The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896.Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honour of his brother.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years. (they call it Yasmin)

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a fullmoon.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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 and dolphins 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 can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish haven't got brains.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were even in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his strange characters.

The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a Band-Aid in every episode. Either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Beelzebub, another name for the devil, is Hebrew for "Lord of the Flies", and this is where the book's title comes from.

The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except The Catholic Church.

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'.

In 1986 Danny Heep became the first player in a World Series to be a designated hitter (DH) with the initials "D.H."

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.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sell-out crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Most missing people disappear on a Tuesday.

The average home today has more computing power than all of NASA did when John Glen made that first flight 36 years ago.

The odds that Elvis Presley will crash-land a UFO on the head of the Loch Ness monster have been calculated by the British Betting Agency William Hill at 14,000,000 to one

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland

Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet

America once issued a 5-cent bill

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

You blink about 84,000,000 times a year

In England, in the 1880's, "PANTS" was considered a dirty word

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E' and 'Q' is the least used

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions

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

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000

City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%.

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World: 70%

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

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.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

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.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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 longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games in the USA (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000

City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise, it will digest itself.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die in the movie.

"Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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 while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins 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 can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eye- brows and eyelashes.

The average number of legs per person is less than two.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an aeroplane.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. State capital without a McDonalds.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms, as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni and about a gallon to clean the pot.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave it to Beaver".

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition. It is not chemically as addictive as nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".

Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.

The symbol on the "pound sterling" key (£) is called an octothorpe.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.

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.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

The condom -- made originally of linen -- was invented in the early 1500's.

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.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones -- Bhutan.

Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

The sound of ET walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jell-O.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

27 percent 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.

There is no upper age limit for MP's.

In 1600 a pair of silk stockings cost £1.25.

The last London smog occurred in 1962.

Finland had the first female MPs.

The worst plane crash in the world happened on the ground.

The last pure-blooded Tasmanian died in 1876.

The first special Christmas stamp was printed by the Canadians in 1898.

Peruvian Indians wash their babies in llama urine to ward off evil spirits

The Romans invented the bikini.

Though scientists talk confidently about black holes, no one has ever seen one.

The first British pavements were laid in Edinburgh in 1688.

Heroin addiction causes constipation.

The original Tories were a band of Irish outlaws.

845 dialects are spoken in India.

Statistics indicate that more murderers come from Yorkshire than any other English county.

In 1808 two Frenchmen fought a pistol duel - in hot air balloons suspended over Paris. One man missed his shot but the other was more accurate and watched his opponent plummet more than a thousand feet to his death.

There are more Italians in New York than in Rome - and more Irish than in Dublin

The Chubb lock was invented in 1818.

Buckingham Palace is linked to Heathrow airport by a Tube line.

The Incas were the world's first dentists.

Eskimos use refrigerators to prevent their food from freezing.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Eau de Cologne was invented as protection against the plague.

The ballpoint pen was invented by the Biro brothers.

The full name for Bangkok, capital of Thailand, contains 169 letters.

In Wales in the sixteenth century, 43 clergymen were listed as having concubines

The Russian for God is Bog.

In Hawaii, the age of consent for homosexuals is fourteen.

The word 'robot' is from the Slav word meaning 'work'.

Pognophobia is the fear of beards.

In the state of Minnesota, it is against the law to hang male and female underwear together on the same washing line.

Belgium has never exercised censorship over adult films, the only country never to do so.

In 1890, 180,000 mummified Egyptian cats were sold to a company to be made into fertiliser.

The game of chess originated in India.

At the outbreak of World War I, there were only 50 men in the US Air Force

The last Roman soldier left Britain in AD407.

The last man to speak the Mohican language died in 1933.

Thirty-one percent of British marriages involve a divorced partner.

76% of American men would be willing to have sex with a total stranger for a million dollars.

According to insurance brokers astronauts have the most dangerous job in the world.

There are no clocks in the casinos at Las Vegas.

The Basque word for God is 'Jingo'.

The Niagara Falls are switched off at night.

For three years the explorer Marco Polo was mayor of a city in China.

Honey is used to fill the centres of golf balls.

Holland is the most densely populated country in the world, with over a thousand people per square mile.

Bagpipes can enter America tax-free.

During the American Civil War, maggots were used to eat away the dead tissue around wounds.

Bombay duck is made from dried fish.

None of Socrates' writings actually survive.

In Iceland, the telephone directories list people according to their first names.

Chinese rulers used to use giant clams' shells as baths.

The Duke of Wellington suggested that the Houses of Parliament be built on the banks of the River Thames, so that it could never be surrounded by an angry mob.

It is illegal to be prostitute in Sienna, Italy, if your first name is Mary

In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an ugly potato in the ground, it was the custom to push it into the face of the nearest man.

In many juke-boxes you can actually buy recorded silence.

The study of stupidity is morology.

The two highest IQs ever recorded (on a standard test) both belonged to women.

In The Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.

Nutmeg, if injected intravenously, is fatal.

The Dutch Army is unionised.

The practice of numbering houses only begun in London in 1764.

Iraq supplies three-quarters of the world's dates.

Rubber is an important ingredient in the manufacture of bubble-gum.

The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel.

In terms of physical effort, a watch-repairer probably uses twice as much energy dressing in the morning than he does in his normal working hours.

Only ten words make up twenty percent of everything we say.

More than half the babies born every day arrive before breakfast.

The most common disease in the world is tooth decay.

Every continent in the world has a city called Rome.

Carrots are used as a substitute for coffee in Germany.

The word 'girl' appears only once in the Bible.

Paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch.

Much more money is spent on cigarettes and alcohol in Britain, than on life insurance.

The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate to be born on it.

In parts of Malays, the women keep harems of men.

On average, one lead pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles long.

Indian ink comes from China.

Using radar, scientists have discovered mountains and lakes buried beneath the ice of the Antarctic.

La Paz in Bolivia is so high above sea level that the air has barely enough oxygen to support life.

There are over ten thousand golf courses in the US.

About one hundred people die every minute, but over two hundred are born.

Over two thousand pints of beer are drunk in the House of Commons every week.

The phrase 'The Three Rs', standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic', was coined by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.

Turtles, as a species, are about 275 million years old.

The Forth railway bridge in Scotland is a metre longer in the summer than in the winter.

Since the turn of the century, every elected President of America has been taller than his rival for the White House.

A group of toads is called a 'knot'.

Fillings in people's teeth have been known to pick up radio waves.

The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.

Every day, the streets and parks of London are doused with over one hundred gallons of urine.

Over half the men in Corfu are called Spiro.

Transporting the corpses off the battlefield for proper burial was a major problem for the medieval Crusaders. They solved their problem by taking with them to the Holy Wars huge cauldrons for boiling the bodies. Bones were much lighter and easier to carry.

One gallon of fuel moves the QE2 six inches.

The average British family uses two miles of toilet paper a year.

Fifty-pence coins have a life expectancy of around fifty years.

April Fool's Day is referred to as Boob Day in Spain.

About half of the pianos in Britain are thought to be out of tune.

Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege even to touch an Emperor of Japan.

The richest ten per cent of the French people are approximately fifty times better off than the poorest ten per cent.

Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish. It was invented by Chinese immigrants in California.

The Hundred Year's War lasted 116 years.

France gave women the vote only in 1944.

There are more bacteria in a hospital operating theatre than there are in an ordinary living-room.

In the original story, Cinderella's slippers were made of fur. The idea that they were glass arose from a mistake in translation.

The average person has fewer than two legs.

Turkey has put a ban on people kissing in films.

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern word 'testimony' is derived from this old tradition.

The background radiation in Aberdeen is twice that if the rest of Great Britain.

The Spanish Inquisition once condemned the whole of The Netherlands to death for heresy.

37% of American college graduates would like to be King of England, but not if it meant marrying the Queen.

87% of Americans would hate to be British, but wouldn't mind having a British accent.

The warrior tribes of Ethiopia used to hang the testicles of those they killed in battle on the ends of their spears.

There are five different types of yoga.

The minute hand first appeared on watches in 1670.

The song which is sung the most often in the world - 'Happy Birthday To You' - is still under copyright and owned by Paul McCartney. It runs out in 2010.

The surface of one human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

The first public lottery was introduced in Germany in 1494.

In 1994 there were more Barbie dolls in the world than there were Canadians.

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.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their aeroplanes on the ground, the .50 calibre machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have got up in the morning and been too sleepy to realise that *this* was the day of the changeover.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

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 which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.