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»« A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
»« All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
»« Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.
»« Coca Cola was originally green.
»« Each day, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
»« You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
»« A snail can sleep for three years.
»« Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
»« An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
»« Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
»« Butterflies taste with their feet
»« Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
»« China has more English speakers than the United States.
»« Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants..
»« I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
»« If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would tand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
»« If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
»« If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you will have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
»« In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
»« In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
»« Leonard Da Vinci invented the scissors.
»« Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
»« Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
»« No word in the English language rhymes with month.
»« Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
»« On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
»« One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition.
»« Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
»« Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
»« Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
»« Starfish have no brain.
»« Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
»« The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
»« The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
»« The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
»« The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
»« The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
»« The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'.
»« Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
»« You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
»« A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is on the ground.