- Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
- The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity.
- Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
- The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year.
- A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don't).
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- Honey is the only natural food which never spoils.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
- The little hole in some sinks that lets the water drain out instead of flowing is called a 'porcelator'.
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