1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has
memorized all 158 verses.
4. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
5. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
6. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
7. There are more chickens than people in the world.
8. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
9. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
10. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
Building is an American flag.
11. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
12. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
13. "Dreamt" is the only word that ends in the letters "mt".
14. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill.
15. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
16. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.
17. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
18. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
19. 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."
20. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
21. An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
22. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
23. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
24. Al Capon's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
25. When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the
stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
26. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert
the Cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
27. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
28. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
29. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
30. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand
corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front
upper right-hand corner.
31. Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
32. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
33. Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme?  Paul Reiser himself.
34. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
35. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,
Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "OZ."
36. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
37. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
38. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
39. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
40. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
41. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

A couple of bonus facts.....

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer
to sleep on.  That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.

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

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans, 10-1.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.