901. In 1989 Americans threw away enough aluminum cans to build 6,000 DC 10 airplanes.
902. The cow population of Vermont is greater than that of it's people.
903. Americans on average produce 1,200 lbs of waste every year.
904. 'Waggamama' means 'spoiled' in Japanese.
905. A 2000 study by the US Centers for Disease Control found Wisconsin has the highest percentage of binge drinkers (23.2%), Mississippi the most obese people (22%), Georgia the most couch potatoes (51%), Texas the highest rate of uninsured (44.9%), and North Dakota the greatest percentage of people who don’t always wear a seat belt (59.8%).
906. "Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
907. In their original edition Grimm's fairy tales are some of the bloodiest, most brutal stories ever written.
908. The behaviour of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland is based on how hares act in the springtime. They jump up and down and bang their hind feet on the ground.
909. The most requested picture from the US National Archives is that of Elvis Presley meeting (then) President Nixon. During their meeting Elvis asked Nixon if he could be an honorary drug enforcement agent, which Nixon granted.
910. Nancy and Ronald Regan had acting careers previous to their presidency popularity. In a high school play named "First Lady" the then named Nancy Davis had one line which read, "They ought to elect the First Lady and then let her husband be president." She and her future husband also appeared in a General Electric commercial, named "A Turkey for the President."
911. When christening a new ship the Vikings would sacrifice a human being, believing the spirit of the deceased would guide and guard the ship.
912. The largest birds that ever lived were the giant, flightless elephant birds (Aepyornis maximus) which lived on the island of Madagascar until c. 600 AD. Their eggs had a liquid capacity of about 2 gallons, 180 times that of a chicken egg, and may have been the largest single cell organism of all time.
913. In the States there is actually a Mothers-In-Law day, the fourth Sunday of October.
914. A muumuu, Hawaiian for "cut off", is a shapeless, beltless dress created by Hawaiian missionaries and popularized by US women in the 1950's. It was invented for the local Hawaiians because the missionaries thought they would look better in muumuus rather than what they were wearing, which was nothing.
915. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. This is because the subject was a Florentine merchant's wife, and in Florence it was customary to shave off one's eyebrows.
916. There are three earlier of "La Giaconda", the Mona Lisa's original name, underneath the top layer.
917. Until the 18th century people did not use soap to clean themselves.
918. A US dollar bill can be folded over 6 times, 7 if using a vice, if each fold is a half-fold.
919. Snapping your fingers is called a "fillip".
920. E is the most common while Q is the least common used letter in the alphabet.
921. The Oscars are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in films. They used to be called the Academy Award of Merit until, rumour has it, that one of the staff started calling the trophy Oscar because it reminded her of her Uncle Oscar. A Hollywood columnist used it in a 1934 article and in 1939 the Academy started using it.
922. To give you an idea of how long the Nile is, if it were in the US it would stretch from NY to Los Angeles.
923. It takes 8 minutes for the light of the sun to travel 94 million miles to reach us on Earth.
924. The jaw muscle is the strongest muscle in the body.
925. A skunk can shoot its scent up to 10 feet.
926. Play-Doh was created around 1950 by Tin Liu but marketed by Joe McVicker, who became a millionaire by age 27.
927. "Cowabunga" was a word started on the Howdy Doody Show, and also means "big wave" in Austrailian.
928. The French call victims of April Fools pranks "April fish". April Fools started back in the 16th century when the French changed the beginning date of the New Year from April 1 to the now familiar January 1. People who would celebrate New Years in April out of habit would be called April Fools.
929. Dragonflies can fly up to 30 mph.
930. A mosquito can beat its wings up to 600 times per second but only travels about a mile an hour.
931. A rooster's crowing is actually a mating call.
932. The femur, or thigh bone, is the largest bone in the body.
933. The tongue, like a finger print, is unique.
934. The human body has 45 miles of nerves, enough blood vessels to circle the equator six times, and about a mile of intestines.
935. Silkworms have been bred in captivity for thousands of years and as a result are domesticated.
936. Several hundred years ago one could be executed for drinking a cup of coffee in Turkey.
937. Exuberant originated from the Latin phrase for "one's udder to run over".
938. A professor at the University of Michigan has shown that men are six times more likely to be hit by lightning than women.
939. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain from sea level, but the mountain closest to outer space is Chimborazo in Ecuador. Because it's on the equator, where the planet bulges, it has a head start.
940. After Albert Einstein died in 1955 his brain was sent to Kansas, entrusted by his son to the care of Dr. Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy. Harvey kept the brain in a jar in a cardboard box behind a beer cooler.
941. Benjamin Franklin tried to electrocute a turkey but instead shocked himself.
942. Benjamin Franklin was one of the first people to print playing cards in the US.
943. Egyptians used to sleep on pillows made of stone.
944. 97% of the Earth's water is in the oceans.
945. The difference between tornados, hurricanes, and cyclones? Respectively:
     - Forward speeds of 40mph, 10-20mph, 25mph
     - Wind speeds of 300mph, 100mph, 60mph
     - Focus of less than a mile, 600 miles, 1000 miles
     - Durations of minutes, days, weeks
946. A lightning bolt can command up to 30,000 amps of electricity, be anywhere between 300 yards and 4 miles long, and reach a temperature of around 54,000 ^oF.
947. Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, not raining for centuries at a time.
948. Atlantic salmons can leap as high as 15 feet out of the water.
949. Lungfish can stay in suspended animation for up to 3 years on dry land.
950. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address reads "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth . . .", not "forefathers".
951. Travelling at the speed of light it would take 4 years to reach the closest star.
952. The cuckoo bird doesn't make its own nest. Instead, it lays its eggs in other bird's nests and leaves them to care for it.
953. Right out of the womb the South American vicuna can run faster than a human.
954. Some Russian dogs have been trained to sniff out iron ore.
955. At an ocean depth of 36,000 feet (about 7,000 feet deeper than Mt. Everest's height above sea level) pressure rises to around 16,000 pounds per square inch.
956. It only takes 15 pounds per square inch of pressure to crush a human skull.
957. B. F. Goodrich, the tire company, once experimented with making radioactive golf balls. They figured it would be easier to find a ball in the rough with a Geiger counter.
958. "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles was the first music video played on MTV.
959. Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
960. The age of a whale can be determined by counting the layers of its earwax growth.
961. The call "Fore" in golf is a shortened form of the old military call "ware before", used to signal the front line to kneel to allow the back line to fire.
962. Elephant tusks are the largest teeth of any animal, the largest singular tusk weighing in at 258 pounds and measuring over 10 feet long.
963. With the invention of the light bulb, Americans averaged 1.5 hours less sleep per night.
964. The first coin operated vending machine was made in ancient Greece around 215 BC by Hero of Alexandria. The heavy coin currency of the time would drop onto a lever, which would uncork a spigot and dispense a trickle of holy water.
965. The word "acre" literally means the amount of land plowable in one day.
966. Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks.
967. Diabetes was first diagnosed in 1815 when French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to sugar found in a grape.
968. Stinging nettle plants sting with hypodermic-needle-like hairs which inject formic acid into the skin.
969. Human lungs are about 100 times easier to inflate than balloons.
970. Beer is considered a staple food in Bavaria.
971. Beer is made via fermentation. Fermentation involves bacteria eating yeast cells and defecating. Therefore, beer is bacterial excrement.
972. When King Tut's tomb was opened in 1922, by British Egyptologist Howard Carter, Americans bought into a short-lived fad of buying chairs resembling Egyptian thrones and naming kids Tutter and Tuttie.
973. The female Australian red kangaroo can produce two different formulas of milk from adjacent teats simultaneously. This is useful since the joeys need a different formula than the older siblings.
974. A lesson in traffic jams: Traveling at 60 mph, leaving a car-length for every 10 mph, means 40 cars can pass a particular point per minute -- in theory. People slow down once traffic reaches 25 cars per minute, and at 33 cars per minute they're down to 35 mph. More than that and the ripple effect takes over.
975. The scientific name for goose bumps, goose pimples, or goose flesh is horripilations.
976. The year 1882 saw an American patent a propeller-driven rocking chair. Legend has it that on its first demonstration the inventor leaned too far back, caught his hair in the propeller, ....
977. The tallest dam in the world is Tajikistan's 1100 feet (336 meters) tall Rogun Dam.
978. Cats purr at the rate of 26 Hz.
979. From the age 30 to 70 your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as half an inch.
980. Partly cloudy is a technical term, describing 31 to 70 percent cloud cover.
981. US$136,248.00 was the most amount of money paid for a bottle of wine, a 1787 Chateau Lafite claret. US$1453.00 was the most paid for a glass of wine, the first glass of Beaujolais Nouveau 1993.
982. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the US, made no public appearances or speeches in his eight years in Presidential office. He even gave his State of the Union in writing.
983. Ben Franklin first came up with the concept of Daylight Savings. He was also the the youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son.
984. The quote traditionally associated with the US Post Office, chisled in stone above the main post office in New York City, is actually over 2,000 years old. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" was written by the ancient Greek Herodotus.
985. Romans invented the game of horseshoes.
986. Einstein's Jewish heritage earned him a spot on the five pound note, even though he was born in Germany, a citizen of Switzerland, and then of the US. The US honours him with his face on the 15 cent stamp. Other inventors and currencies: the discoverers of radioactivity Marie and Pierre Curie are featured on the French 500 franc note. Nikola Tesla of alternating current fame is on the Yugoslavian 5 million dinar note. Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity and is shown on the USA 100 dollar note. Niels Bohr earned a spot on Danish 500 kroner note for his quantum mechanical model of atom.
987. The greatest figure skaters can make up to six revolutions per second.
988. Aubergine, brinjal, melanzana, melongene, garden egg, and patlican are all alternative names for eggplant.
989. People are believed to have been wearing shoes for over 10,000 years.
990. September is National Bed Check Month, National Piano Month, and National Chicken Month.
991. Americans collectively spend $86,849 on Plain MnM's daily.
992. On Julia Childs' first tv show the expensive French wine bottles were filled with a mixture of water and Gravymaster, which looked expensive on the black-and-white television broadcast.
993. In 2000, 129,770 US students studied abroad.
994. The word mayday comes from the French word "M'aidez", which means "Help me".
995. Trench coats, standard issue among salary men and robust American capitalists, were first worn in the deep battlefield dugouts during World War I, from which they derived their name.
996. On average, Americans drink 55 gallons of soda a year.
997. Our olfactory system is designed to detect changes in odor rather than give a constant smell landscape, much like how our vision detects motion. If exposed to an odor for more than 15 minutes one will cease to smell the odor.
998. What is a "clean" smell in South America is not the same as a "clean" smell in Asia. Unlike taste (babies prefer certain tastes to others), smell is largely learned.
999. The baseball position of shortstop was formalized in 1945.
1000. The Emmy Award was named after the nickname for the image orthicon tube that was used in early television.

Where I learn some of this crazy stuff:
The Learning Kingdom
MailBits.com
Win Ben Stein's Money
Accord Publishing's 1999 Nose It All Calendar
Hot Topic pay stubs
E-mails which worm their way into my inbox
Tyler Whitney's Completely Random Home Page
UselessKnowledge.com
The Danny Baker Show
PhiLL's Site Of Useless Information
Buy-ology - TLC
Spam page
Silly Putty page
Other interesting things too long for the TTUF's