Wishful Thinking? 80% of Americams say they belive in miracles.
A handful of countries have been kicked oof he U.N., but only Switzerland refuses to join.
St. Paul in Alberta Canada is home of the world's only (known) flying saucer launch pad.
According to one expert, the less you blink the happier you are.
What's so special about Elvis's 1957 film Loving You? Both his parents were extras in it.
Only person in history to appear on tv Guide's cover 3 weeks in a row: Michael Landon.
Vincent Van Gogh was nly able to sell one painting (The Red Vineyard) during his lifetime.
Michelangelo drew his illiterate cook a shopping list. Today it's a priceless work of art.
The average U.S. family spends $3,900 a year on travel.
Famous but forgotten superstition: People with dimpled chins never commit murder.
Birds do fly south for the winter, but not to get warm. They do it for food.
At one point, 74% of pepsi drinkers said they'd switch to Coke "if it contained oat bran."
Survey results: Most males blame their partner after bad sex; most females blame themselves.
Just a kid at heart: George Washington loved to play marbles.
Just like chocolatet today: It was a sin to eat woodpeckers in ancient Rome.
An adult crocodile exerts a force of 1,540 lbs. between its jaws. Humans exert 40 -80 lbs.
Yum Yum! Americans eat 500 million boxes of Jello every year.
Give that man a log! Mickey Rooney's realname is Joe Yule, Jr.
At its present rate of erosion, Niagra Falls will completely disappear in 22,797 years.
Good excuse for being late: Only clocks made after 1687 have minute hands.
The Navajo symbol for the sun is the swastika.
For the past 150 years Bolivia has averaged one new government a year.
Nothing to sneeze at: Pollen lasts forever.
Heavy thought: Hailstonecan weigh as much as 1 1/2 lbs.
The moon weighs about 81 billion tons, give or take a ton.
There are 250 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy...and 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
The average Amercain travls a million miles in their lifetime, mostly by car.
First vehicle to use inflatable rubber tires: Queen Victoria's carriage, in 1846.
First U.S. novel, by W. Brown, 1789, was about "seduction, incest, abduction, rape, and suicide."
The New York Yankees were the first baseball team to assign numbers to players, in 1929.
New Mexico is the only state named after a country.
Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket wherever she traveled.
Idaho is the only state in the U.S. that never had a foreign flag flying over it.
Man of the world: Both China and Russia have their own "Tarzan" legends.
People drink coffee in ever state...but Hawaii is the only one that grows it.
Built-in bias? 96.1% of all television writers are white.
From 1950-71. buying or displaying a Chinese stamp was considered "trading with the enemy."
Playing Football was outawed at Yale University in 1822. Maximum fine: 0.50
Brazilian fans are so rowdy that many of the country's sports fields are surrounded by moats.
Legal logis: In 19th-century England, attempting suicide was a crime punishable by death.
Japan has only half the population of the U.S., but buys 10 times as many comic books.
That white half moon under your fingernail is an air pocket. No one knows why it's there.
From the age of 20 to his death, Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars.
In case you were wondering: The average rhino's horn grows at a rate of 3 inches per year.
