• The average American who paints a bathroom in his/her home will spend 7 hours 17 minutes on prep work, painting and cleanup.

• More than fifty percent of Americans over the age of 40 wait for the evening before making long-distance telephone calls even though they have flate-rate plans.

• Growth rates for toenails can vary much as much as 127 percent from one week to the next. The reason behind this phenomenon has not yet been discovered.

• Twenty-one percent of fax machines in the United States had received nothing besides 'spam faxes' for more than 11 months.

• Banker and philanthropist J.P. Morgan had a desk made out of steel-reinforced balsa wood.