How many children are affected with asthma?
Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen 
Must have been scary to see someone else in bed on TV:
The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was "Mary Kay and Johnny." 
Have you cheated your couple?
Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse 
Some pasta secret:
The expression cooked "al dente" means "to the tooth." What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender 
The whole alphabet in just one sentence:
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language 
Mr. Peanut will give you peanut:
The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916 
Do you deserve this kind of recreation and travel?
The "naked recreation and travel" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade 
The relation between smoking and your back:
Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers 
What the highest speed ever registered with hockey pucks?
Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour 
How many jelly beans could you it per hour?
The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour 
Hubble telescope is eco-friendly:
It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit. 
Loving gambling slots?
In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to 205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there 
Why we get gray hair?
The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour 
Who is the top Life magazine cover person?
Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else 
Baskin Robbins most sold Ice Cream flavor:
Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales 
Ants are also used as alternative medicine:
For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America 
This is the doubting river
The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows north for almost half the year and then south for the rest of the year 
Do you consume any Aloe Vera product? You might as well know this:
In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year
This guy makes the loudest burps in the planet!
Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw
See the first Coca cola sign ever!
In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today
They found an animal that smells like pop corn
The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail
On the hunt for smart Supermodels?
America's Most Smartest Model was a reality TV show. The aim was to show how a smart brain can be hidden behind a pretty face. The winner, VJ Logan received $100.000.
No Smoking laws can be a bit tough sometimes
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana
How many men would marry their wife again?
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
What colour were originally the Great Pyramids?
The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years.
These are the different Cinderella names
Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, Cenicienta in Spanish and Yeh-hsien in China
Which film system was invented in 1967?
In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.
In which continent is Istanbul?
Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents
This is how the US Secret Service started
In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money
Which is the biggest ship ever built?
Seawise Giant is the biggest ship of the world ever built till present. Seawise Giant, later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, and Knock Nevis, was a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built, and possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded.
Guess who's the only animal to produce emotional tears...
Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears.
Your heart can break distance records!
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet in the air.
Apart from human beings, this is the only animal with unique fingerprints
Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints.
More earwax for a horror movie?
Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren’t.
Who lives longer? Right handed or left handed people?
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. This is largely due to the fact that a majority of the machines and tools we use on a daily basis are designed for those who are right handed, making them somewhat dangerous for lefties to use and resulting in thousands of accidents and deaths each year.
How long have you just been a single living cell?
Every human spent about half an hour after being conceived, as a single cell. Shortly afterward, the cells begin rapidly dividing and begin forming the components of a tiny embryo.
Which is the rarest blood type?
The most common blood type in the world is Type O.The rarest blood type, A-H or Bombay blood, due to the location of its discovery, has been found in less than hundred people since it was discovered
Humans can make do longer without food than sleep. Provided there is water, the average human could survive a month to two months without food depending on their body fat and other factors. Sleep deprived people, however, start experiencing radical personality and psychological changes after only a few sleepless days.
In 2012, 349 active-duty troops from the USA committed suicide.
This is an average of one suicide per day.
Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden.
The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that this was the day of the changeover.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
The original director of the movie Jaws, was fired because he kept calling the shark a whale.
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws. Brown came across it in the fiction department of the Cosmopolitan lifestyle magazine, then edited by his wife, Helen Gurley Brown. A small card written by the magazine’s book editor gave a detailed description of the plot, concluding with the comment “might make a good movie”. The producers each read the book over the course of a single night and agreed the next morning that it was “the most exciting thing that they had ever read” and that they wanted to produce a film version, although they were unsure how it would be accomplished. They purchased the movie rights in 1973, before the book’s publication, for approximately $175,000. Brown claimed that had they read the book twice, they would never have made the film because they would have realized how difficult it would be to execute certain sequences.
To direct, Zanuck and Brown first considered veteran filmmaker John Sturges—whose résumé included another maritime adventure,The Old Man and the Sea—before offering the job to Dick Richards, whose directorial debut, The Culpepper Cattle Co. had come out the previous year. However, they grew irritated by Richards’s habit of describing the shark as a whale and soon dropped him from the project. Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg very much wanted the job. The 26-year-old had just directed his first theatrical film, The Sugarland Express, for Zanuck and Brown. At the end of a meeting in their office, Spielberg noticed their copy of the still-unpublished Benchley novel, and after reading it was immediately captivated. He later observed that it was similar to his 1971 television film Duelin that both deal with “these leviathans targeting everymen.” After Richards’s departure, the producers signed Spielberg to direct in June 1973, before the release of The Sugarland Express.
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