2. The original Monopoly game was circular.
3. It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Colombus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
4. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the English language.
5. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters in only one row of the keyboard.
6. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedeliophobia is the fear of long words.
7. A snail can sleep for three years.
8. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
9. The average person eats eight spiders at night in their lifetime.
10. More people are killed annually by donkeys than by plane crashes.
11. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
12. The continents all end in the same letter they start with.
13. In Tokyo, for trips less than fifty minutes, a bicycle is faster than a car.
14. Your body is creating and killing fifteen million red blood cells per second.
15. There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight residents.
16. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
17. Every day, twenty banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.
18. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
19. In Iceland, tipping a restaurant is considered an insult.
20. One car out of every 230 made was stolen in 2001.
21. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than three-thousand miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
22. Boeing 747s hold 57,285 gallons of fuel.
23. Shakespeare invented the words, "assassination" and "bump."
24. A giraffe can live without water longer than a camel can.
25. Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
26. Birds don't sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them but they really sleep in other places.
27. Most elephants weigh less than the tounge of a blue whale.
28. Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
29. Only female mosquitoes bite.
30. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
31. Ants stretch when they wake up.
32. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two-hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
33. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will continually bounce up and down from the bottom of the glass to the top.
34. "Dremt" is the only letter in the English language that ends in "mt."
35. The word "byte" is a contraction of "by eight."
36. The word "pixel" is a contraction of "picture cell."
37. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
38. All fifty states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of a $5 bill.
39. The symbol on the pound key (#) is called an octothorpe.
40. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.