If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The strongest muscle (Relative to size) in the body is the tongue.
A Boeing 747′s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
1 in 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds restaurant.
70% of all boats sold are used for fishing.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
You were born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an adult you will only have 206.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
One third of all cancers are sun related.
It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.
Most Egyptians died by the time they were 30 about 300 years ago,
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.
A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: “Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway.”
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world’s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.
In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.
Barbie’s measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
Sex burns 360 calories per hour.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
%60 of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography.
One-fourth of the world’s population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquito’s’ bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Daylight Saving Time is not observed in most of the state of Arizona and parts of Indiana.
Ants closely resemble human manners: When they wake, they stretch & appear to yawn in a human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee’s head and 2 larger ones in front.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.
Most collect calls are made on father’s day.
Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.
Women manage the money and pay the bills in 75% of all Americans households.
Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.
Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.
