Amusing Facts - 9

It is estimated that there are one million lap dances given in Las Vegas each year.

Twenty percent of Americans state they have never flossed their teeth.

Before leaving home, a full third of pet owners turn on a radio or TV to keep their pets company.

Irish monks invented whiskey when they first distilled "Uisce Beatha," or "Water of Life," in the sixth century A.D.

"Axillism" is the act of using the armpit for sex.

A group of buzzards is called a "wake."

In seafaring parlance, "avast" means stop.

The emperor Maximilian established the Vienna Boys' Choir in 1498 in Austria.

A diamond can only be cut by another diamond.

Cinderella is known as Zezolla in Italy.

Seventy-two percent of Norwegians say they've had a one-night stand. Just 20 percent of Taiwanese claim to have done so.

Geese have been trained to tend sheep.

Queen Isabella of Spain was the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.

All babies are colorblind when they are born.

It was Leonardo da Vinci who first discovered that a tree's age is recorded in its rings.

The combined wealth of the world's 250 richest people is greater than the combined wealth of the poorest 1.5 billion people.

Amathophobia is a morbid fear of dust.

In the U.S. the average bride is 21 years old, the average groom is 23.

Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.

In poker, Able, Baker and Charlie are the first, second and third player to the left of the dealer.

The average person produces about 12,000 gallons of urine over the course of their lifetime.

Bill Gates is a Harvard University dropout.

Anthropologists know of no human society whose children do not play hide and seek.

Nylon was first produced in 1938. It was used in making toothbrush bristles.

Thomas Jefferson was the first person to import vanilla to the United States.

Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

"Polyiterophilia" is the inability to have an orgasm with one partner unless first engaging in sex acts with many others.

On a per capita basis, plastic surgery is more popular in Brazil than in any other country.

One million U.S. one-dollar bills weigh exactly one ton.

During the 1905 football season, 18 men were killed in college games in the United States and 159 were permanently injured.

Human adults breathe about 23,000 times a day.

At one time in Cambodia, it was illegal to insult a rice plant.

The word "bishop" once meant "to kill by drowning."

The U.S. produces 19 percent of the world's trash.

A cat can jump five times as high as it is tall.

Nat King Cole was the first African-American with his own network radio show.

India is the world's largest democracy with 620 million voters.

Chronomentrophobia is a fear of clocks.

The most northerly town in England is called Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Thirty percent of Americans say they base how much they eat on how much they're served rather than how hungry they are.