1. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is
2. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
3. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
4. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.
5. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
6. The most extras ever used in a movie were 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.
7. Every person has a unique tongue print.
8. The only person they could find to first model the bikini was a stripper
9. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
10. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
11. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
12. Bubble gum contains rubber.
13. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
14. In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."
15. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
16. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
17. In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day
18. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
19. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
20. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
21. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
22. In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal.
23. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
24. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
25. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.
26. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
27. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
28. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
29. Mosquitos have teeth.
30. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
31. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
32. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
33. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
34. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
35. Aztec emperor Mont ezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
36. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
37. Donkey's earwax was once used as birth control
38. The longest interruption of a tv program in history was when the BBC interrupted a Mickey Mouse cartoon to announce that WWII had started: over 6 years later, the cartoon was resumed, in the exact same spot it had been cut
39. In French, the title of the movie City Slickers translates to "Life, Love, Cows"
40. Pharaoh Khufu sent his own daughter into prostitution, charging her customers a block of stone to be used to build a pyramid for her. Her pyramid contains over 20,000 blocks....
41. The world's only B.A. program in bagpiping is taught at Carnegie Mellon University by James McIntosh
42. Ancient Romans used condoms made out of sheep intestines
43. In 1922, Pitcairn Airlines was the first to provide air sickness bags
44. Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive
45. The aggregate tension of the 6 strings of a guitar exceeds 200 pounds
46. A fruitflies gestation period is 48 hours
47. The distance between Los Angeles and Tokyo is 5451 miles
48. The average human sheds around 18kg of dead skin in a lifetime
49. The mass of all the ants on Earth is more than th mass of all the people on Earth
50. Each eyelash hosts a minimum of three hundred dust mites
51. On the 25th anneversary of the New York City marathon, the worlds longest urinal (290ft) was installed at the beginning of the race
52. There is a hotel in Jukkasjaerui, Sweden which is built entirely out of ice, it is built each fall and melts each May
53. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I ran the Zoo"
54. In "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" all the classic cartoon characters had to have appeared on screen before 1946 because that is when the movie was set, but the rule was broken for Wile E. Cyote and the Road Runner because they are Robert Zemekis' favorite characters
55. Char-gogga-gogg-manchaugg-agogg-chabuna-gunga-maugg is the name of a lake in Webster, MA, and it means "You fish on your side, I fish on mine, nobody fishes in the middle"
56. Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and George Takei have all appeared at one time or another on The Twilight Zone
57. The Aztec played a game using a solid rubber ball shot through a stone ring, the loser was put to death, the winner, on the other hand, got all the spectators clothing.
58. Every leap year in ancient Scotland, maidens were allowed to ask a man to be her husband, refusal cost him a pound.
59. According to 1649 Massachusetts law, punishment for children over the age of 16 acting stubborn or rebellious was death.
60. In ancient Sparta, the penalty for remaining a bachelor was that the unmarried men were not allowed to watch the gymnastics exersizes of the women
61. In accordance with a US Supreme Court ruling in 1893, the difference between a fruit and a vegetable is as follows: "Any plant or part threof eaten during the main dish is a vegetable. If it is eaten at any other part of the meal, it is a fruit."
62. In Scotland, the proper way to make a toast is with one foot on the table, the other on a chair
63. Giraffes only sleep for 5 minutes a day
64. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
65. All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
66. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
67. Almonds are members of the peach family.
68. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
69. There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous":
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
70. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
71. The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
72. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
73. The bikini was first called the 'atom'
74. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
75. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
76. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. (pretty good trick)
77. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
78. 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, hence "Oz."
79. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
80. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
81. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
82. To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
83. Outraged Japanese mothers demanded that TV networks adopt technical standards for animated programs after hundreds of children nationwide suffered seizures while watching a top-rated cartoon. More than 700 school-age children were rushed to hospitals after watching bright flashing lights on the popular Pocket Monsters (Pokemon) program December of 97.
84. In the original 101 Dalmatians movie, Pongo has 72 spots, Perdita has 68 and each of the puppies has 32.
85. Chimney's used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them
86. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
87. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treas.
88. Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000
89. Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28
90. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38
91. Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80
92. Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
93. Percentage of men who say they are happier after their divorce or separation: 58
94. Percentage of women who say they are happier: 85
95. Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
96. The average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
97. Percentage of bird species that are monogamous: 90
98. Percentage of mammal species (including humans!!) that are: 3
99. Chances that a burglary in the US will be solved: 1 in 7
100. Portion of land in the US owned by the government: 1/3

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