• In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
  
  
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI. ( I know, I know, who the heck cares!)
  
  
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
  
  
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
  
  
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
  
  
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
  
  
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
  
  
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
  
  
• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
  
  
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
  
  
• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
  
  
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
  
  
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
  
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  
  
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
  
  
• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
  
  
• Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
  
  
• Bubble gum contains rubber. .
  
  
• Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
  
  
• The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
  
  
• Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
  
  
• The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
  
  
• Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
  
  
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
  
  
• It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
  
  
• Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
  
  
• Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
  
  
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so.
  
  
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
  
  
• There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
  
  
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
  
  
• Mosquitoes have teeth.
  
  
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
  
  
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
  
  
• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
  
  
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. (Betcha didn't know that huh?)
  
  
• 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
  
  
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
  
  
• Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, "Cuitlahac", whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
  

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