* Odds of being killed by falling out of bed- 1 in 2 million.
* Driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
* The odds against a person being struck by a meteorite, are ten trillion to one.
* Odds of being killed by space debris- 1 in 5 billion.
* Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
* Number of whiskers on the face of an average man is 30,000.
* The talus is the second largest bone in the foot.
* The human brain is so complex; that it would cost over 8 billion for anyone to program,and sell a computer(s) to do all the thingsit does!
* You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
* Your right lung takes in more air than your left one.
* You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
* Every person has a unique tongue print.
* Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
* Melting an icecube in your mouth burns 2.3 calories.
* Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
* The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
* The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
* The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
* The average life of a tastebud is 10 days.
* You were born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult you only have 206.
* The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
* If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
* The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
* Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
* It only takes 7lbs of pressure to rip your ear off.
* Length of beard an average man would grow if he never shaved 27.5 feet.

* When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
* The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36kg.
* Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
* You blink about 84,000,000 times per year.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue (relative to size).
* Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
* One human hair can support 3 kgs.
* The average human being will walk 160 billion millimetres in a lifetime.
* One quarter of your bones in your body are in your feet.
* Your brain is 80% water.
* We (humans) only use 10% of our brains.
* You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.
* Our eyes never grow our nose and ears never stop growing.
* Blonds have more hair than dark haired people do.
* The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
* The average person flexes the joints in their finger 24 million times during a lifetime.
* Amount of time an average man spends shaving 3350 hours.
* Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner.
* The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest
* The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
* The average person laughs 15 times a day.
* Children grow faster in the springtime.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
* A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peels and raisins.
* It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and abouta gallon to clean the pot.
* Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
* Almonds are a member of the peach family.
* There is cyanide in apple pips.
* Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking up in the morning
* Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.
* Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
* Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal.
* The world's number one producer and consumer of fresh pork is China.
* Most of the vitamin C in fruits is in the skin.
* If Texas were a country it's GNP would be the fifth largest of any country on Earth.
* The city of Istanbul straddles two separate continents, Europe andAsia.
* The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes a year.
* Australia is the richest source of mineral sands in the world.
* Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
* The Sitka spruce is Britain's most commonly planted tree.
* Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two provinces which do not allow personlaized license plates.
* Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
* Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all players last names ended with the letters "OV".
* The country with the biggest percentage of female heads of household is Botswana.
* New Zealand was the first country to give woman the vote, in 1890.
* The national flower of Greenland is the Willow herb.
* Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C"
* Britain's shortest river is the Brun which runs through Burnley inLancashire.
* In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time areteenagers.
* In 1980, there was only one country in the world with notelephones-Bhutan.
* Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
* The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley.
* Bird droppings are chief export of Nauru, an island nation in theWestern Pacific.
* The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
* The volume of the Earth's moon is the same volume of the PacificOcean.
* There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbiathen there are in the whole United States.
* At McDonald's in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead ofcherry ones.
* The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
* The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
* The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed river west of theMississippi.
* Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
* New York City is nicknamed the Big Apple after an early swing dance that originated in South Carolina called The Big Apple.
* When Saigon fell the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
* The most common name in Italy is Mario Rossi.
* Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium.
* Iowa has more independant telephone companies than any other state.
* Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 Inches.
* The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cent an acre.
* The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
* Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
* Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" --and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
* There are no public toilets in Peru.
* South Africa used to have two official languages. Now it has eleven.
* Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
* The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.
* The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds' energy.
* The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.
* It's against the law to have a pet in Iceland.
* An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
* The town of Tidikelt in the Sahara Desert once went ten years without rainfall.
* Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
* In Albania, nodding the head means "NO" and shaking the head means "YES".
* New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
* Tasmania has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
* Toilets in Australia flush counter clockwise.
* The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
* Cyprus has a map on its flag.
* The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface.
* The angel falls in Venezuela are nearly 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.
* Canada is an Indian word meaning "big village".
* Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.
* About 300 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
* In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
* 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
* Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
* Playing cards in India are round.
* There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
* About one third of American adults are at least 20 percent above their recommended weight.
* The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4'9".
* Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access t a bomb shelter.
* 314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.
* There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
* Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
* The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
* Olympic Badminton rules say that the birdie has to have exactlyfourteen feathers.
* A bowling ball need only tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
* The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it willnot even be fully cured for another 500 years.
* The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is the size of 78football fields --- 9.5 million square feet.
* The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. has five sides, five stories andfive acres in the middle.
* A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
* The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
* A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
* The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
* Airbags explode at 200 mph.
* Driving 55mph instead of 65mph increases your car mileage by about15%.
* "Naked" means to be unprotected-"Nude" means unclothed.
* The word "Lethologica" describes the state of not remembering the wordyou want to say.
* The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
* Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.
* A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
* Harvard uses Yale brand locks on their buildings; Yale uses "Best"brand.
* There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of 200.
* It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey'skiss.
* Pluto, the astrological sign for death, was directly above Dallas Texas when J.F.K was born.
* Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death oftheircats.
* The movie playing at the drive-in at the beginning of the "Flintstones" was The Monster.
* Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9.
* 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will bepossible will be 6009!
* The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.
* Hawaiian words do not contain consonant clusters. For example, Kahlua is not a hawaiian word.
* The flag of the U.K. is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.
* Mickey Mouse's ears are always turned to the front, no matter which direction his head is pointing.
* The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
* In every deck of cards the King of Hearts is sticking his sword throughhis head. That's why he's often called the Suicide King.
* The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table ofelements.
* The billionth digit of pi is 9.
* The Black Cauldron is the only PG-rated Disney animated feature.
* The Brady Brunch went to elementary school at Dixie CanyonElementary.
* There are more brown M&M's in plain M&M's than in Peanuts.
* In the summer, walnuts get a tan.
* No two cornflakes look the same.
* There is no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.
* Did you know that you're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider?
* In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.
* Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor--the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
* On the Roseanne show, D.J. stood for David Jacob.
* Tabasco sauce is made by fermenting vinegar and hot peppers in a French oak barrel which has three inches of salt on top and is aged for three years until all the salt is diffused through the barrel.
* The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan fell from the Enola Gay, named after the unit commander's mother. The second dropped from a plane knownas Bock's Car.
* Certain sounds in the English language are real germ spreaders, particularly the sounds of f, p, t, d and s.
* Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WW1.
* In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
* About a third of Americans flush while they are still sitting on thetoilet.
* Research indicates that mosquitos are attracted to people who haverecently eaten bananas.
* King Kong is the first movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
* Tide has 70 percent of the market share for detergent.
* The average bank teller loses $250 a year.
* Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.
* Bubble gum contains rubber.
* Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
* About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make moremoney.
* In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
* "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
* Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
* Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
* The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
* In Michagan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
* Luke Skywalker's last name was changed at the last minute from Starkiller in order to make it less violent.
* The words "assassination" and "bump" were invented by Shakespeare.
* Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
* Most raindrops are round or doughnut-shaped not raindrop shaped.
* American astronauts must be under 6 feet.
* Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
* The word "hangnail" comes from the Middle English: ang-(painful)+ nail. Nothing to do with "hanging".
* In the Great Fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only six people were injured.
* A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.
* Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.
* If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statue miles away.
* The oldest word in the English language is "town."
* Of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all named after artists and/or sculptors, Donatello does not occur in the same time period as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.
* Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
* In the theme song from the "Flintstones" the line after "Let's ride with the family down the street" is "Through the courtesy of Fred's twofeet!".
* There were ten Johns, out of 102 people on the Mayflower.
* All Hebrew originating names that end with the letters "el" have something to do with "God".
* If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
* The first word spoken by an ape in the movie "Planet of the Apes" was "smile".
* Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, reverse of how a record works.
* A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
* At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around theworld.
* Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
* Sunbeams that shine down through clouds are called crepuscular rays.
* The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
* In Disney's "Fantasia", the sorcerer's name is "Yensid" (Disney speltbackwards).
* The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
* The straw was probably invented by Eygptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing fermenting ingresients which floated onthe top of the container.
* A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a epithalamium.
* The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.
* The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.
* Months that begin with Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th".
* The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key "F".
* The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, is usually a fruit cake so it will last until the couple's first anniversary, when they will eat it.
* A two-bit moon is in its first quarter.
* Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years or older.
* The concave dish shape that a liquid takes on inside a glass or tube is called a meniscus.
* The name of the dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is Max.
* Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
* The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
* The ball on top of a flagpole is called a truck.
* It would take 7 billion particles of fog to fill a teaspoon.
* The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.
* The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
* Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.
* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
* All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple.
* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
* All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
* There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
* In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
* The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
* When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
* The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
* A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
* On an American one dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz"
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
* Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.
* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
* The smoke detector was invented in 1969.
* Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
* The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'
* The toes of mummies are wrapped individually.
* There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
* More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
* When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
* The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets Per word.
* The words racecar and kayak are the same both ways.
* The words "assassination" and "bump" were invented by Shakespeare.
* The dot above the letter "i" is called a tittle.
* Speleology is the study of caves.
* At the height of its power (400 BC) the Greek city of Sparta had 500,000 slaves and only 25,000 citizens.
* 70% of all boats sold are used in fishing.
* It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, their have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilised world.
* A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
* The most collect calls are made on father's day.
* Due to precipitation, for a few weeks K2 is bigger than Mount Everest."
* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
* The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing.'
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* An average mattress contains 2 million house dust mites.
* Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond, it's all carbon.
* The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
* The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator.
* A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
* Buckingham Palace has 602 rooms.
* 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
* The most comon name in the world is Mohammed.
* The WD in WD40 means water displacement.
* The word "samba" means to rub navels together.
* The word diastima is the word for having a gap between your teeth.
* Barbie's measurements if she were life-size: 39-29-33.
* A car travelling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
* The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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