Facts ...

Some interesting and unusual facts :

• More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
• Penguins are not found in the North Pole
• People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
• A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
• Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
• Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art studio.
• About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
• Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf .
• Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
• Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.
• "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
• "Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
• "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
• 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• 80% of animals on earth are insects.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand
• t takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
• A beaver's teeth never stop growing.
• A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
• A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
• A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
• A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.
• A fish's memory span is 3 seconds.