Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. 
Get even - live long enough to be a problem to your kids.
Slow is when someone laps you in the hundred yard dash.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a bad example.
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.
Lord, if you won't make me skinny, please make all my friends fat.
A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
It's not me who can't keep a secret, it's the people I tell that can't.
A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it.
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Modesty is a virtue of fools.
One good turn gets most of the blankets.
The more people i meet, the more i like my dog. 
My parents stayed together for forty years, but that was out of spite.
It's hard to face the problem, when the problem is your face.
I fear my inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling?
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
Anythings possible... apart from skiing through a revolving door.
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure.
A drop of ink may make a million think.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Exercise is such a bad word, that, whenever i say it, i immediately wash my mouth with chocolate!
People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.
You have the right to your opinions. I just don't want to hear them.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice
California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old. 
Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk. 
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time. 
Goulash, a beef soup, originated in Hungary in the 9th century AD. 
Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.
Hungarian brothers George and Lazlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938. (Which is what it is called in Europe, the "Biro")
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles. 
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral. 
About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice. 
Alaska, with 8, is the US state with the most national park sites. 
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world.
Australia is the only country that is also a continent. 
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'. 
Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. 
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts. 
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. 
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. 
An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. 
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. 
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. 
A pineapple is a berry.
An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows. 
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. 
Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum. 
It is impossible to lick your elbow
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
Rats and horses can't vomit.
One in every ten people live on an island.
The rose is the official National Floral Emblem of the United States.
There are over 17 basement chambers under the Taj Mahal.
There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person. 
Wyoming was the first US state to allow women to vote. 
Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.
The tallest monument built in the US, the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri, is 630 feet tall. 
The Vatican's Swiss Guard still wears a uniform designed by Michelangelo in the early 16th century. 
The water in the Great Salt Lake of Utah is more than four times as salty as any ocean. 
The wettest spot in the world is located on the island of Kauai. 
The world's smallest independent state is the Vatican City, with a population of about 1,000 - and a zero birthrate. 
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. 
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 
There are 132 rooms in the US White House. 
There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty. 
Work on St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, began in 1506. Construction took over a century, reaching completion in 1612. 
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. 
The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km). 
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair. 
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.
Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
The first 100 numbers of Pi are:3.1415926535897932384 6264338327950288419716939 9375105820974944592307816 4062862089986280348253421 170679.
An American quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
The mass of the earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Thomas Jefferson invented the revolving chair.
A cucumber is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
A bushel of apples weighs about 42 pounds.
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
Ants never sleep.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Bees kill more people per year than even sharks or snakes.
The first word spoken on the moon was "Okay".
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
Aristotle thought that blood cooled the brain.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon."
Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
At a fair in Maine, a boy spat a watermelon seed 38 ft.
At age 16, Confucius was a corn inspector.
All 17 children of Queen Anne died before she did.
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Puppies generally don't wag their tails until they are about a month old.
The smallest type of cow is a breed called Dexter.
The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
A young shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumram, Jordan, in 1947.
The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4 in 1965.
A full moon always rises at sunset.
A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
All the stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, revolve around the center of the galaxy every 200 million years.
If you attempted to count the stars in the Milky Way galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran The Zoo."
American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from New York to Los Angeles.
Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
"I Me Mine" was the last song all four Beatles' recorded together.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
Giraffes can grow over 20 feet tall.
The lowest possible temperature when all molecules stop moving is -273.15 degrees Celsius. This is called Absolute Zero.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
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.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'
The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean
The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is neumonoultramicro scopicsilicovol canoconiosis.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangi hangakoauauotama teaturipukakapiki maungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakita natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Porciuncula" and can  be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.
Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)
The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once - His first name was Willy.
The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. 
The Professor's real name on Gilligan's Island was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and  Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.
The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.
Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
Some toothpaste and makeup contain crushed volcanic stone.
There is 1 mile of railroad track in Belgium for every one and a half square miles of land.
A pregnant goldfish is called a “twit.”
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The ambidextrous 20th President Garfield could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other.
Cocoa Cola was originally green.
A ten gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip travels faster than the speed of sound. 
The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime. 
Every human spends about half an hour as a single cell. 
The first video on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. 
Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836. 
Dry cereal was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century. 
Edgar Allan Poe's epitaph says "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'." 
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US. 
Every year, about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. 
One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.
The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 feet wide.
The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.
Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.
Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
Pigs get sunburn.
A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
Beavers were once the size of bears.
The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.
The only food that doesn't spoil is honey.
11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.
A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs.
It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.
A hummingbirds' heart beats fourteen hundred times a minute.
Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.
A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.
An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.
The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.
Each year, the average American eats about 15 lbs. of apples.
A bee has 5 eyelids.
Horseback riding can improve your posture.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
The first food eaten in space by a US astronaut was applesauce.
Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.
A camel has 3 eyelids.
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.
There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.
Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.
Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.
It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.
A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.
Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.
Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
A turkey can run 20 M.P.H.
A duck's quack doesn’t echo.
The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
"I read the newspapers, hear the radio and feel they're raging on me. But in the morning I relieve myself: I look myself in the mirror and I think I'm a saint" (Silvio Berlusconi)
"Death is just an apparent state... it is like dreaming to fall from thirtieth floor, a dream which you can't get rid of" (Vincent - Cowboy Bebop)
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former" (Einstein)
"If Gauss would still be alive, he'd be a hacker" (Peter Sarnak)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" (Mahatma Ghandi)
They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you can hear satanic messages. That's nothing, 'coz if you play it forwards, it installs Windows!
"It's in changes that you find the meaning of life" (Eraclito)
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand" (Bertrand Russell)
"No matter if they talk good or bad about me, as long they talk about me" (Oscar Wilde)
"A good friend stabs you in the front" (Oscar Wilde)
"War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left" (Bertrand Russel)
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying
Rock is a soul's vibration
"No matter how great a man can be, if he's alone he's just half a man" (Skizo)
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"The best way to keep a secret it's to know nothing about it" (Skizo)
"The difference between a politician and a statist relies in the fact that politician thinks about next elections, while statist thinks about next generations" (Alcide Degasperi)
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." (Marthin Luther King, Jr.)
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." (Mahatma Gandhi)
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." (Mark Twain)
"Don't take life too seriously: you'll never get out of it alive." (Elbert Hubbard)
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." (Mark Twain)
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
"At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual." (Patrick Moore)
I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
There is great need for a sarcasm font.
Did we ever learn how to fold a fitted sheet?
Was learning cursive really necessary?
Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5.  Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
Bad decisions make good stories.
You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray?   I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
"Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this -- ever.
I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?"  How the hell do I respond to that?
I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Everyone has a photographic memory.  Some just don't have film.
You know the speed of light, so what's the speed of dark?
Join The Army, Visit exotic places, meet strange people, then kill them.
I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.(Friend or Money !)
Death is hereditary.
There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.
A consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking.
They say hard work never hurts anybody, but why take the chance.
Always borrow money from a pessimist.  He won't expect it back.
I like work.  It fascinates me.  I  sit and look at it for hours.
If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.  
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. 
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.
The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S
You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
Honeybees never sleep
Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird because he thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald
5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US
80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky
San Jose was the original capital of California
Most lipstick have fish scales
In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
The oldest dog died at the age of 29
Tamiflu's main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre.  The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
Earthworms have five hearts
The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.
Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available.  (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
Two phone books with their pages interlaced require more than 8000 pounds of pressure to separte.
Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.
For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children
Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
The more panels a football has - and therefore the more seams - the easier it is to control in the air.
Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.
The egg came first.
Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago, showing "less problematic behavior" involving sex, drugs and drink.
Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.
In Bhutan government policy is based on Gross National Happiness; thus most street advertising is banned, as are tobacco and plastic bags.
The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.
Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
The age limit for marriage in France was, until recently, 15 for girls, but 18 for boys. The age for girls was raised to 18 in 2006.
The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.  
The first known marketer of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.  (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.  (Makes you think about ambidextrous people)  This fact is based on a study that had errors in it, thus it might not be a fact.
Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won\'t be able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after such a large amount.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
The US national anthem actually has four verses, but everyone just knows the first one.  When the whole anthem is sung, the third verse is usually omitted.
During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
The first Computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, unveiled on February 14, 1946  (Thanks D.B. of AU)
The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies
There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which you have probably never heard of.
Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written first and the individual name written second
Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860
A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named "El Pueblo la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula"
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.
Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.
The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.
The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button for it was eliminated during surgery.
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Cranberry Jell-0 is the only kind that contains real fruit.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.
There was once a town in West Virginia called "6."
The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.
Napoleon made his battle plans in a sandbox.
Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll.
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.
"Jaws" is the most common name for a goldfish.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.
Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
Blue and white are the most common school colors.
Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year.
In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.
A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.
America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe.
The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.
The bulls-eye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground.
The doorbell was invented in 1831.
The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
There are seven points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
The parking meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935.
The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.
France has the highest per capita consumption of cheese.
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter.
Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.
The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
Russia has the most movie theaters in the world.
The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.
The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.
Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
Dry fish food can make goldfish constipated.
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.
Toilet paper was invented in 1857.
Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.
Before Prohibition, Schlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except the Catholic church.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
Nondairy creamer is flammable.
The car in the foreground on the back of a $10 bill is a 1925 Hupmobile.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
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.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0. Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel proved this wrong.
The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is Number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
When Saigon fell, the signal for all Americans to evacuate was Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" being played on the radio.
The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.
At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
The world's record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours.
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.
In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.
By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.
More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).
Enough beer is poured every Saturday across America to fill the Orange Bowl.
A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
Whales die if their echo system fails.
Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.
Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.
It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.
Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
In deep space most lubricants will disappear.
America once issued a 5-cent bill.
The average person can live 11 days without water.
In 1221 the daughter of Genghis Khan ordered the killing of the entire population of the city of Nishapur (about 60,000) in one hour.  The order came after her husband killing. (Moguls claim that 1.7 million were killed)
There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.
More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.
King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.
Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand, and hour hand.
The motto of the American people, "In God We Trust," was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
The principality of Monaco consists of 370 acres.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian man who had a beard was required to pay a special tax.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. treasury.
The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, '(okina).
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
City with the most Rolls Royces per capita: Hong Kong.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.
Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.
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'd marry the same man: 50%.
Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
The only President to win a Pulitzer Prize: John Kennedy for "Profiles in Courage."
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: "Tom Sawyer."
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show "Mythbusters")
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.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.
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 leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The first airline, DELAG, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships. Up to November 1913, more than 34,000 people had used the service.
Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg
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
Francis Scott Key was a young lawyer who wrote the poem, 'The Star Spangled Banner', after being inspired by watching the Americans fight off the British attack of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem became the words to the national anthem
Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep
Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.
It has been recommended by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (two meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush!
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term 'drowning' refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.
Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
Jeremy Bentham, a British philosopher who died in 1832,left his entire estate to the London Hospital provided that his body be allowed to preside over its board meetings. His skeleton was clothed and fitted with a wax mask of his face. It was present at the meeting for 92 years.
Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.
There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.
The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
Less than 3% of Nestlé's sales are for chocolate.
The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
The tip of a 1/3 inch long hour-hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 mph
Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
The X's that people sometimes put at the end of letters or notes to mean a kiss, actually started back in the 1000's when Lords would sign their names at the end of documents to other important people. It was originally a cross that they would kiss after signing to signify that they were faithful to God and their King. Over the years though, it slanted into the X
Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.'
The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
Even though it is widely attributed to him Shakespeare never actually used the word 'gadzooks'.
Only 2 blue moons (the saying 'only once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month) are to occur between now and 2001. Those times are January 1999 and March 1999
"Naked" means to be unprotected. "Nude" means unclothed
Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'  
75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost  100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. 
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced  to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to  squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its  body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length.  For a human, that would be  equivalent to jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. 
Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
MTV first aired at 12:01 AM on August 1, 1981. The first video was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles.
There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth
At - 40 degrees Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories  per hour by breathing.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. The skin recedes, making it appear to grow.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The cockroach dies from radiation and would not survive a nuclear war.
In the southern hemisphere, water always swirl anti-clockwise down into a pipe.
About 8 million blood cells die in the human body every second, and the same number are born each second.
Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.
Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
35 meters of hair fiber is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell  themselves  to do it.
The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil.
Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.
Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.
Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received "real" replacement statues.
The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his "outstanding comic creation," his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.