1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the
first time are teenagers.
2. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
3. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents
thought he might be retarded.
4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are
automobiles.
5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're
still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? LOL :)
6. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in
any other weather.
7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who
have recently eaten bananas. [ROTFL! -NH]
9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at
night.
11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
12. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the
early 1500's.
13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by
Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't
give her coffee. [Ah! Women's liberation! --NH]
15. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants.
17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no
telephones - Bhutan.
19. Every person has a unique tongue print.
[This could be the basis of an X-Files episode. --NH]
20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
21. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
22. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry
pictures of the pets in their wallets.
23. Bubble gum contains rubber.
24. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
25. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
26. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her
hands in Jello.
27. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several
weeks.
28. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
29. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number
of people.
30. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice
water over his head.
31. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay
the bills.
32. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette
in South Bend, Indiana.
33. About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to
make more money.
34. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in
Kansas.
35. Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
36. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
37. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as
President Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so. [Heh heh. --NH]
38. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation
in the Western Pacific.
39. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
41. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600
in 1992. [...and it was bought by the Smoking Man. --NH]
42. Mosquitoes have teeth.
43. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
44. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
45. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ,
Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
46. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for
food.
47. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
48. 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a
meaningless existential hell."
49. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on
when patients would die.
50. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name
meant "plenty of excrement."
51. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
52. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
53. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
54. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.(Greg)
55. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30
feet.
56. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
57. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
58. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
59. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
60. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
61. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
62. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
63. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
64. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork
than by a poisonous spider?
65. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
66. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including
their eye- brows and eyelashes.
67. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
68. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
69. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own
weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
70. Polar bears are left handed.
71. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more than any other animal.
72. The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
73. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head. The only reason it
doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.
74. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off (No I don't
want to have sex tonight dear).
75. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
76. Butterflies taste with their feet.
77. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)
78. A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
79. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
80. Starfish haven't got brains.
