Ø      The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.

Ø      The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets.

Ø      The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair.

Ø      The height of the Eiffel Tower varies as much as six inches depending on the temperature.

Ø      The Leaning Tower of Pisa is predicted to topple over between 2010 and 2020.

Ø      The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

Ø      Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.

Ø      H2O expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts, displacing the exact same amount of fluid in either state. So if the northern ice cap did melt, it would cause absolutely no raise in the level of the ocean.   Except for the fact that the ice may be resting on top of land and if it melts off of the land and into the water, then the water level would raise worldwide! 
                                     

Ø      Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.

Ø      In a typical restaurant, customers receive 27 cents worth of food for each dollar they spend.

Ø      Percentage of Americans that eat at McDonalds each day: 7

Ø      The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.

Ø      Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.

Ø      The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana.

Ø      Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits.

Ø      Eating raw onions are good for unblocking a stuffed nose.

Ø      40% of McDonald's profits come from the sale of Happy Meals.

Ø      400 quarter-pounders can be made out of one cow.

Ø      A bowl of Wheaties contains twice the amount of sodium as a bowl of potato chips.

Ø      A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.  Yum!

Ø      A chili pepper isn't a pepper. In fact, more than two hundred kinds of chili peppers aren't peppers.

Ø      A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

Ø      Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

   Ø      Bubble gum is made of rubber.

Ø      Coca-Cola owns the world's second largest truck fleet.

Ø      Coca-Cola was originally green.

Ø      Did you know there are coffee flavored PEZ?

Ø      Diet Coke was not invented until 1983.

Ø      Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.

Ø      Five jello flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple and chocolate.

Ø      Fried chicken is the most popular meal ordered in sit-down restaurants in the U.S.

   Ø      Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures.

Ø      In Australia, the number 1 topping for pizza is eggs. In Chile, the favorite topping is mussels and clams. In the United States, it's pepperoni.

Ø      It takes about 142 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop.

Ø      Jelly Belly jellybeans were the first jellybeans in outer space when they went up with astronauts in the June 21, 1983 voyage of the space shuttle Challenger.

Ø      Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.

Ø      M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars Sr., the candymaker and his associate Bruce Murrie.

Ø      Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva inside the bean.

Ø      One of the ingredients in ice cream is seaweed.

Ø      Only 5% of salt produced end up on the dinner table. The rest is used for packing meat, building roads, feeding livestock, tanning leather, and manufacturing glass, soap, ash and washing compounds.