~ Top 3 mental disorders in the United States: depression, alcoholism, social phobia.

~ 35 MPH is the average speed most cars travel on U.S. interstate highways during peak morning and afternoon rush.

~ Although they may seem to be several hundreds of feet across, the current channel of a lightning bolt is not much thicker than a pencil.

~ Moments before a thunderstorm a static-electricity phenomenon sometimes can be observed. It is known as St. Elmo's Fire.

~ The wind in the atmosphere is estimated to contain 3.6 billion watts of continuous power.

~ In July 1995 in Miller City, Ohio, lightning struck a poultry farm and 68,000 chickens were roasted.

~ Every day, Americans listen to 91,373 years worth of radio.

~ An ear of corn never has an odd number of rows.

~ The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

~ The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.

~ The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

~ The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

~ The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur.

~ Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

~ The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

~ The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

~ Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

~ A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

~ Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

~ The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

~ Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

~ A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

~ Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

~ A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

~ A U.S. quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

~ A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

~ Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.

~ The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.