1. There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.
2. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
3. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache in a deck of standard playing cards.
4. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
5. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.
6. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them.
7. Every day, 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.
8. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
9. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
10. One car out of every 230 made last year was stolen.
11. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.
12. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
13. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel.
14. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
15. The Philadelphia Mint produces 26 million pennies per day.
16. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
17. It is estimated that four million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine, are made every day in the United States.
18. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
19. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
20. It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
21. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
22. No piece of square, dry paper can be folded more than seven times in half.
23. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle. A group of geese in the air is a skein.
24. Over 2,500 left-handed people a year are killed from using products made for right-handed people.
25. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
26. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
27. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
28. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
29. Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
30. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
31. Porcupines float in water.
32. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye."
33. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
34. The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
35. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
36. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
37. The world's termite population outweighs the world's human population 10 to 1.
38. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
39. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, except for the windmills in Ireland.
40. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
41. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
42. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four-foot tall child inside.
43. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge; a dime has one less groove.
44. Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.
45. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).
46. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off—it dies from starvation.
47. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
48. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
49. One in every four Americans has appeared on television.
50. The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
51. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
52. Human thighbones are stronger than most concrete.
53. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
54. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
55. There are more than one million animal species on Earth.
56. In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
57. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
58. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
59. Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
60. Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
61. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
62. The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
63. Of all the words in the English language, the word “set” has the most definitions.
64. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
65. The opposite sides of two dice cubes always add up to seven.
66. Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
67. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
68. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
69. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
70. There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
71. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
72. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.