Not funny, mostly, but fun facts nonetheless

Louis XIV took three baths in his lifetime, and none of them voluntarily.

Tongue prints are as unique as finger prints.

We die more quickly from lack of sleep than from lack of food.

A zebra has white stripes, not black ones.

Your mouth produces 2-3 pints of saliva a day.

It is possible to mix oil and water. All you have to do is to add a little soap.

The lion has the smallest heart of all beasts of prey.

The Great Wall of China is one of the very few man-made objects that would be visible from the moon.

The funeral pocessing of a Chinese General marched 3700 km and lasted for 1 year.

Both Alexander the Great and Julius Ceasar were epileptics (er.......er...).

The human body contains enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.

The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.

Mosquitoes prefer to bite blondes.

Pornography is a $4 billion business in th US annually.

Coffee is the world's second largest item of international commerce (petroleum is first).

There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower, Paris.

Peter the Great had his wife's lover executed and his head put in a jar of alcohol. She had to keep it in her bedroom.

The word " tip " is an abbreviation of "To Insure Promptness".

The human eye can distinguish about 17000 different colours.

Holland is the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.

There are over 10 million people who share your birthday.

All mammals, except man and monkey, are color-blind.

"School" comes from the Greek word "skhole" which means "leisure".

The Sphinx in Egypt was carved from one piece of stone.

Muhammad is the most common first name in the world.

On average, we lose 11 oz. of weight while we are asleep at night.

The record of eating bananas is held by a California doctor, who ate 17 bananas in 2 minutes.

Man's 3 pound brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in universe.

An anagram of "funeral" is "real fun".

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

A citizen of Calcutta, India, grew the fingernails on his left hand to a length of 76 inches.

Eighty percent of the animals on earth are insects.

It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.

One of the candidates who failed at his first attempt to pass the entrance examinations for the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich was a young man named Albert Einstein.

The record for the most weddings is held by King Mogul of Siam (the "King" in the King and I) who had 9000 weddings and 9000 wives.

The hairs of a man's beard are about as strong as copper wires of the same dimensions.

Four babies are born every second.

The most common disease in the world is tooth decay.

George Washington, the first President of the US, was a champion wrestler and long jumper.

A 17-year old girl of Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January 1966 and continued until 8th June 1966.

The ostrich's legs are so powerful that one kick can kill a man.

A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21g.

The world's tallest mountain, even higher than Mt. Everest is Mauna Koa an underwater mountain which rises 33 476 feet and has its peak on the island of Hawaii.

The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.

Your brain will stop growing in size when you are about 15 years old.

We blink our eyes once every 6 seconds, i.e. in whole lifetime we blink about 250 million times.