes approximately 2 million flowers for a bee to make 1 pound of honey.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of the elements.
The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
Watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa.
The hair of some cancer patients treated with chemotherapy can grow back in a different colour, and sometimes even be curly or straight.
The markings that are found on dice are called “pips.”
Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet.
The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.
Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.
Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
The longest single-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah-Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered!
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.


VIDEO GAME FACTS:
In the original Super Smash Brothers Melee, the Princess Daisy trophy had a mysterious third eye on the back of its head. Unfortunate glitch? Or something more sinister?
In 1986, Nintendo released a special Disk System peripheral for the NES in Japan. Among its features was a microphone in the controller, which certain games used, including an updated version of the original Zelda. You could only destroy a certain enemy by shouting into the mic.
There are currently over 100 million Game Boys in the world; both the original and the colour variant. 32 million of them are in Japan, and there are 44 million in America.
Online gaming isn't as recent a development as you may think; in the '90s, a modem peripheral called the Satellaview was released for the Super Nintendo. It let gamers download gaming news and specially-designed games. They were mostly remakes of retro classics.
Early iterations of Nintendo's failed Virtual Boy console included a gun you'd set vertical on a flat surface that would project a 3D image into the air.
Star Fox Adventures originally started life as Dinosaur Planet, a game developed entirely by Rare. It starred a blue fox called Krystal, who later became part of the Star Fox crew. (*has this game* Krystal wears really skimpy clothes guize :C )
The damsel-in-distress that Mario rescues in the original Donkey Kong is called Pauline. In the Japanese version she was known simply as 'Lady'.
Attacking the fat, black pig on Outset Island in The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker will eventually cause it to attack.It's 100% invincible, though, so watch out.
Mega Man is known as Rock Man in Japan. This was changed in America because 'rock' is well-known slang for crack cocaine, and the name stuck.
The name Atari comes from the Chinese game Go. 'Atari' refers to a situation where a stone or a group of stones is in imminent danger of being taken by another player; a state Atari ironically found themselves in when the brand was bought by French company Infogrames.
The Xbox was originally named DirectXbox, as it was initially designed to show how Microsoft's Direct X graphics technology could benefit the console market.
The Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator has more graphics processing power than the Commodore 64. Amazingly, some basic C64 games can even be programmed into it.
In the NES era, Nintendo had strict licensing rules in an effort to maintain quality control (hence the gold Nintendo seal of quality badges on the cartridges). They only allowed third-party publishers to release 5 games a year for their systems.
Final Fantasy VII was originally designed for the Nintendo 64, but Square cancelled the project and moved to the PSone because of the lack of space in the console's game cartridges. FFVII would've filled 13 cartridges.
Final Fantasy got its name from the fact that it was supposed to be Square's last ever game. They were struggling to become popular with dodgy games like Rad Racer and World Runner 3D, and were going to bow out of the industry gracefully.
Sixty percent of all Americans age six and older, or about 145 million people, play computer and video games. The average age of a gamer is 28 years old.
Captain Commando was a sci-fi superhero who served as Capcom's mascot in its early days, but was replaced by Mega Man after the Captain proved unpopular with gamers.Capcom's original name was Capsule Computing.
Sonic The Hedgehog has appeared in four TV series; Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic Underground, The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic X. He's also appeared in a comic book series.
The Nintendo GameCube's proprietary disc can hold 1.5 gigabytes of data - 190 times more than what an N64 game cartridge can hold.
The Atari Jaguar proudly boasted that it was the first 64-bit console, but in reality it was two 32-bit chips stuck together - so not truly 64-bit
It's only humanly possible to press a button on a controller 16 times per second. This record was set by Toshuyuki Takahashi, a Japanese gamer.
Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, got the idea for the worldwide Game Boy phenomenon after collecting caterpillars as a child and watching them change into butterflies.
Super Mario World for the SNES took 29,000 hours to program. Luckily, it went on to sell 17 million copies and was the best-selling game of its generation.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 was one of the first ever games to have a simultaneous, worldwide release date. This was known amongst gamers as 'Sonic2sday', as it appeared in shops on a Tuesday. November 24, 1992 to be exact.
The secret boss Kurt Zisa in the first Kingdom Hearts was named via a contest held by Squaresoft in the US to promote the game.
Wii Play has sold around twice as much as Halo 3, shifting some 16 million copies.
Starcraft is the first computer game to have ever physically made it into space. It was sent aboard Shuttle mission STS-96 on May 27, 1999 by Mission Specialist Daniel T. Barry , who is also a Starcraft fan.

POKEMON FACTS:
Some of Slowbro's Pokedex entries state that if the Shellder is removed, it reverts to Slowpoke. In other words, it de-evolves.
Arcanine's species name is the "Legendary Pokemon" despite the fact that it's not actually a legendary in any way.
Wobbuffet is the only fully evolved Pokemon that can't learn any TMs
FR/LG has an anti-cheat feature where hacking in Mew would cause it to not listen. This is not in any of the DS games, however. To elaborate, Mew ignores every order you give it, regardless of what badges you earned. Also, the same thing happens with a hacked Deoxys.
Illumise is the only Pokemon in Generation 3 whose name starts with the letter I
Some beta versions of Red and Blue list Machamp's original name as "Ju-Doh"
Magneton is made by three Magnemite, yet weighs 10 times more. Magnemite weighs 13.2 pounds, but Magneton weighs 132 pounds.
Rock Throw is the only physical Rock attack with no secondary effect
Tracey replaced Brock during the Orange Islands because the artists thought Brock was racist. Brock came back when no one cared. This is an interview with the former anime director and storyboard artist Masamitsu Hidaka for proof: http://bit.ly/9rTW8l
The Nidorino that appears in Professor Oak's introduction in Red and Blue has the cry of a Nidorina
Every Eevee evolution has been owned by a main or recurring character in the anime. Except for Jolteon
Pachirisu is the only Pokemon without any evolutionary stages allowed in Amity Square.
The number of stripes on Electabuzz's tail changes on the official and sprite artwork between generations.
Of all the Pokemon that can evolve, Sneasel has the highest base speed stat.
In some early art for Venomoth, it was shown having yellow spots on the back of its wings. This was later removed.
Raikou is the only legendary Pokemon Ash hasn't encountered in the anime or in one of the movies.
One of Parasect's Pokedex entries says its spores are used as medicine in China, which is a rare reference to the real world.
Hippopotas and Hippowdon are currently the only Pokemon whose male and female sprites use completely different colors.
Red and Blue only use 37 completely unique sound clips for cries. The sounds are played back in different ways for each Pokemon.
Gold and Silver only have 30 unique sound clips used for Pokemon cries in addition to the previous 37 from Red and Blue
Kabuto's name in some game prototypes is "Att". This might be short for Atlantis.
In the anime, the inside of Charizard's wings are colored green, but in the games, they are colored with more of a blue tint.
Wartortle's official coloring is inconsistent; its ear color often alternates between white or blue in various official art.
When Rotom is encountered, the music is the same as legendary encounters. It's currently the only non-legendary to do this.
Deoxys was the first Pokemon to have its own unique battle music in-game
In Red and Blue, you were able to use a fishing rod on the Rhydon statues. However, nothing was found unless you used an Old Rod. In which you would only find Magikarp.
Zapdos is the only legendary bird to never be seen on its feet in a sprite: all of its sprite artwork depicts it airborne.
Ninetales's name was originally spelled as "Nine Tales" (two words instead of one) in some early copies of Red and Blue.
Heatran is the first (and currently only) legendary Pokemon that can either be male or female.
Jirachi and Manaphy are the only two Pokemon who can't be found at an in-game location in any of the main games.
In the Galactic Hideout in Eterna City, Jupiter has a Skuntank at level 20. Stunky can't evolve into Skuntank until level 34.
In Super Smash Brothers Melee, Ditto can be summoned from a Pokeball via hacking, but he disappears the second he comes out.
Some Pokedex entries say that Raichu can discharge up to 100,000 volts. However, its Pokemon Stadium entry only says 10,000 volts.
Only two Electric-type Pokemon are known to have the "Lightning Pokemon" species name; Electrike and Jolteon
In the anime, Seaking is the only Pokemon Ash and Misty both owned, but they were both caught and released in the same episode http://bit.ly/brltNu
Lucas's and Dawn's Platinum artwork shows them holding Repeat Balls. It could be a pun because Platinum "repeats" Diamond/Pearl.
Every Spinda has a unique pattern of spots. In-game, there are exactly 4,294,967,296 possible outcomes (Not counting shiny).
In Red/Blue, Koffing's crossbones pattern was above its face, but in the Japanese Red/Green, it's below.
Rhydon is tied with Lairon in weight, with both of them weighing exactly 264.6 lbs.
Rhydon appears first in the game's Pokemon index data in Red/Blue. This is why most glitch Pokemon "evolve" into him.
Croagunk's game sprites show it with pink cheeks, but all of its anime appearances show it with yellow cheeks instead.
Bayleef is the tallest of any of the second-stage starter evolutions.
Some of Glalie's PokeDex entries say it has a hard body made entirely of rock, despite the fact that Glalie is an Ice-type
Corsola and Relicanth are the only Water/Rock Pokemon that are not revived fossil Pokemon
Heracross is the only Bug-type Pokemon able to learn Megahorn, even though Megahorn is a Bug-type move
In-game, Caterpie and Goldeen have the exact same cry.
Zigzagoon and Aipom are the only Pokemon with the Pickup ability that can keep it when they evolve.
In Japanese versions of Pokemon, "Save" is labeled レポート (Report), and you submit a ポケモンレポート (Pokemon Report).
Spinarak was created in a children's Pokemon design activity in the American Trading Card Game League
Despite Psyduck's PokeDex entries talking about its headaches and psychic powers, it's not a Psychic type (neither is Golduck)
The DS game's Pokedexes can list Pokemon by color. Bronzong is listed as "Green", despite being colored blue
Every Electric-type Gym Leader has light-colored hair. They are also the only leaders to wear military-styled clothes (with the newest game being the exception)
Magcargo's Pokedex entries say that its shell breaks easily, but in the anime, it retracts into its shell to protect itself.
Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are the only Pokemon that weren't previously related, then later gained a shared pre-evolution
Latias and Latios were the first legendary Pokemon to have set genders, or even genders at all.
None of Cascoon's sprites show it with two eyes, despite that it's been well-established it has two.
Mew can learn Attract and Captivate despite being genderless. However, it always fails unless the opponent is also genderless.
Mew was the only Pokemon of the first 151 to be left out of the original version of the Pokerap
Sneasel and Weavile are the only two Ice-types able to learn Surf without being Water-type as well.
In terms of base stats, Shuckle and Munchlax are tied as the slowest non-glitched Pokemon in existence.
So far, the only Pokemon who can learn Flash via leveling up is Volbeat.
Gliscor is actually lighter than its pre-evolution; Gliscor weighs about 93.7 lbs, while Gligar is about 142.9 lbs
Gliscor and its pre-evolution Gligar are the only Pokemon to have a Ground/Flying type combination
All official Koffing art shows it smiling. However, all official Weezing art depicts it frowning
In Generation 1, catching a Mew that transformed results in a glitch where the caught Mew turns into a Ditto
In Pokemon Rumble, Transform isn't a move, so Ditto can only know Struggle. Ditto is also the only character that can use it.
Lickilicky is the only Normal-type Pokemon that can learn the move Explosion
Croagunk's evolution line is the only Pokemon to have a double weakness to psychic-types.
Golbat and Chansey are the only evolved Pokemon that can evolve to a third form via happiness
Yanma and Yanmega are the only Pokemon whose names begin with the letter Y
If Kanto's landscape were made to fit that of modern-day Japan, Saffron City occupies the space where Tokyo should be
Anime Giovanni's Persian is most likely Shiny; the fur seems normal, but the inside of its ears are pink instead of tan
No Slowpoke has ever been seen using an attack in the Anime, despite showing up multiple times
As of Generation IV, Flareon is the only fully-evolved Fire-type Pokemon that cannot learn SolarBeam.
Japanese Red and Green contain an un-attainable Surfboard item. It's actually usable, and lets you surf without a Surfing Pokemon.
Lairon does not learn any Rock-type moves by leveling up, despite being part Rock
Lt. Surge is one of two Leaders who is known to have lived outside of the Pokemon regions; the other is Fantina.
In G/S, Full maps exist for the Cinnabar Island Lab, indicating it was to be playable at some point
There has never been a bug-type Pokemon that can learn Fly or Surf.
Poison-types can't be poisoned. The same goes for Steel-types.
Acid is the ONLY Poison type move that can not Poison you, and is the only Poison move that lowers a stat.
Salamence is actually lighter than its pre-evolution Shelgon, weighing 226.2 lbs compared to Shelgon's 243.6 lbs
An unused ability, Cacophony, is inside the code of R/S. It's identical to Soundproof (allows a Pokemon to avoid sound attacks)
In Diamond/Pearl, Rain can appear on Route 213, but only if your DS clock is set to July 11, December 2, or December 31
In Diamond/Pearl, the snow in Snowpoint will change to sparkling snow if your DS clock is set to January 12th
FR/LG contain the Mach and Acro Bike in the game data. If you hack either into your bag, they work like the normal bike.
Drapion is the only Pokemon owned by Aaron of Sinnoh's Elite Four that is not Bug-type (the type he specializes in)
Charizard is the only Pokemon in the Super Smash Bros games that transitioned from a Poke Ball Pokemon to a playable character
Illumise and Volbeat can be found all day in Diamond and Pearl, unlike real fireflies who are nocturnal
Every major team/group in the main games have had at least one of their members use Zubat and/or one of its evolutionary family.
Some pieces of Japanese art for Slowpoke shows that they have the same striped bellies that Slowbro and Slowking do
In the games and official artwork, Drifloon is purple, but in the anime it is pink. It shares this trait with Nidorino
Giovanni can actually be battled in HGSS, but is currently unaccessable without hacking
Morty is the only rematched Gym Leader to use more than one of the same Pokemon (Gengar)
Porygon (as well as its evolutions) have never appearead again in the Anime after the infamous "seizure episode"
There was never a Mew under that truck in Vermilion. However, in FR/LG, there was a note telling you how to get a Lava Cookie.
Prior to Gold and Silver coming out, many websites incorrectly referred to Marill as "Pikablu"
Prior to the second generation, many pieces of Pokemon merchandise wrongly listed Togepi's Pokedex number as 152.
The English version of "Mewtwo Strikes Back" portrays Mewtwo as a cold villain. The Japanese version portrayed him as confused
Pokemon Rumble is the only game where one of the starting characters is a Ratata
Gold and Silver contain unfinished Safari Zone data. It's one small map with no encounters, but it has 4 types of land inside.
Most of the Pokemon Mini games emulated in Pokemon Channel are heavily edited from Party, the free Mini pack-in game.
In the US, preordering Colosseum got you a bonus disc. It contained the transferable Jirachi from other region's Channel games
in 2006, Square-Enix developed a Pokemon title for cellphones in Japan. It allowed you to chat using various Pokemon for avatars
In R/S/E, there are several remixes of G/S tracks that are still in the game's data, but are not heard during normal gameplay.
Grass and Rock have the most weaknesses (5 each), but a Grass/Rock type (e.g. Cradily) is only weak to Ice, Poison and Steel.
12 Pokemon in Kanto didn't participate in evolution, while Johto had 19, 28 in Hoenn, and 19 in Sinnoh.
In the 1st gen, High Jump Kick only did 1 damage in recoil when it missed due to a bug
All professors are named after trees
In R/B, it was possible to make your pokemon use a move with 0 PP in certain situations, rolling it's current PP over to 63.
The names of the Soul Badge and the Marsh Badge were originally supposed to be the other way around
In R/B/Y, it was possible to legally get 255 EVs in all stats on a Pokemon
The Pokémon Gold/Silver time-keeping battery lasted on an average of about 7 years
There are two unused Pokemon types in R/B; ??? type and BIRD type (Yes, it's in all caps)
Lorelei was the only Elite 4 member in R/B/Y to not have two of the same Pokemon.
In R/B/Y and G/S/C, besides rivals, Gym Leaders, and the E4, the only trainer with 6 Pokemon is a fisherman with all Magikarps.
The move waterfall was first introduced as an HM in G/S/C, but it was naturally learnable by Goldeen in R/B/Y
If you attempt to import Missingno into Pokemon Stadium, it comes out as a substitute doll.
Back in R/B/Y, Hyper Beam didn't recharge if you fainted a Pokemon with it.
Shiny Pokemon actually existed in R/B/Y, but they just wouldn't appear to be shiny until you transferred them to GSC
Giratina is the only 2-type Pokemon weak to both its own types
Ditto cannot transform into a Ditto that already transformed into another Pokemon
??? is a type programmed into games that has no resistance or weaknesses (glitch Pokemon get this type a lot)
In Yellow, you could make your Pikachu very happy by offering him potions again and again, even if he didn't need them
Oak was intended to be a trainer in RB. Leftover data says that Oak would use Tauros, Exeggutor, Arcanine, Gyarados, and a Starter
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, all seven starters could appear in fights in some form except for Totodile (Not counting Trophies)
Both Tyranitar and the Hippowdon evolution line can control the weather by creating sand storms.
In FireRed/LeafGreen, the Rocket Warehouse passwords are palindromes: "goldeen need log" and "yes nah chansey"
Gold/Silver and Crystal introduced the phone, which was then forgotten about until Emerald. Then it was lost again in D/P
Scyther and Seaking have the same cry.
Kanto introduced 5 legendary Pokemon. Johto had 6, Heonn 10, and Sinnoh had 13 (not including Phione)
In R/B, encountering Missingno would increase the quantity of the 6th item in your bag to 255
Magikarp was obtainable in all regions, yet in only one region is it available before the first badge (although it's at level 5)
The maximum amount of points you can receive in Pokemon Snap is 17,378,000
Defeating the Elite 4 multiple times had no reward other than filling up your Hall of Fame until FireRed/LeafGreen
There are 38 non-legendary Pokemon that do not evolve or have a pre-evolution.
Gastly and Haunter weigh the least out of any Pokemon at 0.02 pounds. To compare, Gengar weighs 89.3 pounds
Any Unown can be caught with a guaranteed chance when using a Dusk Ball or a Repeat Ball (and the Master Ball)
The names of the three legendary birds each end with the first three Spanish numbers. ArticUNO, ZapDOS, MolTRES
In R/S, May/Brendan would never battle you with a fully evolved starter
The original Pokemon prototype was built on a NES. This was done due to the NES having similar physical power to a Game Boy.
Mewtwo is a clone of the Pokémon Mew, yet it comes before Mew in the Pokédex
No other rods have been invented other than the Old, Good and Super Rods.
There is no attack that increases a Pokemon's accuracy (not counting Acupressure; it raises a random stat)
Emerald and Platinum are the only games where you can rebattle Gym Leaders
Blue/Red’s only trainers you could rematch were the Elite 4 and the Champion
Diamond/Pearl is the first game where capturing all the different Unown types actually unlocks something
FR/LG were the first games where you lose a proportion of money instead of half if all your Pokemon faint.
A Pokemon's cry changes slightly when its HP is low or when it is about to faint
If you deposit 999 pokemon in Pokemon Ranch, you can trade an egg for a Mew
Sinnoh is the only region in which all of the starters gain a second type when they evolve
Bulbasaur is the only starter to begin with two types (Grass/Poison)
Porygon Z is the only Stage-3 Pokémon which can be had without hacking at Level 1
Golduck shares Rayquaza's abilitiy to control the weather by stopping it
Yellow was NOT the only game in which Jesse and James appeared in. They also appeared in Pokemon Puzzle League
Smeargle cannot learn any TMs, yet can learn almost any move through Sketch.
There are 3 Legendary Pokemon that have been of a level that is not divisible by ten (47). (Palkia, Giratina, and Dialga)
10 legendary Pokemon have been level 50 when found (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Cresselia, Mesprit, Uxie, Azelf, Raikou, Entei, Suicune)
2 legendary Pokemon have been level 60 when found (Lugia and Ho-Oh in Crystal)
Rotom is not a legendary because it can breed more of itself AND it will reappear at the TV if you defeat it.
In B/R/Y, Pokemon did not heal when placed in the PC unlike in all the other games.
In R/B/Y, you would ‘black out’, but in G/S/C and R/S/E/FR/LG you would white out. However, you black out again in D/P.
D/P was the first generation that you could catch Porygon in the wild.
There are 5 Pokemon that can become pure flying type in certain conditions: Kecleon, Porygon, Porygon-2, Porygon-Z, and Arceus.
In RBY, Brock gives you the Boulder Badge while still in the battle, whereas every gym leader after that gives it to you on the field screen
Electabuzz spelled backwards has zubat in it.
5 3rd-gen moves couldn't be used when R/S where released (4 became usable in Fr/Lg and the last (volt tackle) was unusable until emerald) Icicle Spear, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, Hydro Cannon, and Volt Tackle.
The move Kinesis was listed in RBY, but no pokemon could learn it.
Poison attacks were based off of your special stat in RBY.
In the Japanese version of Colosseum, there was a bonus disc that allowed you to catch Celebi.
The only Pokemon RPG that you can't catch/receive a Pikachu without trading is Colosseum.
In G/S/C, if you use the radio inside the Unown Temples you could pick up an extra station and hear them making eerie sounds.
Arceus' Pokedex info says that it shaped the universe with its 1000 arms, yet it can't learn any moves involving punches or hands.
Fighting is the only type that has never been paired with Flying.
Charizard and Rhyhorn have the same cry.
Originally, Pikachu had a dark patch on his stomach and was a lot chubbier. This was changed to make him easier to work with in the anime.
Female trainers in-game flirt with the main character in the same way regardless of gender.
Porygon 2 is the only 2nd gen. Pokemon never to have appeared in the anime.
Mew was the first trademark received for the series (even before the word Pokemon)
The first purely metal type pokemon in the pokedex is Mawile.
New Bark Town in G/S/C is the only starting town where you don't head north from to leave at the beginning of the game (You go west instead)
In DP, if you evolve your starter before catching anything, you can't continue. Since it counts as a new Pokemon, it thinks you have the Dex
Lance's Aerodactyl had Rock Slide in GSC when you couldn't get it normally.
Stadium2's Lt. Surge had a Surfing Raichu with Reversal. That's impossible to get because Reversal is a GSC egg move and Surf is Yellow only
According to his Pokedex entry, Machamp can through 1,000 punches in two seconds, yet is in the bottom 50% on speed numbers.
If you use "the mew glitch" in R/B/Y but fight a different trainer and get Magmar instead, it removes the Snorlax by Celedon city
Poliwrath's D/P Pokedex entry talks about the Pacific Ocean, one of the first mentions of a real world place.
Despite being Generation II Pokémon, Houndour, Murkrow, and Slugma are actually native to Kanto in Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal.
Jynx originally had a black face with blue hands. Nintendo had to edit Jynx when people complained the design resembled Black stereotypes.
Back in R/B/Y, it was impossible to get a non-nicknamed Jynx by its real name. A guy in Cerulean trades it to you, but he nicknamed it Zynx.
Smeargle's Sketch attack cannot sketch Chatter.
Azurill can change genders when it evolves.
A genderless parent that can breed with Ditto acts as both the male AND the female in the breeding pair as does Ditto
Sableye and Spiritomb have no type weaknesses. The only way to expose it is by making it weak against fighting with the move Odor Sleuth.
Out of all the Pokémon whose pre-evolved forms require a move to evolve, Ambipom's is the only one that needs to know Double Hit.
Linoone has used the same set of sprites in every main game made so far.
Snorlax was the heaviest Pokemon until Generation 3. It's now ranked 6th, losing to Metagross, Groudon, Dialga, and both Giratina forms
Weedle, Caterpie, and Wurmple are the only Pokemon who can evolve at as low as level 7 (Via leveling up).
The second generation is the only generation to have all three starters a single type when they fully evolve.
The only specific reference to any real-world animal in Pokemon is from Gastly's FireRed PokeDex entry (it talks about an Indian Elephant).
Dragon Pokemon are the only type to be featured in every Generation's Pokemon League.
Missingno doesn't exist in Pokemon Green. Only Red and Blue.
Nintendo once got sued from a magician for naming Pokemon Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam. Nintendo won, of course
Buizel (as well as Floatzel), are the only Pokemon that can get the Wacan Berry. They are sometimes holding it when captured
Girafarig, Ho-oh, and Eevee are the only Pokemon whose names are Palindromes (spelled the same forwards and backwards)
LIttle Mac weighs 107 pounds in the original Punch Out. The number 107 also happens to be Hitmonchan's National Pokedex Number.
Mareep is an anagram of ampere, the measure of electrical current.
Rotom is inspired by Pulseman, a platformer made for the Sega Genesis. It was created by Game Freak.
In the Japanse version of the anime, Misty had genuine romantic feelings for Ash. This is edited out altogether in the English version.
Brock once caught a Tauros. But it was in one of the infamous "banned" episodes, so it was never mentioned even once after said episode.
In the Japanese original version of the game, the protagonist was named Satoshi. This was in tribute to Satoshi Tajiri, the Pokemon creator.
When Poliwag evolves into Poliwhirl, its swirl changes direction. It changes again if it evolves into Poliwrath.
Pikachu is in all six regional Pokedexes, despite the fact that it is only known to be native to Kanto.
Abomasnow (As well as Snover) have the most weaknesses in the game, with 7 different types super-effective against them.
Only two Pokemon created are naturally weak to no type; Sableye and Spiritomb. However, in Pokemon XD, Shadow moves are super-effective
The yellow pattern on a Croconaw was flipped horizontally between the second and third generation of games.
When the show was first being planned, Ash was originally going to be given a Clefairy. It was switched out at the last minute with Pikachu.
And a well-known one: Ash was originally voiced by a female, Veronica Taylor, until the first change of voice actors in the side movie/episode that came with the movie Pokemon Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, The Mastermind of Mirage Pokemon.

[insanity :)]

Rats will eat their own pups if they are hungry enough.

(I know this from experience.
/barfs e.e)