Only about one third of the World’s population can snap their fingers.

Every continent has a city called Rome.

Al Gore’s roommate in college (Harvard, class of 1969) was Tommy Lee Jones.

Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.

George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on liquor.

The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington is Mount St. Helens.

La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s most fireproof city. At 12k feet above sea level, the oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.

90% of Canada’s 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

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

Beetles taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nuts, and worms taste like fried bacon.

Abraham Lincoln faces to the right on a penny while all the other presidents face to the left on US coins.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous line in The Terminator ‘I’ll be back’ was originally scripted as ‘I’ll come back’.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Men are 4 times more likely to get struck by lightning than woman.

An estimated one billion birds die each year in the U.S. from smashing into windows.

No president in the United States was an only child.

There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.

When a person is tickled, the response is actually a form of panic, as the brain interprets the tickling sensation as produced by spiders or other creepy crawlies on your skin – the uncontrollable laughter is a response to panic.

Rain contains vitamin B12.

Almost 100,000 kids in the United States bring guns to school DAILY.

More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon are expected to last at least 10 million years.

Honeybees never sleep.

The cost of the halftime commercials during the Superbowl could feed the world’s entire refugee population (62 million) twice.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.

Every three minutes someone in the world reports a UFO.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69.

“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Women speak about 7000 words a day. The average man averages just over 2000.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

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

The average office desk has 400 TIMES more bacteria than a toilet.

The exposed human brain isn’t damaged when poked.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

In 1945, a rooster by the name of Mike lived 18 months without a head.

‘Subbookkeeper’ is the only word that has double letters four times in a row.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, ‘They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run. On July 20, 1969, just minutes after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first home run.

It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make one tablespoon of honey.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

In 1911, three men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill. Their last names were Green, Berry, and Hill.

Benjamin Franklin was offended about putting a bald eagle as the national bird. Why? He thought that other people were trying to make fun of him, since he was bald.

Farmville players outnumber real farmers in the US by a ratio of 60 to 1.

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

Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.

It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.

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

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

50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.

Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them.

Even Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.

Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts.

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

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

Identity crisis? About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.

Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

All species of beetles are edible.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today’s money!

In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households had one!

If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.

A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.

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

Drivers kill more deer than hunters.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

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

Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.

Black Whales are born white.

A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.