More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world 

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet 

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails 

You blink over 10.000.000 times a year 

There are 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire strung across America 

Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour 

If the population of China walked past you in single file the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction 

The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons 

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year 

The average person laughs 15 times a day 

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, their have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world 

The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime 

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour 

The next total solar eclipse (after 1999) will be visible from Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique and will take place in 2001

Each year more than 300,000 American teenagers become afflicted with some form of venereal disease.

Every year one out of five American families changes its place of residence.

Half a billion people - about one of every eight - are suffering chronic malnutrition today.

Hawaii is the only state in the United States where male life expectancy exceeds 70 years. Hawaii also leads all states in life expectancy in general, with an average of 73.6 years for both males and females.

If population continues to expand at its present rate, Calcutta, India, will have a population of 66 million in the year 2000.

In 1915 the average annual family income in the United Sates was $687 a year.

In 1918 and 1919 a world epidemic of simple influenza killed 20 million people in the United States and Europe.

In 1970 only 5 percent of the American population lived in cities.

In 1977, according to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, there were 14.5 telephone calls made for every 100 people in the entire world.