FUNNY FACTS

• One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed.
• Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.
• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
• In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
• Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
• Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
• They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.
• Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
• Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• Armadillos can be housebroken.
• The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
• A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
• A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
• Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
• The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
• One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
• The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
• Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
• The State of Florida is bigger than England.
• Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
• The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
• In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
• About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
• More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
• In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
• Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
• Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.