In the Amazon forests of Brazil and Venezuela, women of the Yanomami believe that for a child to grow strong they need to copulate frequently with many men during pregnancy.

Phagophobia is the fear of swallowing.

Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit.

Teachers are eight times more likely to be infertile than men with any other job.

Twenty-eight percent of men feel they reach sexual climax too quickly.

The Ancient Greeks believed semen was stored in a man's cranium.

Film legend Marlene Dietrich claimed to have slept with John F. Kennedy—when she was 62.

A castrated male reindeer is called a bull.

In a sex study, 45 percent of American men said they prefer to make love with the light on. Only 17 percent of American women prefer it that way.

It took Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette seven years to consummate their marriage.

During the film Don Juan, John Barrymore delivers a grand total of 191 kisses to a variety of different women, at the rate of one every 53 seconds.

Gandhi slept naked with women in order to test his mastery of celibacy.

Paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch.

Dr. James Barry qualified as a doctor, enlisted in the army and became an Inspector-General. It was only at the time of "his" death in 1865 that it was discovered "he" was actually a woman.

Howard Hughes originated the cantilever bra.

Athletic supporters were introduced in 1874 to help bicycle riders as they pedaled over cobblestone roads. The term "jock strap" comes from these early "bicycle jockeys."

Gershon Legman, noted American sexologist, once calculated that there are 14,288,400 possible positions for sexual intercourse.

Members of the Chenchu tribe in India believe that if you conceive a child at night it will be born blind.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the most popular time for sex is 11 p.m.

In the 18th century, another term for anal sex was "navigate the windward passage."

Twenty percent of women who live with their boyfriends have more than one sex partner.

The skin test used to determine immunity or susceptibility to scarlet fever is called the "Dick Test."

The world "fornication" derives from the Latin word fornix, meaning "arch." Roman street prostitutes found lots of customers underneath the arches of the Colosseum

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

"Paraphilia" is the technical term for sexual deviation or perversion.

A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.

Women blink twice as often as men.

Sigmund Freud's first three scientific papers concerned fish.

The first issue of Playboy, in 1953, which sold for a mere fifty cents, was never dated, because Hugh Hefner assumed he'd never publish another.

The three foods Americans say they dislike the most are tofu, liver and yogurt.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the first novel to sell more than one million copies.

40% of people who move to a new address also change their brand of toothpaste at the same time.

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

A well-known jail in London was once located on Clink Street. That’s why jails are sometimes called "clinks."

The average bed is home to more than six billion dust mites.

There is about 38 times as much salt water on Earth as fresh water.

Studies indicate that approximately 10% of adult women have not experienced an orgasm.

Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

Japan's Tokyo Zoo closes for two months each year to give the animals a break from visitors.

The first experiments in genetics involved garden peas.

Filmmaker Albert Brooks’ real name is Albert Einstein.

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

William Howard Taft was the first President to own a car.

The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.

During the many years they spent studying human sexuality, researchers Masters and Johnson observed more than 10,000 episodes of sexual activity.

In military contracts, a pencil is called a "portable, hand-held communications inscriber."

Wheaties was the first company to use a jingle in its radio ads.

Most couples get engaged in December.

The first letter Vanna White ever turned on Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."

Two hundred million M&Ms are sold every day in the United States.

The play President Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated in Ford's theater was Our American Cousin.

Mexico once had three different Presidents in the space of 24 hours.

Apples are a member of the rose family.

Milk delivered to the store today was inside a cow two days ago.

The average pencil can write 45,000 words.

Giraffes rarely sleep more than 20 minutes a day.

Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.

The only year the Academy Awards weren't held was in 1933.

Women are twice as likely as men to have panic attacks.

Snoopy, of Peanuts fame, was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.

The nail on the thumb grows the slowest.

It is possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Hitler was a vegetarian.

Lions sleep almost 20 hours a day.

According to the American Journal of Public Health, the average American woman has intercourse 87 times a year (or 1.7 times a week).

The average lifespan of a major league baseball is seven pitches.

Scarlett O’Hara’s real first name was Katie.

It takes a week to make a jelly bean.

In 1946, there were fewer than 10,000 televisions in the U.S. and virtually none elsewhere in the world. Five years later, nearly 10 million televisions had been sold.

The average French person uses two bars of soap a year.

If Barbie were lifesize, her measurements would be 39-23-33.

One third of the people who block a sneeze or cough with their hand do not then wash their hands.

In New Jersey, is illegal to frown at a police officer.

25% of American adults say they never exercise.

There are 2,343 exclamation points used in The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe.

Half of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. go into animal feed.

Americans fill in 54 acres of crossword puzzles each day.

There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong.

The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.

The world’s most expensive spice is Spanish saffron—it can cost more than $2,000 per pound.

Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.

Public women’s restrooms are twice as germ-laden as men’s.

Seventy-three percent of Manila residents smoke.

There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.

Lyndon Johnson claimed to have had sex with five of his six secretaries, including one session on his desk in the Oval Office.

The maximum speed at which erotic sensations travel from skin to brain has been clocked at 156 miles per hour.

Nurses and doctors wash their hands between patients less than one-third of the time.

The Carpenters' signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank. Richard Carpenter saw the commercial and made it into a hit song.

When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.

For several centuries, women used to rub crushed strawberries on their breasts in the belief that it would enlarge them.

L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, called his home in Hollywood "Ozcot."

TV’s Lieutenant Columbo did have a first name—Phillip.

A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue.

Reggie Jackson has the record for career strikeouts—2,597.

Dentyne was the first gum marketed as being beneficial to teeth. It's a contraction of "dental hygiene."

Napoleon Bonaparte financed his invasion of Russia with counterfeit money.

When the first duck-billed platypus arrived at the British Museum, the curators thought it was a fake and tried to pull its beak off.

In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues.

Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

An average man on an average day excretes two and a half quarts of sweat.

The balance beam used in Olympic gymnastic competition is four inches wide.

Florence Nightingale spent the last 40 years of her life in one room, never leaving.

In the United States, 85% of couples use the "missionary position" exclusively.

Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.

Among the world’s recognized languages, 184 are spoken by fewer than 10 people.

Stalin holds the world record for erecting the most statues to himself.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

In ancient Athens, every third man worked with marble.

Yellow tennis balls were used at Wimbledon for the first time in 1986.

Mel Gibson earned $5,000 for his role in Mad Max.

Every day, 2,700 Americans are told they have gonorrhea.

The middle stall in a public bathroom is the most contaminated. The first stall is the least contaminated.

Childbirth can spur hair loss.

Surveys report men prefer smooth peanut butter, while women prefer crunchy.

A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.

Woody Woodpecker’s hometown was Puddleburgh.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, was the first writer to incorporate himself.

The space between your nostrils is called the "columella."

Johnny Carson did 4,531 opening monologues during his 30 years on The Tonight Show.

Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said, "I promise" instead of, "I swear" at his inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.

The balance beam used in Olympic gymnastic competition is four inches wide.

Florence Nightingale spent the last 40 years of her life in one room, never leaving.

In the United States, 85% of couples use the "missionary position" exclusively.

Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.

Among the world’s recognized languages, 184 are spoken by fewer than 10 people.

Stalin holds the world record for erecting the most statues to himself.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

In ancient Athens, every third man worked with marble.

Yellow tennis balls were used at Wimbledon for the first time in 1986.

Mel Gibson earned $5,000 for his role in Mad Max.

Every day, 2,700 Americans are told they have gonorrhea.

The middle stall in a public bathroom is the most contaminated. The first stall is the least contaminated.

Childbirth can spur hair loss.

Surveys report men prefer smooth peanut butter, while women prefer crunchy.

A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.

Woody Woodpecker’s hometown was Puddleburgh.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, was the first writer to incorporate himself.

The space between your nostrils is called the "columella."

Johnny Carson did 4,531 opening monologues during his 30 years on The Tonight Show.

Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said, "I promise" instead of, "I swear" at his inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.

It’s estimated that the French eat an average of 200 million frogs each year.

70% of Americans driving on the highway are speeding.

In the National Football League, the home team is required to provide 24 footballs for each game.

Another word for a guitar pick is "plectrum."

The leaf on the Canadian flag has 11 points.

Astronaut John W. Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the five-hour Gemini 3 flight on March 23, 1965. Consumed by mission mate Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, the contraband sandwich resulted in a Congressional investigation and the first official reprimand of an astronaut.

You can get 7.5 million toothpicks out of a cord of wood.

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is the novel that contains the longest sentence in literature. The sentence has 823 words.

Woodrow Wilson allowed sheep to graze on the White House lawn during World War I—their wool helped raise money for the Red Cross.

Pandas in China have been given Viagra to help them mate.

Alaska doesn’t have any counties.

The address of Big Bird’s nest on "Sesame Street" is 123 ½ Sesame Street.

In the English language, no other word has more synonyms than "penis." There are more than 1,500 other words for the male sexual organ, with "copulation" having more than 450 synonyms and "breast" more than 350.

The five most stolen items in drugstores are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses and Preparation H.

Soldiers in the Netherlands are not required to salute officers.

The "left bank" of a river is the left side as you look downstream.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) created the "X" rating for sexually explicit and excessively violent films on November 1, 1968.

Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Moses and Charles Darwin were all stutterers.

40% of people killed by falling off a horse are drunk.

The leading type of sandwich on restaurant menus remains the burger. According to the National Restaurant Association, burgers appear on more than 75 percent of all sandwich menus nationwide.

The number one cause of depression in married people is being married. In unmarried people, it's being single.

It would take just 23 hours for all the Coca-Cola ever produced to flow over Niagara Falls.

Research has proven that shoes wear out faster on the right feet than on the left.

Every year, about 12 percent of the U.S. population is arrested.

A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.

The fourth most used language in the U.S. is sign language.

The first sport to be filmed was boxing, in 1894. Thomas Edison himself did the filming.

One of Preparation H's main ingredients is shark liver oil. The oil not only helps shrink hemorrhoids, but will shrink any tissue.

From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.

Waterskiing was originally called "plank-gliding" in England.

The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs is called a "rowel."

The working title of the classic novel, The Wizard of Oz, was The Emerald City.

Nepal is the only country that doesn't have a rectangular or square flag.

The most common invention of the 19th century was the washing machine. Between 1804 and 1873, at least 1,676 patents were issued by the U.S. Patent Office for various forms of this device.

Dog mushing is the state sport of Alaska.

The real name of the Riddler (of Batman fame) is E. Nigma. The "E" stands for Edward.

A flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

The term "moron" entered our vocabulary when Molière, in his play La Princesse d’Elide, gave a dim-witted character the name Moron.

About 6,000 teens lose their virginity each day in America.

The average pool cue is 57 inches long.

The childhood name of Tarzan was John Clayton, Jr.

Tennis was the first Olympic sport to include women (in Paris, 1900).

The Chinese celebrate birthdays only once every 10 years.

The first minimum wage was instituted in 1938—to the tune of 25¢ an hour.

The first motion picture theater opened in Los Angeles on April 2, 1902.

After he retired from serving as Tombstone’s marshal, Wyatt Earp moved to San Francisco and became a boxing referee.

Amount of gold used to make class rings in the U.S. each year—7.5 tons.

More men stutter than women.

Five hundred cubic feet of air pass through your nose every day.

The watch pocket in pants is called the "fob."

In 1899, Charles Fey invented a slot machine named the Liberty Bell. The device became the model for all slots to follow. In 1999, Nevada had 205,726 slot machines, one for every 10 residents.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s first names were Henry and Edward, respectively.

A female African elephant can be pregnant for nearly two years.

Robert E. Lee had exceptionally small feet—his shoe size was just 4½.