1. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
2. Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
3. Minnows have teeth in their throat.
4. WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
5. In India, Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel.
1. Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
2. A group of officers is called a mess.
3. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
4. The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.
5. Got gas? 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.
1. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
2. Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
3. Tibetans drink tea made of salt and rancid yak butter.
4. A female mackerel lays 500,000 eggs at a time.
5. Insects outnumber humans by 1 million to one.
1. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
2. Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
3. Linen is actually stronger when wet.
4. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
5. Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry.
While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it.
1. More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
2. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
3. Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
4. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
5. In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
1. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.
2. The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
3. Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
4. 29% of people admit they've intentionally stolen something from a store.
5. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
1. A moth has no stomach.
2. World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
3. The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
4. Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
5. Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.
1. Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
2. 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
3. Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes
4. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
5. Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans!
1. The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
2. A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
3. Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .
4. The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!
5. One can see the stars during the day from the bottom of a well.
1. The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
2. Diet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.
3. It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
4. The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.
5. Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.
1. If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones go to the top.
2. Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
3. Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
4. It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
5. An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
1. One in eight Americans is considered poor, but one home in six has at least three cars or trucks.
2. Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President.
3. In 1976 an LA secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock in a ceremony witnessed by more than 20 people
4. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
5. New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
1. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
2. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
3. Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
4. Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.
5. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
1. A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
2. Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .
3. To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
4. The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
5. In Idaho, it is illegal to give someone a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds!
1. Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
2. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
3. Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
4. Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.
5. 10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
1. Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
2. It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
3. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
4. Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
5. Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
1. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
2. Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!
3. The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
4. On Sunday, it is illegal to sell cornflakes in Columbus, Ohio.
5. Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
1. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
2. Before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court.
3. In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
4. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
5. In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust
