If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
OMG, my grandpa might of sold that bull or stern, (Im pretty sure it would be one of those, not a cow, the males get a lot more money than the females) He owned one of the best known cattle farms in USA, and pretty well known in other places during its time!
