The average housefly lives for one month.

Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

According to a recent survey, 46 percent of Americans say their car is the most important thing in their lives. Six percent say their children hold that distinction.

There is an Australian wasp with the scientific name Aha ha.

"Fine turkey" and "honeycomb" are terms used for different qualities and textures of sponges.

Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

On average, Italians get 42 vacation days every year.

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "smile."

The first car with air-conditioning was the Packard.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a "epithalamium."

A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
   

There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar.

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.

Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring. (It's actually white.)

"Breath," by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts 30 seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue.

Coca-Cola is Africa's largest private-sector employer.

Confucius was the eleventh child of a 70-year-old soldier.

The mouse is the most common mammal in the United States.

Trivia was a Roman goddess to whom sacrifices were offered at crossroads. Because travelers often engaged in idle gossip at crossroads, Trivia's name (referring to three roads coming together) came to be associated with the sort of information exchanged in such places.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector in 1881.

According to medical experts, babies dream in the womb.

Walt Disney World generates about 56 tons of trash every day.

Ninety-five percent of the U.S. currency notes produced each year are used to replace bills already in circulation.

Men are four times more likely to sleep in the nude than women.

All of the following have been sold in vending machines: emu jerky, poached eggs, holy water, beetles and live shrimp.

Thirty-eight percent of American companies say they monitor their employee's e-mail.

According to surveys, 17 percent of Americans sing in the shower.

One out of five men in America propose marriage on their knee.

Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world.

The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.

Canola oil is actually called rapeseed oil, but the name was changed for marketing reasons.

The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
   

Rapper Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.

The term "hooch" for liquor comes from the Hoochinoo Indians, known for their ability to make liquor so strong it could knock someone out.

While nudity was considered commonplace to the ancient Greeks, a man was considered indecent if he had an exposed erection.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The .tv Internet domain was assigned to Tuvalu, a remote series of coral atolls in the South Pacific. Leasing its Internet domain name will result in $50 million in royalties for Tuvalu.

The Coca-Cola company is the largest consumer of sugar in the world.

Female baboons have been known to engage in a primitive form of prostitution by stealing food during sex.

Fewer than 30 percent of parents in the U.S. discuss sex with their children.

The typical penguin has just one orgasm a year.

The average sperm donor makes $4,000 to $5,000 a year.

The sperm count of the average American male is down 30 percent from 30 years ago.

It's illegal to have sex with a corpse anywhere in the United States.

Semen contains small amounts of more than 30 elements, including fructose, ascorbic acid, cholesterol, creatine, citric acid, lactic acid, nitrogen, vitamin B12, and various salts and enzymes.

Homosexuality remained on the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses until 1973.

In an average man's semen, about 10 percent are abnormal.

A recent survey of prostitutes revealed that the most frequent sex act performed is fellatio.

Minks have sex sessions that last, on average, eight hours.

According to a national study of female sexuality, candles are the artificial device used most frequently by women during masturbation.

In London, it's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle.
   

Sex education was first introduced in English schools in 1889.

In ancient Greece and Rome, dildos were made out of animal horns, gold, silver, ivory and glass.

The French kiss was first known as "maraichinage," a term to describe the prolonged, deep, tongue kiss practiced by the Maraichins, inhabitants of Brittany, France.

In London, it's illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle.

Experts estimate that a real orgasm burns 112 calories. A faked orgasm burns 315 calories.

"Old Joe" is slang for "syphilis."

The early Christian church forbade couples from having sex on Wednesdays, Fridays and, of course, Sundays.

Exhibitionists are most likely to be married men.

About 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year.

A winged penis was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

During his lifetime, Shakespeare's last name was spelled 83 different ways.

Eighty-three percent of people hit by lightning are men.

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't.

The original idea for steak knives derived from shark teeth.

President Lyndon Johnson had an aunt named Frank.

The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a chess game is 318,979,564,000.

The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is called a "fillip."

Twenty-five percent of Americans don't know what their astrological sign is.

The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
   

The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.

The mouth produces a quart of saliva a day.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

All the planets in our solar system could be placed inside the planet Jupiter.

Famed playwright Anton Chekhov was also a medical doctor.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

The word "buxom" at one time meant "obedient."

There are about 1,750 Os in every can of SpaghettiOs.

Until the 1960s, men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

Crocodiles kill 2,000 people each year. By contrast, sharks kill about 25 people, elephants kill 250 and bees kill about 1,500.

Nonsmokers dream more than smokers.

Technically, the banana is a berry.

There are 90 turns in a Slinky.

The first condoms in the U.S. were made in the 1870s from vulcanized rubber. They were expensive, thick and intended to be reused.

Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.

Hawaii is the only state that's never recorded a temperature below zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Stalin's original name was Josif Djugashvili. In 1913, he began using the pseudonym Stalin, meaning "Man of Steel."

The greater dwarf lemur in Madagascar always gives birth to triplets.

The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."

The Earth experiences 50,000 earthquakes a year.

The average person in the U.S. spends eight years of their life watching television.
   

In Hong Kong, soy milk is as popular as Coca-Cola is in the U.S.

Your thumbnail grows more slowly than any of your fingernails.

There were 61,825 homes destroyed when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

The average person in the U.S. spends eight years of their life watching television.

The Bible has been translated into 2,233 languages.

The liquid in a Magic 8-Ball is made of water, blue coloring and propylene glycol (an antifreeze to keep the fluid from turning solid during shipping).

A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.

Rhode Island was the first state to require a driver's test.

When parking meters were first introduced, angry drivers beheaded them with axes.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average American owns 1.6 dogs and 2.1 cats.

One out of six guns in the world is an AK-47.

The Romans would crush a first time rapist's gonads between two stones.

About 10 times more men than women are attacked by sharks.

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.

After a three-week vacation, your I.Q. can drop by as much as 20 percent.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, two out of five women in America dye their hair.

Lewis Carrol wrote his books while standing up.

Every day, 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.

The Coca-Cola company is the largest consumer of vanilla in the world.

There is a one in five chance an American working woman will earn more than her husband.

Jousting is the state sport of Maryland.
   

Most parrots are left-handed.

Jousting is the state sport of Maryland.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

The most common disease in the world is tooth decay.

In 1893, Milwaukee's Pabst beer won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair and is still sold as Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.

There are 10,800 feet of film in a two-hour movie.

A mere 31 percent of men claim to look at other women when they're in the company of their significant other. But a whopping 62 percent of women say their significant others do.

The average man will spent about 145 days of this life shaving.

The geographic center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota

About three percent of pet owners give Valentine's Day gifts to their pets.

One-third of all Valentine's Day cards are accompanied by gifts.

Hallmark has more than 1,330 different cards specifically for Valentine's Day.

About one quarter of Valentine's Day cards have humorous messages.

American women say they'd rather receive chocolate than flowers on Valentine's Day.

Teachers will receive the most Valentine's Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives, and sweethearts.

About one billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged each year. The holiday is second only to Christmas in terms of the number of cards sent.

The celebration of Valentine's Day can be traced to the ancient Roman holiday of the Lupercal, which honored Lupercus the Lycaean, who protected flocks of sheep from wolves.

Seventy percent of those celebrating Valentine's Day show their affection by giving a card. Others make a telephone call (49 percent), give a gift (48 percent), plan a special dinner (37 percent), give candy (33 percent), have a meal in a restaurant (30 percent), or give flowers (19 percent).

Pope Gelasius declared February 14 to be Saint Valentine's Day in 498 A.D.

Richard Cadbury invented the first Valentine's Day candy box in the late 1800s.

The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.

Fifteen percent of women in the U.S. send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.
   

The Chocolate Manufacturers Association of America says 36 million boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine's Day.

About 110 million roses, most of them red, will be sold for Valentine's Day this year.

Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, an "improvement in telegraphy," on Valentine's Day, 1876.

Valentine's Day was originally associated with the mating season of birds.

Fifteen percent of women in the United States send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.

During Abraham Lincoln's campaign for President, a Democrat named Valentine Tapley swore he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and his chin whiskers went unshaved from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of 12 feet six inches.

Americans spend $655 million each Valentine's Day on candy, making it the fourth biggest holiday of the year for confectionery purchases, after Halloween, Christmas and Easter (in that order).

In the U.S., it's estimated that 64 percent of men do not make plans in advance for Valentine's Day.

During Victorian times, it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine's Day card.

Eighty percent of all Valentine cards are purchased for relatives.

Fear of an empty glass is called cenosillicaphobia.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, it's illegal to feed a moose any alcoholic beverage.

In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast.

In Germany there is a beer ice cream in Popsicle form. Its alcohol content is lower than that of traditional beer.

Prohibition lasted precisely 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, and 32.5 minutes.

The oldest known recipe in existence is a recipe for beer.

Tom Arnold, Sandra Bullock, Chevy Chase, Bill Cosby, Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Willis are all former bartenders.

The Puritans loaded more beer than water onto the Mayflower before they departed for the New World.

The Ancient Romans used to toast a woman's health by drinking a glass of wine for every letter of her name.

Moron is the name of a wine sold in Italy.

The lyrics for "Star Spangled Banner" were written by Francis Scott Key, but the tune was actually that of a popular drinking song called "Anacrean in Heaven." Anacrean was a Greek poet who was revered as a bard of wine, love, song and revelry. Key's ditty didn't become the official national anthem of the United States until 117 years after he wrote the words for it.

The more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol.
   

Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of more than 200 synonyms for "drunk," including "cherry-merry," "nimptopsical" and "soaked."

The collecting of beer mats (coasters) is called tegestology.

According to one report, 59 percent of all American males and 37 percent of American females are beer drinkers.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (instituting Prohibition).

Gambrinous is an obscure word meaning "being full of beer."

The more educated people are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol.

Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist, poet and humorist, was the first to coin the phrase "wine, women, and song."

The largest bottle size of wine is called a Nebuchadnezzar. It holds about four gallons, or 20 regular bottles worth, of wine.

Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.

Spanish doubloons were legal tender in the U.S. until 1857.

On average, it takes two tablespoons of blood to get a man's penis erect.

A single edition of the Sunday New York Times contains more information than a typical adult in 1892 was exposed to in their entire life.

Citizens of ancient Rome often paid their taxes in honey.

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness.

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men.

Vermont was the first state to ban slavery.

Thirty percent of women over the age of 80 still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriends.

The Latin phrase below the pyramid on the U.S. one-dollar bill reads, Novus Ordo Seclorum. It means, "a new order of the ages."

Mormon leader Brigham Young had 56 children by 27 wives.
   

In ancient times, Aztecs gave medicine for kidney problems with the left hand, and medicine for liver problems with the right hand.

Mormon leader Brigham Young had 56 children by 27 wives.

Frank Sinatra's last TV appearance was on Who's the Boss?

Twenty-one percent of U.S. smokers say they don't believe nicotine is addictive.

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

Many high school cafeterias in Europe serve alcohol to their students who choose to drink.

More than 25,000 people lost their lives during the construction of the Panama Canal.

Bluebirds can't see the color blue.

Just two mammals possess hymens. Humans and horses.

Henry Ford never had a driver's license.

In Los Angeles, 136 hours a year are wasted by the average commuter in slowed or stopped traffic.

During World War I, French soldiers were nicknamed Poilu, meaning "hairy ones."

In a study of more than 80,000 American women, those who drank moderately had only half the heart attack risk of those who didn't drink at all.

Americans currently have $700 billion in credit card debt.

The typical driver will honk their car horn 15,250 times during their lifetime.

The custom of a red lantern to signify a brothel was first introduced in Avignon, France, in 1234.

The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.

In London, it rains more on Thursdays than any other day of the week.

It takes 4,000 grains of sugar to fill a teaspoon.

Animal, that famous Muppet drummer, was inspired by Keith Moon of The Who.

Seventy-five percent of wild birds die before they are six months old.
   

Summers on Uranus are 21 Earth-years long.

Forty percent of women say they have thrown footwear at men.

The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.

The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle.

Seventy-five percent of wild birds die before they are six months old.

The penny is the only U.S. coin where the person faces right instead of left.

At the age of 21, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was given just two years to live. On January 8, 2003, he turned 61.

Alcohol is considered the only proper payment for teachers among the Lepcha people of Tibet.