* Toothpicks are the objects "most choked on" by Americans.
* The longest word typed entirely with the left hand is "stewardesses".
* If you push your thumbs into the eyes of a crocodile that has you in its grip, it will let you go instantly.
* Reindeer like to eat bananas.
* England's "Speaker of the House" is not allowed to speak.
* If the statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
* The man who did the Bugs Bunny voice (Mel Blanc) was allergic to carrots.
* If a cat falls from the seventh floor of a building, it has a 30% less chance of living than a cat falling from the twentieth floor because it takes a cat at least eight floors to ready itself for landing.
* Coca Cola was originally green.
* Coconuts kill more people each year than sharks do.
* Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.
* Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump".
* While counting, the first number the letter A appears in is "one thousand".
* Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
* You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider.
* The average chocolate bar has eight insects' legs in it.
* Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* The spots on dice are arranged so that every two opposite sides total to seven.
* Apples in the morning keep people awake better than caffeine does.
* The average person spends a total of three months of their life stopped at a red light.
* On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
* All the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
* A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
* In 1946, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato head.
* The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
* The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.
* There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.
* Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
* On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
* Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished and corroded brass.
* Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
* It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
* Most toilets flush in E flat.
* In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.
