The average life span of a hermit crab is 75 years!
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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
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The state with the longest coastline in the Continental U.S. is Michigan.
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The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
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Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.
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A single second of video tape contains about 22 megabytes of data, the very rough equivalent of about thirty copies of a 200 page book.
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SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
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Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Lifshitz.
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The first song played on Virgin Radio was Born to be wild by INXS!
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The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's 'Walk of Fame'.
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Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.
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The glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
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The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.
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Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
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Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated.
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School
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The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
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Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
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Radio code Wilco (as in Roger Wilco) is short for Will Comply!
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Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.
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The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.
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The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on earth.
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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.
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Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
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