Fun Fact:  Eighty-five percent of men do not use the front opening of their underpants when they urinate.

Fun Fact:  In most of the world's languages the word for mother begins with the letter m.

According to Ernest Hemmingway, four achievements are necessary to become a real man.  You should plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book and have a son.

Fun Fact:  The letters of the word "SHAZAM," which is shouted to conjure up comic-book hero Captain Marvel, stood for Solomon's Wisdom, Hercules's Strength, Atlas's Stamina, Zeus's Power, Achilles's Courage, and Mercury's Speed.

Fun Fact: The average caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Fun Fact:  The antibiotic nystatin, which is used chiefly to treat fungal infections such as thrush, is named after New York State, where it was developed.

Fun Fact: Lucille Ball was thrown out of the New York Robert Minton-John Murray Anderson School of Drama at the age of fifteen because her instructor thought she was "too quiet and shy."

Fun Fact: Scientists in Canada discovered during tests that chickens increase their egg output when pop music is being played.


Termites eat through wood twice as fast when listening to rock music.

Fun? Fact: The two most common surgeries are biopsies and Caesarean sections.


Please see The Business of Being Born.  Eye opening.

Fun Fact: In early episodes of Star Trek, Dr. McCoy's medical scanner was just an ordinary salt shaker.

Fun Fact:  Orcas kill sharks by torpedoing into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Fun Fact: Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

Fun Fact: The one-ounce brown bat, which is most common in North America, is capable of eating five hundred insects an HOUR during its nighttime feeding.  (moral: be kind to bats!)

Fun Fact: Babies are born without kneecaps.  They do not appear until the child reaches two to six years of age.

Fun Fact: 85 = the number of taboo or swear words spoken, per day, by the average English speaker.

Fun Fact: Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.

Fun Fact: Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward, and for that reason they are featured on the Australian coat of arms.

Fun Fact:  The blood in the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's Psycho was in fact Hershey's chocolate syrup.

Fun Fact: Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.

Fun Fact: Armadillos can be housebroken.