Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.

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Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.

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Some breeds of chickens lay colored eggs!

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Panophobia is the fear of everything.

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India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.

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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.

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A killer whale?s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.

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One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.

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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

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The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

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It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

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If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court.

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Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington!

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Pepsi-Cola was originally called 'Brad's drink'.

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About 10% of U.S. households pay their bills in cash.

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Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

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Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.

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The Nestles haven't run Nestle since 1875.

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Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!

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The first ever patent in the UK was Aaron Rathbone & Roger Burges, Map makers in 1618!

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Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

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One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

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