- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

- An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.

- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

- The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death

- Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.

- Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.

- It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes biting you simultaneously to drain all your blood.

- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.