Did you know you share your birthday with at
least 9 other million people in the world?
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia
still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.
The human heart creates enough pressure when
it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
"I am."
is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The longest word in the English language is 1909
letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Every time you lick a stamp,
you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Babies are born without knee caps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than
all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because
cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp
farmers...they saw it as competition.
You know that you are more likely to be killed
by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would
have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
dogs only have about ten.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be
39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and
have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia,
has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary.
