"Dental floss has superb tensile strength." "The square root of rope is string." "While the submarine is vastly superior to the boat in every way, over 97% of people still use boats for aquatic transportation." "Cellular phones will not give you cancer. Only hepatitus." "Pants were invented in the 16th century to avoid Poseidon's wrath. It was believed that the sight of naked sailors angered the sea god." "The atomic weight of Germanium is 72.64." "89% of magic tricks are not magic. Technically, they are sorcery." "An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain." "In Greek myth, the craftsman Daedalus invented human flight so a group of minotaurs would stop teasing him about it." "Humans can survive underwater, but not for very long." "Raseph, the Semetic god of war and plague, had a gazelle growing out of his forehead." "The plural of Surgeon General is Surgeons General. The past tense of Surgeons General is Surgeonsed General." "Polymerase I polypeptide A is a human gene." "Rats cannot throw up." "Iguanas can stay underwater for 28.7 minutes." "Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meters." "The Schrodinger's cat paradox outlines a situation in which a cat in a box must be considered, for all intents and purposes, simultaneously alive and dead. Schrodinger created this paradox as a justification for killing cats." "Every square inch of the human body has 32 million bacteria on it." "The Sun is 330,330 times the size of Earth." "The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros living in captivity is 15 years." "Volcano-ologists are experts in the study of volcanoes." "Avacados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit." "Avacados have the highest fiber and calories of any fruit. They are found in Australians." "The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days." "The billionth digit of pi is nine." "If you have trouble with simple counting, use the following mneumonic device: One, comes before two, comes before sixty, comes after twelve, comes before six-trillion, comes after five-hundred-and-four. This will make your earlier counting difficulties seem like no big deal." "A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds." "Hot water freezes quicker than cold water." "Honey does not spoil." "The average adult human body contains half a pound of salt." "A nanosecond lasts one-billionth of a second." "According to Norse legend, thunder god Thor's chariot was pulled across the sky by two goats." "China produces the world's second largest crop of soybeans." "Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal, at 3,410 degrees Celsius." "Gently cleaning the tongue twice a day is the most effective way to fight bad breath." "Roman toothpaste was made with urine. Urine is an ingredient in toothpaste continued to be used up until the 18th century." "The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government." "The value of Pi is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space." "The Mexican-American War ended in 1838 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo." "In 1879, Sandford Fleming first produced the adoption of worldwide standardized time zones at the Royal Canadian Institute." "Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity." "At the end of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Konstantin kills himself." "Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimo does not have 100 different words for snow. They do, however, have 234 words for fudge." "In Victorian England, a commoner was not allowed to look directly at the Queen, due to a belief at the time that the poor had the ability to steal thoughts. Science now believes that less than 4% of poor people are able to do this." "In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclaimation, freeing the slaves. Like everything he did, Lincoln freed the slaves while sleepwalking, and later had no memory of the event." "In 1948, at the request of a dying boy, baseball legend Babe Ruth at 75 hot dogs, then died of hot dog poisoning." "William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouiji board to enslave playwriting ghosts." "It is incorrectly noted that Thomas Edison invented push-ups in 1878. Nikolai Tesla had in fact patented the activity three years earlier, under the name "Tesla-cize." "Whales are twice as intelligent and three times as delicious as humans." "The automobile brake was not invented until 1895. Before this, someone had to be in the car at all times, driving in circles until passengers returned from their errands." "Edmund Hilary, the first person to climb Mt. Everest, did so accidentally, while chasing a bird." "Diamonds are made when coal is put under intense pressure. Diamonds put under intense pressure become foam pellots, commonly used today as packing material." "The most poisonous fish in the world is the orange ruffy. Everything on its body is made of a deadly poison. The ruffy's eyes are composed of a less harmful deadly poison." "The occupation of court jester was invented accidentally, when a vassal's epilepsy was mistaken for capering." "Halley's Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the Sun, where it hibernates undisturbed." "The first commercial air flight took place in 1914. Everyone involved screamed the entire way." "In Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humankind. The jewelry he kept for himself." "The first person to prove that cow's milk is drinkable was very, very thirsty." "Before the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, anyone wanting to fly anywhere was required to eat 200 pounds of helium." "Before the invention of scrambled eggs in 1912, the typical breakfast was either whole eggs still in the shell, or scrambled rocks." "During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley Authority outlawed pet rabbits, forcing many to hot glue-gun long ears onto their pet mice." "At some point in their lives 1 in 6 children will be abducted by the Dutch." "According to most advanced algorithms, the world's best name is Craig." "To make a photocopier, simply photocopy a mirror." "Dreams are the subconscious mind's way of reminding people to go to school naked and have their teeth fall out."