Irrelevant Facts
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
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