Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

The Ritz cracker was introduced to markets in 1934, but gourmets had to wait until 1953 for the invention of cheese in a can.

The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker.

Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts

John Kellogg invented corn flakes, for a patient with bad teeth.

Table salt is the only commodity that hasn’t risen dramatically in price in the last 150 years.

Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness. (thats crzy!)

Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.

The estimated number of M & M’s sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

Only food that does not spoil: honey.

The famous baby appearing on jars of Gerber baby food is actually a girl named Ann Turner. The pic was drawn by artist Dorothy Hope Smith in 1928.

There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.

Rice is the main food for half of the people of the world.

Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.

Fanta Orange is the third largest selling soft drink in the world.

Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer.

For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.

Under U.S. federal guidelines, there should be 21 to 25 jumbo shrimp in a pound.

Lawsuits filed by California inmates cost the taxpayers more than $25 million in 1994.

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States’ national income.

Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers.

A San Diego man sued the city for emotional trauma during a concert when he saw women using the men’s rest room.

Bill Gates’ first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.

The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.

Gold salts are sometimes injected into the muscles to relieve arthritis.

There have been cases of people dying from paper cuts. The paper cut gets infected, and without proper treatment you can die from the infection.

The names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Kikazaru - Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Iwazaru - Speak no evil).

Before the year 1000, the word “she” did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word “heo”, which also was the plural of all genders. The word “she” appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. “She” probably derived from the Old English feminine “seo”, the Viking word for feminine reference.

There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called “flag” numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.

For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world’s largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, and oils were produced.

The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.

The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

Some 190 billion emails are sent daily - more than 2 million per second - by 1,2 billion email senders. About 70% (133 billion emails) are spam and viruses. There are about 1,4 billion registered email addresses.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

Women make up 49% of the world population.

About 50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. This is called propinquity.

From the Middle Ages until the 18th century the local barber’s duties included dentistry, blood letting, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber’s striped red pole originates from when patients would grip the pole during an operation.

The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.

The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

The European Union has banned more than 1,100 chemicals from cosmetics. The United States has banned just 10.

A house fly lives only 14 days.

A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.

The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.

The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.

An annoyed camel will spit at a person.

The world’s smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means “tiny dog in the sky.”

Pork is the world’s most widely-eaten meat.

Of the 650 types of leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for medical treatments.

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.

A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.

Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

Sharks and rays also share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small tooth-like spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has long been used as sandpaper.

Fish and insects do not have eyelids - their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.

Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn.

A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.

The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

We have four basic tastes. The salt and sweet taste buds are at the tip of the tongue, bitter at the base, and sour along the sides.

The bones in your body are not white - they range in colour from beige to light brown. The bones you see in museums are white because they have been boiled and cleaned.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth.

If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.

The term “Blue Chip” comes from the colour of the poker chip with the highest value, blue.

Money notes are not made from paper, it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.

In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period. The wood notes came in $1, $5 and $10 values.

The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.

Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount on Christmas gifts.

The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.

There are more than 9 million millionaires and about 800 billionaires in the world - depending on how the stock market did today.

80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.

Tobacco is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion cigarettes a year - about 1,000 cigarettes for each person on earth.

A third of the world’s people live on less than $2 a day, with 1,2 billion people living on less than $1 a day.

The NASDAQ stock exchange was totally disabled in on day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.

Tourism is the world’s biggest industry, affecting 240 million jobs.