If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. See more

Most lipstick contains fish scales. See more

55% of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. See more

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life". See more

Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last. See more

20% of the world's population lives in China. See more

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the o See more

"Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis. See more

There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com. See more

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. See more

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. See more

People share their birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. See more

China is the source of 70% of the worlds pirated goods. See more

The average person spends 2 weeks of it's life waiting for a traffic light to change. See more

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. See more

The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures." See more