A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.
A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density..
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
All babies are color blind when they are born.
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ''Crash Course''.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
Canada is an Indian word meaning ''Big Village''.
Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people''s clothes.
Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world''s first billionaire.
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry..
