60% of the potatoes in the United States come from Idaho.

40% of McDonald's products come from selling happy meals.

20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions are written each year.

3000 people under the age of 18 start smoking every day.

17% of all teenagers smoke.

Every day 12 newborns are given to the wrong parents in the hospital.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

If you screamed continuously for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would produce enough energy to heat coffee.

Earth has about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left.

It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

Sliced bread was pattened in 1954.

The tongue is the strongest part of the body.

100% of lottery winners gain weight.

If you bang your head against a wall for an hour you burn 150 calories.

China has more English speakers than England.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that can be made using only your left hand when typed.

20% of women look at a man's butt before his face.

If you are in total darkness for 3 days you become permanently blind.

Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

In the English language 'four' is the only number spelled with the same number of characters as its value.

In your lifetime you eat at least 8 spiders while sleeping.

Pizza is the most served dinner in America.

Snickers is the top selling candy sold in vending machines.


There are more chickens in the world than people.
A person has 696 muscles while a caterpillar has over 4000.

7up was created in 1929.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

25% of the people in the USA have appeared on tv at least once.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching tv.

The first product to have a barcode on it was a pack of Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only one with a moustache.

Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than coffee.

The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

90% of dust particles in your home are from dead skin.

The original owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all of the Nike workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on her left foot.

Mosquito repellents don't repel- they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Chimpanzee DNA and human DNA is about 98.4% identical.

According to the Guinness Book, the fastest restraunt in the world serves the client's food within 13 seconds after the order is made (in tables of 4.) The name of the restraunt is Karne Garibaldi and it is located in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The oldest known goldfish was 41 years old.

Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.

Loch Ness is twice as deep as the North Sea and can hold 3 times the world's population.

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

  There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

  Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

  The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute.

Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!

  A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

  It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

  About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

  The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

  Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!

A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs! A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!

  The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

  America once issued a 5-cent bill!