A peanut is not a nut or a pea it's a legume. 
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 

The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting. 

Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself. 

The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator. 

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum. 

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. 

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. 

We (humans) only use 10% of our brains

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks. 

Human thighbones are as strong as concrete. 

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 

Weightlifting first appeared in the original Olympic program in Athens 1896. It reappeared in 1904 and since 1920 then it's been permanently on the program. 

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater. 

Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do. 

Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C. 

Orange juice helps the body absorb iron easily when consumed with a meal. 

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class. 

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen. 

World wide consumption of Pork exceeds that of any other type of meat 

The term 'hay fever' originated in England, where some people suffered allergic symptoms during hay pitching time when the symptoms became serve, workers often felt feverish. 

A jumbo uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. 

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' 

Children spend more time learning about life through media than any other manner. The average child spends approximately 28 hours a week watching television, which is twice as much time as they spend in school. 

The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest