Roughly $20 million in counterfeit U.S. currency is circulating at any given time.
2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light
The ancient Romans died their hair with bird droppings.
67.5% of men were briefs.
Every three months, you replace your eyelashes. You'll have 600 sets of them in your lifetime.
58.4% have called into work sick when we weren't.
The average wage of the workmen who dug the Erie canal: $1 and one quart of whiskey per day.
85% of women wear the wrong bra size.
Short people have been called "shrimps" longer than shrimps have.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
"Crocodile-tear syndrome" is a nerve disorder that makes people cry when they eat.
71% can drive a stick-shift car.
The diesel cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II gets 6 inches to the gallon.
1/3 of us don't wear seat belts.
Carrots come from Afghanistan.
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
Because of the way aluminum expands and contracts in cold and hot climates, a 747 is 3 ft shorter at 0 degrees.
You're more likely to be struck by lightning than eaten by a shark.
16% of us have forgotten our own wedding anniversary (mostly men).
An alligator has a brain the size of your thumb.
53% read their horoscopes regularly.
The Aztecs restricted the smelling of certain flowers to the upper class.
90% of us depend on alarm clocks to wake us.
The first product Motorola developed was a record player for cars.
49% believe in ESP.
IQ of the average police officer: 104
10% of us claim to have seen a ghost. (Not Counting Casper)
Prohibition didn't end in Mississippi until 1966.
45% believe in ghosts.
The Grey whale's heart beats nine times a minute.
82% believe in an afterlife.
There are 602 rooms in Buckingham Palace.
37% claim to know how to use all the features on their VCR.
#1 holiday for telephone calls: Mother's Day. #1 holiday for collect calls: Father's Day.
Less than 10% are trilingual.
If a female ferret goes into heat and can't find a mate, she'll die.
59% of us say we're average-looking.
The most common disease in the world? Tooth decay.
57% save pretty gift paper to reuse.
A drop of rain can fall as fast as 22 mph.
66% of women and 59% of men have used a mix to cook and taken credit for doing it from scratch.
The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 171,000,000,000 pieces of mail a year. (over 10% on time!!)
53% of us would take advice from Anne Landers.
51% of adults dress up for a Halloween festivity.
The Sahara Desert is larger than the entire United States.
On average, we send 38 Christmas cards every year.
A pig has 44 teeth.
Only 4% asked the parents' approval for their bride's hand.
Every second, your senses send about 100 million different messages to your brain.
2 out of 5 have married their first love.
How much water in one cubic mile of fog? Less than a gallon.
20% of women consider their parents to be their best friends.
The oldest letter in the alphabet: O. It's more than 3,000 years old.
29% of us are virgins when we marry.
How many times do you breath in a year? About 10 million.
60% of men and 54% of women have had a 1-night stand.
Aristotle called the wind "the dry sighs of the breathing Earth.
1 in 5 men proposed on his knees.
In about 250 BC, Archimedes invented the screw.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications)
The filaments for the first electric lamp were made of bamboo.
Force exerted by the human jaw: 175 pounds. By the jaw of an African lion: 937 pounds.
It's illegal in Hartford, Connecticut, to educate your dog.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Maine is the only state with just one syllable.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
Goats can't legally wear trousers in Massachusetts.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
It is illegal to ride an ugly horse down the street in Wilbur, Washington.
It's against the law to step out of an airplane while it's in the air over Maine.
It's against the law to drink milk on a train passing through North Carolina.
Virginia law prohibits "Corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than candidates."
The Indian hero Geronimo was once kicked out of church for gambling.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A bee has 5,000 nostrils. It can smell an apple tree that's 2 miles away.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".
In one day, an average typist's hands travel 12.6 miles.
No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
A brown bear can run faster than a horse at full gallop.
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
The average person falls asleep in seven seconds.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
It costs the Coca-Cola Company more to buy the can than it costs them to make the cola.
Jimmy Hoffa's middle name was Riddle.
Bees are born fully grown.
It takes three minutes for a fresh mosquito bite to begin to itch.
Among other things, the ancient Egyptians worshipped cabbages.
The most consumed fruit in the United States is the coffee bean.
60% of pets in Great Britain have some form of health insurance.
A "cremnophobe" is someone who is afraid of falling down the stairs.
"Chili" comes from an Aztec word meaning "bowl of red."
The speed of a roller coaster increases an average of 10mph when it's raining.
JFK was a distant relative of Lisa Gheradini, the woman who posed for the Mona Lisa.
Leading cause of death in Papua, New Guinea: falling out of trees.
In Sarasota, Florida, it's illegal to wear a swimsuit while singing in a public place.
How can you tell when a Kangaroo is nervous? It licks it forearms. Nobody knows why.
There are 20 days in the Aztec week.
Most snails travel at a speed of 25 miles per day.
"Ska pash-wee," a Native American name for rosebushes, translates "mean old lady sticks you."
Ants have five noses. Each one smells a different odor.
Why Fido? It means "faithful" in Latin.
233 Dalmatians were used in the filming of the movie "101 Dalmatians."
The Chinese used to scatter firecrackers around the house. The reason: they make great fire alarms.
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
Baby giraffes can grow as much as 1 inch every two hours.
The giraffe has a black tongue that is 14 inches long and has no vocal cords.
In a single day, a pair of termites can produce as many as 30,000 offspring.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law invented the burglar alarm.
There are only two words in the English language that spell the same object both forward and backward. They are "race car."
Kangaroos are lactose-intolerant.
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Charles Darwin's cousin invented the IQ test.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
Average number of days each year when no major league sports are played: 5
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
Florida's Disneyworld is larger than the entire city of Buffalo, New York.
Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age of the Rolling Stones: 50.6
In a 4 year period, inventor Thomas Edison obtained an average of one patent every five days.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
The word mattress originally meant "place to throw things.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Hewlett Packard computer company's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
J, the youngest letter in the English alphabet, was not added until the 1600's.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income used to come from the sale of vodka.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Slogan stamped onto New hampshire license plates by state prison inmates: "Live free or die."
Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage.
Speed of sound: A human yell would take 3.5 hours to travel from New York to San Francisco.
850 million dollars goes into research for bad breath each year.
The Netherlands used to be known as the United States.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Pound for pound, spiders, flies, and grasshoppers all contain more protein than beef does.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The word "hussy" originally meant "housekeeper."
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
The world's first recorded tonsillectomy was performed in the year 1,000BC.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Human beings have 46 chromosomes. Goldfish have 96.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Denver's International Airport is larger than the entire city of Boston.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Skywriting pilots say the letters "S" and "K" are the hardest to write.
Most paranoids are male.
Hannibal, even when crossing the Alps, wore a wig.
Sutoku, an emperor of Japan copied the Lankaura Stura, a 10,500 word Buddhist tract in his own blood.
In 16th century Turkey, coffee drinking was punishable by death.
Since fat contains air molecules, fat people will float longer.
In Medieval Japan, fashionable women blackened their teeth to enhance their appearance.
Male monkeys go bald the same way men do.
There is more than 150 million sheep in Australia and only 15 million people.
The male silkworm moth can detect mating signals from 6.5 miles away.
The first company to put beer in a can was the Krueger Brewing Company of Newark, NJ in 1935.
They began test-marketing their Cream Ale the same way in Richmond, Virginia on January 24, 1935.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
Human hair exposed to light and air can be expected to last 680 years.
Black walnut trees have been sold for as high as $30,000 each, just for the wood!
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
In ancient Egypt, the people made pillows out of stone.
In 19th century England, suicide was a crime. If you failed it you were put to death by hanging.
Two Presidents of the United States were bachelors when elected: James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland.
A "noggin" is also a half a cupful of whatever.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Portion of US annual rainfall that falls in April: 1/12
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Estimated percentage of American adults who go on a diet each year: 44%
Percentage of Americans who say that God has spoken to them: 36%
Percentage of Americans who regularly attend religious services: 43%
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50%
There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
Men get hiccups more often than woman.
Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Your nose and ears never stop growing.
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
The parachute was invented by da Vinci in 1515.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Only food that does not spoil: honey
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antartica
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Number of US states that claim test scores in their elementaryschools are above national average: 50
Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5
Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7.
Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3
Only first lady to carry a loaded revolver: Eleanor Roosevelt.
Number of different family relationships for which Hallmark makescards: 105
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland or Disney World:70%
Portion of ice cream sold that is vanilla: 1/3
Portion of potatoes sold that are French fried: 1/3
Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Daffy Duck's middle name is 'Dumas.'
On the average, there are 8 peas in a pod.
Harry Schielack Of Rockdale, Texas holds the record for the most chicken eaten by one person in a life time (estimated 1 Million Chickens In Only 40 Years).
The duckbill platypus (male) is the only venomous mammal in the world.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
Iceland consumes more Coca-cola per capita than any other nation.
They have square watermelons in Japan. They stack better.
Cream does not weigh as much as milk.
In the wild, orcas are thought to live to seventy or eighty years of age.
Three-fourths of household water is used to flush the toilet and take baths and showers.
It is now proven that smoking is the biggest source of statistics.
The average life span of an umbrella is 1 1/2 years.
Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
Fingernails have a life span of three to six months. That's how long it takes them to grow from base to tip, progressing at the pace of 1.5 inches a year -- or 0.000000047 inches a second.
The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male and gradually turns female as it grows up.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A human adult head weights about 8 pounds.
The AIDS virus was originally called GRID (gay related immunedeficiency).
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They were all invented by women.
What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is mostironic? He was allergic to carrots.
What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? It has no theme song.
Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? Obsession3.
More women do this in the bathroom than men. They wash their hands. Women - 80% Men - 55%
What do 100% of all lottery winners do? They gain weight.
In a recent survey, Americans revealed that banana was their favorite smell.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
South Africa used to have two official languages. Now it has eleven.
Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.
The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds' energy.
The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.
Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 Inches.
The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cent an acre.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
There are no public toilets in Peru.
The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest.
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
You blink about 84,000,000 times per year.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue (relative to size).
Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
One human hair can support 3 kgs.
The average human being will walk 160 billion millimeters in a lifetime.
Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip your ear off.
The length of a beard an average man would grow if he never shaved would be 27.5 feet.
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 ft.
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
You were born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult you only have 206.5.
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
Elizabeth 1st suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).
Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed- 1 in 2 million.
Driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 166 or older.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint. No two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
Cher's last name was Sarkissian, she changed it because no one could pronounce it.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all time.
A hippo can run faster than a man.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
The average person sees more than 20,000 TV commercials in a year.
To buy a value meal at McDonald's in Russia, it costs approximately a month's salary for the average Russian work.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
It hurts - bad - even when you're already beyond drunk.
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