Facts That You Probably Never Need to Know

If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. (Girl Power?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, titled 'Gadsby' whose 267 pages, did not contain a single letter "e."

There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

Blue and white are the most common school colors.

On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart!

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.

Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.