Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.

About 7000 varieties of Apple are grown worldwide.

There are more kangaroos than people in Australia. The kangaroo population is estimated at 40 million.

The copyright to the Happy Birthday song is owned by Warner Chappell.

A group of Kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of Owls is called a parliament.

Polar bears can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year.

If you live in Baltimore, be aware that it is illegal to take a lion to the movies with you.

55% of online gamblers are women.

Facebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.

There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

There are about 333.5 million e-mail accounts active in US (in 1998 it was 77 million).

5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity.

21% of Twitter users have never posted a Tweet.

85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day.

The average American will see or hear over 500 advertisements each day.

In a recent survey, 68% of people admitted to fantasizing about somebody else whilst making love.

Finland has 179,584 islands, the greatest number in the world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger once appeared on an edition of TV’s ‘The Dating Game’ in 1972.

Dracula is the most filmed story of all time. OF ALL TIME.

It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.

If a cricket were the size of Mount Rushmore, it could jump to the moon.

Due to the natural “momentum” of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

For over a decade, the number of drive-by shootings has been directly proportional to increased gas prices.

Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents before 6 a.m. on Saturdays.

Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the average lifespan by nearly two full months

A Brussels Airlines flight to Vienna was aborted because the pilot was attacked in the cockpit. The attacker was a passenger’s cat, who got out of its travel bag.

Physicists have already performed a simple type of teleportation, transferring the quantum characteristics of one atom onto another atom at a different location.

At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.

There is a regulation size half-court where employees can play basketball inside the Matterhorn at Disneyland.

One of pitcher Nolan Ryan’s jockstraps recently sold at auction for $25,000.

Wind-mills always turn counter-clockwise. Except the ones in England.

315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.

At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

Nascar Driver, Tim Flock is the only driver in history to have made a pit stop to remove a monkey from his car.

Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.

The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide occur within its boundaries.

Children conceived on airplanes never suffer from motion sickness.

Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory

In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph.

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

In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.

The New York Jets were unable to find hotel rooms for a game in Indianapolis recently because they had all been booked up by people attending Gencon, a gaming convention.

China is the world’s largest market for BMW’s top of the line 760Li. This car sells for $200,000 in China – more than almost all people in China make in a lifetime.

A chef’s hat is shaped the way it is for a reason: its shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool in a hot kitchen.

Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.

Each year, sixteen million gallons of oil run off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.

An employee of the Alabama Department of Transportation installed spyware on his boss’s computer and proved that the boss spent 10% of his time working (20% of time checking stocks and 70% of the time playing solitaire). The employee was fired, the boss kept his job.

Solid structures (parking lots, roads, buildings) in the United States cover an area the size of Ohio.

Chess was invented in India.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her husband if he cheats on her.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The Ancient Mayans have predicted the world will end on December 21, 2012. They also worshipped a Corn God named Ah Mun.

When glass breaks it moves faster than 3,000 mph. To photograph this a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

Even though it has an oasis image, Los Angeles is more like a desert, with an annual rainfall of only about 15 inches a year.

90% of women who walk into a department store turn to the right.

Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one followed by a hundred zeros’.

A giraffe has the same number of bones in it’s neck as a human.

The company that manufactures the greatest number of women’s dresses each year is Mattel. Barbie’s got to wear something.

All radios in North Korea have been rigged so listeners can only receive a North Korean government station. The United States recently announced plans to smuggle $2,000,000 worth of small radios into the country so North Koreans can get a taste of (what their government calls) “rotten imperialist reactionary culture”.

La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet about sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.

The estates of 22 dead celebrities earned over $5 million in 2004. These celebrities include Elvis Presley, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon.

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

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.

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

The New York City Police Department has a $3.3 billion annual budget, larger than all but 19 of the world’s armies.

CBS’s fine for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast.