• Sent out on date 8/17/03
  1. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.  
  2. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.  
  3. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.  
  4. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.  
  5. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.  
  6. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.  
  7. Babies are born without knee caps.   They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.  
  8. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.   They were 7th cousins.  
  9. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.  
  10. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.  
  11. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".  
  12. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.  
  13. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.   They are reused in vein transplant surgery.  
  14. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.  
  15. Only seven ( 7 ) per cent of the population are lefties.  
  16. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being in doors a lot more.  
  17. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.  
  18. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.  
  19. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.  
  20. The average housefly lives for one month.  
  21. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.  
  22. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.  
  23. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.  
  24. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.  
  25. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!  
  26. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.  
  
  
• Sent out on date 8/24/03
  1. 'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.  
  2. A spider's silk is stronger than steel.  
  3. Check your map!   Virginia extends farther west than West Virginia.  
  4. Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do.  
  5. Frogs can't drink.  
  6. Gloucestershire Airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.  
  7. Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.  
  8. Hot water weighs more than cold water.  
  9. In England, a cigarette is called a 'Fag'.  
  10. In almost all countries, first cousin marriages are legal!  
  11. In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange."
  12. In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.  
  13. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.  
  14. It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.  
  15. Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over three thousand dollars on Ebay.  
  16. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.  
  17. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.  
  18. On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.  
  19. Only female bees work.  
  20. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.  
  21. Rubber is one of the ingredients in bubble gum.  
  22. Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.  
  23. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.  
  24. Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.  
  25. When mixed with air, Non-dairy creamer is flammable!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 9/1/03
  1. A Kellogs Cornflakes Box contains more nutrients than the cornflakes themselves.  
  2. A jumbo jet uses over 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.  
  3. A redwood tree can expel more than 2 tons of water a day through its leaves.  
  4. Adolf Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.  
  5. An intoxicated ant will always fall on its right side!  
  6. At one golf course in North Carolina, you can rent a llama to be your caddy.  
  7. Check your map!   Las Vegas, NV is farther west than Los Angeles, Ca.  
  8. Contrary to popular belief, lightning strikes from the ground upwards, not from the sky downwards!  
  9. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!  
  10. If you place a t-bone steak into a bowl of Coca-Cola syrup, it will completely dissolve in 2 – 3 days!.  
  11. In England, corn means wheat!  
  12. It is impossible to lick your elbow.  
  13. Most lipstick contains fish scales!  
  14. Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.  
  15. People in parts of Western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar!  
  16. Technically speaking, crystal is a liquid not a solid.  
  17. The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.  
  18. The Mayflower only held 102 people.  
  19. The country of India produces more movies than any other country.  
  20. The country of Nauru's economy is almost entirely based on bird poop.  
  21. The sting from a 'killer' bee contains less venom than the sting from a 'regular' bee.  
  22. While sitting in your chair, continuously move your right foot in clockwise circles.   While doing this, draw the number '6' with your right hand.   Your foot will change direction!!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 9/7/03
  1. "Acrotomophilia" is the sexual attraction to amputees.  
  2. A hamburger bun is called a 'bap' in England!  
  3. A woman's sense of smell is most acute during ovulation.  
  4. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.  
  5. Female canaries cannot sing.  
  6. Frogs jump.   Toads walk.  
  7. Hong Kong is Chinese for "fragrant harbor."
  8. It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.  
  9. Ketchup was sold in the 1800's as a medicine!  
  10. Lemons have more sugar than strawberries!  
  11. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other.  
  12. No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than a second!  
  13. One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.  
  14. Seventy-five percent of Japanese women own vibrators.   The global average is 47 percent.  
  15. The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875!  
  16. The creator of the Waffle Iron did not actually like waffles.  
  17. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.  
  18. The most common speed limit in the U.S. is 25 m.p.h.  
  19. The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.  
  20. The state of Florida is bigger than England.  
  21. Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 9/15/03
  1. A cigarette is called a 'fag' in England!  
  2. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.  
  3. An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet!  
  4. Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.  
  5. Human birth control pills also work on gorillas.  
  6. In 1910 a football team was penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.  
  7. In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.  
  8. In Nepal, cow dung is used for medicinal purposes.  
  9. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.  
  10. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.  
  11. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.  
  12. Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.  
  13. Panophobia is the fear of everything.  
  14. Plants tend to grow healthier when they are stroked.  
  15. Rain contains vitamin B12.  
  16. The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.  
  17. The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.  
  18. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.  
  19. The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.  
  20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.  
  21. Volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some tooth pastes.  
  22. When intoxicated, an ant will always fall on its right side.  
  
  
• Sent out on date 10/27/03
  1. 1 out of every 11 workers in North Carolina depends on tobacco for their livelihood!  
  2. Each day, more than $40 Trillion changes hands worldwide!  
  3. Nearly 1/3 of Taiwanese funerals have a stripper!  
  4. Spanish Fly, the popular aphrodisiac, is made from dried beetle remains!  
  5. There are at least 50 nuclear bombs that have been lost at sea!  
  6. Tom Cruise's original last name is Mapother!  
  7. WAL-MART makes about $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 11/10/03
  1. A man's beard grows fastest when he is anticipating sex!  
  2. Acrotomophilia is a sexual attraction to amputees.  
  3. Dr. Who? There are at least 10 doctors in the U.S. with the last name of 'Nurse'!  
  4. In Utah, birds have the 'right of way' on all highways!  
  5. In the U.S., the error rate for doctors prescribing the wrong medicine for their patient's ailment is 12%!!  
  6. Only one-fifth of air is oxygen.   Most of the rest is nitrogen.  
  7. Play-doh was first invented as a wallpaper cleaner.  
  8. Shark litters can have more than one father.   In some litters, the babies may have 3 or 4 different fathers between them!  
  9. Sicily was not part of Italy until after WWII.  
  10. Termites are affected by music.   They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 11/24/03
  1. 28.1% of people pee in the pool!  
  2. 4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.  
  3. A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!  
  4. A group of officers is called a 'mess'.  
  5. An iguana has two penises.  
  6. At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet!  
  7. By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.  
  8. Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons.  
  9. During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.  
  10. If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.  
  11. If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake!  
  12. In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription!  
  13. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.  
  14. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.  
  15. It is possible to mate a lion with a tiger, producing cubs known as 'Ligers'!  
  16. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs!  
  17. Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.  
  18. Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.  
  19. The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.  
  20. The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.  
  21. The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.  
  22. The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.  
  23. There are 18 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!  
  24. You spend about three years of your life on a toilet!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 12/1/03
  1. 55% of the world's milk drinkers drink goat's milk!  
  2. A beer can fancier is called a 'canologist'.  
  3. A year on the planet Jupiter is 12 times longer than a year on Earth!  
  4. Actor Sean Connery was once Scotland's 'Mr. Universe'!  
  5. Children have more tastebuds than adults do!  
  6. Cows give more milk when they listen to music!  
  7. Every 7 years, your body grows the equivalent of a new skeleton!  
  8. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept a collection of pornography locked in his desk!  
  9. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.  
  10. If a man's tie is too tight, his vision gets worse!  
  11. In 1955, a book was returned to the Cambridge University library that was 288 years overdue!  
  12. Most avalanches travel downhill at a rate of 22 m.p.h.  
  13. Most engaged couples who break up do so between 9 p.m. and midnight.  
  14. Most of the villains in the Bible have red hair.  
  15. Only about 5% of people dream in color!  
  16. Pierre Michelin, inventor of super-safe Michelin Tires, died in a car accident.  
  17. Polar bears can smell a human from 20 miles away.  
  18. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long!  
  19. The White House was known as the White House even before it was painted white!  
  20. The worst day for car accidents is Saturday!  
  21. There isn't any sand in sandpaper!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 12/8/03
  1. 2 out of 3 adults in the United States have hemorrhoids.  
  2. 7 times as many men as women are killed by lightning in the U.S.!  
  3. A baby oyster is called a "spat".  
  4. A healthy pig can run a mile in 7.5 minutes!  
  5. Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.  
  6. Chopsticks are known as 'quick little fellows' in China.  
  7. Drivers kill more deer than hunters!  
  8. Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.  
  9. Henry Ford, father of the automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquet!  
  10. Hollywood Fashion Tip: wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.  
  11. If you could drive your car straight up in the air, you would reach space in about an hour.  
  12. If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones go to the top.  
  13. If you're normal, you can guess someone's sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath!  
  14. In Florida, It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.  
  15. Iron weighs more after it rusts.  
  16. It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.  
  17. It takes about a week to make a jellybean!  
  18. Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker!  
  19. Los Angeles has more judges than all of France!  
  20. Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.  
  21. No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.  
  22. One in three snakebite victims is drunk.   One in five is tattooed!  
  23. Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste, is made from recycled tin.  
  24. Take your height and divide by eight.   That's how tall your head is!  
  25. Women in Switzerland did not win the right to vote until 1971!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 12/15/03
  1. 'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth!  
  2. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts!  
  3. 35% of the people using personal ads for dating are already married.  
  4. All male snakes and lizards have two penises.  
  5. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.  
  6. At horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time!  
  7. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ!  
  8. Cannibalism is NOT illegal in Germany!  
  9. Drew Carry once worked at a Denny's!  
  10. If you put a raisin in a fresh glass of champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.  
  11. In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts!  
  12. Kilts are not native to Scotland.   They originated in France.  
  13. More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies!  
  14. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour!  
  15. The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964!  
  16. The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon!  
  17. The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.  
  18. Tipping at a restaurant in Iceland is considered an insult!  
  19. Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum!  
  20. When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 12/22/03
  1. "Wild Bill" Hickock had a brother.   His nickname was "Tame Bill."
  2. A horse expends more energy lying down than it does standing up.  
  3. Artichokes are flowers.  
  4. Before Columbus no Native American had type B blood!  
  5. Emergency rooms treat twice as many left-handed people for accidents as right handed people.  
  6. George Washington was named after England's King George!  
  7. Hippos exude red sweat when they are hot, excited, or in pain!  
  8. Hummingbirds can fly 500 miles without stopping!  
  9. It takes a drop of ocean water more than 1,000 years to circulate around the world.  
  10. Liquid TIDE glows under a blacklight.  
  11. Most burglaries occur during the winter.  
  12. The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas Carols!  
  13. The Statue of Liberty's fingernails each weigh 100 pounds!  
  14. The Wright Brothers built their first airplane for less than $1,000.  
  15. The earth's population has more than doubled since 1950.  
  16. The snowiest city in the U.S. is in California!  
  17. The word 'Mrs.' Cannot be written in full.  
  18. There are no turkeys in Turkey.  
  19. Tornados can last as long as nine hours.  
  20. Worth the risk? The average take from a bank robbery is only $3,000.  
  21. You can lose up to 1/3 of your blood and still survive!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 1/5/04
  1. Americans will eat at least 90 acres of pizza today!  
  2. An Australian earthworm can easily grow to over 10 feet long and almost a whole inch thick!  
  3. Armadillos can get leprosy.  
  4. For every gallon of sea water, you get at least a quarter pound of salt.  
  5. It's illegal to stare at the mayor of Paris!  
  6. Men are proportionately stronger than horses!  
  7. People in nudist colonies play volleyball more often than any other sport!  
  8. The earth's crust is 47% oxygen, while the air we breathe is only 21% oxygen!  
  9. The most popular Campbell's soup in Hong Kong is 'Watercress and Duck Gizzard'.  
  10. This year, more than 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers!  
  11. Thomas Jefferson was the first U.S. President to greet people with a handshake.   Earlier Presidents bowed!  
  12. Your skin is actually an organ!  
  
  
• Sent out on date 1/20/04
  1. 40% of the American population has never visited a dentist..
  2. All U.S. Presidents elected after 1997 will only receive Secret Service protection for 10 years after leaving office!
  3. Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, brown eyes the least sensitive!
  4. Car airbags kill one person for every 22 that they save.
  5. Carnauba Wax is commonly used as a surface finishing agent in fresh fruits, chewing gum, juices, and candy!
  
  
• Sent out on date 1/27/04
  1. Eggs are the most popular pizza topping in Australia!
  2. Natural gas, itself, has no smell!
  3. Sheep can survive up to two weeks buried in snow drifts!
  4. Singapore's main sewage plant is promoted as one of its main tourist attractions!
  5. The African Elephant can't be tamed. Only the Indian Elephant can be trained by man!
  6. The famous aphrodisiac, Spanish Fly, is made from dried beetles!
  7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  
  

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