- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
- There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
- Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
- Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
- Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
- When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
- When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
- White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).
- Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.
- Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
- Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
- You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
- You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
- You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
- You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
- You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
- Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
- Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
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