We now have three cats. They are quite simply the most adorable creatures on the planet (check out my Flickr photos for some pictures and other stuff).
In Colombia, an individual can be fined up to $90,000 for gossiping.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to adult content online.
In 2005, each person in the world consumed, on average, 77 beverages made by The Coca-Cola Company.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).
In 1960, the ratio of the average Fortune 500 CEO's pay to the US president's salary was 2-to-1. Today, this ratio is around 30-to-1.
Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
In 2005, workers at General Motors earned an average hourly wage of nearly $26, about 70% more than the average manufacturing wage.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.
The "Spanish Flu" of 1918, which killed at least 50 million people world-wide, originated in Kansas, not Spain.