A citizen of Calcutta, India , grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.