50+ THINGS THAT YOU PROBABLY DID NOT NEED TO KNOW

 1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the
    first time are teenagers.
 2. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
 3. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His
    parents thought he might be retarded.
 4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are
    automobiles.
 5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're
    still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? :))
 6. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than
    in any other weather.
 7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
 8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people
    who have recently eaten bananas.
 9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
 10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at
     night.
 11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
 12. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the
     early 1500's.
 13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by
     Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
 14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband
     doesn't give her coffee.
 15. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. (and look
     what good it did them!)
 16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he
     doesn't wear pants.
 17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
 18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no
     telephones - Bhutan.
 19. Every person has a unique tongue print.
 20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
     (Is this true for left-handed people?)
 21. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
 22. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry
     pictures of the pets in their wallets.
 23. Bubble gum contains rubber.
 24. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
 25. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
 26. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her
     hands in Jello.
 27. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for
     several weeks.
 28. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
 29. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number
     of people.
 30. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice
     water over his head.
 31. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay
     the bills.
 32. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette
     in South Bend, Indiana.
 33. About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to
     make more money.
 34. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in
     Kansas.
 35. Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
 36. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
 37. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much
     as President Bush in 1991.
 38. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island
     nation in the Western Pacific.
 39. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
 40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
 41. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600
     in 1992.
 42. Mosquitoes have teeth.
 43. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
 44. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
 45. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ,
     Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
 46. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other
     for food.
 47. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
 48. 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is "a
     meaningless existential hell."
 49. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting
     on when patients would die.
 50. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name
     meant "plenty of excrement."
 51. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light
     bulb?)
 52. There is an epidemic in your left nostril RIGHT NOW.