The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds.

It would only take eleven men to re-populate the planet if each sperm could be utilized.

There are 10 times as many coconut related deaths per year than there are shark related deaths (on average 150 to 15).

There's more bacteria in your mouth then there are people on Earth.

The first coin-operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in the first century A.D.

The span of your hand from the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb, when stretched apart, is the same distance as between your nipples.

11% of people in the world are left handed.

Americans today consume nearly the same number of calories per day as Americans did in 1910, but the weight of the average American has increased substantially due to lack of exercise.

A "jiffy" is an actual measure of time for 1/100 of a second.

Cheethas cannot retract their claws and have zero percent body fat which means after running really fast (up to 70 miles per hour) they must eat or they will die.

Cows can sleep while standing on all four legs, but they only dream when they sleep lying down.

In four years, one female cat could be responsible for the birth of 20,736 cats.

In the country of Tibet, it's good manners to stick out your tongue at your guests.

Ninety-nine percent of all forms of life that have existed on Earth are now extinct.

Bill Cosby's wife, Camille Hanks, is a direct descendant of Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother.

A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

A survey revealed that perpetrators of violent acts on TV dramas go unpunished 73 percent of the time.

Monkeys will not eat red meat or butter.

Tortoises, otherwise mute, make grunting noises only when they mate.

Early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with a rope stretched across the bed frame. If the rope was tight, sleep was comfortable. Hence the phrase, "sleep tight."

The average 4 year old laughs 400 times per day, whereas the average adult is doing well if they average 15 laughs a day. Come on people, LAUGH!!!

The most human killing animal in the world is the deer, killing over 100 humans a year.

Shania Twain holds the world record for the most album sales acheived by a woman - over 18 million since 1997.

Chickens nor Roosters can walk backwards.

The average man spends 3350 hours shaving in his lifetime.

During your lifetime you will eat 60,000 pounds of food, the weight of six elephants.

Dogs can only see in black and white.

The elephant has the best sense of smell. It can determine what family an elephant is from, what another elephant is eating, and if an elephant is in heat. They can store a smell forever.

The statement to the right is false. The statement to the left is true.

The average daily growth of a bamboo plant is 35.4 inches.

Doctors in ancient India used insect mandibles instead of stitches to bind the two sides of a cut together. The head of a large ant would be removed and its pincers would be brought together through the patient's flesh.

Crane Flies (Daddy Long Legs) carry the most poisonous and fast acting venom known - but in a cruel (as only God can be) twist of fate, they have no teeth with which to inject it. Therefore they keep getting their legs ripped off by small, sadistic children...

The phrase "It's not over until the fat lady sings" is actually a mis-quote. The correct phrase is "It's not over until the fat lady sinks" and has its origins in the game of billiards. The black eight ball was commonly referred to as the "fat lady" so no matter how bad the game was for a competitor it wasn't over until the "fat lady" sank.

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world without hitting land.

In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch'.

There was only one pointer, the hour hand, on the first clocks made in the fourteenth century. The minute and seconds hands were added in the 16th and 17th Centuries.

You should never eat a polar bear's tongue due to possible vitamin A overdose.

In the twentieth century, every U.S. presidential election has been won by the taller man.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.

The longest fingernails in history were 20 feet 2.75 inches.

Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters.

A survey revealed that perpetrators of violent acts on TV dramas go unpunished 73 percent of the time.

Spider silk is an extremely strong material and its on-weight basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop a Boeing 747 in flight.

More energy is expelled in walking down a hill, than walking up the same hill.

A Bat's screech is loud enough to deafen itself.

9 million other people in the world share your same birthday.

There are more electronics in a Sony Walkman than there are in a Sidewinder heat seeking missile.

Lightning travels 90,000 miles a second - almost half the speed of light.

The Sun produces more energy every minute than all the energy used on Earth in a whole year.

1 gram of crystalized botulism poison is potent enough to kill everyone in the world.

Perspiration, or sweat if you prefer, is odorless. It is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.

The lowest possible temperature is -273.15 degrees centigrade (absolute zero).

A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour.

The average person swallows a gallon of saliva everyday.

Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV.

During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

In 10 million years Los Angles and San Francisco will be right next to each other because of the tectonic plates moving.

Chopin, the composer, wore a beard on only the left half of his face. He claimed that when he performed at the piano, the other side of his face didn't matter since the audience saw only one side.

Iceland is the only country to [officialy] have a penis museum. It hosts the the penis's of over 70 mammals including the largest of them all - the blue whale's.

The sun will blow up in 4.5 billion years.

St. Patrick's Day was celebrated for the first time in America on March 17, 1737, when the Charitable Irish Society, a Protestant group founded that same year, organized a non-religious celebration honoring St. Paddy. It originated in Ireland as a religious holiday honoring the arrival of St. Patrick in 432 A.D. and his death, on March 17, 464 A.D.

Studies show that states that allow people to carry guns have less robberies, crimes and even murders.

The most popular sport with American adults ages 20-29 is golf, followed by mountain biking and snowboarding.

Man has tiny bones once meant for a tail and unworkable muscles once meant to move his ears.

The average person will spend two weeks of their life waiting for a stoplight to change.

The average pencil will draw a line 56.3km (35 miles) long.

The Sahara desert is as big as all of Europe.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the most mini-golf courses per area in the U.S. At last count, there were 47 in a 60 mile radius.

Mouse intercourse is only five seconds long.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765 a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

When men of the Walibri tribe of central Australia greet each other, they shake penises instead of hands.

The male fox will mate for life, and if the female dies, he remains single for the rest of his life. However, if the male dies, the female will hook up with a new mate.

The Mongol conqueror Timur the Lame (1336-1405), played polo with the skulls of those he had killed in battle. Timur left record of his victories by erecting 30-foot-high pyramids made of the severed heads of his victims.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

There are 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes in a yottabyte.

One in three male motorists pick their nose whilst driving.

It is estimated by scientists that the universe contains .0000000000000000000000000000001 grams of matter per cubic centimeter of space. It is also estimated that the universe is 35 billion light years in size, or 210,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.

In the original Grimm brothers' fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the wicked Queen was condemned to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she died.

As of 1976, there were approximately 375 ten-thousand dollar bills in circulation in the United States. They are no longer printed.

The five favorite U.S. school lunches nationwide are, in order, pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, burritos, and hamburgers.

A giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.

Tooth enamel is the hardest substance manufactured by the human body.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Cats, not dogs, are now the most common pets in America. Approximately 66 million cats to 58 million dogs are family pets, with parakeets "flying" a distant third at 14 million.

Michael Jackson won the most grammy's ever with a total of eight.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The initials M.G. on the famous British-made automobile stand for "Morris Garage."

9 billion condoms are used annually across the globe.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

In the Egyptian Pyramids, the length of the diagonal across the base divided by the perpendicular height gives Pi to ten decimal places.

The average American adult spends two months each year in front of the television.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

In four years, one female cat could be responsible for the birth of 20,736 cats.

The temperature on the Moon reaches 243 degrees Fahrenheit at midday on the lunar equator. During the night, the temperature falls to -261 degrees Fahrenheit.

A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the lens of the eye, as humans do.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Per a British medical journal report, the fungi that feed on old paper may be mildly hallucinogenic, and the "fungal hallucinogens" may cause an "enhancement of enlightenment" in readers. The source of creative inspiration for many great authors through history may have been a quick sniff of moldy books, causing them to get high.

3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The song American Pie has the lines "Drove my Chevy to the Levy, but the Levy was dry... Them good old boys were drinking whisky in Rye." The Levy was a bar and Rye is a small city in New York. Most people think the levee is the thing that holds water back and rye is the liquor.

Composition of a fart:

Nitrogen (N2)
Oxygene (O2)
Carbon Dioxide(CO2)
Hydrogen (H2)
Methane (CH4)

Other components in less portion, but they are responsible for smell: (Methyl-Indol, Skatol, Hydrogen Sulfide, Methyl-Mercaptan)

The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia, has nearly 68,000 miles of telephone lines.

"Lead" pencils contain no lead, graphite is the material used to write with. In it's pure form, graphite is much to crumbly to make sharp, detailed lines, so it is mixed with clay as a hardener and wax as a binder, in order to create pencil "leads" which, contain no lead at all.

What's the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?

They're both tropical storms or "cyclones" with sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour. By convention, the cyclone is either a hurricane if it occurs in the Atlantic ocean or a typhoon if it occurs in the western Pacific or the Indian oceans. Due to the Coriolis effect, cyclones rotate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

The United States of America has enough cheese on reserve to fill up 10 empire state buildings.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart.

The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute was created after Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and eventually added it to Star Trek lore. The gesture represents the first letter of the word "shalom."

There is a 1000 to 1 ratio of dead to living people in Colma, California, a town with 17 cemeteries.

According to Caribbean Cruise Lines, 58% of the passengers are unable to wait more than 10 hours before "dropping anchor in the sea of love". The lifeboat is the fourth most popular place on the ship to have sex. The whirlpool is ranked first.

The IRS consumes 293,000 trees to send out 8 billion pages of forms each year.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

U.S. Interstates that run north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

Leonard Skinner (Lynyrd Skynyrd) was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin'."

Telling a lie drains the color from your cheeks. As your pulse quickens veins rush blood away from your face. Nineteenth century British politicians would put rouge on their cheeks before addressing the House of Commons so they would be perceived to be honest speakers. Hence the expression "bare-faced lie".

"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e., not pledged to one master.

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