THE SIMPLE FACTS

·  Did you know you share your birthday with at least 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 Virginia still had  segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

·   The human heart creates enough pressure when it 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 history not 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