The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
China has more English speakers than the United States.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
A recent study (2001) found that two-thirds of Russian men die drunk, and that more than half of that number die in extreme stage of alcoholic intoxication.
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
In the developed countries of the world, about 28 million pregnancies occur each year. Half (50%) of them are unplanned, and 36% of them end in abortions.
A majority of American presidents have been 33rd degree Masons.
In Great Britain, the most dangerous sport is gardening!! One in five of ALL accidents there occurs in the garden, and in 2002, almost 64,000 English citizens required hospital treatment because of gardening mishaps.
The male foreskin, removed during circumcision, is made of a very special kind of skin cell that can divide many more times than normal cells. From one foreskin, enough new skin can be grown to cover 6 American sized football fields.
Adolf Hitler opened the Volkswagon factory.
Aaron Burr became the first vice president of the United States to be arrested; he was charged with treason for planning an expedition to invade Mexico for no valid reason.
A recent study found out that the scent of hot pumpkin pie was the #1 stimulator of blood flow to the penis in American men, followed by cinnamon buns fresh out of the oven with vanilla coming in a close third. For women the effect of scent was less pronounced, but pickles combined with licorice seemed to do the trick for some - even when they weren't "with child"
Arctic squirrels can be frozen alive with no ill effecta.
Until the 16th century, carrots were black, green, red and purple - until a Dutch horticulturist discovered some mutant yellow seeds that produced a freaky orange color that caught on big, worldwide.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The annual harvest of an entire coffee tree is required to make one pound of ground coffee.
According to Aristotle, the brain's primary purpose was to cool the blood.
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
Nicaragua had 396 different rulers between 1839 and 1855, their average reign lasting less than 15 days.
Prior to World War II, when guards were posted at the fence, anyone could wander right up to the front door of the U.S. President's residence, the White House.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000 pound brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
Payment for English trial lawyers is considered an honorarium -- so there is no legal obligation for clients to pay them.
The fastest temperature change on record is a rise of 49 degrees Fahrenheit in two minutes, from -4 degrees F to 45 degrees F. It happened in Spearfish, South Dakota, U.S.
The Egyptians trained baboons to wait on tables. We now use unemployed actors for this task.
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea, off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.
If the world's total land area was divided equally among the world's people, each person would get 8.5 hectares, about 21 acres. [Yikes! I'm not taking up enough SPACE damnit, I need more land! :-)]
