* A sneeze can travel as fast as 100 miles per hour! It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time!

* A woman's heart beats faster than a man's heart!

* If you are right-handed, your right fingernails grow faster! The middle fingernail grows faster than any other nail on the hand!

* The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!

* 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' was the first novel to be written on a typewriter!

* The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

* The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

* It took 36 years for Noah Webster to write 'Webster's Dictionary'!

* The ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

* If you started counting the moment you were born, and continued counting without stopping until you were 65 years old, you still would not be up to a billion yet! If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! If a trillion dollar bills were stacked one on top of the other, the stack would be twice as high as Mt. Everest! If you layed down a trillion dollars end to end, it would circle the earth 3,882 times!

* There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!

* Dry ice does not melt... it evaporates!

* A whip does not make a cracking sound because it hits something... it does because the tip of the whip is traveling faster than the speed of sound (760 miles per hour)!

* James Madison was the shortest president of the United States, 5'4... Abraham Lincoln was the tallest, 6'4.

* James Buchanan was the only United States president to never marry. His niece, Harriet Lane, played the role of the First Lady!

* Humans are the only animals that cry! Babe Ruth holds the world record for being struck out in baseball!

* A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

* The number of automobile accidents in the United States has been lowering since 1969! Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States! There is a motor-vehicle accident every 18 seconds in the United States!

* 97% of the world's water is in the ocean!

* The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

* Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!

* It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon!

* There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

* It is possible for a baby to get the hiccups, while still in mommy's tummy!

* For the first 2 billion years of its existence, the earth had no life on it whatsoever! Each seed of the palm tree weighs 30 pounds! It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

*President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.

*Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.

* Soccer legend Pele's real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.

* The average person swallows three spiders annually.

* Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

* Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

* Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

* 7'1" basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8". \

* Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.

* Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button.

* Genghis Khan started out as a goatherd.

* Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

* Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.

* Napoleon Bonaparte was afraid of cats.

* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

* All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.

* Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

* Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.

* Anne Boleyn (Queen Elizabeth I's mother) had three breasts.

* Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.

* Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

* A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

* A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

* A duck's quack doesn't echo.1

* A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head

* A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

* A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

* Camel's milk does not curdle

* Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

* Cats urine glows under a black light.

* Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.

* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

* An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

* Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

* The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

* All porcupines float in water.

* Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

* There are more chickens than people in the world.

* Humans, dolphins, and pygmy monkeys are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

* Butterflies taste with their feet.

* Polar bears are left-handed.

* The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

* It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

* The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans. So much that they could be confused at a crime scene.

* The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat

* A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

* A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least twenty minutes to stop.

* Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.

* The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight.

* 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

* The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

* The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

* The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.