- No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
- The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
- Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.
- The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
- 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
- Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
- Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- Napoleon was terrified of cats.