Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second? ………………….William Jefferson Clinton

If we could shrink the Earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same; the village would look like this.

There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the western hemisphere
(north and south) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 would be male
70 would be non-white; 30 white
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian
50% of the entire world’s wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and
all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing and 70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
Only 1 would have a college education
No one would own a computer

    Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.
    You are more likely to be struck by lightning that to be eaten by a shark.
    You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.

    If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter
    the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of
    urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare its barbed fins. It
    will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.

    When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite the gas jets properly,
    it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally while trying to light it by
    hand. If this has happened, when the match does light, sometimes a trail of
    flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth, filling your lungs with fire.
    Oddly enough, you would suffocate before burning to death as the flame would
    consume the oxygen in every breath you would take.

    The soft plastic headphones used on airplanes create a warm, moist
    environment in the ear canal that is ideal for breeding bacteria. Wearing
    headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
    times.

    On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious
    gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes.

    Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than
    good-looking criminals.

    Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One,
    a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear
    warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the
    escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the
    proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.
    In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone
    captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the
    passenger over a cliff.

    More people working in advertising died on the job in 1996 than died while
    working in petroleum refining.

    It is impossible to lick your elbow.
    A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
    A shrimp’s heart is in their head.
    People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart
    stops for a millisecond.
    If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a
    sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. if you
    keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

    In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a
    single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
    It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
    A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
    Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti
    especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta
    swastikas.
    More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
    telephone call.
    Rats and horses can’t vomit.
    Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million
    descendants.
    The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest
    tongue twister in the English language.
    If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14,
    Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16,
    1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with
    extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
    In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
    Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
    already married.
    A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
    23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them
    and photocopying their buttocks.
    In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70
    assorted insects and 10 spiders.
    Most lipstick contains fish scales.
    Cat’s urine glows under a black-light.
    Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
    Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

    The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were
    Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
    Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
    Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
    City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capita: Hong Kong
    State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
    Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
    Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
    Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
    Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
    The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China 1910.
    The youngest pope was 11 years old.
    The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
    games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major
    League all-stars Game.
    A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
    The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
    In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.
    If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He’s warning you to stay out of his territory.
    1,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.
    Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
    The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
    There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo. 
    The average human will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
    The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.

    “I have always found strangers sexy.”
    - Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with stranger Divine Brown.

    “I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.”
    - Margaret Thatcher in 1973.

    “That rainbow song’s no good. Take it out.”
    - MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz.

    “You’d better learn secretarial skills or else get married.”
    - Modelling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

    “Radio has no future.”
    “X-rays are clearly a hoax.”
    “The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.”
    - Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.

    “You ought to go back to driving a truck.”
    - Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.

    “Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel.”
    - MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The Wind.

    “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”
    - A film company’s verdict on Fred Astaire’s 1928 screen test.

    “Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work.”
    - Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge, shown Frank Whittle’s
    plan for the jet engine.

    “There will be one million cases of AIDS in Britain by 1991.”
    - World Health Organization in a 1989 report. It over-estimated by 992,301
    cases.

    “The Beatles? They’re on the wane.”
    - The Duke of Edinburgh in Canada, 1965. They went on to produce a string of
    Number 1 hits.

    “The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives.”
    - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945.

    “All saved from Titanic after collision.”
    - New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912.

    “Brain work will cause women to go bald.”
    - Berlin professor, 1914.

    “Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine.”
    - Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936.

    “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
    - director of the US Patent Office, 1899.

    “And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in
    Vietnam.”    - Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s.

  Ethical Question #1
  It is time to elect the world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the facts
  about the three leading candidates:

    Candidate A associates with crooked politicians, and consults with
    astrologers. He’s had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to
    10 martinis a day.

    Candidate B was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
    college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.

    Candidate C is a decorated war hero. He’s a vegetarian, doesn’t smoke,
    drinks an occasional beer and hasn’t had any extramarital affairs.
  Which of these candidates would be your choice?
  Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answers….

  Ethical Question #2
  Religious beliefs aside, if you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids
  already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and
  she had syphilis; and she was pregnant again, would you recommend that she
  have an abortion?
  Think before scrolling down…

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  Well, if you said ‘yes,’ you just killed Beethoven…

  Answers to the Candidates Question
  Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Candidate B is Winston Churchill
  Candidate C is Adolph Hitler
  Did you choose well?

And this is why I would love for Gene Simmons or Arnold Schwarzenegger to become president!

In the summer of 1900…

The average life expectancy in the United States was 47.
Only 14% of the homes in the United States had a bathtub.
Only 8% of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11.
There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California.
With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populated state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2,000 per year, a dentist
$2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a
mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.

More than 95% of all births in the United States took place at home.

90% of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as “substandard.”

Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were 14 cents a dozen. Coffee cost 15
cents a pound.

Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks
for shampoo.

The five leading causes of death in the US were:
Pneumonia and influenza;
TB;
Diarrhea;
Heart disease;
Stroke.
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and
Alaska hadn’t been admitted to the Union yet.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30. The remote desert community was
inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.

Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn’t been discovered yet. Scotch tape,
crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn’t been invented.

There was no Mother’s Day or Father’s Day.
One in 10 US adults couldn’t read or write.
Only 6% of all Americans had graduated from high school.

Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to
become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing
machine’s foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide, which was thought
to diminish sexual desire, into the women’s drinking water.

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at
corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, “Heroin clears the
complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the
bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.”

18% of households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or
domestic.

There were about 230 reported murders in the US annually.