Most Interesting Facts...

1. More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
2. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
3. A dentist invented the electric chair.
4. Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for the Montogomery Wards department stores.
5. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (So SAD!!! *sniff sniff*)
6. The tip of a whip moves faster than the speed of sound - which is what makes the cracking sound. (Simply fascinating!)
7. Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watch mice play in a garage where he works because he could not afford to rent an art studio. (I would say 'Poor Walt' but then, it's because of that that THE MOUSE lives!)
8. About a hundred people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year. (This makes me think twice before chewing on the end of a ballpoint pen...)
9. The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of". (The things you learn!)
10. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes. (...*SNORT*)
11. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks. (Now there's a new meaning to the word "fishlips". Ugh.)
12. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (a variety of the marijuana plant) paper. (Whoa.)
13. On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs. (Yumm!!! *slurp*)
14. "A motion to table a motion to reconsider a vote to table an appeal of a ruling that a point of order was not in order against a motion to table another point of order against a motion to bring a vote the motion to call up the resolution that would institute a rules change." (I never did like politics and now I don't like it even more.)
15. "Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, La Allah II Allah, La Allah II Allah U Mohammed Rassul Allah" is heard by more people than any other sound of the human voice. This is a prayer recited by the muezzins from each of the four corners of the prayer tower as Moslems all over the world face toward Mecca and kneel at sunset. (Well, that is quite interesting. Especially since I never heard it before in my life.)
16. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. (So is the Simpson's Duff beer made from decaying organic matter found on a forest floor? ...Disturbing.)
17. "One thousand contains the letter A but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nince has an A.
18. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
19. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
20. One in five thousand Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
21. One kilogram (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than one kilogram of strawberries.
22. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wires are strung across the United States.
23. 1.7 liters of saliva are produces each day; according to the Discovery Channel, a quart is produced each day.
24. Ten percent of human dry weight comes from bacteria.
25. 123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
26. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
27. 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
28. Twenty-five percent of a human's bones are in its feet.
29. 259,200 people die every day.
30. Twenty-seven percent of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
31. Twenty-seven percent of United States male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell." (haha.. you can count me in - sometimes! Othertimes, life's a meaningless existential heaven!)
32. Three hundred fifteen entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. (*gasp*)
33. Four tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
34. Forty percent of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet. (Why? They want some Advil? They could've asked.)
35. Forty percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
36. Forty-eight percent of astronauts experience motion sickness. (LOL.. I wonder how long they stay sick!)
37. Forty-three point seven percent of all statistics are made up right on the spot. (I wonder if these were...)
38. BONUS: By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. (I totally have that down!)