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Time stops in a black hole.
Laptop computers are 30% more likely to fail than desktops.
Napoleon reportedly carried chocolate with him on all his campaigns and he ate it whenever he needed an energy boost.
The tongue of the blue whale weighs more than an adult elephant.
Pro volleyball players can spike the ball up to 80 m.p.h.
The average UPS driver makes about 300 deliveries and pickups a day.
The French added frogs and snails to their fine-dining menus in the 17th century.
Scientists say gold exists on Mars, Mercury and Venus.
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain
Hedenophobes have a fear of pleasure.
Only a full-grown male cricket can chirp.
"Big cheese" and "big wheel" are medieval terms used in envy of those who could afford to buy whole wheel of cheese at a time.
There are more than 80,000 species of ants.
A turkey can be carved into neater slices if it has been out of the oven for at least 30 minutes. Then you can gobble it up.
Dolly Parton's first album. "Puppy Love" was released on March 29, 1959. She was only 13 years old.
Fifteen nations gave women the right to vote before the US did.
No high jumper has ever stayed off the ground for more than one second.
The name of the International Women Helicopter Pilots is "Whirly-Girls."
At one time, the most common cause of death for cowboys was being dragged by a horse because their spurs got caught in the saddle stirrups.
In 1890, only 3% of American ages 18 - 21 attended college.
France reportedly had the first supermarket in the world.
Ferrule: the piece of metal that holds the rubber eraser to the pencil.
Miami, Florida is the No.1 metropolitan area for car thefts.
The total weight of all the telephone books distributed in Fairbanks, Alaska is about 81 tons.
Desert snails can sleep for three to four years at a time.
Cocaine was outlawed in the US in 1914.
Magnum PI actor Tom Selleck appeared twice on The Dating Game, didn't get picked either time.
Vultures often eat so much that they're too heavy to fly. They generally regurgitate to make themselves light enough to get up in the air again.
The largest Mustard Museum in the world is in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. It has 1,493 different varieties - with over 200 different plain yellows alone!
Pigs, dogs and only a few other animals can taste water. Humans cannot. We taste the chemicals and impurities.
Poison is not oak and poison is not ivy.
Standard pencils have enough lead to write about 25,000 English words.
Oreo cookies are 1 3/4 inches across.
More potato chips were consumed in the year 1972 than any other year.
Leonardo de Vinci invented scissors.
Quack Attack: About half of all psychiatrists have been attacked by at least one of their patients.
The American crow weighs about one pound when full grown.
Hares can run up to 45 m.p.h. Rabbits can only go a slow 35 m.p.h.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is at 4 p.m. Apparently, that's the time they're most vulnerable.
The first macaroni factory in the US was established in Brooklyn, NY IN 1848.
The telescope at Mount Palomar, California can see 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles away.
The first US Marines recruiting station was in a bar.
Atlantic salmon can leap 15 feet in the air.
The first company to mass produce Teddy Bears was the Ideal Toy Company.
In New Zealand, the Presidential highway links the towns of Clinton and Gore.
Feb. 18, 1930: Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane.
A drop of vinegar or vodka on glasses cleans them without a streak.
Only 50% of those bit by poisonous snakes survive.
Silly Putty is chemically a liquid but resembles a solid.
The shape of snowflakes depend on the temperature in the air at the point which it forms.
The Oscars given during WW II were made of plaster.
Brazilians celebrate Christmas with fireworks.
Hamsters usually only blink one eye at a time.
In North Dakota, it is illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.
Until the 1920s, iceberg lettuce was called "crisphead."
Ten human body parts are only three letters long: Eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.
It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook pasta, and a gallon to clean the pot.
A quarter has 119 grooves on the side. A dime has exactly one less.
The largest fish ever captured was a 59-foot whale shark off the coast of Thailand in 1919.
A "xyloid" is something that is woody or like wood.
Milk is heavier than cream.
In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk.
In the 18th century, men in England wore their pants so tight they had to be hung from special hooks so the wearer could jump into them.
American consume more than 10 million bowls of soup each year.
McDonald's is the largest distributor of toys.
Other names for a train caboose: Crumb box, brain wagon, bazoo wagon, strawberry patch or loose cage.
A woman's heart Beats faster than a man's heart.
Texas is the only state that allows absentee ballots from space.
Five baseball gloves can be made from one cow.
The Great Lakes contain six quadrillion gallons of fresh water.
In Massachusetts, snoring is illegal unless all your bedroom windows are closed and securely locked.
The first Rolling Stone cover featured John Lennon.
A quart-sized bucket holds eight million grains of sand.
Hippopotamus skin is an inch-and-a-half thick.
The wing span of Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight.
A quarter of the world's population lives in China.
Rubber is an ingredient in bubble gum.
Dipsomania: The abnormal or insatiable craving for alcohol.
It is illegal to hunt camels in Arizona
Farm-raised turkey's can't fly.
48% of Americans aged 18 - 29 speak with their parents everyday.
Gjetost is the national cheese of Norway.
Pieces of bread were used to erase lead pencil marks before rubber erasers were made.
Smoking too heavily can cause a person to go blind.
A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first ever hot balloon passenger's.
A group of officers is called a mess
50% of lottery winners go back to work after winning.
Yellow houses sell faster - and for more money!
The average bee only produces 1/12 tsp. of honey in his entire life.
An octopus' pupil is rectangular.
Christmas trees are edible.
The recommended way to sharpen a sewing needle is to stitch through a piece of sandpaper.
Complicated marriage: In the Dieri tribe of Australia a man can legally marry his mother's mother's brother's daughter's daughter - and his mother's father's brother's daughter's daughter.
From January to May 2005, major US newspapers used the word "feeding tube" 647 times.
The average adult American gets 52 new items of clothing per year.
A deployed air bag can add as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a wrecked vehicle.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and can't find a mate.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian - she was Greek.
George W. Bush and John Kerry are 16th cousins, three times removed.
Natural blondes have more strands of hair on their heads than redheads or brunettes.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In Tokyo, you can have a toupee for your dog.
Vampire bast need 2 tablespoons of blood each day to survive.
Nondairy coffee creamer is flammable.
There are 17 different words for "surrender."
Raindrops fall at 17 miles per hour.
The average US household wastes 14% of its food.
It's against the law to yell out "Snake!" in Flowery Branch, Ga.
McDonald's in India serve "Maharaja Macs" - two all-lamb patties - because Hindus consider cows sacred.
Pupils expand nearly 45% when someone looks at something they find pleasing.
Ducks have regional accents! City ducks have rough quacks so they can be heard over the busy noise. Country sucks have a softer, quieter quack.
An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
Anyone caught drinking coffee in Turkey during the 16th century was put to death.
Ice cream was invented in China around 2000 B.C.
Amish men shave until they get married; they start growing a beard afterwards.
Since being introduced in 1930, more than 500,000,000 yo-yo's have been sold in the US
The average person can fit their pinky finger up one side of their nostrils. If they stick both in at the same time, however, only 1/4 of each pinky fits.
People who are lying tend to look up and to the left.
Opposite of dice cubes always equal 7.
The longest recorded tornado path was 293 miles - in 1917, from Missouri to Indiana.
Children conceived on airplanes rarely suffer from motion sickness.
The first video game, Pong, was introduced in 1972.
Horses have 18 more bones than humans.
Antarctica is the only continent that does not have reptiles or snakes.
The game Hangman inspired the hit game show Wheel Of Fortune.
An opera singer burns about two calories a minute while performing.
Elephants use their trucks for touching, grasping, sucking, spraying, smelling and striking.
The original Howdy Doody had exactly 48 freckles.
A telephone's dial is in the key of "F."
A bushel of apples weighs 42 pounds.
The average person spends about 2 years of their life on the telephone.
More cars are registered in California than any other state.
Birth-control pioneer Margaret Higgins Sanger was 1 of 11 children.
29% of all ice cream sales are plain old vanilla.
In 15th century Florence, Italy, it was illegal for women to wear buttons.
Theodore Roosevelt is the only president to deliver an inaugural address without using the letter "I."
1 in 5 British homes has a foot spa.
Hastings, Nebraska is the birthplace of "Kool-Aid."
1/2 an ounce of gas is used every time a car is started.
Thomas Edison nicknamed his first two children Dot and Dash (after telegraphy.)
The average male waist size in 1985 was 32 inches. In 2005 it's 36 inches.
The side of the hammer is the cheek.
The Dead Sea is really a lake.
Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.
Shoes wear out faster on your right foot than your left foot.
The final coast-to-coast telephone line was connected in 1914.
In Texas, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
Honolulu means "sheltered harbor."
According to an old English system of units, a moment is one and a half seconds.
95: The number of Hershey's Kisses it takes to equal a pound.
The average person falls asleep in just more than seven minutes.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
You have a one in two million chance of being struck in the head by a meteorite.
The root hairs of a full grown rye plant can reach out as far as the surface area of a football field.
"Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup." - Bennett Cerf.
Singapore means "City of Lions," but none have ever been spotted there.
The average New York City household creates 6.2 pounds of garbage every day.
20% of gift card recipients never redeem the full amount.
On October 17, 1949, Northwest Airlines became the first airline to serve an alcoholic drink in flight in the US
More than 35,000,000,000 e-mails are sent everyday throughout the world.
The longest recorded Monopoly games was 1,680 hours - over 70 days!
When invited to a home on Russia, one must bring a gift. Vodka is always acceptable.
Giant squid eat each other.
By the age of 70, half of your taste buds will be gone.
The military salute evolved from medieval times when knights would raise their visors to show their identity.
"90% of everything is crap." - Theodore Sturgeon.
On the average, poets live 62 years, playwrights live to 63, novelists 66 and nonfiction writers live until 68.
The patron saint of ice-skating is Saint Lydwina.
Citizens of Kentucky are required to bathe once a hear.
Purlique: The pace between your extended thumb and index finger.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
The stapler was invented in 1868.
Cigars take the same amount of time to age as wine.
Bulls do not charge because they see a red cape, they charge at the movement of the cape.
Everyone's tongue print is unique.
An octopus' pupil is rectangular.
Saturn is 95 times heavier than Earth.
A person who is "scoptophobic" has a major fear of being seen.
There are more than 15,000 different types of rice.
The life expectancy of a mocking bird is 10 years.
Camel milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when boiled.
Author John Grisham is the 16th cousin of Bill Clinton.
In Bulgaria and Greece a head nod means "no." Everywhere else it's a "yes."
Private vehicles were forbidden in Bermuda until 1948.
Because of the elasticity, human lungs are 100% easier to blow up than a balloon.
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor told her it would improve her memory.
Rhubarb is in the buckwheat family.
In ancient China, people would commit suicide by eating a pound of salt.
Beavers mate for life.
Rubberbands were invented in 1945.
The official sport of Alaska is mushing.
Nitrogen used to be called azote.
A herd of 60 cows can produce a ton of milk is less than a day.
Left-handed people are 20% more likely to try a forkful of food from diners around them than right-handed ones.
According to studies, chocolate is the food most craved by women. Scientists have not figured out why.
There are about 15,000 people in comas worldwide.
France was the first country in the world to have a supermarket.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
James Polk, the U.S.'s 11th president was sedated by only brandy when he underwent gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in "mt."
The US penny is the only coin currently minted by the US with the profile facing the right.
55% of Americans said that they would continue to work if they won a $10 million lottery prize.
The cruise ship Queen Elizabeth II moves only 6 inches per gallon of diesel fuel.
Ostrich eggs are 6 to 8 inches long.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
The phrase "Holy Toledo" refers to Toledo, Spain, which was a huge Christian cultural center in 1085.
If you place a Viagara pill in a houseplant's soil every 6 months, the plant will not wilt.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
About 10% of Jewish households put up Christmas trees.
The average free newspaper is seen by 2.5 people before is is discarded.
The Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eye open.
Elton John played piano on the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."
Black is the color a Mood Ring shows when it's owner is tense.
Koala is the Australian Aborigine name that means "no drink."
Spinach is the vegetable that offers the highest source of calcium.
According to superstition, putting a hat on a bad is bad luck.
In cooking, 6 drops equal one dash.
Royal Jelly is produced by Honey Bees.
On the average a penguin can jump 6 feet.
A conundrum is a riddle solved with a pun.
French eat about 200,000,000 frogs annually.
Fresca did not sell very well in Mexico because the word Fresca is the Mexican slang for "lesbian."
More people are killed annualy by donkey's than die in air crashes.
2% of water on Earth is fresh.
A phoebe is a bird.
Hamburger muscat is a black grape.
Bernaise is a French sauce that is seasoned with tarragon.
The offspring of a zebra and a donkey is called a "zeedonk".
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day.
A Cow must be a mother before she will produce milk.
Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
Eau de Cologne was first marketed as a way to protect against the plague.
On average, murderers are 7.5 years younger than their victims.
According to the Bible, Moses was 120 years old when he died.
Approximately 20% of women dye their hair.
Wabash, Indiana, was the first US city to have electrical power.
Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald. Both were rulers of France.
More than two-thirds of the Earth's land surface is north of the equator.
Albert Einstein's younger brother was a schizophrenic.
The average pool cue is 57 inches long.
Many sailors used to wear gold earrings so they could be afforded a proper burial when they died.
Sliced bread was patented by Mrs. R. Pride on April 1, 1954.
Coffee is the second largest international commerce item in the world. The first is oil.
More than 10,000 birds die each year from crashing into windows.
Whoopi Goldberg's real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
The first VCR was made in 1956. It was the size of a piano.
Slugs have four noses.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Sienna, Italy, if your name is Mary.
Approximately 50 Bibles are sold every minute across the world.
In 1895, there were only two cars in the state of Ohio, yet somehow, they managed to collide.
Woodrow Wilson's picture appeared on the $100,000 bill.
Tickets for Frank Sinatra's first solo performance in New York City in 1942 sold for 35 cents each.
Tourists are not allowed to photograph the Pygmies in Zambia.
The Animal Crackers box has a string handle because they were first introduced as a Christmas gift meant to be hung from the tree.
The largest species of seahorse is 8 inches.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
Given enough time to adjust, the human eye can almost see as well at night as an owl.
Pogonip: A heavy winter fog that contains ice crystals.
A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as the egg from which it emerged.
What food are you most likely to be allergic to? Nuts.
Leaf-cutter ants build anthills 16 feet deep and an acre square.
More babies are born in the month of September than in any other month.
Take a guess: How many muscles are there in your ear? Nine
First TV show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama: Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950).
Surprising poll result: 53% of Americans think they've paid "the right amount."
Vitamin rule of thumb: The darker green a vegetable is, the more vitamin C it contains.
First announcer to say, "He shoots, he scores!" during a hockey game: Foster Hewitt (1933).
Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
When mating, a hummingbird's wings beat 200 times per second.
The navel divides the body of a newborn into two equal parts.
Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
Cost, in parts and labor, for an Academy Award Oscar statuette: about $300.
If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long on the day he died.
Experts tell is that the human body has about 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
Jackrabbits got their name because their ears look like a donkey's (jackass).
Odds of being injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime: 1 in 6,500.
If you lined up all the Slinkys ever made in a row they could wrap around the Earth 126 times.
Which part of the map is the ideo locator? The part that says "You Are Here."
The word "gullible" does not appear in the dictionary.
What do rabbits and horses have in common? They can't vomit.
Best-selling posthumous hit of all times: (Just Like) Starting Over, by John Lennon.
Politics aside. The heel of the sock is called the "gore."
The tomato comes in over 4,000 varieties.
Is the tongue the only muscle attached at just one end? Our sources say yes.
About 8,000 Americans are injured by musical instruments each year.
Chance that a public road in the US is unpaved: 1%, In Canada 75%.
Fetuses can hiccup.
In medieval Japan, dentists extracted teeth with their hands.
Do you alphabetize your spice rack? Only 1 in 12 Americans does.
In 1797 Harry Hetherington invented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
During the 1980's, the average speed of traffic in New York City was less than 10 mph.
Your brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream.
What's a suriphobe? Someone who's afraid of mice.
There are an estimated 171 billion US pennies in circulation.
Bird rule of thumb: If they could sweat, they wouldn't be able to fly.
Food for thought: Peanut butter sandwiches weren't popular until the 1920s.
Estimated cost of maintaining a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years: $300,000.
Marriage makes a woman more likely to become depressed; a man less likely.
The first movie shown in a drive-in theater was Wife Beware, in 1933
President Grover Cleveland's nickname was "Uncle Jumbo."
What company holds the most US patents? IBM.
Proper English:Technically speaking, a female "dude" is known as a "dudine."
Why did Thomas Henry Huxley invent the word agnostic in 1869? He got tired of being called an atheist.
If you visit, bring sunblock: Neptune;s summer is 40 years long.
Sloths even sneeze slowly. And they give birth upside down. Slowly.
In 1947 Marilyn Monroe was crowned the first Queen of Artichokes.
Actor with the most leading roles ever in Hollywood films: John Wayne, at 141.
In the old days, freckles were called "moth-patches" and were considered an affliction.
Full of life: There's an estimated one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Cool facts: The average American eats 5 gallons of frozen desserts a year.
Russians celebrate the October Revolution in November (on the 7th).
Tiniest snowflakes ever recorded: 1/500th of an inch in diameter. The largest: 15 inches in diameter and eight inches thick. They fell in Montana in 1887.
Less is more: 95% of the creatures on Earth are smaller than a chicken egg.
The first open heart surgery was performed in 1893.
Q: What is an erythrophobe? A: Someone who blushes easily.
Poll results: 57% of women would rather go on a shopping spree than have sex.
Food for thought: Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewar ate 40,177 Twinkies in his lifetime.
According to Guinness, the longest recorded bout of hiccups lasted for 65 years.
Gezundheit! The longest recorded sneezing fit was 978 consecutive days.
Roll over, Rover: 63% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
Belgians once tried to deliver mail using cats. (It didn't work).
Fred Astaire's dancing shoes were size 8 and a half.
The average North American receives their first romantic kiss at age 13.
The word hitchhike was coined in 1926.
Crocodiles can't move their tongues.
The annual odds of dying by falling from your bed: 2 in 1,000,000.
Odds that you'll be killed by a plane falling from the sky: 1 in 25,000,000, Odds that it will happen today: 1 in 7 trillion.
Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds.
Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
No wonder they're gone: In ancient Egypt, pillows were made of stones.
Oldest form of surgery on Earth: trepanning - drilling holes in the skull.
A spider's blood is transparent.
Mmm-mm good: In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
The Goldrush of 2075? Scientists think there's gold on Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
Your stomach has 35 million digestive glands.
Half of all forest fires are started by lightning.
Side by side, 2,000 cells of the human body would cover one square inch.
Americans consume an average 736 million pounds of peanut butter each year.
The earliest form of electroshock treatment involved the use of electric eels.
The single most ordered item in American restaurant: French fries.
The first e-mail was sent out over the Internet in 1972.
In Antarctica, sunsets can be green.
Nothing new: Ancient Rome had rent-a-chariot businesses.
Put 23 people in a room, and there's a 50%chance two will share a birthday.
Lubberwort is another word for junk food.
Ropesville, Lariat, and Loop are all towns in Texas.
There are twice as many billionaires in the US today then there were 10 years ago.
Big shoes to fill: George Washington's feet were size 13.
The average cat has 13 whiskers - 12 on each side of its nose.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Average surface temperature of Venue: 864 degrees F, the hottest planet in the solar system.
Two most dangerous jobs in the US: commercial fishing and logging.
Alan Shepherd used a six iron golf club on the moon.
A whale's heart beats once every 6 1/2 seconds.
There are more telephones than people in Washington, DC.
Pharmacist rule of thumb: If it's a drug, it has a side effect.
Jody Foster's real name is Ariane Munker.
On average 25% of the fish you eat are raised on fish farms.
Virus means "poison" on Latin.
Sleeping around: Louis XIV owned 413 beds.
In India, playing cards are round.
If you tried to count off a billion seconds, it would take you 31.7 years.
The Statue of Liberty is patented.
The Oval Office in the White House is only 22 feet long.
Researchers say 1 in 4 people admit to snooping in their host's medicine cabinet.
Top speed of a chicken at full gallop: 9 mph.
When astronomer Tycho Brahe lost the tip of his nose in a duel, he replaced it with a gold one.
First president to shake hands in greeting: Thomas Jefferson. Earlier presidents bowed.
At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Fast food: A bat can eat as many as 1,000 insects an hour.
Mayonnaise is an excellent skin moisturizer.
Most-mentioned women in the Bible: Sarah, 56 times.
The Mayan Empire lasted six times as long as the Roman Empire.
An anemophobic is a person who's afraid of high winds.
At least 8,000 human-made objects are orbiting the Earth.
The fishing reel was invented around the year 300 AD
Fully grown, Argentina's falabella horses are only 16" tall.
World's highest city: Lhasa, Tibet, at 12,087 feet above sea level.
Highest-grossing sports movie in history: Jerry McGuire
127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970; 32,000 ran in 1998.
On average, grocery shoppers spend 8 minutes waiting in line at the supermarket.
An ergasiophobe is someone who's afraid of work.
Average cost of a movie ticket in 1940: 24 cents.
Attention windsurfers: Wind speeds on Neptune can reach 1,500 mph.
48% of men think balding has a negative effect on business and social relationships.
On an average day, the president of the United States receives 20,000 letters.
The average American dog will cost its owner $14,600 over its lifetime.
If you're standing on a mountain top and the conditions are just right you can see a lit match from 50 miles away.
There are 68,000 miles of phone lines in the Pentagon.
First ball team to pay its players: Cincinnati Redstockings.
When it was introduced in 1848, the modern gold ball was called a "gutta-percha" ball.
Oldest American college sport still in existence: rowing.
The average car in Japan is driven 4,4000 miles a year. In the US, it's 9,500 miles.
The Pentagon spent %$50 million dollars on Viagra for American troops and retirees in 1999.
Odds of getting hit by a meteor this year: 1 in 5 billion.
General Dwight Eisenhower owned a pair of pajamas with five stars on the lapels.
Q: What is a gnomon? A: The thing that casts a shadow on a sundial.
Make sense: The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
The oldest person ever to be issued a driver's license is the US was 109.
Ratio of people to TVs in the world: 6 to 1
Insect rule of thumb: Drunk ants always fall over on their right side.
The islands of Antigua and Barbuda issued Elle Macpherson postage stamps in 1999.
Each year Americans use enough foam peanuts to fill ten 85-story skyscrapers.
The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long.
Poll results: 58% of school kids say pizza is their favorite cafeteria food.
New data: 32% of all singles polled said they think they'll meet their future mate online.
When it was invented in India, badminton was known as Poona.
On average, the Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh 100 pounds each.
What's another name for a roll of coins wrapped in paper? A rouleau.
Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adapted into a film 49 times: Romeo & Juliet, 27.
Estimated value of a single pair of Elvis' underpants, $1,300.
Until 1937, the referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball.
In 1948, 2.3% of American households had a television; today 99% do.
Hop to it: In the 13th Century, Europeans baptized children with beer.
Mugging someone on a subway in Britain can get you life in prison.
What do grape juice and the blesbok antelope have in common? The same color.
Female cigar store Indians once outnumbered male ones by four to one.
How did "venereal disease" get it's name? From Venus, the Roman goddess of love.
What's the common name for animal anobium pertinax? Bookworm.
How do you know when you're playing with an Italian deck of cards? No queens.
Theodore Roosevelt's boyhood friends called him Teedie, not Teddy.
Write this one down: The typewriter was invented before the fountain pen.
Before Prohibition, the most common method of drinking beer at home was drinking it straight out of a bucket filled at a local pub or brewery.
What do people and lobsters have in common? Both like to eat lobster.
The Platinum American Eagle has the highest denomination of any US coin. Value $100.00.
The top 3 products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap and deodorant.
One in three dog owners say they've talked to their pets on the phone.
Experts say: 46% of all violence on TV occurs in cartoons.
Honeybees can fly as fast as 30 mph.
There are 1,000 different chemicals in a cup of coffee, 26 of them have been tested to see if they cause cancer in laboratory rats; 13 do.
What do tongue prints and fingerprints have in common? No two are alike.
"We hang petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
Q: Why was the shark model in Jaws called Bruce? A: Steven Spielberg named it after his lawyer.
In Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable worked 71 days and made $120,000. Vivien Leigh worked 125 days and made $25,000.
Only US president to head a labor union: Ronald Reagan.
Why don't wolves bark like dogs? One theory: They don't want to.
Experts say: If you're typical, your body contains about four ounces of salt.
Naturalists tell us: an adult crocodile can go two years without eating.
Is your daughter engaged? Move to Thailand. The parents of the groom pay for the wedding.
How do you know when a roadrunner is content? It purrs.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Besides human sacrifices, what did the Aztecs offer the gods? Tamales.
The jaws of a decapitated snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.
The London Zoo reportedly employs an entertainment director" for the animals.
Rules of the road: Men are more likely than women to run stoplights but women are more likely to switch lanes without signaling.
Blue neckties sell best. Red ties are second
A typical redwood tree's roots are only 5 to 6 feet deep and spread out over an acre
Queen bees only sting other queen bees.
According to sleep researchers, only about 5% of people dream in color.
Henry VIII was the eighth English king called Henry and the first anywhere called "Your Majesty."
Top four high school hazing sports: swimming, diving, soccer, lacrosse.
In an average minute, 20,900 gallons flow from the Amazon River into the sea.
65% of American adolescents get acne.
Of the 1,000 varieties of cherries grown in the US, only 10 are grown commercially.
The US Treasury mints about 19.5 million pennies a day.
The heaviest pumpkin ever recorded weighed 1,061 pounds.
Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizard of Oz.
The average cow produces 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Sound travels a mile in five seconds through the air.
Underwater sound travels a mile in one second.
Poll result: 1 in 6 employees say they got so mad at a co-worker last year that they "felt like hitting them," but didn't.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. Shaved eyebrows were the fad when she was painted.
The average American drinks 3.4 cups of coffee a day.
Every thousand years, spring gets two-thirds of a day shorter.
If you weigh 120 pounds on Earth, you'll weigh about 20 pounds on the moon.
Americans consume 16,000 tons of asprin every year.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.
According to one study, 85% of parents use child car-safety seats incorrectly.
Horse Jockeys are the only US athletes legally allowed to bet on themselves.
If a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would chuck about 700 pounds.
The average American kid catches 6 colds a year. The average American kid in daycare catches 10.
Your odds of living to age 116: 1 in 2 billion.
New Data: The average American male laughs 69 times a day; the average woman, 55.
What sports celebrity appeared simultaneously on Times, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated? Secretariat, the race horse in 1973.
The US Postal Services owns 176,000 cars and trucks - the largest civilian vehicle fleet on earth.
Princess Diana was buried in a plot of land once used as the Spencer Family pet cemetery.
Highest consumption of canned beans in the US: New York, Los Angeles, Boston.
When is it legal for the dead to vote? If they die after mailing in an absentee ballot.
People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
First nation wide best-selling book in the US: the memoirs of Ulysses S Grant.
One mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.
According to the phone company: 85% of obscene calls are made by males.
In Venice, Venetian blinds are known as "Persian Blinds."
What do gorillas and house cats have in common? Both purr.
Researchers say: 5% of Americans never get married.
Benjamin Franklin gave guitar lessons.
A hibernating bear can go as long as six months without a bathroom break.
60% of the country of Liechtenstein's GNP is generated by the sale of false teeth.
When medieval Europeans burned witches, the witches' families had to pay for the wood.
Most common phobia in the world: odynophobia - the fear of pain.
How do you know when a turkey is panicking? That's the only time it whistles.
Four most dangerous steps on most staircases: the two at the top and the two at the bottom.
It takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter.
Did you know that both French and African marigolds come from North America?
India has an estimated 550 million voters.
In Montreal, Quebec it is illegal to water a garden in the rain.
What do whales and buffaloes have in common? They both stampede.
Medical term for earwax: cerumen.
At last count, Minnesota had 99 lakes named Mud Lake.
Top speed of a pigeon in flight: 90 mph.
Hitler had his own private train, complete with 15 railcars. It was named Amerika.
In Athens, Greece, you can lose your driver's license for being "poorly dressed" or "unbathed."
When pizza became popular in the US in the 1930s, sales of oregano shot up 5,200%.
Squirrels cannot see the color red.
On the average, adults have 2 gallons of air in the space between their skin and clothes.
According to market research, if a girl owns one Barbie, she probably owns 7.
Given the opportunity, chimpanzees will hunt ducks.
Injured fingernails grow faster than uninjured ones.
An exocannibal is a cannibal who eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends.
Al Capone's older brother Vince Capone was a policeman in Nebraska.
The ancient Greeks played cards. In those days, aces were known as "dogs."
Most-used expression of any language on earth: "OK."
The average computer worker types 90,000 keystrokes in an eight-hour shift.
On average, people aged 24 to 35 worry less than adults of any other age group.
About 21,000 commercial airline flights are scheduled daily in the United States. Only about 5,000 planes are available to fly them.
Firstbaseball player to be named Rookie of the Year: Jackie Robinson, in 1947.
There is no leading cause of death for people who live past the age of 100. (281)