The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom, and 6 months at a stoplight.

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.

20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.

In 10 minutes, a hurrican releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

The outdoor temperature can be estimated to within several degrees by timing the chirps of a cricket. It is done this way: count the number of chirps in a 15-second period, and add 37 to the total. The result will be very close to the actual Fahrenheit temperature. This formula, however, only works in warm weather. (Try it!)

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.

Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.

The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.

Did you know that Nintendo as a company is more than 100 years old and used to make playing cards

Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This same chemical is also found in Prozac.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

in the movie star wars when the stormtroopers break into the control room, the storm trooper on the right of the screen hits his head on the door frame. On the DVD release they've added a thump when he hits it.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

in charlie's angels when the Angels are fighting the "Creepy Thin Man," right before Drew Barrymore lifts up Lucy Liu to spin her around and kick the thin man, to get Lucy's attention, Drew hollers out "Lucy!" even though Lucy Liu's character's name is "Alex."

A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.

in the movie Gladiator during the the "Battle of Carthage" in the Colosseum, one of the chariots is turned over. Once the dust settles you can see a gas cylinder in the back of the chariot.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.

in The Matrix in the scene where Agent Smith is interrogating Neo, after Smith has sealed Neo's mouth shut and he is backed into the corner, when the camera cuts back to Smith you can clearly see a reflection in his glasses of Neo still sitting down in the chair.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

in the movie American Pie, in the bedroom scene the girl is holding a clear cup full of beer. The camera goes off her and when it comes back she is holding a blue cup. The camera goes back off her then on her and the cup is clear again.

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

in Pirates of the Carribean, Just as Jack says, "On deck, you scabrous dogs," to the very left edge of the screen over Jack's shoulder is a grip crew member with a tan cowboy hat, white short sleeve tee shirt and sunglasses, just standing there looking out to sea.

The first condoms were made of linen.

in the movie, Ocean's Eleven, Linus and Rusty are standing in the Botanical Garden at the Bellagio going over Linus' observations. Rusty has a cocktail glass of shrimp in hand. When they change angles he has a plate in his hand, then change back, it's a glass.

in the Wizard of Oz, In the beginning while Dorothy is still on the farm, she walks along the pig pen fence and then falls in. When Bert Lahr picks her up out of there her dress is perfectly clean.

in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, In the scene in the glass elevator, when Mike Teavee wants to push a button, he presses the TV Room button. The elevator stops going down and immediately moves horizontally. The characters within the elevator are thrown against the wall from the sudden change. However, they are thrown against the wall that is in the direction the elevator is now moving, instead of the opposite wall as they should have been.

Now it's time for random simpsons facts

Over the years, many celebrities have appeared on the Simpsons. Famous faces have included Tom Jones, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, Ringo Starr, Buzz Aldrin, Leonard Nimoy and Elizabeth Taylor as the voice of Maggie.

Besides naming the Simpsons after his own family, Matt Groening has named may of the minor characters after streets in Portland, Oregon. The signs for N.E. Flanders Street get vandalised quite a bit...

The noise of Maggie sucking her dummy was recorded by Matt Groening himself.

Each episode of the Simpsons contains about twenty-four thousand individual drawings, or Cels. An episode takes about six months to produce, and costs a million dollars.

Eric Stefani was a keyboard player for the American band, No Doubt (and brother to the lead singer, Gwen). Disillusioned with their record company, he left in 1994 - to become an animator on the Simpsons. No Doubt hit the big time the following year.

Bart's best friend Millhouse is named after President Richard Millhous Nixon.

The Simpsons pets are Santa's Little Helper, a greyhound rescued from the dog track, and a cat, Snowball II. Snowball I died in tragic circumstances - it got run over.