About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. But...but...standing up to look is the best part!
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star. Is the sun a star?! Ha-ha...ha...oh, you're serious...
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. In the remaining 25%, they do nothing.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. Let that be a lesson to all the nicotine addicted monkeys out there.
About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it to make more money. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce to you: Society.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas. ...Forcing evolution was their only choice. Og catch fish, Nala like?
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. We elected G.W., Jr. over Millie?! Wait...never mind, he wasn't elected...
Webhosting.info have estimated that the United States has over 22,000 web hosting companies and over 25 million domain names!
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Ninety percent of
New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
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.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Americans consume 42 tons of Aspirin per day.
Americans spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and barber shops.
During the Prohibition, at least 1565 Americans died from drinking bad liquor, hundreds were blinded, and many were killed in bootlegger wars. Federal agents and the Coast Guard made 75,000 arrests per year.
In 1965, LBJ enacted a law requiring cigarette manufacturers to put health warnings on their packages.
The first suburban shopping mall was opened in 1922 by National Department Stores in Saint Louis.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. And all this time I thought American women complained the most...
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement." Don't knock his brother for trying to forever remember all it took to make his kid!
China has more English speakers than the United States. Yo vivo en los Estados Unidos. ¿Tu tienes una problema con este?
The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometers away in Australia.
The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
The percentage of
Africa that is wilderness: 28% ( now get this...) The percentage of
North America that is wilderness: 38%
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting out advertising space on his cows.
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles. Men and women walked around topless, and marriages between brothers and sisters were not uncommon in the Royal families. Cleopatra was married to her older brother, until he drowned in the Nile. Then she married her 11-year-old younger brother.
In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers", which contained the actual poison.
The very first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi Cola.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. Mwahahaha...the power of statistics is on my side!
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. I'm willing to take one (or eight) for the team, as long as they die...
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.
Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.
Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.
More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
A healthy person has 6,000 million million, million haemoglobin molecules.
A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.
There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing - SCARY!!!
The world population of chickens is about equal to people. Why the Iraqis, G.W.? The largest army is the chickens, bomb them! Bomb them!
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. What the heck? How often does this happen?!
Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meters.
Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle launch.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
The gray whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left-handed.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The first seeing eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
Some toothpaste brands contain antifreeze. "Don't worry folks; it will only burn for a few hours..."
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
'Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.
DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.
The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.
The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.
On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing Heroin in 1898.
Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.
Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.
Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two medicinal ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formula, it's hard to know.
False eyelashes were invented by film director D.W. Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic, "Intolerance." He wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks.
For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper". Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators, where it was first developed.
The ball-point pen was invented by two Hungarian brothers: Georgo and Lazlo Biro.
Insulin was discovered in 1922 by Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best.
Jergens Lotion was created in 1880 by Andrew Jergens, a former lumberjack.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during World War 2.
Laser stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation" and was developed in the 1950s and 1960s.
Levi Strauss blue jeans with copper rivets were priced at $13.50 per dozen in 1874.
Penicillin was first produced synthetically in a laboratory in 1946.
The very first personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale in 1977.
The Baby Ruth cnady bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
The Butterfinger candy bar was first produced by Chicago's Curtiss Candy Co. in 1923. As an advertising gimmick, candy bars were dropped from an airplane on cities in 40 states.
The first brand of Wrigley's chewing gum was called Vassar, named after new New England woman's college. Next were Lotta and Sweet Sicteen Orange. In 1915, Wrigley promoted their new spearmint-flavored chewing gum by mailing 4 sample sticks to each of the 1.5 million names listed in the US telephone books.
The condom was invented in the early 1500s, and was originally made of linen.
The electric chair was invented by Dr. Alphonse Rockwell, and was first used on William Kemmler on August 6, 1890.
The very first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI in 1953. It sold for $3,250.
The first credit card, issued in 1950, was Diner's Club. Frank X. McNamara started the company with 200 card holders. Today there are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.
VHS stands for Video Home System.
Two out of three car buyers pay the sticker price without arguing.
Townsend Spokesman of Philadelphia mixed fruit flavor with soda water in 1807, creating the very first flavored soda pop. He called it Nephite Julep.
The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (meters per second - that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).
It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.
October 12th, 1999 was declared "The Day of Six Billion" based on United Nations projections.
The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.
Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.
Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
Every year lightning kills 1,000 people.
In October 1999 an iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic shelf.
If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
If our Sun were just an inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the universe was the size of a...pea.
In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.
Utopia is a large, smooth lying area of Mars.
A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
The largest galaxies contain a million, million stars. The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.
The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert Glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 mph.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down the deepest part of the ocean.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs -Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the Horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
Cocaine used to be sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom, over and over again.
Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of linen.
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
All food products are allowed to have a small amount of impurities. Large quantities of cereal for instance can contain dust or dead bugs.
