Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 have been injured.

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

25% of your bodies bones are in your feet

All Swans And Sturgeons In England Are Property Of The Queen

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Money man Cornelius Vanderbilt was an insomniac and a believer in the occult. He was not able to fall asleep unless each leg of his bed was planted in a dished filled with salt. He felt this kept out the evil spirits. It also kept out the snails, ants, and anyone with high blood pressure.

The 2 Foot Long Bird Called A Kea That Lives In New Zealand Likes To Eat The Strips Of Rubber Aound Car Windows

According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

Artist Andy Warhol became famous for his painting of Campbell's Soup cans. Before that - he made his living painting shoes for advertisements.

Those pesky farm equipment accidents.

If you were to toss the new 10p coin (Pounds Sterling), 10000 times, the average odds of it being heads/tails would not be 50/50. It would be closer to 45/55 in favour of tails because the new picture of the Queen's head is slightly larger than it used to be (she has gone a bit saggy) and so it makes the heads side heavier than the tails side, thus it has more chance of landing on tails.

Cats Can Hear Ultrasound

Since the Lego Group began manufacturing blocks in 1949, more than 189 billion pieces in 2000 different shapes have been produced. This is enough for about 30 Lego pieces for every living person on Earth.

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.

56% of the video game market is adults.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak


Democracy works... right?

The Cheeta Is The Only Cat That Can't Retract It's Claws

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone

Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

Roosevelt was the most superstitious president?he traveled continually but never left on a Friday. He also would not sit at the same table that held thirteen other people.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

A Female Swine Or Sow Will Always Have An Even Number Of Teats Or Nipples

Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.

There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada.

The Sumatran Tiger Has The Most Strips Of All The Tiger Subspecies, And The Siberian Tiger Has The Least

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is 8 feet long, and it displays a fingernail measuring 13 by 10 inches.

Because of quantum physics, some 5% of a proton's magnetism is actually based on strange and anti-strange quarks (this is the actual term for them) that appear literally from nowhere and disappear into complete nothingness. So, when you get an MRI scan, the results in part show something that does not actually exist.

The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.

Tigers' Paw Prints Are Called Pug Marks

The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

There is enough iron in a human body to make one small nail

The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

Kiwi Birds Are Blind, They Hunt Only By Smell

Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

"Formicophilia" is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.

did you know the chance a women has the ideal barbie figure (91-46-84cm) is less then 1:100.000?

All Elephants Walk On Tip-toe Because The Back Portion Of Their Foot Is Made Of No Bone Just Only Fat

In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."

The most popular name given to boat-owners? boats is "Obsession".

Giraffes Have No Vocal Chords

Only female mosquitoes bite.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on
your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.