15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!
90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
All babies are color blind when they are born.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion
population has never seen or used a telephone.
'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
80% of millionaires drive used cars.
85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth
and subtract 10%.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
Babies are born without knee caps.A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A small airplane can fly backwards.
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the
possible secondary use for the springs.
Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
Attics were invented in Attica.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the
fastest to dry.
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.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed
traps!
The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
The life boat was patented in 1845!
The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between
10,000 and 30,000 volts!
The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by
car manufacturer Skoda!
The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from
falling coconuts.
Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!
Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!
In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute".
Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!
The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a
'puck-off'.
All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job!
At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on
the roof of a tunnel.
At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third.
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!
During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia
Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!
In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared
to right-handed individuals.
Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
The first baseball caps were made of straw.
The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
2,500 newborn babies will be dropped in the next month.
35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married!
Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf!
Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!
Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
85% of movie actors earn less than $5,000 a year from acting!
90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
All babies are color blind when they are born.
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War.
Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.
Approximately 365 million people in the world have computers while half of the world's 6.5 billion
population has never seen or used a telephone.
'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
80% of millionaires drive used cars.
85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth
and subtract 10%.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
Babies are born without knee caps.A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A small airplane can fly backwards.
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the
possible secondary use for the springs.
Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
Attics were invented in Attica.
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the
fastest to dry.
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.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed
traps!
The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
The life boat was patented in 1845!
The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between
10,000 and 30,000 volts!
The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by
car manufacturer Skoda!
The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from
falling coconuts.
Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!
Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!
In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute".
Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!
The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.A 'face-off' in hockey was originally called a
'puck-off'.
All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job!
At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on
the roof of a tunnel.
At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!
Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third.
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
Cheetahs were raced at Romford greyhound stadium in 1937!
During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia
Eagles combined to become The Steagles.
Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet!
In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared
to right-handed individuals.
Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.
So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
The first baseball caps were made of straw.
The household wrench was invented by boxing heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1922.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.
Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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