The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.

Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

In many advertisements, people’s clocks are set to 10:10, because the clock hands make a “happy” face which is pleasing to the eye.

Shakespeare was the first to use insults about people’s mothers.

The world’s tallest man ever was Robert Wadlow, who was 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72m) tall.

Yawning is contagious – even thinking about yawning is enough. After reading this fact, there is a 50% chance you will yawn.

When McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in Kuwait in 1994, 15,000 customers formed a line at the drive-through that was 7 miles long.

A mosquito is more likely to bite a blonde than a brunette.

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours.

The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

The war between England and Zanzibar in 1896, the shortest war in history, lasted only 38 minutes.

A clock at the palace of King Louis XIV stopped at 7:45am, the time of his death.

Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes.

In Ancient Rome, crowds used the thumbs-up sign to the encourage the winning gladiator to actually kill his opponent.

It is impossible to commit suicide by holding your breath.

A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.

The shortest man in the world, He Pingping, died March 15, 2010 at 2 feet 5 inches tall.

24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.

You have no sense of smell when you’re sleeping!

Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President.

Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

Apples are actually part of the rose family.

68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!

Ants don’t sleep.

Baby beavers are called kittens.

Black Whales are born white.

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

Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!

All of the Earth’s continents are wider at the north than in the south – and nobody knows why.

Halle Berry’s stunt double, in the movie “Catwoman”, is a man.

Eggplants aren`t vegetables they`re really fruits.

Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry!

Ears of corn always have an even number of rows of kernels.

Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized!

Mushrooms are more closely related to humans and animals than to other plants!

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

Koala Bears are not bears.

It costs 3 cents to make a $1 bill.

A tiger’s tongue is so rough it can lick the paint off of a building.

The largest dog ever reported in the Guiness Book of World Records was a 8 feet 3 inch, 343-pound English Mastiff named Zorba.

Men have nipples because, as an embryo, everyone is a female until the Y chromosome kicks in.

As recently as the 1930s, solid blocks of tea were used as currency in Siberia.

The mouth of a jellyfish is also the anus.

Turtles can actually breathe through their butts.

The microwave was invented after a researcher was working near a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

A toothpick is the object most-often choked on by Americans.

The first known form of birth control was crocodile feces, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The exposed human brain isn’t damaged when poked.

In Detroit, in 1937, a baby fell from the 4th floor of a building, falling on a man who was passing below. One year later exactly the same thing happened – another baby, another 4th floor window, same man.

President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone. His phone number was simply 1.

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Fred and Wilma Flintstone, in 1960-66, were the first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV.

Your earlobes line up with your nipples.

35% of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Albert Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he was mentally retarded.

When we are born our eyes are almost full size, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

‘racecar’ is spelled the same forwards and backwards.

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

Actor Bill Murray doesn’t have a publicist or an agent.

The day after George W. Bush was reelected, Canada’s main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. There were only 20,000 before.

Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.

There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.

For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.

More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).

G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood’s output is G-rated.

41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.

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.