The United States produces 19% of the worlds trash including: 20 billion diapers, 2 billion razora & 1.7 billion pens annually.

Canada is the second-largest country in the world after Russia. Nearly 90 percent of the Canada's population is concentrated within 161 km of the United States/Canada border.

Famed Chef Wolfgang Puck chose the Italian word "Spago" as the name for his popular chain of restaurants. In Italian, spago = "string" or "twine" — slang for spaghetti.

Lake Erie is about 326 feet higher than Lake Ontario. The Welland Canal provides a navigable waterway between the two. The Canal stretches 27 miles and uses 8 locks to raise and lower the ships. More than 3,000 ships pass through the waterway annually.

The maximum life span of koi has been documented to be over 200 years in exceptional cases. The average life span of the large colorful fish, however, is 25 to 35 years

Comedian Bill Cosby became the spokesperson for Jell-O pudding in 1974. His upbeat, childlike personality worked well with on-screen youngsters, and he later began the "Kids Love Pudding" TV campaign. As of 2000, Cosby was still going strong in his Jell-O brand TV commercials and print ads.

If all the water in the atmosphere at any one time was to fall as rain, it would cover the entire Earth's surface to a depth of 1 inch.

If you are classified as a POSSLQ by the Census Bureau, you are a "Person of Opposite Sex, Sharing Living Quarters."

Between ages 30 and 70, a nose may lengthen and widen by as much as half an inch and the ears may be a quarter-inch longer - due to the fact that cartilage is one of the few tissues that continue to grow as we age.

The average female between the ages of 20 and 44 is more likely to be overweight than are males in the same age category.

Animation artists love inside jokes. In the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (1991), the road signs that Belle’s father encounters in the forest show the names of two California cities: one points to Anaheim, while the other points down a dark, sinister-looking path to Valencia. In truth, Anaheim is the site of Disneyland, while the rival Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement theme park is in the city of Valencia.

The average woman consumes 2,000 calories a day, the average man about 2,500; but if you had the metabolism of a shrew you would need to consume about 200,000 calories a day . Metabolic rate is the sum of all the chemical reactions occurring in the body at one time. The faster the reactions, the higher your metabolism and the more calories you need to consume. Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates because they have to work harder to keep their bodies warm.

The underwater mating song of the toadfish is so loud that sometimes it can be heard by humans on the shore.

In Charles Schulz's popular "Peanuts" comic strip, Snoopy was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.

Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese packaged dinners than any nationality in the world.

Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.

Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. The first to exercise this right to vote while in orbit was astronaut David Wolf, who cast his vote for Houston mayor via e-mail from the Russian space station Mir in November 1997.

There are 3 million stutterers in the United States and a similar proportion in every other part of the world.

Actress Reese Witherspoon was asked to play the female lead in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), but she turned down the part. She also refused the lead roles in two other horror movies, Scream (1996) and Urban Legend (1998).

According to historical accounts, the first Christmas in the Philippines was celebrated 200 years before Ferdinand Magellan discovered the country for the western world, likely between the years 1280 and 1320 AD.

A flea is capable of jumping 13 inches in a single leap. In human terms, this would be equivalent to a person leaping 700 feet in one bound.

Flamingos are not naturally pink. They get their color from their food, tiny green algae that turn pink during digestion.

Visitors to Acapulco must make a point of seeing the famed cliff divers, who perform their daily dives at La Quebrada, and have since 1934.

The profile of the average computer virus writer is age 14-24, talented, bright, and driven by a rebellious, adolescent need to call attention to himself.

There are 5 million different species of insects in the world. The insect population of the world is at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. The weight of the world's insect population exceeds that of man by a factor of twelve.

When astronauts first shaved in space, their weightless whiskers floated up to the ceiling. A special razor had to be developed which drew the whiskers in like a vacuum cleaner.

Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover the city of San Francisco with a layer of water about 7 feet deep.

Hidden Message? When reading horizontally from Shakespeare's original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads 'I am a homosexual' in the last 14 lines of the book. Was this a message, or just a coincidence? Surely this can't be true?

Over 50% of all people fantasize more often about money than sex, so technically, Bill Gates is the hearthrob of the world. Now that's some research project!

According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

Just a little to the left dear... Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

More than half the American men surveyed in a recent poll admit to having sex with women they disliked. It didn't say how many were referring to their wives.

A female orgasm is a powerfull painkiller (because of the release of endorfines), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

In a recent interview with 10 prominent sex therapists, the question was posed, 'What is the most important aspect in love making?' One said 'relaxation', Three said 'honesty', and a whopping Six out of Ten said 'staying awake'.

Although Hitler did condemn homosexual acts, he only condemned them between men. Lesbians were not condemned at all. They were rarely (if any at all) sent to concentration camps, because it was not in the laws written by Hitler to condemn women loving other women.

Lip stick was said to have been invented in the Eygptian times for women that specialized in oral sex. They wanted their lips to look more inviting.

Dolphins and humans are the only known animals that have sex for pleasure.

Celebrity Resume Highlights UK Politician and writer Jeffrey Archer was once a deck chair attendant.

Singer Rod Stewart once worked as a grave digger.

Singer Ozzy Osbourne, in a job that would come back to haunt him in later life, was once a labourer in a slaughterhouse.

Sylvester Stalone, always the tough guy, was once employed as a lion cage cleaner while Cyndi Lauper used to clean out dog kennels.

Mick Jagger was once a porter in a mental hospital.

Elvis the Grafter. Elvis was sacked from his job at the Precision Tool Company in Memphis when his bosses discovered that he was actually fifteen years old and therefore too young to work there. Do you really want to sack me? Pop star and DJ Boy George was sacked from his job with Tesco supermarkets for choosing to wear the store's carrier bags. Tesco said his appearance was 'disturbing'. In Character Hollywood tough guy Mickey Rouke was fired from his job as a cinema usher after getting into a brawl with one of his work mates.

In Germany there is a beer ice cream in Popsicle form. Its alcohol content is lower than that of traditional beer.

Prohibition lasted precisely 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, and 32.5 minutes.

The oldest known recipe in existence is a recipe for beer.

Tom Arnold, Sandra Bullock, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby, Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Willis are all former bartenders.

The Puritans loaded more beer than water onto the Mayflower before they departed for the New World.

The Ancient Romans used to toast a woman's health by drinking a glass of wine for every letter of her name.

Moron is the name of a wine sold in Italy.

The lyrics for "Star Spangled Banner" were written by Francis Scott Key, but the tune was actually that of a popular drinking song called "Anacrean in Heaven." Anacrean was a Greek poet who was revered as a bard of wine, love, song and revelry. Key's ditty didn't become the official national anthem of the United States until 117 years after he wrote the words for it.

According to one report, 59 percent of all American males and 37 percent of American females are beer drinkers.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (instituting Prohibition).

Gambrinous is an obscure word meaning "being full of beer."

The more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol.

Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist, poet and humorist, was the first to coin the phrase "wine, women, and song."

The largest bottle size of wine is called a Nebuchadnezzar. It holds about four gallons, or 20 regular bottles worth, of wine.

500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris.

A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.

A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957.

A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.

A dog's nose is so sensitive that it can tell the difference between a tub of water and a tub of water with a teaspoon of salt in it.

Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.

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

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.

Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. Chocolate contains a chemical theobromine, which is poisonous to dogs.

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads of their feet.

Dalmatian dogs originate from Dalmatian coast of Croatia.

Dog saliva is cleaner than a human's.

Dog shows in England are seen at prime time on television.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

Dogs are smarter than cats.

Germany and Switzerland only have one dog for every ten families.

Greyhound dogs have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.

Lassie was the first animal named to the Animal Hall of Fame in 1969.

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in !a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.

The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan.

The eyesight of the average dog is much better than the eyesight of the average man.

The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.

The Leonberger dog breed was created by the mayor of Leonburg, Germany so that he had a dog that looked like the one on the towns crest.

The name of Superman's dog is Krypto.

The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.

The number one favorite dog name is Brandy.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90%.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A parrots beak can close with a force close to 350 pounds per square inch.

A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.

A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.

African Black-footed penguins, although they cannot fly, can swim up to 25 miles per hour which is faster than the Atlantic Bottle nosed dolphin, which can attain speeds of 18-23 mph.

African eagles flying at 100 mph can break to a halt in only 20 feet.

All of the Peking ducks in the United States are descendents from three ducks and one drake imported to Long Island, New York in 1873.

An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

California Condors can fly ten miles without flapping their wings.

Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird (unlike in cartoons), the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter.

Hummingbirds are the only animals to fly backwards.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

In 1681, the last dodo bird died.

In the United States, turkeys are mostly raised in California.

New Zealand is the only place kiwi birds are found in the wild.

One of the most beautiful birds in the world is the white blackbird.

Over 1000 birds die a year from smashing into windows.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

Parrots cannot eat chocolate because it is poisonous to their body.

Parrots played a major role in World War I. The were kept on the Eiffel Tower, because of their acute hearing, to warn of approaching planes long before the planes could be seen or heard by humans.

Pigeons live in a Cote.

Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct.

Songbirds learn to sing by listening to adult birds of the same species.

The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1.772 feet by an Emperor Penguin.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains.

The fastest running bird is the Ostrich, which has been clocked at 97.5 kilometres per hour.

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. She must be able to see another pigeon in order for her ovaries to function. Her own reflection will work if no other pigeon is available.

The first domesticated bird was the goose.

The heaviest land bird in North America is the wild turkey.

The largest bird colony in the world is located on the islands off the coast of Peru.

The largest web-footed bird is the albatross.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

The Queen of England owns all the Black Swans in England (the royal bird) and they are bred in Alabama about 20 miles east of Montgomery. Incidentally outside of England only the Shakespeare Festival has permission to have Black Swans on their property.

The state of California raises the most turkeys in the U.S.

The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.

There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.

There are no turkeys in Turkey.

There is a new type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.

There is a species of bird, Antpitta avis canis Ridgley, that barks like a dog.

Today, the passenger pigeon is extinct.

Turkeys are so clueless that when they're born the only way to get them to eat is to put marbles in the feed. The marbles are too big for them to eat, but they get curious and peck at them and when their beak slips off the marble, they get a mouthful of food.

Turkeys can drown in the rain by looking up at the precipitation with their mouths open.

Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different.

25% of cat owners blow dry the cat's hair after giving it a bath.

78% of cats never travel with their owner.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.

A cat's whiskers are called vibrissae.

A house cat has 18 claws.

A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.

Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

Black cats are considered lucky in England.

Cat whiskers can detect movements 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Cats cannot taste sweets.

Cats have AB blood groups just like people.

Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.

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

Cats have two sets of vocal chords.

Cats, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high possibility of having six toes.

In 1888, as estimated 300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for fertilizer.

In 1993, there were an estimated 64 million cats in the United States.

In four years, one female cat could be responsible for the birth of 20,736 cats.

In the Middle Ages, during the festival of Saint John, cats were burned alive in town squares.

Italian engineers were rebuilding the Kremlin in Moscow while Columbus was seeking new worlds to the west.

Most cats have no eyelashes.

Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.

The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.

The average house cat weighs in at 11 pounds.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.

The number one favorite cat name is Kitty.

The oldest domestic cat (with reliable documentation) was a female tabby named Ma that lived to be 34 years old.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

Vineger was the strongest acid known in the ancient times.

In Paris, the McDonalds big 'M' is the only one in the world that is white, rather than yellow, it was thought that yellow was too tacky.

At Hancock Secondary School in Mississippi there is actually a McDonalds in the high school.

Beijing boasts the world's largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

In a typical restaurant, customers receive 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend.

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

On average there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's BigMac bun.

Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7

Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million, in 1961, from the McDonald brothers.

The Chuck E. Cheese franchise was created by Atari, a restaurant combining robotic animals and arcade games with family meals. They name the franchise a Pizza Time Theater. Chuck E. Cheese was first opened in 1977.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened in in San Bernardino, California.

Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.

16,850 bananas are eaten each week in the Boston University dining room.

Americans eat 12 billion bananas a year.

Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another.

India is responsible for 65% of the world's mango crop.

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

Lemons have more sugar than oranges.

Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S.

Over a third of all pinapples come from Hawaii.

Passion fruits have a tranquilizing effect on the body.

Pears were so rare in the 1800's that people were wiling to pay up to $100 to eat one.

Pineapples do not ripen after they have been picked.

In a pack of Skittles candy, there is an equal 20% distribution of each flavour.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield in 1896.

The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.

The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.

There are more brown M&M's in plain M&M's than in Peanuts.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

26 billion dollars in ransom has been paid out in the U.S. in the past 20 years.

277 medical institutions in the United States operate an organ transplant program.

60% of all U.S. potato products originate in Idaho.

7.5 tons of gold is used each year in the United States to make class rings.

85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.

97% of all paper money in the U.S. contain traces of cocaine.

According to the recruitment code of the U.S. Navy, anyone bearing an obscene and indecent tattoo will be rejected.

Akron, Ohio is known as the Rubber Capital of the world.

Alaska has 29 volcanoes.

Alaska is the only state without a state motto.

All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.

Almost 10% of Texas is covered by forest which includes four national and five state forests.

America once used a five-cent bill.

Americans pay over $30,500 federal,state,and local taxes every second.

Baltimore, MD is the home to the first shopping center ever built.

Before 1863, postal service in the United States was free.

Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.

Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S. in 1890.

City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC

Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City after the Catholic Church.

Don't know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people.

Every 45 seconds, a house catches fire in the U.S.

From 1702 until 1709, the Governor of New York was a spendthrift transvestite.

Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum.

Hell's Gate, in Kenya, is a dramatic gorge curved through red, volcanic rock, which was once the outlet for a lake that embraced both Lake Naivasha and Nakuru. The gorge is beloved for rock climbers, while the whole area is renowned for it's bird life.

High Point, North Carolina is known as The Furniture Capital of the World and boasts of a building that looks like a giant chest of drawers with argyle socks hanging out of one drawer.

Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States Of America that has two dashes in it's name.

Honolulu boasts the only royal palace in the U.S.

Honolulu is closer to Japan than it is to New York City.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

If Texas were a country it's GNP would be the fifth largest of any country on Earth.

If you could cut out the United States, its center of gravity would be Friend, Nebraska.

In 1513, Ponce DeLeon, was seeking the mythical Fountain of Youth, and discovered Florida , claiming it for Spain. Later, Florida was sold to the United States in 1819.

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

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

In the Great Seal of the U.S., the eagle grasps 13 arrows and an olive branch.

In the United States there are more 2nd streets than there are 1st streets, and Main street is not the most common; Pine is.

In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests.

In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1

Iowa has more independant telephone companies than any other state.

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lexington is the largest city in the state of Kentucky.

Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other state in the USA.

Michigan was the first state to plow its roads and first to adopt the yellow dividing line.

New York City has the most skyscrapers than any other city in the world with 140. A skyscraper is any building that exceeds 152 metres in height.

New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790.

San Francisco has the the two steepest streets in the U.S.

Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

Texas was once a country.

The 8 stripes on the Hawaiian flag stand for the 8 main islands of Hawaii.

The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world.

The longest U.S. highway is Route 20 which is over 3,200 miles.

The nickname of Florida is the Sunshine State.

The only borough of New York City that isn't an island or part of an island is the Bronx.

The population of Texas is 18 million, not including the 16 million cattle.

The Saginaw River in Michigan is the shortest river in the world.

The state fruit of New York is the apple.

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

The U.S. paid $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867.

The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cent an acre.

There is a town in California called Tarzana. It was named after Tarzan's creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs.

There is a town in the state of Tennesse that is named Difficult. The residents could not agree on a name for the town.

There is city in Arizona called Naughty Girl Meadow.

There is currently a town in South Carolina named 96 although it is spelled out. It's zip code is 29666.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

Using satellite-surveying techniques, scientists have determined that Los Angeles, California is moving east. At a rate estimated to be about one-fifth on an inch per year, the city is moving closer to the San Gabriel Mountains.

West Virginia and Maryland have no natural lakes.

The only desert in Canada is located in Osoyoos, British Columbia.

Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed when not required, everyday.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

Canada has one-third of all the fresh water in the world.

Canada is a Native Indian word meaning big village.

Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.

Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring.

Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada.

Famous Hell's Gate is located in the scenic Fraser Canyon of British Columbia, Canada. It is nature at its most magnificent. You can take a 25 passenger tram, descending 502 feet across the canyon, directly above the unique Hell's Gate Fishways, to the l

Hudson Bay is the largest bay in the world bordering only one country, Canada.

Quebec and Newfoundland are the only two provinces which do not allow personalized license plates.

The longest street in the world is Yonge Street, which starts in Toronto, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and winds its way north then west to end at the Ontario-Manitoba-Minnesota border.

The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.

Toronto's original name was York, but it had another name long before that. The area near the shores of Lake Ontario was called ""the meeting place"" by the Ojibway of Southern Ontario. Their word: Toronto.

Less than 7% of the population donates blood.

Men have more red blood cells per cubic centimeter of blood than women.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water.

Type O is the most common blood type in the world. Type AB is the rarest.

Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain.

Brain cells are never replaced.

Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

Despite accounting for just one-fiftieth of body weight, the brain burns as much as one-fifth of our daily caloric intake.

Electrical stimulation in certain areas of the brain can revive long lost memories.

If you stimulate the Medulla, which is part of the brain stem, you will barf so violently that it will shoot about 3 feet.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together.

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

The brain requires 25 percent of all oxygen used by the body.

The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

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 things it does!

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

The human brain uses less energy than a 100 watt bulb.

The maximum speed at which erotic sensations travel from skin to brain has been clocked at 156 miles per hour.

A female orgasm is a powerful painkiller (because of the release of endorphines), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

A sex change has never been performed in Ireland.

According to one theory, people who chew a lot of ice have a high sex drive.

According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society.

According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

Back in 1919 the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.

Every year, 11,000 Americans injure themselves while trying out bizarre sexual positions.

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 U.S. states.

In 1969, Iowa State College conducted a survey indicating that a parent's stress level at the time of conception is a major factor in determining the child's sex. The child is usually the same sex as the less stressed parent.

In the U.S., there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.

More than half the American men surveyed in a recent poll admit to having sex with women they disliked.

Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

Sex can relieve arthritis pain for up to 6 hours.

The average person will spend approximately 2 weeks of their life kissing.

The condom is named after Dr. Charles Condom.

Almost all the villians in the Bible have red hair.

Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible.

During the middle ages, it was widely believed that men had one less rib than woman. This is because of the story in the Bible that Eve had been created out of Adam's rib.

Every minute 47 bibles are sold or distributed throughout the world.

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word """"not"""" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, """"Thou shalt commit adultery."""" This legendary book is now known as the """"Wicked Bible.""""

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.

On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an """"Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.""""

Pope Adrian the VI died after a fly got stuck in his throat as he was drinking from a water fountain.

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America

The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.

The first Eskimo Bible was printed in Copenhagen in 174

The first translation of the Bible into English was in 1382 A.D., by John Wycliff.

The last word in the Bible is Amen.

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses.

0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose.

1 out of 4 Americans do not know what their astrological sign is.

1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecom services every minute.

111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 equals 12,345,678,987,654,321

13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.

2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5.

2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.

25% of Americans have internet access.

25% of native Africans have AIDS.

25% of U.S. 4th graders are pressured by friends or classmates to use drugs or alcohol.

27% of Americans think billboards are beautiful.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.

4% of the U.S population are vegetarians.

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.

50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.

50% of teenage boys say that they would rather be rich than smart.

51% of turns are right turns.

55% of motorbike accidents happen on the weekend.

56% of the video game market is adults.

57% of British school kids think Germany is the most boring country in Europe.

60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.

68% of Americans who view computer commercials on TV that advertise a processor, such as the Pentium III, believe it speeds up your internet connections. However, a modem does that.

69% of men say that they would rather break up with a girl in private rather than in public.

7% of Americans think Elvis is alive.

70% of all boats sold are used in fishing.

811,000 faulty rolls of 35 mm film will be purchased this year.

82% believe in an after life.

880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips.

9% of Americans reported having been in the presence of a ghost.

90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.

95% of food poisoning cases are never reported.

97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.

A survey in the U.S shows that nuns of small or medium build expect to live far longer than tall unskilled and divorced alcoholic labourers.

About 1 out of every 70 people who pick their nose actually eat their boogers.

About 43% of convicted criminals in the U.S. are rearrested within a year of being released from prison.

About 5% of Americans claim to have talked to the devil personally.

About 6% of murdered American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend... or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.

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

About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

Americans spend more time at shopping malls than anywhere else outside their homes and jobs.

Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.

Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up.

Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.

At 1.6 deaths for every 1000 persons, Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world.

August is the month when most baby's are born.

Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow.

Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6.

By 65 years old, Americans have watched more than nine years of television.

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

Chances that a burglary in the U.S. will be solved: 1 in 7.

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

Dustin Phillips of the U.S. has the record for ketchup drinking. He drank a 14-ounce bottle of tomato ketchup through a ª- inch straw in 33 seconds on September 23, 1999.

Every day in the U.S., about a hundred people over the age of fourteen commit suicide.

Experienced waitress say that married men tip better than unmarried men.

Fifty percent of all marsh mellows consumed in the U.S. have been toasted.

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world.

In Calcutta, 79% of the population live in one-room houses.

In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.

In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelery.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.

Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass surgery than women.

Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.

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

More than 10 percent of all the salt produced annually in the world is used to de-ice American roads.

Most fatal car accidents happen on a Saturday.

Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates. Nowadays, 50% of all people who get married get divorced.

Number of 30-second commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000

Odds of being killed by a dog are 1 in 700,000.

Odds of being killed by a tornado are 1 in 2 million.

Odds of being killed by falling out of bed are 1 in 2 million.

Odds of being killed in a car crash are 1 in 5000.

Odds of dying in the bathtub are 1 in 1,000,000.

Of the 266 men who have been pope, 33 have died violently.

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day.

On average, children between the ages of two and seven color 28 minutes every day.

One sixth of all Americans, an estimated 43 million people, move each year.

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

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

Over 50% percent of Americans believe in the devil.

Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.

Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%

Personal letters make up only 5% of the mail delivered by the U.S postal Service.

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

Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in history. He grew to be eight feet and eleven inches and weighed 490 pounds when he died.

Statistically the safest age of life is 10 years old.

Summer is statistically the most hazardous season.

Sweden has the least number of murders annually.

Ten percent of frequent fliers say they never check their luggage when flying.

The average adult spends about 12 minutes in the shower.

The average American moves 12 times in a lifetime.

The average four year-old child asks over 400 questions a day.

The average number of passengers airborne over the US each hour is 61,000.

The average person keeps old magazines for 29 weeks before they throw them out.

The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one.

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

The average person over fifty will have spent one year looking for lost items.

The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.

The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.


Did you know that... The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
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.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.

Blind Writer! Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected.

Barbie Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Balls! Bob Whitcomb of Ohio, juggles bowling balls! He can catch three 16-lb balls 62 consecutuve times.

A Lapwing (bird) flying over a soccer field in Brazil deflected a winning goal 3 minutes before the end of a game.

Cafe or Tea Pub! COFFEE has 125-185mg of caffeine per cup. It enters the human system faster then the caffeine in Tea and causes 'coffee jitters'. No disease-preventing or health-enhancing ingredients. TEA contains 55mg of caffeine per cup. This caffeine takes longer to enter the system so its gentler. Tea has tannin, catechin, Vitamins E and C and fluorine that prevents cancer and heart diseases.

Canned Food Q. Who was the first to devise food canning which resulted in the beginning of the canned food industry of today? A. Because Napoleon believed that armies marched on their stomachs, he offered a prize in 1795 for a practical way of preserving food. The prize was won by a French inventor, Nicholas Appert. What he devised was canning. It was the beginning of the canned food industry of today.

Speeding Ticket! A Police camera in Gluckstedt, Germany, filmed a Duck flying over the Speed Limit - 39km/hour in a 30km/hour zone!

Space Vote In 1997, Astronaut David Wolf of Houston, Texas, was permitted to caste his vote for Houston's Mayor while on board the Russian Space Station MIR!

Fisherman Foster Cammisu of Filey, England ties a 7-feet long inflatable Sharks to his fishing nets to kee

p Seals from stealing his catch! Submitted by Kathrine (), England What do you call...? The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph. The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

License Plates The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

Snake Wine! A man named Li in Suzhou, China, was bitten by a pickled snake when he opened a bottle of rice wine.

Dancing with the Dogs Ray Underwood of Langley, B.C., Canada, won the North American Canine Musical Freestyle Championship by dancing with his shetland sheepdog to a song sung by Pavarotti!

Dance Lessons! Padma Subramanyam of Chennai, India, teaches Indian Police Officers how to perform graceful hand movements while directing traffic!

Body & Mind Therapy with 'Lovemaking' 1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when woman make love they produce double amounts of the hormone estrogen, which make hair shiny and skin smooth.

2. Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis,skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.

3. Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner.

4. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tunes up just about every muscles in the body. It's more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps and you don't need special sneakers!

5. Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases the body endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.

6. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!

7. Sex is the safest tranquiliser in the world. It is 10 times more effective than Valium.

8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.

9. Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.

10. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister and was a sniper in Vietnam.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

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

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

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

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

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. * Spades - King David; * Clubs - Alexander the Great; *Hearts -Charlemagne; * Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

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 "to get fired."

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

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.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister and was a sniper in Vietnam.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded into half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.

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

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

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

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

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. * Spades - King David; * Clubs - Alexander the Great; *Hearts -Charlemagne; * Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

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 "to get fired."

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

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

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and US vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

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.

A pregnant gold fish is called a twit.

Rocks explode in microwaves.

Steam rollers don't actually roll steam.

1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and coughed."

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

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead."

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

Camel's milk does not curdle.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

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..

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

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.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

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

The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

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 realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

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

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

Coca-cola was originally green.

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

Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retriever; Dumbest dog: Afghan

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.

City with the most Rolls Royce's per capital: 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.

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%.

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%.

Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44%.

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

Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7.

Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%.

Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%.

City with the highest per capita viewership of television evangelists: Washington DC.

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 would marry the same man: 50%.

Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58%.

Percentage of women who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 85%

Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makes cards: 105.

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. (which is probably down since 9/11)

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

Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3.

Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3.

Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7

Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementary schools are above national average: 50%

Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.

Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

Only President to remain a bachelor: James Buchanon

Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt

Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for 'Profiles in Courage'.

Only President awarded a patent: Abe Lincoln, for a system of buoying vessels over shoals.

Only food that does not spoil: honey

Only person to win $64,000 Challenge and $64,000 Question: Dr. Joyce Brothers

Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica

Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig

Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Eskimos never gamble.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.

Cream does not weigh as much as milk.

Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.

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

First novel ever written on a typewriter was 'Tom Sawyer.'

There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.

Heinz Ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

Men get hiccups more often than woman.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Bugs have hair on their eyes.

In 1727, pennies featured this motto: "Mind your own business!"

A giraffe's tongue is two feet long.

Elephants can stand on their heads.

President Taft used to get stuck in his bathtub.

Cockroaches flatulate every 15 minutes.

Charles Osbourne had the hiccups for 69 years. He later said that the hardest part was keeping his false teeth in his mouth.

To escape enemies, the African wood snake fills its eyes with blood and drools red spit from its mouth.

The average elevator travels 10,000 miles a year.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

Goldfish remember better in cold water than in warm water.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

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

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

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

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

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-stars Game.

How about this! The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously) so that they would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!").

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

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and US vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

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.

A pregnant gold fish is called a twit.

Rocks explode in microwaves.

Steam rollers don't actually roll steam.

1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321

Coca-Cola is better at cleaning your drain pipes than products like Draino.

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and coughed."

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

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead."

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

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..

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.

They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.

Cream does not weigh as much as milk.

Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.

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

First novel ever written on a typewriter was 'Tom Sawyer.'