Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
| Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love. |
| Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. |
| In fact, Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded. |
| Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics (aka brain disorder). |
| Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark. |
| The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. |
| Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. |
| The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. |
| An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day. |
| 1 in every 200 people is a psychopath and they look just like everyone else. |
| Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. You have been warned! |
| Wearing headphones for just one hour will multiply the number of bacteria in your ear 700 times. |
| Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing. |
| If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off. |
| There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes. |
| Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. |
| Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine. |
| A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph! |
The longest sausage made in Australia was 11 kilometers (6.9 miles) long.
| An average woman consumes approximately 20 kg of lipstick in her life. |
| Seaweed is used to thicken icecream. |
| Bubble gum and fairy floss were invented by dentists. |
| Don't give a dog chocolate! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog. |
| Mel Blanc, who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots. |
| The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced. |
| China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year and 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em. |
| The average person eats eight spiders in their sleep in their whole entire lifetime! |
| Every year, you eat approximately 4 bugs in your sleep. |
| A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. |
| A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites. |
| A tuna called the 'Blue Fin' can be sold for over $20,000 around the world. |
| Sweden is the largest spender on ketchup. |
| Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. |
| Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water. |
| Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day. |
| There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind. |
| Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every single day. |
There are more bacteria in your mouth than the human population of the U.S.A. and Canada combined.
| Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian. |
| Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. |
| In a year, your heart can beat up to 40,000,000 times!. |
| Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time. |
| Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year, because they used products made for right handed people. |
| As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head! |




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