Stuff Facts

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
• Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
• Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
• In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
• About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? LOL :)
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.
• An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
• The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.
• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
• A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
• Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
• Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
• Bubble gum contains rubber.
• You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
• Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
• The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
• Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
• Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
• The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
• Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
• In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
• A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
• About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
• It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
• Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
• Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
• There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
• Mosquitoes have teeth.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." (big surprise, eh?)
• In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
• Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
• Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)