Daily Facts

In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

Two-thirds of the world`s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.  

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

Spain leads the world in cork production

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen.

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

One in eight million people has progeria, a disease that causes people to grow faster than they age.

Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The Black Widow spider eats her mate during or after sex.

The amount of computer Memory required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.