Amusing Facts - 13

Smokey the Bear has his own zip code. It's 20252.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a "frog."

The two most commonly sold items in grocery stores are breakfast cereals and soda.

The average resident of Nevada gambles $846 each year in casinos.

Sir Isaac Newton was born the same year Galileo died.

In an early draft of Star Wars, the character of Luke Skywalker was called Dirk Starkiller.

Of the 17,000 poems Emily Dickenson wrote, only seven were published during her lifetime.

Stalin loved Tarzan movies.

President James Monroe spent the last 50 years of his life with a bullet in his shoulder.

Twenty percent of all publications sold in Japan are comic books.

The Sun is at least 94% hydrogen.

The world's record for keeping a Lifesaver in the mouth with the hole intact is seven hours and 10 minutes.

More redheads are born in Scotland than other part of the world.

"Shambles" used to mean "slaughterhouse."

The average iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

Bill Gates gets four million e-mails each day, but only about 10 make it to his in-box because of his anti-spam software.

Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic.

Eighty percent of migraine sufferers are female.

When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

When antelopes become excited and leap vertically into the air, it is called "pronking."

The human tooth has about 55 miles of canals in it.

The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

The foreign city Americans visit most is Tijuana.

Leonardo da Vinci knew how to make a camera. However, he didn't know how to make the film.

There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.

The planet Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon.

The state of Florida is bigger than England.

When in the shower, 75% of people wash from top to bottom.

The average American has $104 in their wallet.

In poker, a pair of queens is also referred to as a "Siegfried & Roy."

Actor Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas.

The practice of misperceiving random shapes as specific things—such as when we see the face of Jesus on a tortilla, or animals amongst the clouds—is called "pareidolia."

"Dipsomania" refers to an insatiable craving for alcohol.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

According to the experts, December 23 is the most dangerous day of the year to drive.

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

The average American looks at eight houses before buying one.

The army controlled by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz were called the Winkies.

"Hoplophobia" is the fear of guns.