The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
The G in 'g-string' stand for groin
85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting
Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed
Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War
Spiders have transparent blood
A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day
It takes about a week to make a jelly bean
Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants
In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad
Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death
Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star
If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake
Hummingbirds can't walk
At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two miles apart
Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation
Iguanas have two penises
How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating
Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down
Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males
Astronauts cannot burp in space
In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'
The state of Florida is bigger than England
Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics
The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school
President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader
You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek
Young children can entirely regrow lost fingertips above the top joint, including the bone, skin and nail
2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans
Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875
The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
One out of 20 people have an extra rib
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall, and she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910
23% of all photocopier repairs are needed due to people photocopying their butts
Every continent begins and ends in the same letter. eg AfricA, EuropE
In Super Mario Brothers, Mario's full name is Mario Mario, and Luigi's is Luigi Mario
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it
20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called their inner ear canal home. They enter while you sleep
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the USA
If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
While sneezing, if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end
because of the rate of reproduction
China has more English speakers than the United States
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg
Daily, you will breathe in 1 liter of other people's a**l gases
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 badly so common folk would put flowers on their bodies somewhere inconspicuously, so that it would cover the smell of the sores (...pocket full of poseys...). 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!).
Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day
The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10½ inches
To tell the temperature without a thermometer: Count a cricket's "chirps" for 15 seconds and add 40. This tells you the degrees in Fahrenheit
In 1977, the first sports bra was two jockstraps sewn together
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