- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay so long as both parties are registered blood donors.
- Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
- If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
- The average human eats eight bugs or spiders in their lifetime while sleeping.
- The Pentagon in Arlington, VA, has twice as many bathrooms as necessary. When it was built in the 1940's, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether read left to right or right to left. (also known as Palindromes)
- Lyme Disease is named after Lyme Connecticut where it was first recognized in 1975, NOT the fruit.
- The nickname Limey was applied to the English sailors who were routinely supplied with limes to prevent scurvy.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a Tittle.
- The Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
