| 1 | Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer. | |
| 2 | 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. | | | |
| 3 | 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. | | | |
| 4 | On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. | |
| 5 | Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. | |
| 6 | Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine. | |
| 7 | Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. | |
| 8 | Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. | |
| 9 | There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. | |
| 10 | Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. | |
| 11 | Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. | |
| 12 | The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"! | |
| 13 | By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. | |
| 14 | Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. | |
| 15 | Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. | |
| 16 | The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. | |
| 17 | Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. | |
| 18 | Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. | |
| 19 | Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. | |
| 20 | The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. | |
| 21 | To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. | |
| 22 | The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. | |
| 23 | The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp. | |
| 24 | The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. | |
| 25 | Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. | |
| 26 | The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. | |
| 27 | Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT". | |
| 28 | It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. | |
| 29 | In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off". | |
| 30 | A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.. | |
| 31 | We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime. | |
| 32 | Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines | |
| 33 | Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year. | |
| 34 | Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. | |
| 35 | Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans. | |
| 36 | When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka | |
| 37 | There are more chickens than people in the world. | |
| 38 | The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest. | |
| 39 | There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. . | |
| 40 | The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. | |
| 41 | The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning. | |
| 42 | The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. | |
| 43 | The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer. | |
| 44 | Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. | |
| 45 | The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. | |
| 46 | Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing. | |
| 47 | You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. | |
| 48 | A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks. | |
| 49 | Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. | |
| 50 | The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. | |
| 51 | When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. | |
| 52 | Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf. | |
| 53 | A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded | |
| 54 | "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language | |
| 55 | Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself." | |
| 56 | Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. | |
| 57 | "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. | |
| 58 | Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do. | |
| 59 | The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language. | |
| 60 | If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction | |
| 61 | China has more English speakers than the United States | |
| 62 | Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. | |
| 63 | Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. | |
| 64 | An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day. | |
| 65 | Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies. | |
| 66 | Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime. | |
| 67 | According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg. | |
| 68 | The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill. | |
| 69 | If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day. | |
| 70 | Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building. | |
| 71 | Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times. | |
| 72 | More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.. | |
| 73 | Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better. | |
| 74 | Coca-Cola was originally green. | |
| 75 | The most common name in the world is Mohammed. | |
| 76 | The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. | |
| 77 | There are two credit cards for every person in the United States | |
| 78 | TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. | |
| 79 | Women blink nearly twice as much as men!! | |
| 80 | You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. | |
| 81 | It is impossible to lick your elbow. | |
| 82 | People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Also,it was believed in olden times that the sneeze expelled an evil spirit. | |
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