60 intresting facts.

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   In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

The
increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in
the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be
located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast
of East Africa. 
The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Johnny
Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he
spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the
Toledo Post-Dispatch. 
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The
Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact
that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over. 
The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

Manatees
possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans,
but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying
more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the
sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly
Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex
condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons. 
Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The
sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who
held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would
instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players
to catch them. 
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

The
volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour
period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane
concrete freeway. 
King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because
printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the
Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under
the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely
high winds. 
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone
telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police
and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the
project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system. 
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven
out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a
game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five
out of ten. 
A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A
team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting
the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits
of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh
the negative social connotations. 
Among items left behind at
Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad
Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly
an avid reader. 
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due
to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a
blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms. 
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries
ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs
amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid
repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an
arm and a leg." 
When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola
was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his
tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe
used today. 
If you part your hair on
the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the
left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian. 
When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In
WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the
form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models'
turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple
shortage due to rationing of metal. 
Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It
is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to
Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo. 
The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The
original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by
German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the
ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were
actually based on those of Eva Braun. 
The Venezuelan brown bat
can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving
safely back at his cave completely dry. 