Random Info/Facts:

*If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

*In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

*Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

*China has more English speakers than the United States.

*The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

*Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

*A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

*There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

*Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

*If a statue in the park 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.

*Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

*If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

*You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.

*The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

*The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

*On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

*In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.

*The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.

*203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

*Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, NY.

*The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

*If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.

*Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived by author Robert May in 1939. Two other names he thought of before deciding on Rudolph were Reginald and Rollo.

*According to Scientific American magazine: if you live in the northern hemisphere, odds are that every time you fill your lungs with air at least one molecule of that air once passed thru Socrates lungs.

*Left-handed people are statistically more likely to be geniuses, and to be insane. Left-handedness is more common among writers and some kinds of artists. But lefties tend to be more accident-prone and on average don't live as long.

*A lead pencil is good for about 50,000 words.

*It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.

*According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

*If you need to dial the telephone and your dial is disabled, you can tap the button in the cradle. If, for example, you need to dial 911, you can tap the button 9 times, then pause, then tap once, then again.

*A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.

*Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned.

*What can you tell about an interstate highway from its number? If it's an odd-number, it's a north-south route. Even-numbered Interstates run east-west. A three-digit number beginning with an even-number is a beltway while a three-digit number beginning with an odd-number is a bypass or spur.

*By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

*The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

*The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before.

*Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

*A snail can sleep for three years.

*Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

*On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

*All polar bears are left handed.