• A bee produces enough energy in a year by flapping its wings to power a 60 watt light bulb for 2.5 hours.

• The world record for time spend standing on one's head is 12 days 4 hours and 31 minutes.

• Because of a dispute over definitions, Welch's 100% grape juice was originally forced to be labeled as 85% juice.

• Punctuation did not enter the English language until the 12th century.

• The U.S. population spends more than $10 billion on temporary tattoos.

• Walmart employs more people worldwide than any other government or company.

• The Vatican has a 5,000 square foot library that was sealed in 1215, with specific instructions that it was not to be opened until February 19, 2010.

• Tea leaves contain trace amounts of nicotine.

• Per capita, Canadians use more napkins than Americans.

• Being under the influence of hypnotism is a legal defense in 33 states.

• 1 in 12 Americans will never consume alcohol.

• Each iPod costs Apple around 80 dollars to make.

• The phrase "couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag" came from an incident in the 1940s when famous boxer Lefty Rogers suffocated because of a paper bag his mistress had put over his head during a fling.

• In a recent study of major American newspapers, magazines, novels and other miscellaneous writing, the word "evil" was twice as likely to show up as the word "good."

• At the present rate of consumption the world's fossil fuel supply will be exhausted by 2015.

• "W" can be used as a vowel.

• Bruises can cause skin cancer.

• Accelerating the moment you start to go over a speed bump will reduce its effects.

• More than more than 75 percent of American jobs don't require a college degree.

• Some parts of Alaska get less than 1 inch of snow each year.

• Three percent of couples getting married this year met on the internet.

• The average color of the universe is light olive.

• The world record for longest continuous polka dance (with three shifts of people 6 people each) was 18 days.

• Children of smokers are no more or less likely to be smokers themselves.

• According to medical records obtained from the U.S. Armed Forces, Lt. John Kerry only had four toes on his left foot.

• Ozzy Osbourne hosted Frankie Muniz's bar mitzvah at his mansion in California.

• In laboratory settings, cigarette smoke has been shown to block UV rays.

• After Julia Child's death, "quiche" briefly outpaced "Britney Spears" for popularity as a Google search term.

• Richard Nixon's favorite snack food was dried figs.

• If you are indoors, there is a 92 percent chance you are sharing the room with at least one spider as you read this.

• Goodwill receives more "Candyland" board games than any other game, including chess and checkers.

• Elephants can see ultraviolet light.

• Fumaric acid, the chemical in onions that makes you cry, can also prevent some types of migraines.

• The oldest living plant planted by humans is a fir tree in Kyoto planted in remembrance of the death of the 2nd Emperor of Japan.

• 83 percent of people describe their intelligence as "above average."

• Red cars are not only twice as likely to get pulled over than any other color car, but they are also three times more likely to be stolen, as well.

• 15 states allow public nudity if it is not intended to offend.

• Twitches are caused by an iron deficiency.

• 48 percent of the content on the internet is pornographic.

• George Washington's childhood nickname was "the bear."

• Raffles are the most common fundraiser in the country.

• Computer manufacturer Gateway says that it receives more requests to fix broken "D" keys than any other key.

• The first established bank opened in Greece, 200 years before the birth of Christ.

• The CIA received an email on September 9 with detailed outlines of the attacks to transpire in two days, but dismissed them as "too ridiculous to be true."

• Scientists do not know how, when, or where cheese was first invented.

• 93 percent of men over 25 own at least one tie.

• The world's fastest super computer can complete a simulation of a plane flying 10 miles accurate to the movement of every air molecule hitting the plane in 5 minutes.

• The biggest coin issued by the U.S. Mint was the Centennial Commemoration Dollar, and was over five inches in diameter.

• Four states still have laws on the books criminalizing interracial marriage, although no state enforces these laws.

• Socks are a relatively modern invention, first appearing in the early 1700s.

• Every year the U.S. throws away as much food as it consumes.

• Behind Football and Baseball, Nascar is the third most popular sport in the U.S.

• Studies have found that "It's a Small World" is the easiest song to get stuck in people's heads.

• Lobsters survive for 30 seconds after being put in boiling water.

• Deodorant did not gain wide-spread popularity until the Industrial Revolution.

• "The Nutty Professor 2" holds the record for the largest negative difference between the cost of production and the box office gross.

• Sexual innuendo is strictly forbidden on South Korean TV.

• The technical name for the percent sign (%) is centigraph.

• 95 percent of U.S. bomb scares are false alarms.

• The character Macbeth was named after a former friend of William Shakespeare.

• 3 percent of the paper used in the U.S. is ever recycled.

• Richard Nixon wore dentures.

• Worldwide, 1 million light bulbs will burn out today.

• Gallon for gallon, people drink more bottled water than tap water.

• The 1992 debates including Ross Perot were the only debates hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates to include more than two candidates.

• Excluding acronyms, there are no English words with the same letter three times in a row.

• The combined mass of all the ants in the world is greater than that of all other insects combined.

• Over the past 20 years, the world's fastest supercomputers have held that title for an average of 6 weeks.

• Ion propulsion systems under development at NASA accelerate slower than an average automobile, but can reach top speeds over half the speed of light on long trips.

• The haiku form was established in Japan as a way of protesting the changes an Emperor made to a court poet's work to change its meaning. The edited version had the five-seven-five syllable pattern, which the poet never deviated from in future.

• The average woman's purse contains 35 separate objects.

• John Adams and his wife Abigail were avid ballroom dancers.

• In 1917 a Nobel Prize for etiquette was selected, but was not awarded after several scientists threatened to boycott the event.

• The multiple-choice test was patented in 1837, by a private New York City middle school.

• Jon Stewart and Martha Stewart are distant cousins.

• George Washington's original hair color was red.

• Excessive cell phone use has been shown to cause brain cancer in laboratory animals.

• 90 percent of computers do not have the most recent security upgrades installed.

• Humans have 48 different glands in the head and neck alone.

• Crude, early matches have been found in the Pyramids.

• Cranberry Juice is mildly addictive.

• In every country but the U.S., people surveyed have said that the dangers of plastic do not outweigh the benefits.

• The sticker was patented by a political campaign.

• If all the post-it notes sold every year were laid end to end, they would wrap around the globe eight times.

• The hottest day on record was 158° F, and was recorded in the city of Majubea in northern Sudan.

• Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are America's most popular snack food.

• The adhesive used on masking tape was invented accidently, when the inventor was looking for a low cost, permanent poster glue.

• The American Psychiatry Association estimates that 75 percent of people have at least one untreated mental illness.

• The Russian named "world's best lock picker" by the International Locksmith Guild earned that title by picking a lock in 28 seconds. His closest competitor took 11 hours to pick that same lock.

• The U.S. Census Bureau reports that there are 38,218 towns in the U.S. without any stoplights.

• On the whole, Americans spend more money on entertainment than food.

• Ounce for ounce, printer ink is more expensive than gold.

• The world's largest house of cards used over 800 decks of cards.

• Boston University researchers found that people separated from their cell phones for two days showed signs of withdrawal.

• Twice as much sushi is consumed in the U.S. than in Japan.

• Early wood glue was made out of anchovy paste.

• The first home TV was 6 feet tall, 10 feet long, and 4 feet deep, but the screen was a mere 10 inches wide.

• The gravity at the event horizon of a black hole is great enough to compress the earth to the size of a peach pit.

• The smoke of burning stinging nettles can be fatal.

• If Oregon, Washington and California were countries, each would consume more coffee than all other countries except the U.S. combined.

• The programming language "C" was named after the grade its creator got on an early version of the language that he created for a class on compilers.

• Records from Japan's feudal period suggest that the average samurai lived to be 19, while the average ninja lived to be 37.

• Experts have consistently predicted that computers smart enough to carry on natural conversations are about 10 years away for the past 50 years.

• Because of the way the early post offices were established, postage stamps are considered legal tender.

• The Gallup Polling Group has never accurately predicted the outcome of the presidential election in years where less than 10 percentage points separate the candidates.

• Cough drops can give Breathalyzers false positive readings.

• The U.S. has the lowest literacy rate of any industrialized nation.

• The average American sees over 1,000 pieces of paid advertising every day.

• 85 percent of the world will get sick this year.

• Contrary to popular belief, facial hair does not continue to grow after death.

• The first widely distributed comic book was a set of moral lessons called, "Laurent's Weekly Learner."

• Incorrect first aid from by-standers accounts for 30 percent of fatalities from car accidents.

• Shoes were the first articles of clothing invented.

• 80 percent of individual investors working without the aid of a stockbroker will lose money in the stock market.

• Over half the grades given at Harvard are As.

• One tenth of American's personal items are in storage.

• Blue eyed people are twice as likely to need glasses than brown eyed people.

• A woman has never appeared on television in North Korea.

• Any given day, one out of every 20 people is wearing mismatched socks.

• 21 states allow first cousins to marry.

• Carbon-14 dating has been accurately used to determine objects' ages with 99.89 percent accuracy.

• Three fourths of red colored berries are poisonous.

• Specific steer are raised for meet and for leather. Legally, neither meat from a leather steer, nor leather from a meat steer may be sold on the public market.

• Shoelace production is an $800 million dollar industry.

• The World Modern English Conference says that there are only eight distinct story patterns from which all stories are written.

• One out of 10 smoke detectors has a broken battery.

• November is National STD Prevention month.

• Concentrated coffee is a hallucinogen.

• More money is spent on illegal drugs than over the counter drugs each year.

• The American 3 hole punch standard size and spacing was established first as the standard at IBM for all internal communications, but soon spread outside the company.

• In the last 10 years, the IRS has audited 12 people earning less than $80,000.

• Historians agree that Asians made contact with Native Americans at least once, around 1400 A.D.

• The "at" sign (@) is technically known as a apothrope.

• There are more fluent French speakers in China than in France.

• 80 percent of car trips in the United States are less than one mile.

• 4 percent of the words used in Shakespeare's plays had never appeared in print before.

• As of the 2000 census, there were 703,354 people in the U.S. with the initials G.O.D.

• The longest word appearing in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a chemical name with 423 letters.

• One fifth of computers don't have speakers.

• Travel is the fourth largest internet industry behind pornography, electronics and books, in that order.

• Japanese school children do three times more homework than American school children.

• A 2002 Modern Law Journal study found that 18 percent of currently practicing lawyers would not pass their Bar exams if the exam were administered today.

• While jean-maker Levi Strauss was alive, he forbade his company from producing jeans in any other color than blue. Black jeans were introduced by the company eight months after his death.

• The United States Postal Service reported that 850,000 absentee ballots were undeliverable in the 2000 election.

• Pennies cost more than one cent to make.

• Soda pop is the third most profitable industry world wide.

• By a 2 to 3 margin, journalists are more likely to report their political affiliation as Republican.

• Nixon is the most widely disliked President in American history.

• The American Medical Association released a study two years ago showing diet soda has more adverse health effects than regular soda.

• The average rechargeable battery can be recharged 50 times before it can hold no charge whatsoever.

• More arrests for misdemeanors are made on Halloween than any other day.

• One out of ten postage stamps purchased will not be used.

• 35 mm film makers report that demand has dropped fifty percent in the last 10 years.