Celery has negative calories: it takes maore calories to eat celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because farting in a spacesuit damages them.
Eighty percent of all people hit by lightning are men.
Chocolate contains two types of stimulants: caffeine and the alkaloid theobromine, purine.
Other than sleeping, men and women differ on what is their favorite thing to do in bed. Of the men polled, the top response was to have sex at 50 percent; for women, only 20 percent responded the same. Women would prefer to read (23 percent), whereas men put books at just 11 percent.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
Napoleon's hemorrhoids contributed to his defeat at Waterloo. They prevented him from surveying the battlefield on horseback.
Children born in the month of May are on the average 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month.
The pilgrims did not build log cabins, nor did they wear black hats with a conical crown and a hatband with a silver buckle.
It has been medically proven that pessimism raises blood pressure. The more pessimistic a person is, the more likely he or she is to die earlier than optimistic counterparts.
A pig's orgasm lasts for thirty minutes.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The guy who did the voice of Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc) was allergic to carrots.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in plane crashes.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you could not beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a milli-second.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
The ''sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'' is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Most lipstick contains fish scales
Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Only one person in 2 billion live to be 116 or older.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself
A giraffe has a tongue that is 14 inches long and black in color.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart.
Only 7% of the population are lefties.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were seventh cousins.
If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, or silver.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Pearls melt in vinegar
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down, hence the expression: "getting fired."
During an hour's swimming at a community pool, you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine
In an average day, your hands will come into indirect contact with 15 penises by touching door handles, etc.
An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs
Annually, you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands
Annually, you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands
Daily, you will breathe in 1 liter of other people's anal gases
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.