About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Some toothpaste contains antifreeze.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to
equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal
Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed
- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3
Greyhound buses.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although
they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag
line. You'll lose him or her every time.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them,
but they actually sleep in other places.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any
other color.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly
go mad and sting itself to death.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles
(jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall
asleep.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very
human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head
and 2 larger ones in front.
The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees
by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a
15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit
temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times
more than a pound of potatoes.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first
concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece
of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
If shop mannequins were real women, they'd be too thin to menstruate.
There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels and only 8
who do.
Marilyn Monroe wore a size 16.
If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to
her proportions.
The average American woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a size
12 and 14.
One out of every 4 college aged women has an eating disorder.
The models in the magazines are airbrushed.
A psychological study in 1995 found that 3 minutes spent looking at
models in a fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel depressed,guilty and shameful.
Models who twenty years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman,
today weigh 23% less.
No NFL team that plays their home games in a domed stadium has ever
won a Superbowl.
In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught
drinking coffee was put to death.
