Unless your going to be on a gameshow.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day worldwide.
In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
If you know a (male) millionaire who happens to be married, The most likely profession of his wife is a teacher.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
100% of all lottery winners gain weight.
The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.
Superman is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld", either by name, pictures on Jerry's refrigerator or as a statue on his mantle.
85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
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 average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).
The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. Its concrete will not be fully cured for another 500 years.
Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT.
More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last.
In the film Forrest Gump, all the still photos show Forrest with his eyes closed.
The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
In an effort to encourage the use of nuclear energy, the United States lent highly enriched uranium to countries all over the world between 1950 and 1988. Enough weapons-grade material to make 1,000 nuclear bombs has still not been returned by such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Israel and South Africa.
Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves.
An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.
In 2003, the Transportation Security Administration dropped a requirement that air marshals pass a marksmanship test. Some applicants were even hired after they repeatedly shot flight attendants in mock hijacking episodes.
During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.
The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
All polar bears are left handed.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
Television stations hung banners at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, including Al-Jazeera, until it was noticed and taken down.
A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.
The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
The fertility rate in states that voted for George Bush is 12% higher than states that favored John Kerry.
The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.
Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation. In France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation.
The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.
Harry S Truman's middle name was S. Just S, without the period.
On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night.
When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's not because it is hitting itself but because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
The treasury department has more than twenty people assigned to catching people who violate the trade and tourism embargo with Cuba. In contrast, it has only four employees assigned to track the assets of Osama bin Laden.
George W. Bush and John Kerry are 16th cousins, three times removed.
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day.
Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.
Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.
George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was actor Tommy Lee Jones.
In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.
Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.
Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.
Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.
A British gymnast survived a fall from a fourth story window because he went into a somersault and came down on two feet.
The average North Korean 7-year-old is almost three inches shorter than the average South Korean 7-year-old.
Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday.
In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.
One of pitcher Nolan Ryan's jockstraps sold at auction for $25,000.
In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.
In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans, dolphins and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Barbie has been a presidential candidate, an austronaut, a pilot, an army officer, a doctor and a marine. Ken has been a ballet dancer, Barbie's executive assistance, a figure skater and a flight attendant.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The catfish has the most taste buds than any other animal, coming in at 27,000. The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.
When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
When the shell oil company first opened it's doors it was a seashell novelty shop.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
The federal government spent $27,000.00 to determine why inmates wanted to escape.
At 90' below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
According to an old Massachusettes law, your not allowed to shave while driving.
The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
What business travelers steal from hotels: Shampoo (94%), paper (81%), pens (81%), washclothes (7%) and glass (6%).
Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast.
The Pentagon's recipe for brownies is 22 pages long and 175 work hours to prepare.
The human brain is 80% water.
The only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters of a typewriter is "typewriter". (this is also true for a computer keyboard)
Your feet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.
In Pacific Grove, California City Ordinance No. 352 says it is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
At the 1995 Beijing Womens Conference, Chinese officials issued insect repellent to security guards so they wouldn't catch AIDS from mosquitoes that bit visiting lesbians.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Starfish do not have brains.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
In 2003, there were 86 days of below-freezing weather in Hell, Michigan.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is "shake" and the 46th word from the last word is "spear".
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Newborn babies are given to the wrong mother in the hospital 12 times a day worldwide.
In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.
One out of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.
If you know a (male) millionaire who happens to be married, The most likely profession of his wife is a teacher.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first (and only) home run.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" read 4:20.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
100% of all lottery winners gain weight.
The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon.
Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.
3.9% of all women surveyed say they never wear underwear.
Superman is featured on every episode of "Seinfeld", either by name, pictures on Jerry's refrigerator or as a statue on his mantle.
85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
John Madden is an accomplished ballroom dancer.
The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
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 average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).
The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. Its concrete will not be fully cured for another 500 years.
Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
All of Queen Anne's 17 children died before she did.
The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.
People with initials that spell out GOD or ACE are likely to live longer than people whose initials spell out words like APE, PIG, or RAT.
More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last.
In the film Forrest Gump, all the still photos show Forrest with his eyes closed.
The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
In an effort to encourage the use of nuclear energy, the United States lent highly enriched uranium to countries all over the world between 1950 and 1988. Enough weapons-grade material to make 1,000 nuclear bombs has still not been returned by such countries as Pakistan, Iran, Israel and South Africa.
Eleven top executives of the Direct Marketing Association (the telemarketers' group that is trying to kill the federal "Do Not Call" list) have registered for the list themselves.
An iceberg the size of Long Island, New York, has broken off Antarctica and has blocked sea lanes used by both ships and penguins.
In 2003, the Transportation Security Administration dropped a requirement that air marshals pass a marksmanship test. Some applicants were even hired after they repeatedly shot flight attendants in mock hijacking episodes.
During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
There are more plastic flamingoes in the United States than real ones.
The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the "Wizard of Oz".
All polar bears are left handed.
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
Ted Turner owns 5% of New Mexico.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
Television stations hung banners at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, including Al-Jazeera, until it was noticed and taken down.
A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.
The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
The fertility rate in states that voted for George Bush is 12% higher than states that favored John Kerry.
The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.
Americans take an average of just ten days per year vacation. In France, the law guarantees everyone five weeks of vacation, and most full-time workers get two full months vacation.
The IRS admits that one in five people who call their help line get the wrong answer to their question.
20% of Americans think that the sun orbits around the Earth.
Harry S Truman's middle name was S. Just S, without the period.
On average, 40% of all hotel rooms in the United States remain empty every night.
When you hear a bullwhip snap, it's not because it is hitting itself but because the tip is traveling faster than the speed of sound.
The treasury department has more than twenty people assigned to catching people who violate the trade and tourism embargo with Cuba. In contrast, it has only four employees assigned to track the assets of Osama bin Laden.
George W. Bush and John Kerry are 16th cousins, three times removed.
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand and a lot of perspiration, of which the average person loses a quart per day.
Even today, 90% of the continental United States is still open space or farmland.
The world's largest book, "Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey" is in a Chicago public library. The book measures 5 feet tall by 7 feet wide when open. It weighs 133 pounds.
Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are distant cousins.
George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.
Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.
Al Gore's roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was actor Tommy Lee Jones.
In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.
In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
A chef's hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss's computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.
Seven percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.
Astronauts cannot burp in space. There is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Brushing your teeth regularly has been shown to prevent heart disease.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.
Newest trend in the Netherlands: Tiny jewels implanted directly into the eye.
In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.
A British gymnast survived a fall from a fourth story window because he went into a somersault and came down on two feet.
The average North Korean 7-year-old is almost three inches shorter than the average South Korean 7-year-old.
Every year, 2700 surgical patients go home from the hospital with metal tools, sponges, and other objects left inside them. In 2000, 57 people died as a result of these mistakes.
We forget 80 percent of what we learn everyday.
In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.
One of pitcher Nolan Ryan's jockstraps sold at auction for $25,000.
In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.
In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans, dolphins and Bonobo Chimpanzees are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Barbie has been a presidential candidate, an austronaut, a pilot, an army officer, a doctor and a marine. Ken has been a ballet dancer, Barbie's executive assistance, a figure skater and a flight attendant.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The catfish has the most taste buds than any other animal, coming in at 27,000. The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.
When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.
When the shell oil company first opened it's doors it was a seashell novelty shop.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
The federal government spent $27,000.00 to determine why inmates wanted to escape.
At 90' below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
According to an old Massachusettes law, your not allowed to shave while driving.
The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
What business travelers steal from hotels: Shampoo (94%), paper (81%), pens (81%), washclothes (7%) and glass (6%).
Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast.
The Pentagon's recipe for brownies is 22 pages long and 175 work hours to prepare.
The human brain is 80% water.
The only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters of a typewriter is "typewriter". (this is also true for a computer keyboard)
Your feet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.
In Pacific Grove, California City Ordinance No. 352 says it is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly.
In ancient Egypt, people used to shave their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
At the 1995 Beijing Womens Conference, Chinese officials issued insect repellent to security guards so they wouldn't catch AIDS from mosquitoes that bit visiting lesbians.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Starfish do not have brains.
