Ø      Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.

Ø      Salt is the only rock humans can eat.

Ø      Table salt is the only commodity that hasn't risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.

Ø      The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

Ø      The average person consumes about 135 pounds of sugar per year.

Ø      The average person drinks 800 gallons of water during their lifetime.

Ø      The color of a chile is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.

Ø      The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.

Ø      The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in an emergency.

Ø      The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.

Ø      There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.

Ø      There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

Ø      There are only two people in the world that know the secret recipe for Coca-Cola.

Ø      Vanilla is used to make chocolate.

Ø      Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.

Ø      You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.

Ø      3,000 teens start smoking a day.

Ø      40% of all Americans are overweight; 15% are considered to be obese.

Ø      40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Ø      50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells all while you have been reading this sentence.

Ø      67.5% of men wear briefs instead of boxers.

Ø      75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.

Ø      80% of all body heat escapes through the head.

Ø      85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

Ø      A lifetime supply of all the vitamins you need weighs only about eight ounces.

Ø      A newborn baby breathes five times faster than an adult man.

Ø      A noisy restaurant is 100,000 times as loud as a watch ticking. Rock concert is 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000. Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000.

Ø      A pack-a-day smoker will lose approx. 2 teeth every ten years.

Ø      A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, a definite taste sensation results.

Ø      A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Ø      A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.

Ø      About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.

Ø      According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

Ø      Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.