Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
| Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks. |
| Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes. |
| The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. |
| When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassement. |
| Jedi is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia. |
| A rat can fall from a five story building without injury. |
| A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour. |
| All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives. |
| Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone. |
| Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. |
| Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. |
| City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do. |
| Clinophobia is the fear of beds. |
| Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts. |
| Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. |
| Fingernails grow fastest on the hand you favor. |
| Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. |
| German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule. |
All babies are color blind when they are born.
| 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May. |
| 20252 is Smokey the Bears own zip code. |
Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
| About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light. |
| Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays. |
| The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war. |
Cat urine glows under a black-light.
| Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. |
| Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys. |
| From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet. |
More people are killed each year by vending machines than by Sharks.
In 1982, a high school student from Los Angeles, California unscrambled the Rubik's Cube in 22.95 seconds.
25% of your bones are located in your feet.
It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.
About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 8 times.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach!
Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
99% of people cannot lick their elbow. (Bethany can!)
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OMG some of those are crazy! And Johnny can lick his elbow too! OMG!
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