Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

Madonna suffers from garophobia (the fear of thunder).

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana

One penny doubled everyday becomes over 5 million dollars in just 30 days.

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -in many places -refers to '40 days,' they many days

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

Whale hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.

During the 6 years that the TSA has been screening passengers, none of its employees anywhere has discovered a single terrorist.

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

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.

Comedian/actor Billy Crystal portrayed Jodie Dallas, the first openly gay main character on network television on ABC's Soap, which aired from 1977 to 1981.

Even though they broke up 35 years ago, the Beatles continue to sell more records each year than the Rolling Stones.

India is the leading film making country in the world. More than twice as many films are made in India each year than in France, the third highest film producers in the world.

At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationship with 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later, they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.

In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. (Its rating has since been changed to R.)

MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was created in 1939, in Chicago, for the Montgomery Ward department stores for a Christmas promotion. The lyrics were written as a poem by Robert May, but weren't set to music until 1947. Gene Autry recorded the hit song in 1949

The "Twelve Days of Christmas" gifts: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold rings, six geese laying, seven swans swimming, eight maids milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming. (There are 364 gifts altogether)

The 1st time the "f-word" was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, "I'll Never Forget Whatshisname." In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, "Scarface," the word is spoken 206 times - an average of once every 29 seconds

The first CD pressed in the US - for commercial release - was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'.

According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.

Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.

Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.

Swiss Steak, Chop Suey, Russian Dressing, and a Hamburger all originated in the US.

China has more English speakers than the United States

Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosey is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of poseys..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

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.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class: $40,000.

If a statue in the park of a person on a 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 as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man: 50%

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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

Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.

Smartest dogs: 1) Scottish border collixe; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden retriever. Dumbest: Afghan hound

In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1

Coca-Cola was originally green

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom

Before Prohibition, Shlitz Brewery owned more property in Chicago than anyone else, except The Catholic Church

Non-dairy creamer is flammable

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

The lifespan of a taste buds ten days

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs

Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.

While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10

The state of Florida is bigger than England

Most lipstick contains fish scales

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders