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The average housefly lives only two weeks.

The average French citizen eats 500 snails per year.

The average female will have 3.3 pregnancies in her life.

The average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted!

The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.

The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.

The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

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

The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.

The average 1 1/4 lb. lobster is 7 to 9 years old.

The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's 'Walk of Fame'.

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.

The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.

The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach!

The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.

Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

Take your height and divide by eight. That?s how ?tall? your head is.

Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.

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

Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .

Streets in Japan do not have names.

Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.

Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called 'Pigs Eye'.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.

Spiders have transparent blood.

Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.

Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.

Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.

SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.

Some species of fish have voices!

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

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs!

So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.

Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California.

Snails breathe through their feet.

Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.

Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake.

Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.

Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures!

Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine.

Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.

Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!

Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!

Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.

Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses!

Salmon can jump as high as 6 feet.

Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December '

Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.

Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.

Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.

Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.

Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.

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

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.

Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.

Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Lifshitz.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Radio code Wilco (as in Roger Wilco) is short for Will Comply!

Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.

Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.

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

Pumpkin rule of thumb: the darker the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts.

Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds.

Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent.

President George W. Bush was once a cheerleader!

President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!

President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!

President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!

Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!

Porcupines float in water!

Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.

Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.

Polar Bears can eat more than 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.

Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.

Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine eye'!

Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!

Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.

Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.

Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.

People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.

People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left (their left).

People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.

People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.

Panophobia is the fear of everything.

Pancakes are commonly served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Australia.

Pain travels through your body at 350 ft. per second.

Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!

Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling.

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

Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.

Over 98 percent of Japanese people are cremated after they die.

Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.

Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.

Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day!

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.

Originally, Du Pont, Inc. was a tiny gun powder mill in New Jersey.

Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.

Only male fireflies can fly.

Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.

Only female bees work.

Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!

Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.

Only 51% of South Carolina high school students will graduate, the lowest of any state.

Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.

Only 1% of bacteria cause disease in humans!

Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.

Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!

Onions have no flavor, only a smell.

One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

One quarter of the human brain is used to control the eyes.

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

One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building!

One out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood !

One out of 20 people have an extra rib.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant!

One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.

One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.

One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.

One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.

One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!

One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.

One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.

On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.

On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

On average, a person will spend about five years eating during his or her lifetime.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average women can hear better than men.

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly, and Shemp).

Of all things, Andrew Jackson?s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

Oenophobia is the Fear of wines.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

Oak trees can live 200 or more years.

Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!

None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

No president of the United States was an only child.

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

No patent can ever be taken out on a gambling machine in the United States.

No one knows who designed the first American Flag.

No one knows where Mozart is buried.

No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.

No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.

No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.

No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.

No 2 cornflakes are identical!

Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.

Nike Air Soles do not actually have 'air' in them.

New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.

Neither the saxophone, the tuba, the coronet, nor the valve trumpet existed before 1800.

Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.

Nearly 50% of the world?s scientists are assigned to military projects.

Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.

Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.

Neanderthal man had a brain capcity 100cc larger than modern man's.

Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.

Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.

Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

Mussolini dodged the Italian draft.

Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.

Muhammad is the most common name in the world.

Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!

Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.

Most people who read the word 'yawning' will yawn!

Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water!

Most of a hog's sweat glands are in its snout.

Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.

Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

Most cell phone antennas have no purpose other than to make people believe that flipping up a 2 inch antenna just gave them better reception. They are not connected to any circuitry.

Most burglaries occur during the daytime!

Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting!

More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.

More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.

More than 90% of shark attack victims survive.

More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.

More than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing.

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss!

More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.

More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.

More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!

More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.

More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

More people in China speak English than in the United States.

More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world.

More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

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

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

More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.

More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.

Moist air holds heat better than dry air.

Minnows have teeth in their throat.

Milk is heavier than cream.

Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.

Michael Keaton's original name is Michael Douglas.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.

Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the United States.

Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year!

Mexico City is built on top of an underground resevoir!

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