Whether or not these are indeed 'facts' is for you to decide. If you care that much, and bother to check any of these out, you're sadder than we are.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

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

All polar bears are left handed.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

In Lebanon, people are allowed to have relations with animals, but the animals must be female.

In Bahrain, a male gynaecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, but only in tropical fish stores.

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than cars.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants or trousers.

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island in the Western Pacific.

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

John Wayne once won the dog 'Lassie' from its owner in a Poker game.

Telly Savalas and Tommy Lee both had mothers who won the Miss Greece beauty contest.

Steven Spielberg directed the first episode of Colombo.

The most common procedure conducted by US military surgeons during WW2, even during the height of fighting, was circumcision.

The longest ever recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

In the film 'Pearl Harbor', Kate Beckinsale is seen wearing a bikini - even though the bikini wasn't invented until 1946 (five years after the attack).

The most impossible item to flush down the toilet is a ping-pong ball

Twenty per cent of all the people in the history of mankind who have lived beyond the age of 65 are alive today.

There is no Albanian word for headache.

It is impossible for Pigs to look up to the sky.

There is a museum in America dedicated solely to spoons. 5,400 of them.

French fries originated in Belgium.

Italy's national flag was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.

At any given time there are 61,000 people airborne over America.

In ancient Greece, if a woman watched even a single Olympic event, she was put to death.

According to experts, there was no punctuation until the 15th century.

A rat can survive longer without water than a camel.

Cyrus the Great, King of Persia in the sixth century BC, knew the names of all the men in his army of four thousand troops.

Each year more people die from bee stings than from snake bites.

There is no single word in Arabic for a 'camel'.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond actually it is because people used to believe that a sneeze was to expel evil spirits from one's body .

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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