1) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
2) 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3) Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
4) The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.
5) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
6) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
7) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
8) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
9) "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. "I am." is another short one.
10) One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
11) The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
12) Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to hold a patent. It was for an invention to buoy boats over shallow rivers.
13) The human brain is 80% water.
14) Nearly 90% of American teens used the Internet in 2005.
15) Rats are incapable of puking.
16) Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
17) Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.
18) There are over 58 million dogs in the US.
19) A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
20) The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
21) Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.
22) North Dakota is the only state in the US that has never had an earthquake
23) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
24) 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
25) The word "democracy" is banned in online chat rooms in China.
26) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
27) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
28) All polar bears are left handed.
29) Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion.
30) The life expectancy at birth in Swaziland is estimated to be only 33 years old (as of 2005)!
31) No president of the United States was an only child.
32) Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
33) Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.
34) The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
35) In 1886, sales of "Coca-Cola" averaged only 9 drinks per day.
36) It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
37) Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
38) The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".
39) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
40) The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
41) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
42) 99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
43) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
44) The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
45) The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
46) To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
47) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
48) The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
49)Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
50) have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
51) The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
52) In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
53) Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
54) Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.
55)Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.
56) Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
57) In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds!
58) A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue.
59) An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
60) The US has about 9 billion chickens. China has more than 13 billion.
61) 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
62) The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
63) The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
64) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
65)The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
2) 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
3) Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
4) The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.
5) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
6) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
7) Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
8) The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
9) "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. "I am." is another short one.
10) One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
11) The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.
12) Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to hold a patent. It was for an invention to buoy boats over shallow rivers.
13) The human brain is 80% water.
14) Nearly 90% of American teens used the Internet in 2005.
15) Rats are incapable of puking.
16) Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
17) Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.
18) There are over 58 million dogs in the US.
19) A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
20) The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
21) Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.
22) North Dakota is the only state in the US that has never had an earthquake
23) In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
24) 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
25) The word "democracy" is banned in online chat rooms in China.
26) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
27) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
28) All polar bears are left handed.
29) Your odds of being killed by space debris are approximately 1 in 5 billion.
30) The life expectancy at birth in Swaziland is estimated to be only 33 years old (as of 2005)!
31) No president of the United States was an only child.
32) Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
33) Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.
34) The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
35) In 1886, sales of "Coca-Cola" averaged only 9 drinks per day.
36) It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
37) Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
38) The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".
39) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
40) The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
41) Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
42) 99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
43) Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
44) The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
45) The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
46) To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
47) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
48) The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
49)Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
50) have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush
51) The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.
52) In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
53) Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
54) Every second over 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed.
55)Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the largest planet in the solar system, twice as big as all the other planets combined.
56) Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
57) In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds!
58) A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue.
59) An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
60) The US has about 9 billion chickens. China has more than 13 billion.
61) 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
62) The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
63) The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
64) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
65)The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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