- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
- Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.
- In the 1800’s, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.
- It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
- Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
- McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.
- Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
- The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
- One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.
- Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
- The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal – other than man.
- Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
- 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
- 26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.
- The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
- Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
- US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
- 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
- Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
- Most Zambians don’t live to see their 40th birthday.
- The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
- The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation’s university degrees.
- American adults have been educated for the longest time.
- The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
- 72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
- The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.
- More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid.
- You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt – at least in theory.
- 0.7% of Americans are currently in prison.
- Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain.
- The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia.
- Two-thirds of the world’s kidnappings occur in Colombia.
- America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.
- Two-thirds of the world’s executions occur in China.
- Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common – they both lead the world in locking people up.
- You’re 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.
- The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500.00 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
- Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!
- All humans Are 99.9% genetically identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
- For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
- Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
- A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
- Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
- The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
- Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
- Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
- Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
- Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.
