Facts of World

Various FACTS of World

1.      11% of the world is left-handed.

2.      25% of a human’s bones are in its feet.

3.      28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America it’s 38%.

4.      40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5.      55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.

6.      7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.

7.      98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

8.      A ‘2 by 4’ is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.

9.      A ‘jiffy’ is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

10.  A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

11.  A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

12.  A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

13.  A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

14.  A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A quarter has 119.

15.  A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

16.  A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

17.  A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.

18.  A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.

19.  A jellyfish is 95% water.

20.  A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

21.  A mongoose is not a goose but more like a Meer cat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.

22.  A moth has no stomach.

23.  A person produces about half a liter of fat a day.

24.  A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

25.  A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

26.  A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

27.  A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

28.  A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.

29.  A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

30.  A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

31.  A snail can sleep for 3 years.

32.  A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

33.  A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak, liril, kanak) is called a ‘palindrome’.

34.  About $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

35.  About $283,200 is the absolute highest amount of money you can win on Jeopardy.

36.  About 10% of Jewish households have Christmas Trees.

37.  About 14% of injecting drug users is HIV positive.

38.  About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.

39.  About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

40.  About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.

41.  About 55% of all movies are rated R.

42.  Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is said to haunt the White House.

43.  Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

44.  Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Lawenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

45.  Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.

46.  All polar bears are left-handed.

47.  All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).

48.  Almonds are members of the peach family.

49.  American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

50.  Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.

51.  Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

52.  An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

53.  An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

54.  An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.

55.  An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

56.  An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

57.  Ancient Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies.

58.  Andorra, a tiny country on the border between France and Spain, has the longest average lifespan of 83.49 years.

59.  Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.

60.  Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.

61.  Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!

62.  At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.

63.  Attila the Hun (invader of Europe; 406-453), Felix Faure (French President; 1841-1899), Pope Leo VII (936-939), Pope John VII (955-964), Pope Leo VIII (963-965), Pope John XIII (965-72), Pope Paul II (1467-1471), Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister, 1784-1865), Nelson Rockefeller (US Vice President, 1908-1979), and John Entwistle (The Who's bassist, 1944-2002) all died while having sex.

64.  Back in the mid to late ’80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.

65.  Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

66.  Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

67.  Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

68.  Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

69.  Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

70.  Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

71.  Butterflies taste with their feet.

72.  By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

73.  C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

74.  Camel’s have three eyelids.

75.  Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

76.  Cats’ urine glows under a black light.

77.  Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

78.  Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

79.  China has more English speakers than the United States.

80.  Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.

81.  Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

82.  Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

83.  Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

84.  Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.

85.  Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.

86.  David Sarnoff received the Titanic’s distress signal and saved hundreds of passengers. He later became the head of the first radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).

87.  Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.

88.  Dolphins nap with one eye open.

89.  Don Mac Lean's song "American Pie" was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who all died in the same plane crash.

90.  Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

91.  Dr. Seuss pronounced his name ‘soyce’.

92.  Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

93.  Duff is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.

94.  During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, ‘Red Vineyard at Arles’.

95.  During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

96.  During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!

97.  Each 5 mph (miles-per-hour) you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!

98.  Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David; Clubs = Alexander the Great; Hearts = Charlemagne; Diamonds = Caesar.

99.  Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

100.                      Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

101.                      Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

102.                      Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.

103.                      Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.

104.                      Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. ‘You’ve got Mail!’). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as ‘Q-Link’.

105.                      Eskimos don't gamble.

106.                      Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.

107.                      Every day, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

108.                      Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.

109.                      Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

110.                      Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).

111.                      Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

112.                      Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.

113.                      For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.

114.                      For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse’s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

115.                      Four different people played the part of Darth Vader (body, face, voice, and breathing).

116.                      Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!

117.                      Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer are the only angels named in the Bible.

118.                      Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

119.                      God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.

120.                      Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.

121.                      Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18. 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.

122.                      How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

123.                      Humans and dolphins are the only animals known to have sex for pleasure.

124.                      Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.

125.                      Hummingbirds can't walk.

126.                      IBM’s motto is ‘Think’. Apple later made their motto ‘Think different’.

127.                      Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.

128.                      If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

129.                      If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

130.                      If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

131.                      If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

132.                      If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.

133.                      If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

134.                      If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

135.                      If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

136.                      In ‘Silence of the Lambs’, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

137.                      In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

138.                      In 1863, Paul Hubert of Bordeaux, France, was sentenced to life in jail for murder. After 21 years, it was discovered that he was convicted of murdering himself.

139.                      In a survey of 200000 ostriches over 80 years, not one tried to bury its head in the sand.

140.                      In America you will see an average of 500 advertisements a day.

141.                      In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.

142.                      In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.

143.                      In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

144.                      In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).

145.                      In every episode of ‘Seinfeld’ there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.

146.                      In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10.

147.                      In Iceland, a Big Mac costs $5.50.

148.                      In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

149.                      In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.

150.                      In the 17th century, the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places. Today, to 1.2411 trillion.

151.                      In the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, if a man was not married by age 30, he would not be allowed to vote or watch athletic events involving nude young men.

152.                      In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

153.                      In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.

154.                      In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.

155.                      In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

156.                      In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!

157.                      India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

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

159.                      It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

160.                      It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.

161.                      It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.

162.                      Jim Henson first coined the word ‘Muppet’. It is a combination of ‘marionette’ and ‘puppet.’

163.                      Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital.

164.                      John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson died in the same year. Supposedly, Adams last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives."

165.                      John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.

166.                      John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

167.                      John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.

168.                      Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

169.                      Judy Scheindlin (‘Judge Judy’) has a $25,000,000 salary, while Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has a $190,100 salary.

170.                      Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

171.                      Justin Timberlake's half-eaten French toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

172.                      Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

173.                      King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.

174.                      Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world). Latvia is about 54% female (highest in the world).

175.                      Lassie was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

176.                      Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors, the helicopter, and many other present day items.

177.                      Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.

178.                      Lizards can self-amputate their tails for protection. It grows back after a few months.

179.                      Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.

180.                      Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.

181.                      Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.

182.                      More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

183.                      More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

184.                      Most household dust is made of dead skin cells.

185.                      Most lipstick contains fish scales.

186.                      Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.

187.                      Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.

188.                      Negative emotions such as anxiety and depression can weaken your immune system.

189.                      Nepal is the only country that doesn’t have a rectangular flag. Switzerland is the only country with a square flag.

190.                      Newborn babies have about 350 bones. They gradually merge and disappear until there are about 206 by age 5.

191.                      On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

192.                      On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand '1’ and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.

193.                      On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

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

195.                      On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

196.                      One in about eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.

197.                      One in every 9000 people is an albino.

198.                      One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.

199.                      One in ten people live on an island.

200.                      One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).

201.                      One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

202.                      Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.

203.                      Only female mosquitoes bite.

204.                      Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

205.                      Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

206.                      Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

207.                      Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.

208.                      Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called ‘Solarmax’.

209.                      Pac-Man, Namco's 1979 arcade game, was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realized that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".

210.                      Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).

211.                      Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

212.                      Pearls melt in vinegar.

213.                      People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

214.                      People say ‘bless you’ when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.

215.                      Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

216.                      Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.

217.                      Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.

218.                      Rape is reported every six minutes in the U.S.

219.                      Rats and horses can’t vomit.

220.                      Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

221.                      Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches.

222.                      Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

223.                      Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.

224.                      Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

225.                      Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.

226.                      Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.

227.                      Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616.

228.                      Shakespeare invented the words ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.

229.                      Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.

230.                      Sherlock Holmes NEVER said ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’, Humphrey Bogart NEVER said ‘Play it again, Sam’ in Casablanca, and they NEVER said ‘Beam me up, Scotty’ on Star Trek.

231.                      Slugs have four noses.

232.                      Starfish have no brains.

233.                      Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died.

234.                      Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.

235.                      The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 BC in Aristophanes play "The Clouds".

236.                      The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

237.                      The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

238.                      The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

239.                      The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

240.                      The average child recognizes over 200 company logos by the time he enters first grade.

241.                      The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.

242.                      The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.

243.                      The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

244.                      The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.

245.                      The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.

246.                      The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

247.                      The bestselling books of all time are The Bible (6billion+), Quotations from the Works of Mao Tse-tung (900million+), and The Lord of the Rings (100million+)

248.                      The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)

249.                      The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’.

250.                      The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

251.                      The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.

252.                      The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

253.                      The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

254.                      The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

255.                      The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.

256.                      The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

257.                      The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700000 sheep (350 per person).

258.                      The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

259.                      The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

260.                      The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’.

261.                      The first novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.

262.                      The first patented condom was meant to be reused!

263.                      The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.

264.                      The first song played on Virgin Radio was born to be wild by INXS!

265.                      The first US Patent was for manufacturing potassium carbonate (used in glass and gunpowder). It was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1970.

266.                      The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

267.                      The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

268.                      The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.

269.                      The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

270.                      The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).

271.                      The lens of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

272.                      The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch instead of the female.

273.                      The mask used by Michael Myers in the original ‘Halloween’ was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.

274.                      The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company’s first ads in 1896.

275.                      The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

276.                      The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The most common name (of any type) in the world is Mohammed.

277.                      The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z.

278.                      The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

279.                      The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

280.                      The numbers “172” can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

281.                      The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census.

282.                      The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

283.                      The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.

284.                      The penguin is the only bird that can’t fly but can swim.

285.                      The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

286.                      The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

287.                      The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

288.                      The state sport of Maryland is Jousting.

289.                      The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (The heart is not a muscle)

290.                      The surface of the Earth is about 60% water and 10% ice.

291.                      The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

292.                      The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn’t kill their enemies.

293.                      The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world’s mail.

294.                      The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

295.                      The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

296.                      The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina. She gave birth to a boy by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 (which happened to be Mother's Day), at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.

297.                      The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.

298.                      There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

299.                      There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

300.                      There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.

301.                      There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

302.                      There are a million ants for every person on Earth.

303.                      There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.

304.                      There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.

305.                      There are about 7.7 million millionaires in the world (more than 1/1000th of the population).

306.                      There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

307.                      There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

308.                      There are seven suicides in the Bible: Abimelech. Samson, Saul, Saul’s armor-bearer, Ahithophel, Zimri, Judas.

309.                      There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

310.                      There have been over 600 lawsuits against Alexander Grahm Bell over rights to the patent of the telephone, the most valuable patent in U.S. history.

311.                      There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.

312.                      There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.

313.                      There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.

314.                      There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.

315.                      There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal.

316.                      Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

317.                      Tiger Woods’ real first name is Eldrick. His father gave him the nickname “Tiger” in honor of a South Vietnamese soldier his father had fought alongside with during the Vietnam War.

318.                      Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

319.                      Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

320.                      Truck driving is the most dangerous occupation by accidental deaths (799 in 2001).

321.                      Two-thirds of the world’s egg-plant is grown in New Jersey.

322.                      US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

323.                      US gold coins used to say “In Gold We Trust”.

324.                      Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

325.                      Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

326.                      When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

327.                      When movie directors do not want their names to be seen in the credits, they use the pseudonym "Allen Smithee" instead. It has been used over 50 times, starting with "Death of a Gunfighter" (1969).

328.                      When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.

329.                      When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers plays football at home the stadium becomes Nebraska’s third largest city.

330.                      While many treaties have been signed at or near Paris, France (including many after WWI and WWII), nine are actually known as the "Treaty of Paris": Seven Years' War (1763), American Revolutionary War (1783), French-Swede War (1810), France vs Sixth Coalition (1814), Battle of Waterloo (1815), Crimean War (1856), Spanish-American War (1898), union of Bessarabia and Romania (1920), establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (1951).

331.                      While the US government's supply of gold is kept at Fort Knox, its supply of silver is kept at the Military Academy at West Point, NY.

332.                      William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say "hell" as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.

333.                      Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

334.                      Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

335.                      World's heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.

336.                      Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.

337.                      You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

338.                      You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

339.                      You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

340.                      Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

341.                      Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn't digest itself.