The Simple Facts

• Did you know you share your birthday with atleast 9 other million people in the world?
  
  

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  

• When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginiastill had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
  
  
• The human heart creates enough pressure whenit pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
  
  

• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
  
  

• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  

• The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
  
  

• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  
  
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
  
  
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
  
• Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded historynot to have a full moon.
  
  
• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
  
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  
• Every time you lick a stamp,you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  
  
• Cat's urine glows under a black light. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
  
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
  
  
• Babies are born without knee caps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  
  
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
  
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
  
  

• One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers...they saw it as competition.
  
  
  

• You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
  

• There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.

• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
  is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  
  

• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
  
  

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing