The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they graduate from high school.

In Germany, there is a flea that lives and breeds only in beer mats.

"Panophobia" is the fear of everything.

At age 70, an impressive 73 percent of men are still potent.

The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.

In Elizabethan slang, the term "to die" meant to have an orgasm.

The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1.

In Alabama, it's illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

In China, the number four is unlucky because the Mandarin word for four, "shi," sounds like the word for death.

Aluminum can be spun into a filament so fine that 1.5 pounds of it could encircle the Earth.

The world's most expensive coffee is called Kopi Luwak. It is made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of a palm civet, a tree-dwelling, cat-like animal found throughout Southeast Asia.

The magician's words "hocus-pocus" have been around since the 17th century. A conjurer called Hocus Pocus used the chant during his performances. It's a play on a Latin phrase used during Roman Catholic mass when wafer and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ, hoc est enim corpus meum ("for this is my body").

In Medieval Times, a spider was rolled in butter and swallowed as a cure for plague and leprosy.

According to one study, 24 percent of lawns have some sort of ornament.

An alligator will go through as many as 3,000 teeth during its lifetime.

The holes in Swiss cheese are called "eyes."

Five hundred Americans are injured in their bathtubs each day.

There have been 47 Charlie Chan movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese.

The formula for cold cream has hardly changed at all in the 1,700 years since it was originally made by the Roman physician Galen

"Mucophagy" is the medical term for "snot-eating," the consumption of the nasal mucus obtained from nose-picking.

There are about 10,000 parts in an average upright piano.

The term "skyscraper" was first used in 1888. It was used to describe an 11-story building.

Couples that marry in January, February or March have the highest divorce rate.

In some parts of Thailand, the organs of dogs are used to make drum tops.

"Genophobia" is the fear of sex.

The U.S. has more laws governing sexual behavior than all the countries in Europe combined.

In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.

The martini was first made in 1862.

The Roman emperor Nero would dress up young boys in his dead wife's clothes and make love to them.

Seventy people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Married men in France use more cosmetics than their wives.

Ninety percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right. No one knows why.

The final words of H.G. Wells were, "Go away. I'm all right."

Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.

Adults average just one nightmare a year.

King Mongut of Siam had 9,000 wives. Before dying of syphilis, he was quoted as saying he only loved the first 700.

America exports 25 times more movies than it imports.

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a Korean word meaning "capital."

Mr. T's real name is Lawrence Tureaud.

An "agalmatophiliac" is someone who has a fetish for statues or mannequins.

The average bra is designed to last for 180 days of use.

"Oculolinctus" is a fetish in which people are sexually aroused by licking a partner's eyeball.

President Lyndon Johnson nicknamed his penis "Jumbo."

The male gypsy moth can "smell" a virgin female gypsy moth almost two miles away.

Black women are 50 percent more likely than white women to have an orgasm during sex.

During an 18-year study at the Center for Marital and Sexual Studies, the most orgasms recorded during a one-hour period were 134 for a female and 16 for a male.

According to a study by Niagara Spray Starch, 46 percent of men and 34 percent of women do their ironing while naked.

In ancient Greece, young aristocratic women were deflowered by having their hymen pierced by a stone penis before marrying.

According to one study, 25 percent of Americans claim they would sleep with their boss.

There has never been a sex change operation performed in Ireland.

Ninety percent of movies released in the United States are porn films.
   

Ninety percent of movies released in the United States are porn films.

Studies show that the higher the level of education, the more men tend to have wet dreams.

According to Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.

What do Alan Alda, Prince William, Billy Idol, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Bill Cosby, Ron Howard and Jesse Jackson have in common? They're all uncircumcised.

A female orgasm has been determined to be a powerful painkiller.

Sixteen percent of people in Japan have had sex in a car, compared to 80 percent of Americans.

The vagina and the eye are self-cleaning organs.

A "frotteur" is a person who becomes sexually aroused by rubbing against strangers (often in crowds).

Seventy percent of Dutch women say their first sexual experience occurred while "under the influence."

The "s" shaped opening in a violin is called the "f-hole."

Eighty-two percent of the workers on the Panama Canal suffered from malaria.

Before American football players go onto the field, they put on about 13 pounds of protective clothing.

Every 10 to 13 seconds someone gets divorced.

"Parthenophobia" is the fear of virgins.

Edward III passed a law stopping people from eating more than two meals a day.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

Victoria Woodhall was the first woman to run for President of the U.S.—in 1872.

During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat.

Ninety percent of Irish women claim they have had sex outdoors. (The global average is 58 percent.)

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.
   

A recent study revealed that one-third of cats enjoy watching television.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Dustin Hoffman's fake breasts in Tootsie weighed four pounds.

Ninety percent of Americans describe themselves as shy.

Every year in France there is a "Thieves Fair" where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls.

The average piano has 230 strings.

One out of five pieces of the world's garbage is generated in the United States.

In circus parlance, a "Joey" is a clown with at least five years of experience.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag was sold at an auction for $6,600.

Alec Guinness' name was incorrectly spelled as "Guiness" in the opening credits of the award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai.

There are 1,943 names listed in the closing credits of The Matrix Reloaded.

A recent study found that one in 300 births in the U.S. occurs in a vehicle.

Americans spend more at strip clubs than at Broadway productions, regional theater productions and classical orchestra performances combined.

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.

At age 14, actor Tom Cruise enrolled in seminary school to become a priest. He dropped out at age 15.

Clocks made before 1687 had only one hand—an hour hand.

The average person walks 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.

Eighty percent of American men say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again. Fifty percent of women say they would marry the same man.

There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.

America once issued a five-cent bill.

In 1221, Genghis Khan killed 1,748,000 people at Nishapur in one hour.

Toy-breed dogs live an average of seven years longer than large breeds.

The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet long.
   

The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet long.

The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is "Quartzy."

The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.

If Charlie Brown were a real person, he would be four and a half feet tall. His head would take up two of those feet.

More steel in the U.S. is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.

Six percent of American men propose marriage by phone.

Reportedly, Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.

People have eaten 450 billion Oreo cookies since they were introduced in 1912.

The poorest country in the world is Mozambique. (Switzerland is the richest.)

Rembrandt died a poor man.

In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter "m."

Benjamin Franklin was America's first newspaper cartoonist.

The most common dog names in Russia are Ugoljok (Blackie) and Veterok (Breezy).

A recent survey found that 25 percent of Swedish women have had sex with more than 50 men.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
   

In America, 22 percent of all restaurant meals include French fries.

The most commonly used word in English conversation is "I."

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

A bowling pin needs to tilt only 7.5 degrees to fall.

The six official languages of the United Nations are English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Coconuts kill more people worldwide than sharks do. About 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

King Louis XIV bathed three times during his lifetime.

Elvis Presley's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."

Sixty-eight percent of teenage girls say if they could change just one part of their body, it would be their stomach.

Sharks can detect the heartbeats of other fish.

On average, each person uses 54 feet of dental floss each year.

Sixty-nine percent of Swedish women have participated in a threesome.

Forty percent of Americans say the theory of evolution is "probably not true."

The world's most popular car color is red.

A face-off in hockey used to be called a "puck-off," but was soon changed for obvious reasons.

The average person walks 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.

Toy-breed dogs live an average of seven years longer than large breeds.

The water we drink is three billion years old.

Americans spend more at strip clubs than at Broadway productions, regional theater productions and classical orchestra performances combined.

Four Popes have died while having sex.
   

The word "laser" stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation."

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

The little bumps on the surface of a table tennis paddle (or "racket") are called "pips."

Four Popes have died while having sex.

When a waitress draws a happy face on a check tips rise 18 percent. When a waiter does the same thing, tips rise three percent.

Only 30 percent of humans can flare their nostrils.

The first person to refer to a coward as a "chicken" was William Shakespeare.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.

Instead of wishing each other luck with the common theatrical phrase, "Break a leg," circus clowns say, "Bump a nose."

A recent survey showed 42 percent of Americans say they don't use the Internet.

The most common pub name in Britain is "The Red Lion."

The average reader can read 275 words per minute.

Flies take off backwards.

No one in the U.S. has died from SARS. In an average year, more than 3,500 people in the U.S. will die from the flu.

The average American consumes 1,500 pounds of food each year.

The original title of Annie Hall was Anhedonia.

Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in one race.

Nearly 50 percent of all bank robberies take place on Fridays.

A wild tiger is easier to train than one born in captivity.

The first footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater (now Mann's), were made by Norma Talmadge in 1927.

Women end up ingesting about half of the lipstick they apply.
   

Women end up ingesting about half of the lipstick they apply.

Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand and write with the other—at the same time.

New York was the first state to require license plates on cars.

Most dogs run an average of 19 miles per hour.

A "vamp" is the upper front top of a shoe.

About 845 languages are spoken in India.

The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

Thomas Edison had a collection of 5,000 birds.

Houdini trained his dog to escape from a pair of miniature handcuffs.

A moth has no stomach.

The Roman word for "secretary" meant "one who keeps a secret."

There is a mineral called cummingtonite.

The first recorded car theft was in 1896, just 10 years after the introduction of the gas-powered engine.

Scotland exports sand to Saudi Arabia.

A person weighing 150 pounds on Earth would weigh two tons on the sun.

A 16th century English law allowed men to beat their wives—but only before 10 p.m.

There are 898 steps in the Washington Monument.

It is estimated that there are nearly a half million sauna baths in Finland.

Parus caeruleus is the scientific name for the bird called the Blue Tit.

Every year, Americans dispose of 1.6 billion pens.

Around the world, nine Viagra tablets are dispensed every second.
   

Cats spend more than half of their lives asleep.

The average soldier of World War II was three-quarters of an inch taller than the average soldier of World War I.

There are 15,000 Hooters Girls working in 335 Hooters restaurants in 43 U.S. states and 10 countries.

Around the world, nine Viagra tablets are dispensed every second.

Sean Connery once worked as a coffin-polisher.

The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.

In 1976, a South American guppy became the first fish in space.

The Soma plant is thought to be sacred in India, and has over 100 hymns dedicated to it.

A dog can suffer from tonsillitis, but not appendicitis. They don't have an appendix.

Greyhounds have the keenest eyesight of any dog breed.

Dogs that reside in cities live about three years longer than dogs that live in the country.

In Brooklyn, N.Y., it's illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub.

A dog can't hear the lowest key on a piano.

Dog food is the most profitable food on the market. People spend four times as much on dog food as they do on baby food.

Every hour, 12,500 puppies are born in the United States.

Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.

The word for "dog" in the Australian aboriginal language Mbabaran happens to be "dog."

The first year of a dog's life is equal to 21 years of human life (the dog grows to adulthood.) Each additional year is equivalent to four human years.

Nose prints are the most reliable way to identify dogs.

The five most popular dog tricks in the U.S. are sit, shake (paw), roll over, speak and lie down.

Crab was the only named dog in any Shakespearean play. The play was Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Dogs like squeeze toys because they sound like animals in distress.
   

Dogs like squeeze toys because they sound like animals in distress.

A cat is more inclined to watch TV than a dog, claim the experts. (A cat relies more on vision, dogs rely more on smell.)

A U.N. survey revealed fewer British mailmen are bitten by dogs than postal carriers in any other nation.

Scientists insist that no dog has ever been bored.

Calling a puppy to punish it teaches the dog not to come when it's called. It's best to reward your dog by bringing it to you, and to punish it by sending it away.

There are one million stray dogs in the New York City metropolitan area.

There's a law in International Falls, Minnesota, that states it's illegal for cats to chase dogs up telephone poles in that city.