55 AMAZING FACTS

1. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

2. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

3. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be
mentally retarded.

4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied
this, and why?)

6. You're more likely to be stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten
bananas.

9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph.

12. The condom -- originally made of linen -- was invented in the early 1500's.

13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 BC.

14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

15. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours.

16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones: Bhutan.

19. Every person has a unique tongue print.

20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left.

21. Women's hearts beat faster than men's. (That explains it!)

22. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

23. Bubble gum contains rubber.

24. Your sense of smell is only 1/20th as good as a dog's.

25. Only 55% of Americans know the sun is a star.

26. The sound of E.T. walking was made by a woman squishing her hands in Jello.

27. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

28. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

29. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

30. Before Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

31. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

32. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

33. About 70% of Americans go to college just to make more money.

34. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

35. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

36. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

37. Millie, the White House dog, earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.

38. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

39. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

41. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at auction for $6,600 in 1992.

42. Mosquitoes have teeth.

43. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

44. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego, California.

45. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis
Presley.

46. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

47. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

48. 27% of US male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell".

49. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

50. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of
excrement."

51.  Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

52. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

53. Dogs have no taste buds.

54. Cigarette smokers get higher scores on IQ and memory tests than do non-smokers.

55. DVD stands for "Digital Versatile Disk", not "Digital Video Disk"