Three most profitable sections in a supermarket: meat, fresh produce, pet food.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had a weakness for cologne.
There are 3 Taco Bell restaurants in downtown Mexico City.
Mark Twain tried to convince childern that Santa Claus lived on the moon. He couldn't.
Yum yum! A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef.
Marriage fact: The average U.S. wedding costs $17,479, giveor take a few bucks.
54% of U.S. women say they'd rather "get run over by a truck" than gain 150 lbs.
71% of college-educated women-but only 44% of non-collee educated women-breastfeed.
IRS fact: million taxpayers a year wait until April to begin filling out their tax returns.
63% of shopping mall Santas have a college degree...and 29% are fluent in sign language.
74% of U.S. teens believe in the supernatural...and 16% believe in the Loch Ness Monster.
Most effective deterrent to house brea-ins: "A noisy dog." most thieves say.
How do they count them? There are 1 trillion atoms in a grain of salt.
There really is an insect called the love bug. It spends 56 hours-more then 1/2 its life-mating.
F. Scott Fitzgeald wrote 9 books in 1939. He was paid a total of $33 for them.
The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime earning money to pay taxes.
Sure, blame the kids: 9% of women and 4% of men say their divorce was the kids' fault.
Q: Which country drinks more Coke than any other nation on earth? A: Mexico.
The U.S. the most cars per thousand people (571); Iceland is #2 with 514.
Nearly 75% of all U.S. Congress staff members suffer from heartburn.
Family attachment: 8 times more women then men buy Father's Day cards.
33% of Americans say being 1 hour late still counts as being "fashionably late."
The Average U.S. family redeems 81 coupons a year, compared to 33 in Canada.
Americans buy more candy at Easter then thay do at Halloween.
The world's rarest matchbook, issued after Charles Lindbergh's Atlanta light, is worth $4,000.
The average person has 1,460 dreams a year. Thats 4 a night.
Q: Who was the first person in history to be killedin a plane crash? A: Orville Wright, in 1908.
G.I. blues: Elvis recived 10,000 letters a week during his stint in the U.S. Army.
A blue whale's sond can be heard from more than 500 miles away.
William Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words.
Pesident Clinton's feet (size 13c) are the biggest presidential feet since Woodrow Wilson's.
Mr. Potatohead was the first toy advertised on TV.
You burn 50% more calories watchin TV than you do when you sleep.
Elehants are the only animals in the world that can't jump.
California has the most unlisted phone numbers per capita; Flrida has the least.
Disappointing news: 40% of M&M's are brown.
The Pinta was pint-sized: Columbus's ship was only 50 feet long.
Only 14% of Americans go to at least one play a year; only 3% go to the opera.
Americans travel 1,144,721,000 miles by air every day.
On strike: The average Amercian goes bowling 233 times in their lifetime.
For the birds: The Swiss Army keeps 20,000 carrier pigeons for emergency communications.
Changing times: The federal govt. stimates that 78% of U.S. women aged 40 -49 have jobs.
Sorts stat: On average, for every 10,000 people who play football 2,171 are seriously injured.
