This year, more than 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers!
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.
President George W.
Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon. It measures three and a half miles in diameter.
Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
According to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were once roommates.
"I am.
" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The largest painting on earth is a 72,437 square foot smiley face.
An elephant can smell water 3 miles away.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
An oyster can change its sex once every seven days.
Antarctica has only one ATM machine.
One ostrich egg can make approx.
eleven and a half omelets.
An earthquake on December 16th 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The words racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
An American urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Almonds are part of the peach family.
The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire US for three years.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
At 90 degrees below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
The female preying mantis initiates sex by ripping the males head off A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
If the Earth's history was packed into 100 years, dinosaurs arrived 5 years ago and humans arrived 2 weeks ago.
A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
There are 336 dimples on a regular golf ball.
"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched.
" No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Snails can have about 25,000 teeth.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
In terms of weight, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
There is enough graphite in the average pencil to draw a line 35 miles long, thats 45,000 words.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! [I want to test this out!]
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
A giant squid has eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter.
There is a city called Rome on every Continent.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
In 1885 the Home Insurance Company of Chicago was the tallest building in the world. It was only 9 stories tall.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
On an old Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.