More than 400,000 U.S. houses still lack indoor plumbing

Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.

There are no penguins in the North Pole.

You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

Each day is longer than the previous day by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century.

Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.

More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.

Lima beans contain cyanide.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.

There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.

Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves get caught.

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is copyrightable.

A microwaved baseball will fly father than a frozen baseball.

Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water.

Albert Einstein never wore any socks.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Females learn to talk earlier, use sentences earlier, and learn to read more quickly than males.

Coca-Cola’s ‘Super Pure’ Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!

By the age of 60 most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Cats cannot taste sweet things.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

one in three male motorists pick their nose while driving.

At their closest point, the Russian and U.S borders are less than two miles apart.

There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.

Cold water weighs more than hot water.

bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is.

97% of all paper money in the us contains traces of cocaine.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.

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

By 3,000 B.C. there were at least six different types of beer in Egypt.

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

A male baboon can kill a leopard.

Worms reportedly taste like bacon.

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there’s no air pressure.

1 in 10 Americans don’t know that the sun is a star.

Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 Verses.

In the U.S, bacteria in foods cause 6.5 million to 33 million cases of human illness and 9,000 deaths annually.

Hippopotomostrosequippedaliophobia: The fear of long words.

The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.

Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.

Tug-o-war was an official Olympic event until 1920.

Your brain is 80% water.

More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbocs.com

One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.

You’re born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.

New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.

Turkey’s often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.

The earth weights around 6, 600, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).

California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

Only one book has been distributed in more copies then the Bible; The IKEA catalog.

First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

McDonald’s salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers!

Coca-Cola’s ‘Super Pure’ Dasani bottled water is just filtered tap water!

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!

In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!

Redheads require more anesthesia to ‘go under’ than other hair colors do.

In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store!

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.