Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string.

At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.

The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

The largest recorded kidney stone weighed 1.36 kg.

The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

February 9-15 Is National Kraut And Frankfurter Week

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.

Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.

THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT USED THE McKINLEY BUILDING BECAUSE OF IT'S UNUSUAL ARCHITECTURE. IF THERE WAS ANY TYPE OF EXPLOSION INSIDE THE BUILDING WOULD IMPLODE ON TO ITS SELF

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.

On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!

The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

The original game of "Monopoly" was circular

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

In Massachusetts you can be sent to jail for up to three years for cheating on your spouse!

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.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.

One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.


Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid!

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050

Babies have no kneecaps when they are born.