Amusing Facts - 5

A curveball can curve up to 18 inches.

Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.

The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy.

Sweden has more telephones per capita than any country on Earth.

The word "ejaculation" comes from the Latin word meaning "throwing out."

According to U.S. law, a beer commercial can never actually show a person drinking beer.

The world's most endangered cetacean is the Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin.

The two highest IQs ever recorded on a standard test both belong to women.

A professional dancer will go through 20 or more "pointe" shoes in the course of one season of a ballet.

Benjamin Franklin invented crop insurance.

It costs about three cents to make a U.S. one-dollar bill.

Many hospitals make money by selling umbilical cords taken after patients give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his or her lifetime.

In Hawaii, the wind blows east to west.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, it's against the law to lasso a fish.

The dog equivalent of catnip is called Stinking Goosefoot, a foul-smelling plant.

Adolph Hitler was Time's "Man of the Year" for 1938.

Topeka, Kansas is named after a Dakota Indian word meaning "a good place to dig potatoes."

Twenty million Americans watch pornography annually.

The hummingbird's brain, 4.2 percent of its body weight, is proportionately the largest among birds.

It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing.

The space between your eyebrows is called the "glabella."

At any one time, one in four people are daydreaming about sex.

The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons.

Reindeer herders have the most dangerous occupation in Sweden.

"Clinophobia" is the fear of beds.

There are three golf balls on the surface of the moon.

Twenty-seven percent of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bra.

Someone who is bilingual can also be called "diglot."

It takes the average person seven minutes to fall asleep.

"Taphephilia" is sexual arousal derived from being buried alive.

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F."

The are 225 squares on a Scrabble board.

The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size.

Seven percent of Americans eat at McDonald's on any given day.

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not.

The 1951 film Quo Vadis used 32,000 costumes—the most in any one film.

The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.

Assuming Rudolph is in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.