3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, an increase of 65% since 1980.

7% of Americans think Elvis is STILL ALIVE.

The last Civil War Veteran died in 1956. There are three WWI veterans currently alive and there over 2 million living WWII veterans.

People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don’t.

Jim Fixx, the man who started the trend of jogging, died of a heart attack while jogging.

Traffic lights were invented BEFORE cars and electricity.

Most people (65%) tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan at a rate of about 4 inches per year.

Canada has the 7th highest life expectancy (81.23 years). America ranks 49th (78.11 years).

Dr. Seuss was a fake name that the author started using after he was busted for drinking in college.

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

German chocolate cake isn’t from Germany. It’s named after an American named Sam German.

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Wood Frogs can be frozen solid and still be alive and moving when reheated.

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe all died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson, who both signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 died on exactly the same day.

“Goodbye” came from the Middle English “godbwdye”, which is short for “God be with ye”.

Did you know that a woman has the highest IQ ever recorded? Columnist and author Marilyn Vos Savant scored a whopping 228 on the IQ test, a Guinness World Record.

Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.

The Sahara Desert (the world’s largest desert where years can go by without any rain) has had snow ONCE in recorded history.

Contrary to popular belief, swallowed chewing gum doesn’t stay in the gut. It will pass through the digestive system and be excreted.

Newborn babies cry but they have no tears. Their tear ducts aren’t formed until they are a month old.

Lady bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle.

Butterflies and moths are found on all land masses except Antarctica.

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

Mosquitoes have teeth.

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.

If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.

Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.

The first can opener was patented 83 years after the first cans were invented.

There was once a 5-cent bill in circulation in America.

The longest recorded time for someone to have the hiccups is 69 years.

5% of Americans never get married.

5% of Americans say they “never” make their beds.

The average person moves their residence 11 times in their life, about once every 6 years.

Your left hand does an average of 56% of your typing.

It takes an average person seven minutes to fall asleap on an average night.

About 8% of the students at the Dunkin Doughnuts training center fail the six week course.

The Earth is turning to desert at a rate of 40 square miles per day.

99% of India’s truck drivers can’t read road signs.

80% of deaths in U.S. casinos are caused by sudden heart attacks.

12% of U.S. businessmen wear their ties so tight that they restrict the blood flow to their brain.

More people in the United States die during the first week of the month than during the last, an increase that may be a result of the abuse of substances purchased with benefit checks that come at the beginning of each month.

The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

More babies are born in September than in any other month.

46% of violence on T.V. occurs in cartoons.

The average American drinks 3.4 cups of coffee a day.

The average American male laughs 69 times a day where the average woman laughs 55 times a day.

Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace

What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All invented by women.

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight“.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s“

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the Rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. “Wet your whistle” is the phrase Inspired by this practice.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden…. and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

Mothers pregnant with boys are less forgetful than those carrying girls!

The filming of the movie ‘Titanic’ cost more than the Titanic itself!

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.

Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

Yahoo! was originally called ‘Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web’.

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

Babies start dreaming even before they’re born.

Your brain is 80% water.

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.

22% of us skip lunch daily.

22% of people leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.

53% of women will not leave the house without makeup on.

There are no penguins in the North Pole.

The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.

More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

People who are modestly overweight have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight!

18% of an American’s income is spent on transportation.

All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.