· The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

· Most lipstick contains fish scales!

· Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

· One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

· It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

· No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

· A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

· Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

· There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

· If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

· Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

· A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

· The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

· Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

· A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

· Porcupines float in water!

· Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

· The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

· The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

· The US Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

· The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

· The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

· The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

· Cat urine glows under a black-light!

· The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

· The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

· Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

· A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

· Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

· Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

· Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

· The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

· Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

· You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

· Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

· The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

· A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

· American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

· Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

· Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

· The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

· Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

· The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

· Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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

· Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

· All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

· Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

· Pearls melt in vinegar.

· Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

· The three most valuable brand names on earth:
Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

· It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

· A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

· The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

· Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton.

· Turtles can breathe through their butts.