Before 1859, baseball umpires didn't crouch behind the catcher, they sat in rocking chairs.
Julius Caesar's autograph is worth $2 million dollars.
Americans eat about 22 pounds of tomatoes every year - mostly in ketchup and tomato sauce.
Only 1% of teenage girls don't use deodorant.
Toto's real name was Terry.
In Italy, it is proper to pay a whole year's salary for an engagement ring.
Killer bees are expanding their territory by 300 miles a year.
American kids got $8.6 billion dollars in allowances in 1989.
One fifth of Americans spend their vacations at home.
People in the Southern US watch more TV than any other region of the country.
Canada owns more real estate in the USA than Japan does.
There are three museums in the world that are totally devoted to footwear.
Only one carat in every 23 tons of ore is a diamond.
A major league baseball team can break more than $150,000 worth of bats in one year.
It was illegal in Nazi Germany to name your horse "Adolph".
Rabbits take, on average, 18 naps a day.
Playing cards in India are round.
There has only been one armed robbery in Iceland's history.
40% of the water in your home is flushed down the toilet.
Flies can get athlete's foot.
A horse has 20 more bones than a man.
Sleepwalking is hereditary.
According to experts, most whale songs rhyme.
According to a Yale study, you think better in the winter than the summer.
An ice cream sundae will warm you more than hot chocolate. The reason, more calories.
People in the Soviet Union didn't chew gum.
An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.
It's illegal to have a pet dog in Iceland.
Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still exists - the Sphinx.
Moose are very near-sighted. Some even try to mate with cars!
Mosquitoes prefer biting you after you have eaten a banana.
In Finland, police rarely give out parking tickets. Instead, they deflate tires.
Queen bees don't use their stingers, except to kill other queen bees.
Americans eat 5 tons of aspirin a day.
A teaspoon will hold 120 drops of water.
American cheese came from England.
A housefly can carry germs as far as 15 miles from their original source.
Indians living in the Andes mountains have 3 quarts more blood than people living at sea
level do.
A recent study suggests that test takers do better if they have a cold.
No Chinese last names are more than one syllable.
A plucked eyebrow takes about 90 days to grow back.
The hamburgers McDonald's sells every week equal more than 16,000 head of cattle.
Elizabeth 1 of England owned more than 3,000 gowns.
A tuna can swim 100 miles a day.
There are more than 30,000 robots in the USA.
People in China don't eat cheese.
Disney has won the most Oscars (20).
Aztec Indians used to breed small, hairless dogs to keep their feet warm.
On average, Salt Lake City consumes more Cracker Jacks than any other Americans.
There are twice as many heart attacks in winter as there are in summer.
The average American man owns 22 ties.
Florida isn't the southernmost state, Hawaii is.
Goats rest, but never close their eyes when they sleep.
Most people have 25 moles on their body.
Blue is America's favorite color.
One third of all the fresh water on earth is in Canada.
The screen on the first home television was only 3x4 inches.
43% of Americans say they'll never eat snails.
A human kidney weighs about 5 ounces.
Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Even smart puppies can remember anything for more than about 45 seconds.
Giraffes can go longer without water than camels can.
Most likely, your left foot is bigger than your right.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.
If you place a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will go mad and sting itself to death.
The original name for a butterfly was "flutterby".
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet deep in one night.
Until 1796 there was a state in the US called Franklin. Today it's called Tennessee.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
A group of geese on the ground is called a "gaggle". A group in the air is called a "skein".
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Porcupines float in water.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Bowling pins need to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 mL of liquid.
More people every year are killed by donkeys than plane crashes.
Dogs bite an average of 1 million Americans a year.
On a Bingo card of ninety numbers, there are about 44 million ways to make B-I-N-G-O.
Over 15 billion prizes have been given away by Cracker Jacks.
Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines.
Apples are better than caffeine at waking you up in the morning.
A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
When you sneeze, your heart stops.
The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
On average, 100 people choke to death on pens each year.
